Posted March 1, 201015 yr lol i have like 8 different 478s on the bench, they are just sitting there lol
March 1, 201015 yr I have three s478 I've just finished messing around with, sadly two motherboards have unlockable pll and the last ones a "DELL" with a CY28323 pll and unbearable bios that I find lacking in ability for voltage adjustments. I need a p4c800 e deluxe or an msi neo2-fisr now more than ever
March 1, 201015 yr Author i am learning to use the setfsb and clockgen software overclock haha this is gonna be so much fun! btw i am new here
March 1, 201015 yr Crew what's the socket i have to use in these competition ? Thx all guys afaik the northwoods were only available for s478. s775 was for prescotts onwards and s423 only for willamettes.
March 1, 201015 yr Is it allowed to use s478 -> LGA775 adapters? Northwood + ddr2 or even ddr3 combo will be great
March 1, 201015 yr You mean this? http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-9368-view-GETA-478TO775-S478-to-S775-adapter.html P.S.: MSI sells i945P motherboard with S478 socket, sporting two DDR2 slots. But then again, why would you want that? BH-5/BH-6/CH-5/UTT chips for the win!
March 1, 201015 yr Yep, like this. I doubt any 865/875 motherboard can work with ~300 MHz fsb with 1:1 mem divider, only 5:4 or 3:2, and if it's possible to run Northwood on e.g. P5B at 300 fsb with divider like 2:3 or 1:2 with 4-4-4 or 5-5-5 it might have better performance than 2-2-2 at ~240, isn't it?
March 1, 201015 yr IMHO it's impossible to run Northwoods on P965 boards because they don't have CPUID microcode for Northwoods, only Prescotts. I might be wrong. If it would be possible I am sure hwbot would already have a quite a lot of Northwood LGA775 submissions. :ws:
March 1, 201015 yr As I said. If it would be possible, we'd already had a bunch of results here on the bot. The same issue as with Banias/Dothan chips and CT-479 adapter on non-supported boards. Boards - even though BIOS was modded with appropriate CPUID microcode - simply didn't boot the system. Perhaps it's possible, but IMHO highly unlikeable
March 2, 201015 yr Tighten your ram timings @ 2-2-2-5 and watch Northwoods fly! Try P4C800 or IC7-G, they 'll do the job. Ah sweet old times... But then again wPrime doesn't depend that much on ram timings... Who has a hipro DDR Maximizer to supply his BH5 kit with 3.8V ?
March 4, 201015 yr Crew tiborrr, I've got this one and a P5B delx + Commando. Working on them for my team member. But the Northwood doesn't work and the problem is not in the microcodes. In fact you don't need to add them for the system to work. And yes, this conversion adapter is kind of crappy. I wouldn't recommend to use it unless you are a hardware freak - the BIOS is not the only problem. I'll even give a clue - VasGTO made some CeleronD and Northwood results on an AsRock 4CoreDual board. I have to warn - it doesn't work with all Northwoods - only the ones it likes. I have two exactly same CPU's - the model, the sSpec and the country of manufacturing. One works, the other one doesn't. Both work on P4C800-E perfectly. And yes, forget about using Northwood Celeron on this board - none of my 11 did boot. And anyway, I think that a modded P4C800-E will rip Asrock. MSI sells i945P motherboard with S478 socket, sporting two DDR2 slots.Not only MSI - Asrock too and a Chinese company, ZX. The last refused to overclock. I had to ask politely
March 4, 201015 yr Is it allowed to use s478 -> LGA775 adapters?Northwood + ddr2 or even ddr3 combo will be great I think tight timing faster than higher bandwidth mem ini WPrime, so using DDR2 or DDR3 not help much in this bench.
March 4, 201015 yr Thank you Antinomy for posting this, very helpful! Best Regards, Niko P.S.: I'll be running DFI LanParty UT 875Pro
March 4, 201015 yr Crew You're welcome, tiborrr Looks like today I killed my adapter and the Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 as well. Will go and buy a new adapter tomorrow - think it's the last one in the store. Nice board you have! I love DFI, but AFAIK they weren't the FTW boards in s478 comparision. And there were two versions of UT 875 as I remember Edited March 4, 201015 yr by Antinomy
March 7, 201015 yr Should this be a good motherboard ? http://cgi.ebay.fr/msi-865PE-Neo2-pentium-4-3-ghz-teste-ok_W0QQitemZ120537351442QQcmdZViewItemQQptZFR_GH_Informatique_Composant_
March 8, 201015 yr I got these two processors for this competition today. Need to find a s478 chipset board though, and memory... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=250590948653&view=all&tid=560882695015 & http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260562665252&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
March 8, 201015 yr Crew Dreadlockyx, surely not the best one. Look for Abit and Asus - the IC-7/IS-7 and P4C800/P4P800 with all modifications (except Asus -X series - that's crap). Sil3ntSnip3a, nice one! What's the lowest and highest multi on the 3066? The first link doesn't open.
March 8, 201015 yr Founded what I want: http://cgi.ebay.ch/Asus-Mainboard-Sockel-478-P4P800VM-s-P4M800-VM-s-VMs_W0QQitemZ360238285507QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDE_Elektronik_Computer_Mainboards?hash=item53dfe002c3 .
March 9, 201015 yr I've dusted off my old Abit IC7-g MaxII, 3.2C, and 2x512MB OCZ Platinum Rev2. This should be fun.
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