Compatible Intel Processors!

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I'm in the market to purchase an HP G60 intel CPU Laptop Motherboard 578232-001. I just don't know what processor would be compatible with this motherboard. Is there a website to check? No sure or maybe someone here can answer this question. Thanks.
 


This appears to be a motherboard out of a laptop. You won't be able to do much with a laptop motherboard if you don't have the laptop it belongs in. There are actual desktop motherboards that use laptop CPUs if you want to have a neat little laptop-CPU-in-a-desktop setup. Or you can use a low-wattage desktop socket processor in a micro-ATX or mini-ITX board. That combination costs a LOT less than a desktop board with a laptop socket, but doesn't use much more power.

The Intel HP G60 series laptop uses Socket P chips. Laptop CPU support is always a question as very few vendors post a list of compatible CPUs. You are supposed to buy the laptop and never touch the CPU. Generally though, CPUs in the same model line and family as ones that originally shipped with the computer will work. The HP G60 Intel versions I have seen with a quick online search ship with 45 nm Core 2 Duo-based processors, so that is what it supports.

@KareemGT

That board is actually Socket P, not Socket 479. Intel very confusingly made five different 478 pin sockets. They look similar if not identical to another and markings are even pretty similar in some cases. You can even fit some of the "wrong" processors in certain sockets. However they are electrically incompatible with each other and you MUST put the right CPU in the right socket for it to work.

- The first socket in this family was the mPGA478A called Socket 479(A) for the Tualatin core Mobile PIII-M CPUs. This socket actually had 478 pins despite being called "Socket 479." It had a 100 or 133 MHz FSB like other PIIIs.
- The second socket was the famous mPGA478B Socket 478 for the desktop and mobile Pentium 4s. It had a 400, 533, or 800 MHz FSB.
- The third socket was mPGA478C, also called Socket 479. It was for the two generations of Pentium M- Banias and Dothan. It had a 400 or 533 MHz FSB identical to the P4's bus. It again had 478 pins despite being called Socket 479.
- The fourth socket in the line was mPGA478MT, aka Socket M. This was used for the Core Duo/Core Solo, early Core 2 Duo mobile chips, and a very brief run of low-voltage Core Duo-based Xeons. They had a 533 MHz or 667 MHz FSB.
- The last 478-pin socket was Socket P, which bumped the FSB up to 800-1066 MHz for the later Core 2 Duo mobile CPUs and the three oddball Core 2 Quad Mobile models. This is the socket your motherboard has.

@Sn1992
The motherboard is Socket P, not BGA479. You can upgrade the CPU in this board.

As as interesting aside, BGA479 is what all of the 478 pin sockets were based on. It is even older than Socket 479(A) but as far as I can tell, there is only one BGA479 pinout unlike the five different mPGA478* pinouts.