Upgrade 300s

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Has anybody tried a Pentium 4 with 533mhz bus speed in a Gateway 300s or
with this motherboard?

I am looking to use this computer only for home video rendering , editing
and burning.



System Model: 300s
Chassis Type: Desktop
Chassis Serial Number: 0028866343
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 2
(Build 2600)
Number of Processors: Not Available, Hyper-Threading Enabled
Processor Name: Intel Celeron
Specifcation: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Code Name: Northwood
Trace Width: 0.13
Clock Speed: 2000 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 20.0
FSB: 100
Processors Bus Speed: 400
L2 Cache: 128 KBytes
Core Stepping: C1
Micro Code Level: 37h
Mobile Clock: Not Available

***************** Motherboard **************** Motherboard Manufacturer:
Intel Corporation
Motherboard Model: D845GRG
Motherboard Revision: AAA86577-301
Socket or Slot Type: mPGA-478
Motherboard Serial Number:ABRG24109403
Chipset Vendor: Intel
Chipset Model: i845GL
Chipset Revision: A1
Bios Manufacturer: Intel Corp.
Bios Version: RG84510A.15A.0057.P19.0308210949
Bios Date: 08/21/2003

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)

Thanks
"Edward J. Neth" <ejn63@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:30u8l7F34duisU1@uni-berlin.de...
> The 845GL chipset supports only 400 MHz bus P4 and Celeron processors. A
> non-Prescott 533 (i.e., 512K cache, not 1M) will probably work, but not at
> full speed because of the slower bus and the multiplier lock on the CPU.
>
> A 2.8/533 CPU will run at 2.8*(100/133) or 2.1 GHz.
>
> There are still vendors who sell the 400 MHz bus P4 - 2.8 is currently as
> fast as you can get - newegg.com had the 2.8/400 for $137 as of
> yesterday - it's the best you can do with this board.
>
> Make sure you get the 400 MHz bus - only that one will work at full speed.
>
>
>
>
> Tom Morton wrote:
>> Has anybody tried a Pentium 4 with 533mhz bus speed in a Gateway 300s or
>> with this motherboard?
>>
>> I am looking to use this computer only for home video rendering , editing
>> and burning.
>>
>>
>>
>> System Model: 300s
>> Chassis Type: Desktop
>> Chassis Serial Number: 0028866343
>> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 2
>> (Build 2600)
>> Number of Processors: Not Available, Hyper-Threading Enabled
>> Processor Name: Intel Celeron
>> Specifcation: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
>> Code Name: Northwood
>> Trace Width: 0.13
>> Clock Speed: 2000 MHz
>> Clock Multiplier: 20.0
>> FSB: 100
>> Processors Bus Speed: 400
>> L2 Cache: 128 KBytes
>> Core Stepping: C1
>> Micro Code Level: 37h
>> Mobile Clock: Not Available
>>
>> ***************** Motherboard **************** Motherboard Manufacturer:
>> Intel Corporation
>> Motherboard Model: D845GRG
>> Motherboard Revision: AAA86577-301
>> Socket or Slot Type: mPGA-478
>> Motherboard Serial Number:ABRG24109403
>> Chipset Vendor: Intel
>> Chipset Model: i845GL
>> Chipset Revision: A1
>> Bios Manufacturer: Intel Corp.
>> Bios Version: RG84510A.15A.0057.P19.0308210949
>> Bios Date: 08/21/2003