478 to 775 adapter?

Is there any way to get an lga 775 motherboard and attach a 478 cpu on it?
I know they used to have converters back in the day...
I wanted to know before i order a certain PCI-E 478 motherboard from overseas.

I thought about buying the X850XT PE, but if im going to pay that hefty AGP tax i could get a pci-e motherboard instead
for about 100 bucks from the UK and my system would be good until another un-needed video card standard comes along... can u say AGP-EX

Also i wanted to know:
the motherboard i'm buying: ASUS P4GPL-X supports 478 Prescotts.
I have a 3.0C on 800mhz bus... thats a Canterwood im guessing? are they interchangable?



My current setup:

Asus P4C800 deluxe
Pentium 3.0C @ 3.3 Ghz ( W/ stock fan 48C MAX Load)
1 Gig Corsair 3200 LLPT[b][/b]
Radeon 9800 Pro( 420, Stock Ram) w/ VGA silencer rev. 3

Thanx for the quick response.

I think i'm going to go with a 478 Pci-e motherboard then.
I don't really want to invest in a new CPU... especially that mine has more than enough power, and doubles as an efficient heater in the winter time.

I'm certainly not considering upgrading to a higher 478 chip, there really is no room for upgrade... and its not worth it for 100 mhz increase really.
I could hit 3.4+ with better ram and cooling.

What i need is a PCI-E video card... 7800gtx or radeon 1900

To my knowledge, Socket 478 w/ PCI-e is not made. Try searching for it- you won't find anything that I'm aware of.

Sorry, but you're going to have to go LGA775 if you want PCI-e and intel.

EDIT: just noticed the board you posted. That's the first PCI-e socket 478 motherboard I've seen. Cool. For some reason I cannot find that board for sale in the USA. What's up with that?

-mpjesse

Kind of sad that it only has two memory slotts. At first I was worried because amazon doesn't mention dual channel, but the Asus site does

Nice necropost.