Swap T7300 for Pentium 4 in desktop ?

[Jea333]

I bought a cheap Dell GX270 tower for my kid a while ago. I wanted to give it an upgrade on the cheap so I thought I would swap out the Pentium 4 for a T7300 CPU. they both use the 478 socket but I know the T7300 is a laptop CPU. Would this work in the gx270 architecture? I've upgraded to 2 GBs of ram, PCI 8400gs video card and 500 GB HDD. The OS is Win XP SP2. thought that the T7300 would boost performance since it is a dual core CPU....any feedback?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[MU_Engineer]

I bought a cheap Dell GX270 tower for my kid a while ago. I wanted to give it an upgrade on the cheap so I thought I would swap out the Pentium 4 for a T7300 CPU. they both use the 478 socket but I know the T7300 is a laptop CPU. Would this work in the gx270 architecture? I've upgraded to 2 GBs of ram, PCI 8400gs video card and 500 GB HDD. The OS is Win XP SP2. thought that the T7300 would boost performance since it is a dual core CPU....any feedback?
Thanks,
Jim

The Socket M T7300 will fit in the GX270's Socket 478 but will absolutely NOT work. The Dell's chipset, BIOS, and voltage regulators do not support Socket M Core 2 Duos like the T7300. Intel made five revisions to their 478-pin micro-FC-PGA socket since they introduced it over a decade ago but unfortunately the underlying platforms don't support all of the CPUs. You can only put Socket 478 Pentium 4s in your machine.

*The five revisions are the original micro-PGA479 for the PIII-M, Socket 478, Socket 479, Socket M, and Socket P. Each CPU will only work in its respective socket although it may physically fit in other sockets.

 

[Jea333]

Thanks MU Engineer! Maybe I'll go for the PT4 with hyperthreading !

 

[Jea333]

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