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Just about to embark on my first P4 based system - having just purchased a Shuttle barebones kit from Ebay for a very small amount of money.
It's an older socket 478 based system and the motherboard only takes up to 533mhz fsb CPU's.
Would an 800mhz FSB cpu run, albeit at a slower speed? Only reason I ask this, is that I can seem to find some of the newer p4 chips (3.0, 3.2ghz) cheaper than the 533mhz bus ones (2.0, 2.4 etc) - it would make sense for me to buy faster really.
I'm only going to be getting some midrange kit for it - looking at perhaps a geforce FX or Radeon 9800 for the time being. Bearing that in mind, what's the performance of the onboard video like on them? It's an SS51G system. Not expecting much but just want a second system to run as a software/OS testbed.
Cheers
It's an older socket 478 based system and the motherboard only takes up to 533mhz fsb CPU's.
Would an 800mhz FSB cpu run, albeit at a slower speed? Only reason I ask this, is that I can seem to find some of the newer p4 chips (3.0, 3.2ghz) cheaper than the 533mhz bus ones (2.0, 2.4 etc) - it would make sense for me to buy faster really.
I'm only going to be getting some midrange kit for it - looking at perhaps a geforce FX or Radeon 9800 for the time being. Bearing that in mind, what's the performance of the onboard video like on them? It's an SS51G system. Not expecting much but just want a second system to run as a software/OS testbed.
Cheers