rambus mobo question

[slegh]

i am running an asus p4te mobo with rambus and my p4 2.0 400 fsb finaly gave up the ghost. i was looking around on price watch and saw a p4 2.6 400 fsb. the direction for the mobo say 2+gh has any one actauly tryed this with success?

[edDV]

2.6 is 2+

It will probably work. Are you sure you fried the CPU and not the mobo?

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/f143/w...cpu-70289.html

According to Asus support-page which shows CPUs supported by
different MB, the highest supported CPUs for P4T-E are Celeron 2.8 GHz and P4 2.6 GHz.

[lordsmurf]

I have a P4 2.8Ghz Northwood 400FSB mounted on an Intel D850GB board.
It uses the 423/478 socket jump. 423=Willamette, 478=Northwood
It runs really good --- until I sit at one of my dual- or quad-cores for a few hours, and then come back to it. Even Firefox annoys me now, runs slow with multi tabs compared to other sys.

I'm all about hanging on to computer if there's a reason (ATI AIW capture, for example), but when the system is shot, it can be costly to replace these old parts. Sell the parts, and buy a new one.

Assuming you don't have a good reason to keep it, of course.

[slegh]

2.6 is 2+

It will probably work. Are you sure you fried the CPU and not the mobo?

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/f143/w...cpu-70289.html

According to Asus support-page which shows CPUs supported by
different MB, the highest supported CPUs for P4T-E are Celeron 2.8 GHz and P4 2.6 GHz.

Thank you for the helpfull info. what leads me to belive that its not the mobo. is that the computer boots up loads into and runs windows xp for breif period of time. then the computer crashes drives go quiet like turning on a computer with out a cpu and the mobo just gives off one solid beep.

[lordsmurf]

That could also mean RAM.

[slegh]

well i will change out the ram and lets see what happens

[slegh]

i tested the memory i have 2x256 in kingsten and 2x256 in samsung all the same preformance pc800 no ecc 45ns blah blah. i got some instablity with the kingston at first windows loaded ran for a bit than rebooted by its self ran fine for 2 hours of virus scans and defrags the samsung showed no issues what so ever. no i curently have its back in the computer is stabled but slower than a snall for what its i think that kingston is going out.

[edDV]

May be time for a replacement mobo/cpu/memory.

They are cheap. But if you go to Core2 you will also need a new power supply.

[slegh]

replacing ram and cpu have them on order. i have an intel d850mv mobo for back up. this realic will keep on running!