Socket 775 question (old skool)

[Chrisc]

So me and a couple of gamer friends came up with a challenge. £20 to build a single core gaming system from around the early to mid 2000's to have an old skool Lan party playing games lie C&C etc...

Anyway, I've ended up (for the sum of £5) an emachines rig with a p4 @ 2.93ghz. However the PCIE X16 Slot is blanked out. I've purchased another socket 775 motherboard which comes with a Pentium D dual core. Ive found answers online that the Pentium D cannot go into some older s775 boards. However I cannot find the answer as to whether I can put the p4 into the newer board which is a foxconn N15235?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Chrisc]

The Pentium D is dual core. What chipset is the Foxconn board using?

i945 I believe

 

[Chrisc]

By definition you can't use the Pentium D because this is a single core challenge .

Exactly, I want to put the p4 into the newer board which gives me access to a pcie slot. Which should allow me to get an x1900xt in there.

 

[Chrisc]

It sounds like that isn't the actual motherboard marketing name, or it was an OEM motherboard maybe?

For what it is worth, if you did open up the CPU range to dual cores (even if you then disabled a core!) which would be much less risk in terms of compatibility you could pick up early C2D CPUs for literally pennies from CEX's website:

(also they do early PCI-E graphics cards for less than a tenner and 1GB DDR2 RAM sticks for literally 10p each. You only pay postage once if you buy multiple items).

This is where I seen the 1900xt their abundance of old hardware at a cheap cost, is where we got this idea from.

 

[Chrisc]

I think the only way to tell is the drop the Pentium in.

I think you are right. I guess it’s not often the community gets hit with a downgrade question aha

 

[Chrisc]

Check compatibility. The internet never forgets

BTW if you can track it down cheap, the original AMD FX line (early 2000s, not the debacle that was the recent FX) comes in single core and is an exceptional single core CPU. Much faster than a P4 at the same clocks. Obviously you'd need a board for it too.

I have an fx55 in the loft, I may dig that out.