This will be interesting: new PC coming

Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 11:51

I've bought some bits off the MM

I was initially going for a normal P4 HT node just as a stop gap but I'm in the process of killing 2 birds with one stone and building an HTPC for the cinema room

AOpen i915GMM-HFS Motherboard MicroATX
2 x 512MB Samsung DDR2
Pentium M 2.0Ghz 400fsb/2Mb Cache.

Anyone here used a P4M for folding? I wonder how they fare?

MB

Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:02

Berserker said:
If I'm reading that right, that's not a P4M - it's a Pentium Mobile (i.e. the ones they use for Centrino laptops). They're not the same. Make sure the motherboard you're getting will take them, as they don't use the same socket as a regular Pentium 4.

However, if it is what I think it is and it all works, then it should be ideal for an HTPC. With the right heatsink it'll run nice and quiet even under load, and they go some. Good buy.

Yes sorry Mark your right

Its a Dothan I think, where as 'Blacktop the laptop' is a classic P4M, it had better be faster than that! Thats folding a Tinker at the moment and predicting 3 days

It also has a nasty tendency to scorch your legs when your typing :mad:

Its going in one of these, so it will look the business too

MB

Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:09

Mattus said:
Should be a nice quiet foldy rig - and HTPC of course! If it's gonna be folding whilst on HTPC duties, it'd be good to get a large heatsink on it, as even with the tiny heat output of a P-M they can get quite noisy because the stock HS is so small. I'm not sure how it stands with attaching a huge heatsink to that mobo but it might be something to look into.

Bit stuck there the mobo uses a propriety heatsink so can't upgrade it easily, could probably fit a bigger fan on it and an adaptor, but the case is supposed to be quite a good one for air flow so hopefully we'll be OK

MB

Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:57

Facinating, Blacktop is a Northy, I kinda assumed that it would have a special name because it a mobile chip but I ran CPUID and its a Northwood. Its hot but at least its not a Prescott

MB

Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 13:24

Borris said:
What's the sSpec number for the CPU by the way?

It looks as though I purchased completely the wrong CPU for my HTPC - it's like a lap dance - hot and slow, and locked at 1.2 GHz (The BSI Kitemark standard for lap dances is 2.2 GHz).

For the Northy or the new one? New one hasn't arrived yet, I'll check the Northy for you in a bit

Thats the Northy http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL6FH

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Matblack · 23 Jun 2006 at 15:33

Borris said:
Ah - Gotcha.

That would suggest that mine is most likely a Northwood too, and why it burns my legs.

Even though it's in a desktop.

Would I be correct in thinking that the Dothan is likely to be a 760 then?

[Edit]

Is there a difference between the socket 478 and 479 P4M chips (specifically the 760s - RH80536GE0412M and RJ80536GE0412M)?

I'm TJing a bit, I know, but I need to figure out if I have to replace my MoBo as well as CPU.

I 'think' its a 755 that I am getting it has 2MB of cache and runs at 400fsb the 760 has 2mb of cache and runs at 533fsb

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