Would this be worth doing.

mikemod · 20 Jan 2007 at 10:27

I am going to hang on to my old AGP system for another six months and was looking some advice to see if this was worth it.

I currently have the following

running on a ASUS P4P800 with a recently purchased Sapphire X1950 PRO

Currently getting just over 7000 in 3dmark05.

I have seen on the graphics section where you can buy an Asus CT-479 to run a Pentium M Processor on this board. I could pick these up for about £60

Would this adapter run on my board and would I see any sizeable increase in performance. Some people are reporting 10000 3dmarks running a 1.73GHz chip at 2.4 on a similar set-up.

Thanks for any advice.

sablabra · 20 Jan 2007 at 10:52

I am slightly unsure whether or not your system supports pentium M, someone else will have to answer that.

But if it is supported, it will give you a huge leap in performance, especially if your board is capable of overclocking it. But if you're happy with gaming performance, upgrading isn't needed

mikemod · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:50

Found a link which has a lot of info on people doing this on another forum.
The P4P800 seems to cause a few more problems but I am always up for a challenge

I have ordered the bits and will report back when I get them installed

stigggeh · 21 Jan 2007 at 11:12

mikemod said:
Found a link which has a lot of info on people doing this on another forum.
The P4P800 seems to cause a few more problems but I am always up for a challenge
I have ordered the bits and will report back when I get them installed

i think most do more than 2.4 easy... i had one a while back, amazing performance at the time.

I think the cpu score says it all

.... that was only on a single 6800GT too :eek:

mikemod · 21 Jan 2007 at 11:21

Nice

Is it better to get a 740 or a 730 or a 750. I have PC4400 ram.

Drazic · 21 Jan 2007 at 11:32

Anyhting thats ends in 0 i bleiver as this is the 533 bus not the other stuff.

My laptop is a 750 and is amazing, wacked a 780 in for a bit and it was mental

stigggeh · 21 Jan 2007 at 11:50

Drazic said:
Anyhting thats ends in 0 i bleiver as this is the 533 bus not the other stuff.

My laptop is a 750 and is amazing, wacked a 780 in for a bit and it was mental

what he said :cool:

make sure its a 7x0 and not a 7x5 and you cant go far wrong..tbh

When i was messing around with them, they (730, 740, 750) where all clocking around the same (2.6-2.8)... well on air anyway. If you would be happy with 2.6 any (533fsb models) should do.

stigggeh · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:02

mikemod said:
Nice

Is it better to get a 740 or a 730 or a 750. I have PC4400 ram.

woops sorry i missed that part... iirc they are multi unlocked downwards (dependant on your boards bios supporting multi changing with ct-479 please check first)

730 has 12x, 740 13x, 750 has 14x, so because you have 275mhz capable ram any will do. (if your board does not support changing multi with ct-479 i would get the 730 due to low multi.

iirc you can change everything in windows its just a pain doing so every time you re-boot.

edit: some bedtime reading for you 78 pages :eek:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62366

mikemod · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:23

stigggeh said:
edit: some bedtime reading for you 78 pages http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62366

Whoa

, thanks for that.

mikemod · 27 Jan 2007 at 09:26

Got the processor Ok but finding it near impossible to get the convertor.

I don't suppose anyone has a spare Asus CT-479 kicking about.

Drazic · 29 Jan 2007 at 00:10

Larrywild is the daddy of this subject. also a few others about have put them under water, phase and ln2. Hyprio is the gura on the mods for this setup. I nearly bought his Dotahne mobo combo all seamed up for phase that had an 780 in there that did 3.5Ghz + on a basci basic single stage