Anyone familiar with dual core socket 478 CPUs?

JJ · Post by JJ » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:21 am

I'm building a new dual core Athlon system, and have been completely out of the loop when it comes to Intel CPUs. I just noticed that they have a series of dual core socket 478 chips, fairly reasonably priced, fairly low clock rates, and pretty low voltage.

I haven't researched yet whether any of these could run on my existing ASUS mobo (see system, below), but wondered if anyone knows if these chips could be considered an upgrade to a P4 3.0 Northwood? The current system is destined to become a server, and a dual core would be better suited for running the mix of applications that the server will run, like apache and MySQL.

Wedge · Post by **Wedge** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:33 pm

Holy crap this is news to me. Bump for some responses. I have been wanting a dual core setup. It would be nice to use my Asus P4P800-E for this purpose.

Captain John · Post by **Captain John** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:43 pm

The socket 478 chips that are being spoken of are "core duo" chips, NOT normal desktop chips. Core duo (and all Pentium-Mobile chips) are typically referred to as socket 479, which is a misnomer, they truly have 478 pins.

Your P4P800-E may support socket 479 cpus with the CT-479 adapter. However, this should only support Banias or Dothan chips, no Yonah dual cores. Sorry :-/

-John

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:46 pm

JJ · Post by JJ » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:03 pm

Yeah, false alarm. I saw the chips at Newegg and a couple other vendors labeled as Socket 478. As someone else said, they're targeted as mobile chips and actually are a new Socket 479 pin layout. See the Anandtech review, below:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... spx?i=2627

Interesting artcle. Lower power consumption than a comparable Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and nearly the same performance. I think Intel may have some good things in store in the near future for quiet computing.