too good to be true?

theboomboom · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: too good to be true?

http://www.powerleap.com/PL-P4N.jsp

Supposedly, this will turn any socket 423 to a socket 478. I have read revews about it all over the place, but I don't know anything about the sites i read the reviews, or how dependable they are. Have any of you guys heard about something like this and if it really works as easily as they say it does?
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Brutus · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:

It looks like they want like $50! Jeez, just buy a new mobo for $100...

No, i have not heard anything about it specifically but I am sure your mobo's bus speeds, chipset, etc would choke the hell out of a new processor in an old mobo anyway - even if it does "fit". If you can afford a new processor and a $50 addition then cut back a bit on the processor and get teh appropriate/complimenting technology in a proper mobo. Thats my 2 cents.
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SupaFly · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject:

Brutus wrote:

It looks like they want like $50! Jeez, just buy a new mobo for $100...

No, i have not heard anything about it specifically but I am sure your mobo's bus speeds, chipset, etc would choke the hell out of a new processor in an old mobo anyway - even if it does "fit". If you can afford a new processor and a $50 addition then cut back a bit on the processor and get teh appropriate/complimenting technology in a proper mobo. Thats my 2 cents.

yeah pretty much... they had something like that back in bx board days... the mobo becomes a choke point & you dont get what you pay for outta the processor
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massive · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject:

SupaFly wrote:

Brutus wrote:

It looks like they want like $50! Jeez, just buy a new mobo for $100...

No, i have not heard anything about it specifically but I am sure your mobo's bus speeds, chipset, etc would choke the hell out of a new processor in an old mobo anyway - even if it does "fit". If you can afford a new processor and a $50 addition then cut back a bit on the processor and get teh appropriate/complimenting technology in a proper mobo. Thats my 2 cents.

yeah pretty much... they had something like that back in bx board days... the mobo becomes a choke point & you dont get what you pay for outta the processor

all true, but if he has some POS like a Dell that a new mobo won't fit in, then this might be a decent stop-gap. certainly not a long term solution....save up some more spare change, Boom....
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theboomboom · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

i dunno, i just think that it would be a better deal cuz:
1. the only reason i am upgrading is to play bf2, and this is the cheapest way
2. the mobo i have now is working fine, so i dont see any reason to shell out $50 more than i have to

the only other quick question i have is whether a ht processor would work in it, would work but just not have the ht, or not work at all
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firefox_71 · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject:

you can get a cheap mobo to go with whatever processor you get, not cheap in quality, but price
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Wang Chung · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

firefox_71 wrote:

you can get a cheap mobo to go with whatever processor you get, not cheap in quality, but price

The word "inexpensive" comes to mind Smile

HT might not work because you can enable/disable settings in the BIOS regarding HT. If I were you, I'd probably go with a non-HT processor.
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theboomboom · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

Wang Chung wrote:

If I were you, I'd probably go with a non-HT processor.

to avoid a headache or to avoid something worse?
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AxeBlind · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Yep, I understand very little about this thread, that is why I am book nerd.
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