Nobody has a list of cpu's that will work with this mobo. Biostar P4M800-M7A Ver. 7.0. It was sold as compatible with dual core cpu's, but no-one has a list of which intel 775 dual cores. Did New Egg lie? Tigerdirect lie? Long story short Radeon brought back the agp system, but little to my knowing, the 3.2 celeron d, sporting 256 L2 would be a huge bottleneck. If no-go on dual core does anybody know if a p4 3.6 2mb L2 W/HT will make a worthwhile diff.
The p4m800-m7a v7.0 will work with a pentium d. I am currently running the p4m800-m7a v7.0 with a pentium d 2.8ghz and it works perfectly.
It supports the following processors
LGA 775 P4 Prescott
Celeron-D processors
up to 800MHz FSB with Hyper-Threading Technology
for your info your motherboard is capable of taking in only the earlier version of dual core called the Pentium D series which was not very successfull. So ultimately it means that you will never get a dual core processor working on your board.
as for as the normal pentium series with HT you can have processors upto a max of 3.4Ghz with 2MB of L2
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I guess all of the people in the reviews section at new egg that said they had used dual cores successfully in the boards that were sold as dual core boards were lying. And I guess that new egg, AND still tigerdirect were lying too, when they sold them as dual core capable? Did you go to biostars website? If you did, the only list they have is for the P4800-M7 NOT the M7A 7.0. Contacting Biostar customer will get you NO answers, they dont know sht about the product other than what was written six years ago in the manual that was used for more than just the M7A 7.0. Is there anybody with an answer that knows something about computers, not just how to google my MOBO product #, or contact the "manual readers" at biostar? Sorry elecminjus, but you couldnt even give me a ghz max, which there was when I bought it. Cant remember if the max was 3.2 3.4 or 3.6., either way, your answer did not come from your familiarity with the VIA NB/SB, and biostar, but more from the miraculous ability to search the web, which does NOT have a list for the M7A ver. 7.0. I need help from a computer whiz, not an internet whiz. I knew I should have stayed away from that bargain board, fcking biostar. Thanks for the try I guess elecminjus
So it will take Pentium D and work? I am wanting to spend 40-50 bucks on a CPU upgrade for an obviously old system. With the HD3850 it played the new wolfenstein rather well, but I could tell the CPU is a new weak link, not my ati9600pro. The pentim D is about the same price as a Pentium 4 and if it will work faster than why not? Are you saying that it will not work? If you were trying to get the most out of this system for around 50 more bucks, what would you do? P4 3.2 or 3.4 2mb L2 800fsb, or PD, 3.x 2-4mbL2 800fsb dual core. Too risky with PD 8xx?
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