Hello hope you can help i have a msi 645e max mother board pentium 4 at the moment i have a 1.6ghz p4 socket 478 cpu but want to know if i can use a 3ghz p4 socket 478 as the manual i have only states upto 2.2ghz about not yet tested ? but the board is about 2 years old so im hopeing its been tested with a higher chip now if you can help please email me andy [email protected] thank you
If your manual states a max of 2.2GHZ then, take it as that, when your board was made the bios and bus speeds would be set at the maximum to run a 2.2GHZ, not a 3GHZ, also the heat sink and fan may not be enough to cool the processor. The only way that a 3GHZ would run was if you updated the bios and personally i would not recommend it. You would be better advised updating the board and processor as a package ot fitting more memory if the pc is not used for gaming or high end video editing.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007
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thank you i already have the 3ghz cpu out of another pc the ram bay has broken on the board tho so ill just get another board and heatsink and fan and sell the 1.6ghz set up
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