AMD veteran trying to work on gf's P4 ... need some help

zhen

Yeah, so I feel like a noob. Anyway, my gf needs a new fan/ heatsink for her P4. I went over to Newegg and started looking around. I promptly noticed that there are about 20 different sockets for Pentium 4 chips. What gives? I have used AMD all of my life and have never bought anything for Intel chips ...

So, anyone have a good guide on how to figure out WTF socket my gf's chip is? I can get the /proc/cpuinfo if you need it.

Thanks for helping out a confused and slightly embarassed geek developer

Lucky B · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:

yeah Intel is dumb =P

Spit out the model name/family/model or the whole cpuinfo

zhen · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

Lucky B · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:34 am Post subject:

I'd like to think it's a 478, but I can't be sure, if it's 400mhz fsb I'm pretty sure it has to be 478.

There's a small, remote possibility that it's a 423.
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zhen · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks! I ordered the fan from NewEgg today. Hopefully it will work. Cheers!

vonhelmet · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject:

Be careful replacing the HSF. They often glue the heatsinks onto the heat spreader on the CPU in a fairly nasty way, which makes getting the old one off a nightmare. I had to fix one at work (IT tech in a school) and ended up pulling the whole CPU out of the socket when I was trying to remove the HSF.

Good luck.
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zhen · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info, I will make sure to be careful.