socket What socket is this

[Splodge1231]

Hi,

 

I am not very familiar with old sockets. I have obtained and old PC form a friend and as the processor is broken, I was looking at buying a new processor and maybe an old graphics card to make a pc for my brother to work and lightly game on. Can someone please tell me what socket this is and whether putting a 600 series graphics card in it would be worth it.

 

Thanks

 

       

[Electronics Wizardy]

Not worth working with at all. I think thats socket 478 and those were old pentium 4's. There isn't even native pcie support. Also, unless you tested with anouther board, its probably a dead cpu, not board.

[Splodge1231]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Not worth working with at all. I think thats socket 478 and those were old pentium 4's. There isn't even native pcie support. Also, unless you tested with anouther board, its probably a dead cpu, not board.

Yeah, i'm pretty sure the CPU is dead. SO are you saying there is no point getting an old cheap cpu and a $20 graphics card?

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

That's a socket 478 indeed. 

 

I wouldn't bother, even a 500 series card would be overkill for whatever CPU you can put in there. 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Splodge1231 said:

Yeah, i'm pretty sure the CPU is dead. SO are you saying there is no point getting an old cheap cpu and a $20 graphics card?

yea. A pi is faster than this system. 

 

How do you know the cpu is dead, they don't die very often.

[Splodge1231]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

Uh, what mobo is it?  There should be more labeling on it for that.

Ummm, IDK, It's an old pre-build Dell

[NumLock21]

That is socket 478.

It's like right on the socket itself

[Splodge1231]

Just now, Captain Chaos said:

That's a socket 478 indeed. 

 

I wouldn't bother, even a 500 series card would be overkill for whatever CPU you can put in there. 

 

 

So, just bin it?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Splodge1231 said:

So, just bin it?

yea, i would. Not much you can salvage from that.

[NumLock21]

cpu ain't broken, just straighten the pins and your good.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Just now, Splodge1231 said:

So, just bin it?

It could still be usable for old people who just want to browse the internet.  Certainly not for gaming though. 

 

The big worry is its age.  Old motherboards tend to get capacitor issues sooner or later.

[Splodge1231]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

Ya...socket 478 isn't worth it.  That's like 2002 territory...

Oh, so my http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/satellite-c55-a-1n1/ is better, even if a added the best 478 CPU with a decent GPU.

[Splodge1231]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

cpu ain't broken, just straighten the pins and your good.

I did'd for about 2 hours. God, my eyes....

[Splodge1231]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

Yup.

Oh, OK, Thanks.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Splodge1231 said:

I did'd for about 2 hours. God, my eyes....

Patience is key

Now even if you do manage to fix it, it's still not worth it. Start a cpu collection!

 

[Splodge1231]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Patience is key

Now even if you do manage to fix it, it's still not worth it. Start a cpu collection!

 

Well, starting to build up a collection of parts - Ram, CPU's, GPU's

[Splodge1231]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Patience is key

Now even if you do manage to fix it, it's still not worth it. Start a cpu collection!

 

Even accidentally set a hard drive on fire once 

[Anjelllo]

2 minutes ago, Splodge1231 said:

Even accidentally set a hard drive on fire once 

What's the story?

[Splodge1231]

Just now, Anjelllo said:

What's the story?

Stupid me decides: Ohhh, Ill take this old hard drive out of the PC while it was still on. Then i accidentally knocked it on some metal while it was still plugged in and it set on fire. Lucky nothing was on the had drive and it didn't set anything else on the pc on fire   

[Technomancer__]

24 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Not worth working with at all. I think thats socket 478 and those were old pentium 4's. There isn't even native pcie support. Also, unless you tested with anouther board, its probably a dead cpu, not board.

i see bent cpu pins too so if the board wasnt dead the cpu is dead anyways

[ProjectBox153]

That's an ancient platform that barely runs Google Chrome these days. Not worth it at all. And I mean not worth it no matter what. As a play system? Sure, as long as you know that it is old, but for anything more it is not worth a thing. 

 

4 hours ago, Splodge1231 said:

Oh, so my http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/satellite-c55-a-1n1/ is better, even if a added the best 478 CPU with a decent GPU.

That's a lot better of a laptop than mine. That laptop is WAY WAY WAY better than my best laptop, and mine will run laps all day around any socket 478 system.