Hi, I have an Asus P4B266 motherboard in one of my pc's and I'm looking to upgrade the memory and processor. I currently have a P4 2ghz in it and 2 sticks of 512mb ram. From what I've read I think the best I can hope is to put a P4 2.8ghz 400/512 chip in it and two sticks of 1gb ram. Can anyone confirm if this is the case or give advice on how to squeeze the last few ounces of juice out of this system before I have to put my hand in my pocket and lay out some serious cash. Thanks in advance. SOL
I used to have a sdram version of the P4B (simply the Asus P4B) and im sure it could support 533mhz FSB. In fact it did because the guy I sold it to has a 2.4ghz 533mhz P4 in it now. I think the 533mhz FSB CPUs went up to 3ghz and 512kb L2 cache. I dont think it could supprt the 800mhz processors though. If it does support 800mhz FSB you can go all the way up to the Extreme Edition P4s. They went from 2.8ghz to 3.4ghz, 1mg cache, 0.09 architecture too! You need a lorry load of cash for those though! It was a good board, shame it only had x4 AGP and ATA100 though.
Yeah, that's about what you'll be able to, just due to the chipset in use (i845D). I'm not sure about the RAM limit, but I thought it supported up to 2GB.
