Upgrading CPU !

Hello all,

I have ASUS P4B motherboard and it says that it supports Up to 400MHz system bus, what will happen if I install a 533MHz CPU on it? What are the disadvantages?

Will I see a noticable difference in speed and performance when I switch from P4 - 1.6GHz to 2.4GHz ?

Does a larger L2 Cache size means faster performance ? for example; 256kb and 1mb ?

Before you consider all of this you should consider the sockets of the mobo and the cpu

478 Socket's, that is being taken into consideration.

If the pc would boot with a 2.4ghz cpu with a 533fsb, then it likely would underclock it to using a 400fsb, which would make the 2.4 run at only 1.8ghz. More cache is better, and does affect performance somewhat.

Just wanna mention a 2.4C 478pin is super for OC

But that chip uses an 800mhz bus.

See if you can get a faster mobo.

I just found an auction on eBay..

Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz CPU + Heat Sink NEW (SL67R)

-Spec.:
2.4 GHz
400MHz FSB!!!
512KB L2 Cache Northwood
(Socket 478) form factor
Featuring the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture
Compatible with existing Intel® Architecture-based software
Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) Instructions
Intel® MMX™ media enhancement technology
Integrated caches include 12-K micro-op trace cache and 8-KB L1 data cache in addition to L2 cache memory
4GB address range.