Upgrading my processor. Will my motherboard support it?

[von_dread]

I've never upgraded a processor before so am mostly clueless when ti comes to this. I have a Pentium 4 1.9 GHz processor and an Intel D845HV motherboard. I'd like to upgrade my processor to one that is 3.0+ GHz, but am not sure if those would be compatible with my motherboard. Intel websites seem to suggest not:

"The Intel® Desktop Board D845HV supports a single Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or Intel® Celeron® processor with a system bus frequency of 400 MHz." And the latest Pentium 4's have higher bus frequencies than that, but I am not educated on the significance or meaning of such things.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845hv/sb/cs-008806.htm#1.0

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845hv/sb/CS-008811.htm

Can anyone clarify this for me? If not, what's the highest power processor available for my board? Thanks a lot.

 

[Nitestick]

that i believe is a socket 478 board, you can only use s478 processors. as long as you don't get a s775 you should be fine.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

Yes...runs at max 400Mhz FSB. you won't notice much of a difference because you won't be able to do a 478 Prescott 533 with HT. You are much better off upgrading to a 775 and 800FSB Prescott Core with HT!! Then you can run DDR 400 dual channel memory at 400Mhz! The system bus and memory, then, will be perfectly matched!