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Doesn't the board have a model# you can google? That should be able to tell you what socket it is if it isn't printed right on the socket itself.
there are older mobile sockets using the same designation as in PPGA478 that were strictly P4-M mobile cpus. the latter with same PPGA478/479 were labled as you said and ment for core/core2/core2 duo cpus. here is something i put together that might help ya out, did this a long time ago for a gent at OCZF.
so you know which chipset is on the board?
take pics of the board, worse case take the hs off the chipset. it will be etched on the top of it...
I'm meeting with a guy in the morning that used to build them before he moved on to the I3/5/7 version
I need a SATA DVD drive as mine was IDE despite tht HDD being SATA
So questions to be asked and brains to scratch while im there