Does anyone know where I can find a Intel Pentium M 780??

[mathjunkie]

I have looked at eBay and other sites, but I was wondering does anyone know a site that sells Intel Pentium M 780???? See I have looked at some sites and they are asking at or above $400 and other sites have pages for them but no prices.

 

[JonSimonzi]

I found this one for you. I don't know what your price range is but that seems reasonable. Or there is one on eBay right now for $220, that doesn't seem that unreasonable either.

 

[Dawgdoc]

Good luck.

I searched for awhile when I was benching Pentium Ms.

780 is a very tough find.

Only place I found them was on Ebay, and they were insanely expensive IMHO. More than $200+ for a crazy old processor and crazy old socket just seems well....crazy to me

 

[Tserrof]

agreed with above. there's only so much money you can put towards an upgrade before it becomes out of whack.

 

[Dawgdoc]

And for me....it wasnt even for an upgrade it was for some benching experimenting/learning/etc....

I spent a good bit on my P4C800E Dlx, also had a CT-479 adaptor, a bunch of super goody BH-5 ram (Mushkin Black level 2 PC3500) but the Dothans, esp the high end ones like the 780 were just SO expensive and SO cost prohibitive I stopped looking.

And this isnt 5 years ago either.....this was like 6 months ago.

What do you want the Dothan for anyhow?

 

[imperiousleader]

Maybe He wants to put it in a laptop.

My Pentium M 740 is still going strong at 2725mhz in my nearly 5 year old mobo, coupled up with some new 2gb Gskill 2.3.2.5 @454 mhz, and a Powercolor HD3850 AGP @ 823/1908, It will suffice until 2009 when I do a full upgrade.
I paid $85 for it about 18 months ago, great little processor.

 

[Dawgdoc]

Good point, but the rarity/price of a 740 vs a 780 is a wide margin as well.

Even if he were going to put it in a lappy, For $400-$500 you can get a brand new laptop that will vastly outperform an older one with a Pentium M in there.

I have to assume any s479 lappy mobo is going to have woefully weak integrating graphics. The $400-$500 one wont be outstanding either, but better.

Pentium M 780 is like the top of the line, rare proc and for someone to spend THAT much on a proc when laptops now have Q6600s and E8400s in them just doesnt make sense to me. Once again, the $450 lappy wont have those procs though

 

[ShaneA]

I've also been looking for a Pentium M 780 (2.26 GHz. 533 MHz FSB), and agree with all the rarity / price comments.

My laptop (Dell D610) is still going strong (upgraded RAM & HDD), but want to get it up to the highest processor around.

Question for ImperiousLeader... how is your Pentium M 740 running at 2.725ghz???

 

[White_Pawn]

I've also been looking for a Pentium M 780 (2.26 GHz. 533 MHz FSB), and agree with all the rarity / price comments.

My laptop (Dell D610) is still going strong (upgraded RAM & HDD), but want to get it up to the highest processor around.

Question for ImperiousLeader... how is your Pentium M 740 running at 2.725ghz???

he got an adapter and threw it into an atx mobo and OC'd it.

Personally, the P8400 is $240, so the pentirum M 740 for $200+ just doesn't seem right. LOL

 

[Evilsizer]

no kidding, since you can get a E1200 with cheap board. pad mod for 333fsb and smoke the PM setup. though i had fun with my old P4P800-se/[email protected].

 

[ShaneA]

Thanks White_Pawn and Evilsizer, he's got a PC then.

I've got a laptop, stuck with the motherboard, looking for the Pentium M 780 as it is the fastest processor available for my laptop mobo/chipset.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ProcFam=942

Which "sSpec#" number processors can I safely/correctly use (for 533MHz bus)?

(CPU-Z reports my current processor (P M 740) as a "Socket 479 mPGA". So I think it is a SL7SA)