old hardware new games

hi fiends i have a old laptop well........... not that old but its has northwood 3.06 ghz i am planning to use some parts from it and convert in a desktop cpu i have outlined some specs after doing a research on the net . here are the specs i want to use .

p4 3.06ghz
945 board (socket 478)
2 gig DDR 667 mhz kingston ram
sata hdd 400 gig
ati 4850 512 mb/9800gt
case with 500watt supply
else etc. all stuff as usual

i plan to use it for general gaming and normal home usage .

i would appreciate any help

 

I doubt you can connect a regular gfx card to the motherboard.. You'll have to desolder and solder an entire PCIe x16 bus connector.. Same with the Hard disk connector... Also the power connector would have to be custom made, since a regular ATX connector can't connect to the laptop board.

The only salvagable part seems to be the Processor..

 

I'm no expert but it looks like it should be able to handle most new games pretty well; the bottleneck may be the processor since a lot of new games identify a 3.0 P4 as the minimum.

Tom's Hardware site indicates the ATI 4850 is generally superior to the nVidia 9800 gtx:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2064-4.html

Since the OP listed a desktop MB, GPU and case/power supply, I'm pretty sure they are not trying to reuse a laptop MB.

 

Laptop P4 processor is a different form factor than a P4 desktop processor too, unless the laptop uses a desktop processor, which is pretty rare.

 

I'm pretty sure the Northwoods were all desktop CPUs that were sometimes used in laptops; my old HP ZD7000 had a 3.0 P4 Northwood desktop processor.

 

It should work, but you may be left with a CPU that is clocked at 1.2-1.6 ghz. The multiplier locks at it's lowest (x12 I think?). You would be able to overclock the FSB to increase performance assuming the CPU, RAM, and MOBO could handle it.

Then again, it may not even boot so you don't have to worry about the above.

 

Why don't you get a new CPU and a slightly weaker graphics card? As for the motherboard, I don't think they ever made 945 boards which support Northwoods.

 

thanks guys, i might be a newbiee here but i am not new to hardware my processor is a desktop one and i have ordered the motherboard and zalmaan cooler which will be arriving soon as i am only planning to use the processor and liquidate other stuff.i also tried to plan for new cpu but i would still wait and put a high end gaming rig in short time i want this desktop as common, sort of general task and occasional gaming till i assemble a new rig . in this setup only stake would be mobo and cpu i guess????????? and save some bucks .

i think most new cpu would simply do the same task as at higher ( upto 14XX by 9XX res) are handled pretty well by gpu in gaming and for rest still enough power.

even the ram is desktop one and did i mention this laptop is amilo dseries 8830 .

 

guys assembled the new system although board is small atx which cause the hardware look cramped .installed a zalman cooler keeps the cpu at 35 c even in load which was used to reach 55 c in my laptop gpu is good 9800gt 512 came quite cheap performs decently getting 40 to 75 fps avg at 1440 X 900 res max settings in cod 4 and mod airborne havent played any other games will try to run crysis soon.

 

It was actually quite common at the time to use desktop CPUs in laptops. There is also a mobile P4 but that is not what he has here.

 

actually it is a desktop version that's why it use to run very hot after couple o years although i am happy to save few bucks and use the old hardware which in my case, is paying well

 

Yes, that's what I said.