Will this processor work?

I've been unearthing old computers, and now have about 4 towers with varying peices of hardware in them. Most of the computers are 400 mhz celerons and AMD durons, but I came across a 900mhz Celeron, and a motherboard that can take 2 CPU's.

The motherboard had a 400mhz celeron processor ( Specs). I want to put the 900mhz processor ( Specs) into the motherboard. The slot size is the same, but I don't know if it will work or if it will blow up, or whatever. How should I troubleshoot this? Has anyone else tried this? Please let me know

 

Theres quite a difference in the FSB of the two processors. Have a look and make sure the chipset can support the 100 MHz FSB, that the 900 MHz Celeron will bring with it. Also, the voltages are different, and the motherboard mahy not automatically change them. By the looks of it, it seems like this processor won't like its new motherboard.

 

So, by putting the 900 mhz celeron (1.75 volts) into the motherboard that had the 400 mhz celeron (2 volts) is there a chance that it can blow? Will the motherboard detect it and change voltage/not use the processor (do motherboards do that?)

The motherboard I took the 900mhz processor no longer works (i think it doesn't anyway, I'm going to put another 400mhz celeron into it and see if it boots).

 

It probably won't blow, but I doubt that it'll work. I don't see how two CPUs could draw such different voltages when they are basically attached to the same board. Someone else will definitely know more about this.

 

Moved a 400 mhz to the board that had the 900mhz and it wouldn't boot. The board is probably fried (which was suspect from the beginning). Now I have a processor without a home.

If my CPU has a bus speed of 100 mhz and the motherboard had a CPU with a bus speed of 66 mhz, can I put the 100 mhz bus speed CPU in it? Or should I look for a junker motherboard on ebay/kijiji/craigslist etc.?

 

Personally? I'd throw it out. You can get a cheap junker whole computer for less than it'd take to give that CPU a home, more than likely, especially with older RAM like SDRAM.

 

alrighty then. Wheres a good place online to look for crappy computers? I want a computer to encode videos (I know it will take forever with a junker, but then I won't have to keep my computer in my room on all night, I can stash the junker in a closet with wireless), use as a fileserver for my network etc. etc. Also can use it to help compile Gentoo Linux...

 

Check out local used computer stores. They're your best bet... you can probably get a decent P3 based system for under $200.

 

Thanks a bunch for your replies everybody. I know this is a laptop forum, but I was hoping when I started this thread that it would be general enough for people to know how to help .

I trashed the first motherboard after combing over its manual that I found online. There were a lot of DIP switches on the motherboard to choose your FSB and processor speed, and I thought maybe those weren't set properly (they were).

Put the processor into an old ASUS motherboard I had, but it didn't support a processor with a multiplier of 9. Plus the motherboard was locked at 2V, so I probably blew the 900mhz celeron anyway (was ice cold when I booted the computer with it in the motherboard).

Regardless, I will probably go to tigerdirect.ca or something and get a cheapo motherboard and CPU, since I have all the other desktop parts I need.