diffence in pentium 4 cpu's

[cupido13]

I am buildind a new computer and im using a gigabyte ga-81848p775-g motherboard. The manual says it supports the p4 519 3.06ghz but i bought a p4 524 3.06ghz wich wasnt listed. But the p4 524 and the 519 both have the same bus speed 533 mgz and the same L2 cache 1mb. What is the differnce between the 2 and could i still use the p4 524. any help wold be good.

[Panama Red]

Only info I could find on the 519 shows it to be a chip marketed only to large pc makes like Dell and eMachines for low end P4's. The 524 is a Prescott core using 90nm process technology. I would venture a guess that the 519 uses 0.13-micron process technology. Your cpu support specs clearly exclude the 524. I don't think it will work.

[cupido13]

In the motherboard manual it says it is prescott ready dose that mean any thing

[cupido13]

can any one else help me with this as i just found out that the 519 has a prescott core also

[Panama Red]

Your best bet would be to contact Gigabyte support and let them tell you whether the 524 would work or not. I see two bios upgrades to the Ver 1 board and both deal with "cpu microcode". Maybe it will now work and they just haven't updated the cpu support list. There's no way for us to know whether it will work. You'll have to contact Gigabyte or plug it in and try it.