mobile pentium 4 in a desktop?

is it possible to put a mobile p4 into a desktop? I have (not with me atm) a dell laptop with a 3.06ghz mobile p4 socket 478, and i have a desktop with a 2.4 p4 in it. my motherboard is a gigabyte 8st-800L. Here is the cpu support list from gigabyte.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=1611
just wondering if this is something at all possible?

 

I've heard of this being done before. Just need a motherboard with a matching socket type (478 is common and can still be had). Only other thing I beleive you would need to check would be the voltage for the cpu. As long as the motherboard supports that, you should be fine.....

 

Yeah no reason why not, but you may need to do some metalwork on the heatsink arrangements.

Check also the memory. 2.4Ghz processors are 400 or 533 bus. 3Ghz+ processors may be 800 or more.

Finally I doubt that you will see a measurable performance increase to justify the change.

 

cool, i guess i will find out. im not too worried about it either way, just cant justify throwing away the laptop (lcd is cracked). I have the motherboard laying around, and it's socket 478 as well, it also supports 800 fsb.

 

yeah it should work...I know that some people use Pentium Ms (dothan cores) in desktops and because they share Inte's newer 'core' architecture they outperform procs running much "faster" clock speeds

 

Hope it works for you, but watch out for heat problems with a mobile Pentium 4 in a laptop. I have heard of heat problems with that CPU in a laptop. I think that that is why they were discontinued in laptops. No firm evidence though, just third party talk. Bazza