Doing this requires an interposer board, to allow 744x series CPUs to be installed in place of 745x. I tried making one, but it didn't work. You also lose L3 cache completely. Best thing to do is just stick to a 7457 at 1.5 GHz or so, and upgrade the L3 cache to 2MB if necessary.
Doing this requires an interposer board, to allow 744x series CPUs to be installed in place of 745x. I tried making one, but it didn't work. You also lose L3 cache completely. Best thing to do is just stick to a 7457 at 1.5 GHz or so, and upgrade the L3 cache to 2MB if necessary.