Gateway ML3109 supports 667mhz FSB

[alambrose]

I came here looking to find out if anybody knew what FSB speeds (and therefore, what processors) are supported by the Gateway ML3109, but I couldn't find the answer.

Just about all of the Gateway notebooks (including the ML3109) that use the 4006148R motherboard, are sold with processors that run at a 533mhz FSB.

I looked up the chipset (an ATI RC415MD), which according to the AMD/ATI website is a RADEON XPRESS 200 for Intel processors.

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonxp...tel/specs.html

According to ATI, this chipset supports Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors... if you look at the specs on the intel website for the entire line of P4 Extreme Edition processors, you'll see that none of them runs below 800mhz FSB.

Armed with this info, I decided to try installing a Core 2 Duo 2ghz 667fsb mobile processor (T7200) in the Gateway.

It worked, BIOS & Vista correctly recognized and installed the new configuration... I am writing this post on the Gateway.

So anyway, because it was such a hassle to find this info I thought I'd pass it along in case anybody else comes here looking for info about this notebook, motherboard, or chipset.

-Al