12-01-2007, 07:34 PM
LGA775 processors are the wrong type for a mini.
What AllGold said is correct. These are the ones that should work.http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001157+40000343+1051723319&name=Socket+M
You can use 800 MHz FSB processors but they are locked at a specific multiplier and will run 16% slower than the listed speed. A Core 2 Duo T7800 is listed as 2.6 GHz but will run 2.16 GHz, slower than T7600 that would run at 2.33 GHz. That is part of the reason that the T7600 is $630 and the T7800 is supposed to list about $530 (no stores show stock of the T7800 yet).
It will likely be the case for the next six months or so, that buying a 20" iMac will cost almost the same price as buying a mini and upgrading with an equivalent processor. It might be worth it if you got a mini really cheap.
What AllGold said is correct. These are the ones that should work.http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001157+40000343+1051723319&name=Socket+M
You can use 800 MHz FSB processors but they are locked at a specific multiplier and will run 16% slower than the listed speed. A Core 2 Duo T7800 is listed as 2.6 GHz but will run 2.16 GHz, slower than T7600 that would run at 2.33 GHz. That is part of the reason that the T7600 is $630 and the T7800 is supposed to list about $530 (no stores show stock of the T7800 yet).
It will likely be the case for the next six months or so, that buying a 20" iMac will cost almost the same price as buying a mini and upgrading with an equivalent processor. It might be worth it if you got a mini really cheap.