P4 possible?

I have an old P3 Gateway PC, and I love the look of it. I'd like to know if
it's possible to upgrade the internals to a P4 system by replacing the
motherboard, power supply etc.,. Does anyone know if this is a possibility?
The case is a 'Performance 800' and is one of those where the hard drives
just clip in rather than screw in. The case itself is a work of art, too
good to just throw away.
Any help here?

Cheers.
Al.

Agree. That is a very nice case. Very possible. Gateway used the same chassis
for some of its earlier P4 systems.

You'll need a P4 motherboard, either Socket 478 or LGA 775, a different CPU,
heat sink/cooling fan, memory, and power supply (with a higher wattage rating
and an ATX12v 4-pin connector). If you go with LGA 775, you'll usually need a
PCI-Express graphics card unless the motherboard has integrated video. A Socket
478 board uses an AGP card instead. I forget the exact dimensions of the power
supply for sure, but I seem to recall that the power supply is a standard ATX
form factor... Ben Myers

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:08:43 +0100, "Al" <jhuguytfyt@nbytfftetry.com> wrote:

>I have an old P3 Gateway PC, and I love the look of it. I'd like to know if
>it's possible to upgrade the internals to a P4 system by replacing the
>motherboard, power supply etc.,. Does anyone know if this is a possibility?
>The case is a 'Performance 800' and is one of those where the hard drives
>just clip in rather than screw in. The case itself is a work of art, too
>good to just throw away.
>Any help here?
>
>Cheers.
>Al.
>

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:08:43 +0100, Al wrote:

> I have an old P3 Gateway PC, and I love the look of it. I'd like to know
> if it's possible to upgrade the internals to a P4 system by replacing
> the motherboard, power supply etc.,. Does anyone know if this is a
> possibility? The case is a 'Performance 800' and is one of those where
> the hard drives just clip in rather than screw in. The case itself is a
> work of art, too good to just throw away.
> Any help here?
>
> Cheers.
> Al.

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Al,

I have made a template to alter the back panel for a regular power supply
in the performance 500 cases, I have received a good number of these
cases in the past. Tis, funny the holes are there for the power supply
screws...

I feel there is a lots of room in these cases mid-tower cases for the
proper amount of air movement for the warmer dual core processors, but
the back plate is another problem for the modern motherboards... I would
love to have a Bridgeport Horizontal Mill to precisely alter these for a
modern backplate, but I use a Dremel Tool with a Flex Shaft for this
modification... I agree I like the style of performance case...

For my AMD Quad, I have restored a Aopen HX08 Housing, but I am going to
replace the floppy with a 4 port USB Card... Since my A770M-A
Motherboard does not have a connector for a floppy. I modified the
mounting slightly to afix a USB Floppy, but I never use it with my 64-bit
Mepis7 Linux...

JR the postman