[MLB-WIRELESS] OT: Question for a Genuis (CPU Q)

[Ben Grech]

Ok don't quote me on this, I missed the slot 1 days (went straight from
socket 7 to slot A!) Anyway... with a slotket, you should be able to use any
coppermine P3. With Celerons, I've heard something about an 850 being the
highest any revision of the BXC can take. There are newer slotkets that can
take Tualatin CPUs, but it looks like you need a 2.0A revision of your
motherboard to be compatible.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Pearce" <mattpearce at optusnet.com.au>
To: "melbourne wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:32 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] OT: Question for a Genuis (CPU Q)


> Hi All,
>
> I have a question with regards to installing a new CPU in a motherboard,
the
> mobo is a Gigabyte GA-6BXC with a BX440 chipset.  Now the FAQ on there
> website says that the coppermine series of CPU is not supported on my mobo
> revision (1.6), but it says after version 2.0 that the coppermine is
> supported.  The FSB can be clocked to 133 and the online manual says that
I
> can run the frequency multiplier to 9.5 this gets a theoretical high of
> 1.26Ghz on a slot 1 mobo, which is pretty good if I can get it to run.
>
> Now the question is, is the coppermine not supported cause the mobo is not
> capable of lowering the voltage sufficiently(currently running a PIII
> 550Mhz@ 2v) to run say a PIII 1.26Ghz Tualatin(1.45v) CPU or is there
> something else I am not seeing ??
>
> If it is only the voltage I can get a converter card that is flexible
enough
> to lower the voltage so it should run, will this work ??
>
> If this actually works it could have some very good implications for other
> users to ramp up speed for very low cost :-)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help and sorry for the off topic post.
>
> Matt
>
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