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P2 motherboard question

John McClare

P2 motherboard question

by John McClare » Fri, 08 May 1998 04:00:00

Does anyone know if you can put a Celeron P2 cpu in a BX chipset
motherboard?  I know the BX motherboard can not have the mutiplier "lock"
feature. Has anyone done it? If so please post

Thanks,
John

Eric T. Busc

P2 motherboard question

by Eric T. Busc » Fri, 08 May 1998 04:00:00

Yeah, but you'll be stuck with the 4x multiplier and it's doubtful you'll
get the BX's 100MHz bus speed to work.

- Eric


>Does anyone know if you can put a Celeron P2 cpu in a BX chipset
>motherboard?  I know the BX motherboard can not have the mutiplier "lock"
>feature. Has anyone done it? If so please post

John McClare

P2 motherboard question

by John McClare » Fri, 08 May 1998 04:00:00


>Yeah, but you'll be stuck with the 4x multiplier and it's doubtful you'll
>get the BX's 100MHz bus speed to work.

>- Eric

I read on Tom's hardware site that this chip is a overclockers (ME) dream. I
think that as long as I stick with a MB that doesn't recognize those two
little pesky resistors on the cpu  it WILL work.  My only concern is the
physical limitations.  ie size of heatsink and fan and mounting of cpu.

John

Eric T. Busc

P2 motherboard question

by Eric T. Busc » Sat, 09 May 1998 04:00:00

Yes the Celeron is lacking the 2 resistors that are needed to officially
support the 100MHz bus speed, and without a board that doesn't automatically
detect the bus speed it will default to 66Mhz.  You'll still be stuck with
the 4x multiplier, and without a pretty massive heatsink/fan, 400MHz may or
may not work for you.  You'll likely have greater success with 300MHz (75x4)
and 333MHz (83x4).

- Eric


>I read on Tom's hardware site that this chip is a overclockers (ME) dream.
I
>think that as long as I stick with a MB that doesn't recognize those two
>little pesky resistors on the cpu  it WILL work.  My only concern is the
>physical limitations.  ie size of heatsink and fan and mounting of cpu.

John McClare

P2 motherboard question

by John McClare » Sat, 09 May 1998 04:00:00

Thanks Eric.  Anyone word on the V3300?
I am looking for a video card for my soon to be new system.

John

Greg Johnsto

P2 motherboard question

by Greg Johnsto » Sun, 10 May 1998 04:00:00


>Yes the Celeron is lacking the 2 resistors that are needed to officially
>support the 100MHz bus speed, and without a board that doesn't automatically
>detect the bus speed it will default to 66Mhz.  You'll still be stuck with
>the 4x multiplier, and without a pretty massive heatsink/fan, 400MHz may or
>may not work for you.  You'll likely have greater success with 300MHz (75x4)
>and 333MHz (83x4).

>- Eric


>>I read on Tom's hardware site that this chip is a overclockers (ME) dream.
>I
>>think that as long as I stick with a MB that doesn't recognize those two
>>little pesky resistors on the cpu  it WILL work.  My only concern is the
>>physical limitations.  ie size of heatsink and fan and mounting of cpu.

You don't need a board that "automatically" detects the bus speed to

266, and Samsung PC100 memory. The Abit softmenu bios allows settings
of 300/100 333/100 350/100 400/100, and 450/100.This sytem is running
400Mhz/100Mhz in my office as we speak. You are correct in that one is
stuck with a 4X muliplier on the Abit board. The Supermicro boards
include a 6X multiplier, but are much harder to clock.(Requiring
cutting traces, soldering, etc..) BTW, with the factory Intel heat
sink/fan combo, heat is not an issue, even after increasing CPU

400/100 with a lower voltage setting. I plan on doing some Quake 2
benchmarking tomorrow, just to see how much of a hit the numbers will
take without onboard L2 ....

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