P2 motherboard question

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

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

>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

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.

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

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>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 ....