Abit BM6 + Celery 400, which new CPU for this board ?

[MJP1966]

I currently have a Abit BM6 motherboard with a Celery 400 overclocked to 500. I am looking to get a faster processor for this machine - I am going to turn it into my house server. Any recommendations on a good CPU which can be OCed with the BM6.

Thanks in advance !

 

[LevcoS]

I'd go for a cC0 Celeron2 633, most of which seem to be doing 950.

LevcoS

 

[Bartman]

another vote for the 633.. I just got one for my room mate last week from buy.com. got a boxed 633 that's running at 976 1.9v with an alpha. It ran at 941 with the intel heatsink. What a great upgrade for an ageing BX mobo... I don't think a mobo has ever hung around as long as the bx.

Bart

 

[beb]

You need to do some serious checking on those suggestions. The BM6 doesn't support the fcpga 600, 633 etc. I've just been trying to get a Celeron 600 cCO stepping to run in my BM6....so far this is what I've found out. Even though the bios download on Abit's site says the BM6 will support the celeron 566 and 600 most of the time it won't. The pinout on ppga and fcpga are different is the reason. There are exceptions... a later revision BM6 (rev 1.2) will run the celeron if it is a cBo stepping...it still won't run the cCO stepping.
You can get an adapter made by Powerleap (Neo S370)that will let you run the fcpga chip on the BM6, ZM6 and BP6 motherboards. On the Powerleap website there are a bunch of reviews....the one by HardOCP hit the problem i had right on the head....the power came on but no vid etc....they called Abit's engineets and was told that the BM6, ZM6, BP6 weren't compatible with the fcpga chips. I checked some of the newsgroups and there are numerous posts about this problem. If this information is wrong, please let me know, and where you found the information on how to use these chips with the BM6.
Thanks, Ben

 

[Tetsuo316]

i've heard some sketchy stuff about the bm6 and celery 2s as well. so what's the deal MJP1966, did you buy one or not? I want to hear this because I've got the exact system as you do (celery 400 @ 500 on a bm6) and I want to know if i can get a new cc0 celery 2, a cb0 celery 2, or if I'm stuck. I've got the late revision board - you can find it on the sticker that's on the bottom ISA slot, so i'm very curious indeed.

btw, does the Alpha PEP66 fit on the bm6?


edit: I've got a revision 1.03 board, the latest BM6_TZ BIOS from Abit's site, and voltage support for 1.3 to 2.3 volts. Will a new cC0 stepping celeron 2 work? Will a cB0 stepping celeron 2 work?

 

[beb]

after doing further research on this i believe the cbo stepping will work on the BM6....but the cco stepping won't....has to do with the timing on the cco chip is different someway.....don't know a whole lot about this but the cco stepping wouldn't work on my BM6...check out the discussion forums on Powerleap's website.

 

[LevcoS]

Huh. It never occurred to me that a cc0 might not work on a BM6... I guess I'll have to look into that! I'm running a cb0 c2 on my BM6, so I know for a fact that THAT combo works

LevcoS

 

[Killrose]

With the new celerons the BM6 is limmited to a 1.7 volt max cpu setting, so don't even try anything you can't get a gurantee on. I don't know about the new cCO steppings, but if what is being said on this thread is true, than your best bet is either a fcpga 533 or 566 and try for the 100mhz bus. You better have good ram and a very good fan/heatsink unit. I'm currently using a GORB and it works just fine. Someone is currently selling a 566@850/ 1.65 volt in the for sale trade thread $85.00 bucks. The key is good cooling with thermal paste.