Any idea if older socket370 boards -don't- support Celeron2 cpus?

[Mage]

I have an EFACorp Discovery ZX mobo...socket370 AT motherboard...apparently the company went out of the motherboard business last year, and the fastest cpu they tried was a 433. The older celerons run on 2v, but the newer ones run at 1.5v. Any idea if a celeron2 will run in this board?

 

[Peter]

Celeron-2 has the exact same requirements as does the Coppermine Pentium-III. IT'S THE SAME SILICON. So if you have a no-PIII socket370 mainboard, then that means it's no-C2 as well.

Regards, Peter

 

[IaPuP]

the new Celeron runs on an FC-PGA configuration which is electrically slightly different than the old PPGA.

motherboards have to have advanced auto-detect circuitry or a jumper to switch the "cpu type".

If you don't have this jumper, you can't run the new chips, regardless of voltage.

Intel did this to screw you into buying an i815 board, as there is no other reason this would have been done.

Eric

 

[Monza]

Are there not a converter card that fixes this?

 

[soundsation]

get Powerleap converter

 

[Jhhnn]

Dunno if this will work or not, might be worth reading.

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