Bh6 + Celeron 850....

[Vapour]

Will this combo work? And what type of overclocking potential do we have with this? Im just reluctant to replace my whole motherboard just yet
Thanks

 

[dimsum]

I though the BH 6 will only go up to P2 450...

 

[Pluto]

The BH6 (even the original 1.0 rev) can support Coppermine FC-PGA processors using a FC-PGA compatible "slocket", so it should support anything up to 1.1ghz. It will not support Tualtin core CPU's, also it won't officially support 133mhz FSB P3's (you can run at 133mhz FSB but AGP will run above spec, video card must be able to handle this). I can't say if it is compatible with Slot 1 Coppermines or not, I've never tried (fcpga w/ slocket is usually cheaper or the same price anyway).

Personally I think the most cost effective upgrade for a BH6 would be a 1.1ghz Celeron. Can anyone confirm that BH6 can support the cD0 stepping used in the Celeron > 900mhz and higher clock (1.1ghz) P3's?

 

[oldfart]

I have a CD0 C900 @ 112 FSB, 1008 MHz in a BH6 1.01 SS BIOS. Works perfect. Go for it.

 

[JeffG]

What about using a Celeron 766 with the BH6? And what's a good slotket for this?

 

[Pluto]

I can't say for sure about the overclocking ability of a Celeron 766, but since this is a 66mhz FSB native CPU the multiplier is quite high. You probably would be *very* lucky to get to 100mhz FSB (I'm just guessing, maybe with the newer steppings this might be possible)

If your not thinking of overclocking, you'd be far better off to spend the few extra bucks to get a 800+ mhz Celeron which runs at 100mhz FSB. Overclocking these baby's on a BX system is limited to the ability of your agp card at higher bus frequency, and the motherboard to support the right PCI divider.

The Asus slocket is good. I've also used the Iwill. I've also used a Generic one without any problem.
The one thing I've found from my experience with the Celeron 566@850 on a BH6 is that the voltage adjustment jumpers found on some slockets are ignored, you have to use the bios vcore adjustments (this is probably specific to the Abit BH6 only). What this means is that it may not be worth it to spend the extra bucks to get a brand name slocket with voltage adjustment jumpers....