celeron 1200 upgrade good?

[PowerYoga]

my friend wants to upgrade to an celeron 1200 from a celeron 600... i know its a definate good upgrade but can his system handle it? i mean the motherboard... can it handle that? Its a sony-bundle, PCV-J100, and i don't know what kind of a motherboard it is. Money is an issue here, so i don't want to make him buy a new mobo with this chipset either. Any ideas if the celeron 1200 will work on his computer?

 

[Richardito]

If the motherboard is old and not compatible with the new votlage requirements, then it isn't. You can get an Abit VH6T (like mine) for about $70 + $70 for the CPU. This would be a nice system. I'm an AMD fan, but my 1.0A Celery is a great overclocker with my board. I can get it up to 1.52GHz 100% stable and everything runs right (including the overclocked TNT2 video card!). What an overclocking champ.

 

[PowerYoga]

i dunno but the system is pretty old, would that support the new voltag?
maybe i'll just ask him to get the new mobo... would all his components still work?

 

[jiffylube1024]

I don't think that that motherboard supports new Tualatin core CPUs (.13 um CPUs like the Celeron 1000+ and P3 1.13 +). You need a new mobo for those

 

[PowerYoga]

i didn't think it would support... now, i'm used to using AMD.... so anybody have any suggestion on a good celeron 1.2ghz mobo?

 

[FalseChristian]

I'd recommend the ABIT-ST6/ST6RAID. Great stability, 6 PCI slots (no ISA slots) and 1 CNR slot. Great overclocking board and it uses Intel's 815EP chipset which is much more stable then the ABIT-VH6T which uses a VIA chipset.

 

[PowerYoga]

thanks! anyone know where i can get a combo for that? if not... well... i know where to get the parts, but its easier if i can get a combo.

 

[CZroe]

PowerLeap may be able to help with the Tualatin thing. I don't think there were any 600Mhz slot-1 Celerons (All over 533Mhz were Coppermine, and probably FCPGA), so their current Tualatin adapter sure won't work, but look around anyway.