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Celeron II on an old 440BX Motherboard (ASUS P3BF)?

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Jacmert

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I'm just wondering, will a Celeron II work on my old ASUS P3BF (440BX) motherboard? I have a PPGA to Slot-1 adaptor since the P3BF is a slot 1 motherboard. I think the multiplier settings go up to 8.0x, and I can run FSB's of 100mHz and 133mHz. What Celeron II chips can I run?

Thanks for the help.
 
you should be able to run any celeron2 bar the 1.2GHz model with that board!
get a slocket with voltage adjustments in case your board's version is less than 1.03 & you have to force the cpu to use 1.8V!
 
Any Celeron below 1.2GHz? Where did you get that number? Celeron max bus speed is 100mHz, and my clock multiplier goes up to 8x only, I think. But anyways, my chipset should be able to handle Celeron II's? Any significant performance decreases compared to something like an i850 chipset?
 


<< Any Celeron below 1.2GHz? Where did you get that number? Celeron max bus speed is 100mHz, and my clock multiplier goes up to 8x only, >>


your board won't work with a tualatin cpu which is what the 1.2GHz celeron is unless you get the powerleap sloket converter.
just noticed you have a ppga sloket which unfortunately won't work with a fcpga cpu without modification.
easier if you got a new sloket which caters for a fcpga cpu which is what the celeron2 is.
as for multipliers, it's irrevelent as the celeron2 cpus are clock multiplier locked & will disregard any multiplier settings in either bios or m/board jumpers! 🙂
 
Actually, I have a S370 to Slot-1 converter, but I bought it before the FC-PGA's came out, I think. Is there a difference? One is just pins and the other is bumps, but they are in the same configuration, right?

Thanks all for the replies!😀
 


<< Celeron max bus speed is 100mHz, and my clock multiplier goes up to 8x only, I think. >>



multiplier doesn't matter you can use upto 1100 .
 
i got the same mobo and running my slot-1 p3 550 on it. i thought that the board cant handle anything above 1gig in speed...... if i can ask a question then; what would happen if you would put in lets say a slot 1 p3 1000mhz and try to o/c it a bit more.........would the board still accept the o/c processor or would it crash?


PS: Jacmert how can you adjust ur FSB to 133. as fahr as i know (and read in the manual) that mobo supports only 100, right? I have come pc-133 ram but still cant run my FSB even close to that number (133) when trying to set my FSB in BIOS...... so i cant o/c my processor more (@618mhz now).
 
Get the Poweleap slocket with the new tualatin celeron.....
you may get some $$$ for your current processor which will make the upgrade even more cost effective.
Since it is a BX based board the upgrade may work correctly.
 
The BX chipset only "officially" supports 100 FSB. They can run 133 FSB with one little glitch. The AGP will be out of spec since the BX chipset does not have a 1/2 AGP setting, only 1/1 and 2/3....so 133 * 2/3 = 89 MHz. Some video cards are OK with this, some are not.
 
You should be able to run the celerons at 100mz up to an 1100 with a fc-pga adaptor and a bios update. I have a 900 running at 1200(133mz) on my BX mb which puts the agp over spec but my video card handles it okay. 1200 and over celerons are tualitans.

For the cost of the powerleap adaptor you can buy any number of tualitan mbs and sell your old one to offset the cost.
 
IMO it would be a good suggestion to get a Celeron 850 and a new quality Slot to Socket adapter while you can still get that stuff cheap.

The C850 should do 1130 (=8,5*133) w/o problems, only difficulty, as has been said, is the vid card since it would be running at 89 MHz AGP bus speed. I've read reports that the V770 you have only runs at AGP x1 at that speed.
 
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