Celeron II on Asus P2B slot 1 motherboard

[Diesel21]

Anyone tried that combo? I was thinking about going the 566@850+mhz. will it work on my P2B with a converter from fcpga to slot1?

 

[Kroffty]

Yes I have been running that combo for months now. works perfectly. You need to look at the revision of your p2b if it is an older one I think 1.02 you have to run your cpu core voltage at 1.8 like me but if it is newer it will support default voltage of 1.5v. \
If you run 1.8v make sure you have good cooling.

 

[andylawcc]

yep, it works, and pretty stable and overclockable too.
keep that board, it will last you quite a while,
get a PIII 700 when you feel the Cele850 is too slow, that time PIII700 would be cheap too,

that's my upgrade plan.

 

[Diesel21]

I have digged a little in to it, and it seems that you need a P2B rev. 1.12. Mine is 1.10 so it wont work for me. Luckily I had the opportunity to swap the P2B with a P2B-F which does support the new cu-mine celerons.

 

[andylawcc]

what? i thought all you need is a BIOS update.
oh well, just be sure though.

 

[Diesel21]

You need a bios upgrade and rev. 1.12 board. I checked it on asus' forums.

 

[Stringy]

the PCB Rev. 1.10 WILL work with the New Cu Core, this includes the new Celeries as they are merely the same core with some castrations...
as you can see from my Sig. you can run a P3 easily...
All you need is a PCB Rev. 1.10 and the latest bios Update...



Craig

 

[Eug]

Ugh... Maybe I should write a FAQ about this.

Officially for 100% support, you need 1.12 and the most recent BIOS.

However, if you update your BIOS and your board is 1.02 or later it will still most likely work. Kroffty is correct. With the oldest boards you will need to run at 1.8 V, which is OK for a Celemine, especially since Celemines are showing up in the stores with a default voltage of 1.7 V anyway. With newer pre-1.12 boards, you can get lower voltages, but sometimes you can't support voltages like 1.65 V which some of the Celemines want. However, with these same chips and boards, 1.7 V will work fine, so that's why you MUST get an FC-PGA Celemine with voltage-jumpered slocket with the Asus P2B. On an older system, a Slot 1 Celemine simply will not work because the voltage setting is locked and your board might not support that voltage.

See my sig. It is a revision 1.10, and it works at stock voltage (1.5 V) when running 533A. I have it currently set to 1.8 V.

So I recommend:

1) Buy a Celeron 566
2) Buy an MSI MS-6905 Master slocket
3) Buy a good heatsink/fan
4) Buy good $2 heatsink grease
5) Update your BIOS to 1012
6) Set the voltage to 1.8 V (to start with)
7) Keep the FSB at 66 (not 100 to start with)
8) Install everything
9) Boot

Everything should work fine if you have at least P2B rev. 1.02. Once everything is confirmed to be working, then you can play around with all the settings and go for 100 MHz... or higher.

By the way, you'll be happy to know that all 566 chips are either cB0 or cC0. Should overclock VERY well. Mine does 920 100% stable, and 960 stable for a day.

 

[Stringy]

Not to be a pain, but out of the 10 or so Asus P2B's I've purchased (From intro to phase out), I have yet to see a PCB Revision Above 1.10 or Even hear someone Owning such a board...

the P2B Rev 1.10 has the Added Bus speeds and Native Support for lower Vcore's...
Yes, if you have a Pre-1.10 you will have to O/C the Voltage abit in order to run... Just throw an alpha on there and you'll be good to go...


Craig

 

[oneeighty]

Friendtech has released the Powerleap PL-iP3 slot-to-socket adapter for Slot-1 mboards such as the P2B and BH6. In fact, the adapter will allow the Coppermine to run on some older LX mboards.

Friendtech

Some discussion surrounding the adapter:
PowerLeap Computer Upgrade Forums

It's $60 though; can justify that kind of investment into an older mboard? I would have bought one of those types of adapters 6 months ago (Soltek SL-02D or Iwill Slocket III), but they never materialized.

 

[andylawcc]

60 bucks, hell no, you can get a duron with that!

meanwhile, I have a Asus P2-99 (ZX chip) with the OLDEST bios, and I still can run the Celeron. only problem is BIOS will say "Cannot recognize CPU"

and Stringy,
you sure need to upgrade....