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Clarify the different "Slots" for CPU's?

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TheBends

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Built my last computer using a tutorial I found online. Everything went very smoothly. Now I am looking to upgrade my CPU with the mother board I purchased. What I am looking for is a place that defines the different CPU Chips and what slots they fit in.
My current motherboard is a AOpen ProGold. I bought a Slotkey so I could use a Celeron chip in it. Now I want to put a Pentium III in but am wondering how high I can go and what type of chip I need for my motherboard slot.
Is there a place out there that describes the different CPUs available and what type of "slots" they come in?

Sorry for the rookie question.
 
Well, a-open is a little vague as to whether your top fsb is 100 or 153. Several boards with the same model # are listed with either. But all are labeled with a max 8.0 multiplier, so you can either max out at 800mhz, or 1064mhz(1 ghz)using 8*100 and 8*133 respectively. The 153 bus could be used to overclock to 1224 at 8.0 if you have it, and can attain that speed. You can use either a slot 1 p-3, or a fc-pga p-3, provided you have the right slotket adapter. Also a-open only recommends some lot#'s of your board to use with p-3's! check their site for more on that. (www.aopen.com) I believe most slotkets will accept a p-3eb (the 133 bus fc-pga one) if they take a celeron-2. If your top bus speed in your BIOS is 100 mhz, try flashing it before giving up on 133.
 
after a little more checking, chipgeek litst your chipset (440 bx) as able to reach 100 mhz fsb max. Sorry. this means 800 is the max, and that you need a processor with an 8.0 multiplier lock to achieve this. (an 800e not an 800eb though)
 
Socket 4,5,6 - 486 systems
Socket 7 - Pentium, Pentium MMX, K6-*, etc
Slot 1 - early Celerons, all P2's, cartridge-style P3's
Slot 2 - P2 Xeon, P3 Xeon
Slot A - AMD Athlon, early cartridge
Socket 370 - newer Celerons and P3's (Coppermine FCPGA) new VIA Cyrix CPU's
Socket 462 - AMD Athlon (aka Thunderbird), AMD Duron
 
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