Copermine CPU on old BX Board

[waverider]

Is it possible to put a copermine CPU on an old BX Board? I know that it doesn't work officially, but maybe the slotket adapter can change the voltage so it still might work?

 

[soulm4tter]

i'm sure its possible, but i wouldn't hedge on it. what board is it exactly?

 

[waverider]

It's a QDI BrillianX 1. I've updated the BIOS and now it seems theoretically capable of 8 X 100. But it doesn't give the right voltage for the newer PIII's. Still would like to put a PIII 800 in there. So you think it's possible?

 

[AndyHui]

Should be possible. All BX boards should support VRM 8.3, which at the time specified the lowest voltage as 1.80 volts. Simply use an FC-PGA Coppermine on a slotket, and manually set the slotket to request 1.80 volts. It should work. Lower voltages such as default 1.65 volts may result in no boot. Make sure you have the latest BIOS update.

 

[damocles]

Be careful. I flashed my old Chaintech so that it would support Cumines. The result was a system that locked up continually. Chaintech acknowledged the problem, but no fix came out for ages ( i never tried it, because i swapped boards).

 

[waverider]

No prob to flash it. I flashed it one week ago. Everythings seems to work.

 

[Smbu]

Even if you use a slocket to put what voltage you want the motherboard has to support that voltage. My old Soyo bx board only supported intel cpu's running at 2.0v and up. I emailed them asking if I could use a coppermine P3 on it using a slocket to change the voltage and they told me the motherboard has to support the lower voltage. My P3 worked fine on my old Abit BE6-2 board, which, did support coppermine cpu's.

 

[waverider]

Hmm, now I am truely confused. Can I adapt the voltage with the slocket or not? I know that officially they will say that it doesn't work because of the voltage. But unofficially (and using a slocket is not really official) it should work? Did you a least test the coppermine on you Soyo bx board?

 

[Smbu]

No, I did not try the coppermine on the old Soyo board. I searched for awhile and I finally did find the page at Tom's Hardware where I originally found the information about the voltage question. Here is a little summary.


Slot-1 vs. Socket 370

There might be quite a few of you who want to upgrade to an even faster processor without exchanging motherboard or RAM. In theory, that's no problem, as most motherboard companies offer Slot-to-Socket converter boards. Most of them allow to select a voltage between 1.3 and 2.5V (sometimes even some more), but I've not come across one which would have its own voltage regulator. This option to alter the voltage may be great for overclocking, but so far it's certainly not suited for upgrades, as your motherboard still has to provide the voltage itself. This means that a motherboard that can't go down to 1.65 V would still not be the right host for Coppermine processors. I would love to see such a better featured adapter board, as this would make upgrades up to at least 800 MHz possible.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Didn't one of the major Slotket manufacturers announce (and then
cancel) a Slotket that had an onboard VRM? That would have been
sweet. Wonder why they cancelled it...

Kwad

 

[cmaMath13]

Hello,

I have a Intel Coppermine P3 650 @ 806MHz on my Abit BX6 rev.2 motherboard, which is obviously a BX board. In order to get the CPU to work properly I had to flash my BIOS on the motherboard.

So to answer the question, YES (depending on the mobo).

Chris