cpu converter cards benchmark / differences

[Burnedhardware]

My Slot 1 motherboard running a Socket 370 CPU with a converter card doesn't work properly, why?

In fact, such converter card (allowing to use a Socket 370 CPU on a Slot 1 motherboard) is not a product of industrial standards; there is no organization, official documentation or specification for it. Although use of this kind of products is not recommended by the CPU maker, many motherboard manufacturers have converter cards available in view of economy and future upgradability, or to make their Slot 1 motherboards accept more types of processors. However, the long, roundabout circuits will very likely make signal quality in systems with converter cards inside not as high as those of Socket 370 motherboards with a PPGA Celeron or Slot 1 boards with a Pentium II/!!!. Therefore it's not a good choice for high performance; moreover, the possibility of incompatibility and instability cannot be ruled out.

anyone wanna benchmark some?

 

[Burnedhardware]

above is part of the a-open FAQ http://www.aopen.nl/tech/faq/mb/mbgen.htm#converter card

 

[Rankor]

I think Slotkets are a stop-gap between purchasing a new system board and extending the longevity of one's current or older motherboard setup.

They are great for upgrading to the newer cpu formats (Slot 1->PPGA->FCPGA)/
(Slot A->Socket A).

There's the possibility of running a Coppermine Flip Chip 1Gig on a P3B-F or running that T-Bird 1 Gig on that SD11. Think of it(!)

Yes, there may be performance hits in using these older setups but one can use speed while saving the C-Bills for that new Flip Chip Socket/RDRAM compliant/ATA-100/AGP 4x/6 PCI or Socket A/DDRRAM compliant/ATA-100/AGP 4x/6 PCI motherboard.

There was a time when one just had to slap in a proc to get better performance. Now on top of upgrading the proc, there's the issue of mobo compatibility with multipliers and voltage req'ments and whether the chipset and bios will support or recognize the processor.

Slotkets are a great invention but your concerns are justified.

I get some unexplained random crashes every now and then but not in a frequency to be overly concerned about. I have 2 slotket-converted systems. It could be the slotket, it could be the RAM timings it could be the RAM itself, it could be the evaluation software I'm running, heck it could even be Windows 98 SE (BUT it could never be that )