Current Celeries/P3s on Abit BM6, possible??

[thorin]

Anyone have a BM6 with a half decent processor in it?

I currently have a 366@550 but could upgrade if it makes sense.

Thorin

 

[Nefrodite]

powerleap makes a converter for tully celly/p3's.. i'm still waiting for chip prices to drop though

 

[thorin]

What about voltage requirements and BIOS support?

Thorin

 

[oldfart]

I've heard different things on the BM6. Officially, it only supports PPGA. I'm sure I've heard of people using FC-PGA without an adapter, but I cant be sure. Do some more poking around. I'd ask on the alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit usenet group.

 

[Nefrodite]

well voltage i think the powerleap does, but bios support i dunno. you can always checkout the powerleap site.

 

[MGMorden]

It can handle the voltage fine. cB0 stepping Celeron's will work without mods. Anything else will require that you remove a pin from the chip and solder a wire between two pins on the cpu socket (not really hard at all). There's an article an Tom's Hardware about how to do all this.

 

[oldfart]

MGMorden Do you have a link for that mod?

 

[oldfart]

I found the article @ TOMS. Bottom line from what I have seen is a BM6 can use a CB0 stepping CPU easily. CC0 or CD0 require a Powerleap NEO ($25) or that trick on Toms. I have a friend that is looking to upgrade his setup also.

 

[VTrider]

Exactly! One of my systems is a BM6 - been running faithful and reliable god for 5 years now? 566/850mhz.

If I remember correctly there was some issue for a while regarding the revision # and if that particular BM6 board supported the newer steppings? I even bought one of those NEO converters and it turned out I didn't even need it after all! Thrown into the ebay bin.