Help!! What is the best CPU for Abit BX6 rev.2

[hambonetom]

I have been been running this BX6 with the cellery2 533mhz. @ 896mhz. with goldenORB for a while now and I was wanting give my computer a little more life. I was thinking of going with a Pen3 or a faster cellery chip. What are my options for this mother board.

 

[Toymaker]

It's been awhile but as I remember I had a P3 700 slot 1 on mine.

I searched but all I can find is the 733 and 750.

 

[RanDum72]

With a Powerleap adapter or a modded slotket, you can go all the way to 1.4ghz Celeron (Tualatin-based) with 256k cache.

 

[MustangSVT]

instead of buying a slocket and a new cpu.

just hold on to it and buy new m/b with new cpu. wont it be faster?

i mean 1600+ with k7s5a was only $100
and mine runs perfect at 2100+ on stock voltage

 

[WarSong]

Like MustangSVT said, if you are going to spend money, I would put it towards a new mobo, proc, and memory. Slot1 P3s, Slockets with voltage adjustment, Powerleap adapters, and Tualatins are all way too expensive in terms of speed vs value compared to just buying a Athlon or P4.

 

[Jhhnn]

If you had a 300a@450 or a 366@550, then a 1gig celeron2 would be the obvious answer, but you really wouldn't notice much difference over what you have now..

Once you have a cpu in the 800mhz and up range, it's difficult to justify further upgrading on a bx board. Problem is that the p3's are overpriced and the celly2's only go to 1100. They will overclock somewhat, depending, check some of the dedicated O/C site databases to evaluate your chances. There's some info that tualatin celerons will run on modified slotkets, check the same sites for more info.

While the powerleap stuff works, it's expensive, you'd get better performance spending the same money (or a little bit more) on a new board, memory and cpu.

 

[Muadib]

This is a tad off topic, but since you guys know the board, I thought I'd ask. How can you tell the revision on this board? Someone I know is asking me, but I have no clue. Thanks!