Is it possible to get a tualtin celeron to run on a BX motherboard?

[SickBeast]

a friend of mine has an abit bm6 board. he's running an old 466 celeron right now and he wants to upgrade. i've heard that there are mods to let you run a tualtin cpu on these older boards. does it actually work?

 

[KGB1]

Normally you cannot, due to incompatabilities because of CPU voltage and, and the fact that the BX chipset is for SLot 1 Processors. But there IS HOPE (depending on what Motherboard your friend has) Its the ::owerLeap PL-iP3/T Rev 2.0::: You can pop in a 1.4GHZ P3 512K 133FSB on a BX board OOHH YEAH!!!! I have a Celeron 1.3 256K on a Asus P3CL (i820) It works fine and CPU ID see's it as a 1.3 GHZ Celeron. I'd highly recommend it get it atPowerLeap or look around google and find a reatiler selling it for 50 bucks (NO cpu) get a CPU at newegg and let it fly. Good Luck.

 

[SickBeast]

apparently there's actually a way to mod the motherboard so that you don't need the powerleap converter. does anyone know if this works? it involves snapping 3 pins off the processor and soldering a wire between 2 of the pins on the back of the socket.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Use search to find read about the last time this was asked (might be in General Hardware not mobos)