jumper settings

[manwithplan]

im about to ugrade an old P2 266 slot 1 machine with a slocket and celeron 400Mhz chip but i dont know what to set the jumpers to!

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-686BLX and the jumper settings (freq ratio in the manual) will cover 3x to 5.5x in 0.5 intervals. Its a 66mhz FSB, in writing this im getting the sinking feeling that the chip may not work at all, what do you guys think??

ta much
C.

 

[Marine]

Well, you may want to check the voltage first, before you put the chip in. With the 5.5 setting the chip will be underclocked if it runs at all. Most slotkets, though allow you to select the FSB. You may be able to run the chip at a higher frequency than 66 and see what you get. With an old Cellie like that, you can experiment without breaking anything expensive. As an alternative, there are tons of socket 370 and PPGA socket baseboards out there very inexpensively that will run your Celeron very well. Any BX board with a socket, like the Abit BM-6 will do a terrific job and give you lots of overclocking options as well. This if you're not locked into the Gigabyte MB.