Just bought a Dual p2 board, help with processor choice

[i3rYs0n]

Ok just bought this board

link1
link2

I've been reading around where people have gotten dual 533's to work on this and a few with dual 400 cellys, although the specs say for the first link that 233-333 p2's. I'm wondering what is the fasted CPU i can get to work on this motherboard, celerons or p2's.

If anyone can find the bios update, and other update's for the board, i would be very thankful.

LaSt

Also if you have some pretty fast (for this board) matching slot chips that will work on this board, if ya'd give me a pm i might buy them off ya.

 

[mechBgon]

They don't seem to exactly have a CPU-support chart. I did find this page. Unfortunately, it doesn't say exactly what multipliers are available, it only says that the 720 is Plug-n-Play as far as the CPUs go, and they don't seem to indicate whether it will work with Celerons. In your Link 1, if you click the "BIOS" link, it does take you to the BIOS page where you could get the latest BIOS. I know we have some motherboards at work that support PentiumII 233-333MHz but have severe problems when given a Celeron 366MHz, as if they are running with their cache disabled.

Keep in mind that if you want to use a pair of slot-style Celerons, there is an arcane and difficult modification required to their circuit boards in order to make them SMP-capable. If you use a pair of socket-style Celerons, all you need are slocket converters which support dual-CPU operation. Either way, keep the cost in perspective... a $30 1GHz Duron on a $50 ECS K7S5A would have higher performance.