Looking to Upgrade CPU. I have have a BE6-II V2.0

[sekser]

I want to upgrade my cpu. Its a huge cartridge looking cpu now. Its a pIII 650.

What can I upgrade this to? I notice the chips our now little squares instead of this humongous rectangular cpu i have in there now.

I remember seeing these adapters to make it fit one of these little square things. How do i find these? What are they called?

Need some guidance. I want to have something a bit faster but don't want to spend much.

Even a celeron 1ghz or something will be a considerable upgrade yes?

If anyone has input. Thanks!

 

[rogue1979]

You will need a slocket adapter to run a FCPGA processor. If you need to stay on a budget, pricewatch has the 1.1GHz Celeron listed at $58 before shipping. Just make sure that you get the version with 128k of L2 cache. The FCPGA2 version with 256k L2 cache will not work on your motherboard without some serious modification. Personally I would get the Celeron 800 for $54. Just raise the core voltage to 1.80v or so and put it on a 133MHz fsb. Now you have a 1066MHz Celeron running on a 133MHz fsb which is much faster than a 1100 Celeron on a 100MHz fsb.

 

[Robbio]

i have a bh6 w/a 566 slocket in it, i too want to upgrade but i have a couple of questions for the experts:

1) which celeron 1.1 do I buy...what should it list as in pricewatch?

2) has anybody tried this? and got it to work successfully

please help

TIA

 

[rogue1979]

You need a slocket adapter, a device that slides into the spot where your slot 1 cpu resides. You attach the FCPGA cpu to the slocket adapter and then put the heatsink on, put the whole assembly where you slot 1 cpu was. Go to pricewatch and click on the cpu category, then click on the Celeron 1.1 category. There are two different types of Celeron cpu's at 1GHz and above. The one you need is the FCPGA coppermine (128k of L2 cache), not the FCPGA tualatin (256k of L2 cache.) The older BH6 came in two revisions as I remember, one could support coppermine processors and one only the older medecino core, I am not sure. You say you have a 566 slocket in it now, do you mean a slocket adapter with a 566MHz cpu? If this is the case then you are all set. Raise the core voltage to 1.70-1.75v and set the fsb speed from 66MHz to 100MHz and you have an instant 850MHz cpu. The 566@850MHz is one of the most famous Celeron overclocks, just make sure you system memory can run 100MHz speeds, (older PC-66 will have a problem). If you need a slocket adapter look under Case/CPU accessories and then convertors.

 

[Steppy76]

Make sure you get an FCPGA cpu(coppermine based P3's and celerons).
There is no FCPGA tualatin processor, Tualatins are FCPGA2, so that is what you want to stay away from.

 

[SonicTron]

Hey I would recommend you go for a 1GHz 100fsb Pentium 3 non-tualatin processor w/ 256k cache.

It will be difficult to find a 100fsb version, but generally the payoff has been excellent, yielding upwards of 1.4GHz in some cases. Its been nearly a shoein for most people to hit at least 1.12 or even 1.24, many hitting 1.33 ghz with stock cooling or something a little better thats after-market.

but problem is that you will likely pay $150 for such a package

another optioin is to get the PowerLeap tualatin adapter package for like 170, or just get a cheapy, slow celeron 1ghz for ~60-70.

 

[Robbio]

thanks guys

i'm gonna find me a 1.1 to drop into my slocket and hopefully all will go well, cheap is always a good way to go, hey, this leads me to another question....

does anyone know if the bh6 will work on more than 384mb ram (like 3 256 mb dimms)??

boo yaa (i mean... tia...again)