Motherboard compatibility with PPGA v. FCPGA? Please help!

[aircasper]

I currently have an old desktop with an Asus CUWE-RM motherboard that uses the Intel 810E chipset. It currently has a 466 MHz celeron PPGA processor, and I would like to upgrade to a faster celeron if possible. However, I noticed that the online manual at Manual PDF Link states that the motherboard supports Pentium III FCPGA processors and Celeron PPGA processors. Does this mean that the motherboard will not support Celeron FCPGA processors? I'm not sure why a motherboard would be able to accept a PIII FC-PGA based processor and not a Celeron FC-PGA based processor. Could it just be that at the time the documentation was prepared there were no FC-PGA based Celerons? Does anyone know whether I will be able to use a FCPGA Celeron on this motherboard? If not, I guess I won't be upgrading this thing. Thanks for your help!

 

[eplebnista]

According to this ASUS CPU Compatibility list, the CUWE-RM supports up to a 1.1Ghz Celeron with 128kb cache. Also make sure you're memory is up to speed(i.e. PC100 or PC133) and you have flashed to the latest BIOS version.

hth,
eplebnista

 

[AndyHui]

This board will support FC-PGA Celeron processors.

If the ASUS board name has a "CU" at the front, this means it has Socket 370 FC-PGA support. If it had "ME" at the front, it would have supported PPGA only.

 

[aircasper]

awesome! thanks for the great help! i was a bit worried there for a second that i wouldn't be able to do the cheap upgrade. i didn't understand why the online manual for the board said it supported pIII FCPGA and celeron PPGA, with no mention of a celeron FCPGA. thanks again.

aircasper