JHeiderman
Senior member
Hi Guys!
Just wanted to share the good news about my little project I have been working on. Some of you may have seen me over in the For Sale forum looking for a cheap low speed FCPGA celeron. GeoffS was nice enough to hook me up with a 600mhz Celery for a great price... but back to my story.
I have an old ECS P6BAT-me Motherboard (ver 1.0a) that has both a slot-1 and a socket370. I originaly used it with a Celeron 466 on a slotket because the stupid golden orb that I bought at the time sheered off the tabs of my socket370 (those of you who used one of them back in the day know what I'm talking about). Well that system has long since been stripped apart and the mobo and slotket sat dormant. Until now...
I was doing some back reading over at TomsHardware and I saw the neat little article about modding PPGA slotkets to accept FCPGA Celerons and P3's. Now the fastest P3 my ECS would run is a 800mhz Slot-1 at 100fsb. So I whipped out the old soldering iron and made a quick jumper on the back of my VERY generic and completely no-name slotket.
With my slotket modified and my motherboard with built-in voltage control the only thing left to get was a older FCPGA celeron. So after GeoffS hooked me up with a 600mhz Celeron I was able to get down to business.
I installed the Celeron in my slotket, put a little dab of AS2 on there, smooth it out real nice... put on the heatsink, popped it in... NO POST. Stepped away for a bit, realized I soldered one connection off by one, fixed it, re-install.. IT POSTS!!! So of course I go right into the bios and check temps, 22C for the cpu.. very nice. Now comes the cool part, I power off the system. Then I switch the lone jumper on the slotket.. the unlabled jumper.. it can only do one thing... could it be? YES 100mhz FSB!!! So as of right now I've got a Celeron600@900 at 1.7v. If I can hit the 112fsb that this board can do I will have a 1ghz celeron!!! I'll update for you guys at a later time.. plus I'll have some benchies. Its only got a Geforce2MX @ 200/200 in it so don't expect 100fps but I think it could be a respectable little LAN PC at 800x600 for most older games and 640x480 for some newer ones.
Thanks for listening!!
- J
Just wanted to share the good news about my little project I have been working on. Some of you may have seen me over in the For Sale forum looking for a cheap low speed FCPGA celeron. GeoffS was nice enough to hook me up with a 600mhz Celery for a great price... but back to my story.
I have an old ECS P6BAT-me Motherboard (ver 1.0a) that has both a slot-1 and a socket370. I originaly used it with a Celeron 466 on a slotket because the stupid golden orb that I bought at the time sheered off the tabs of my socket370 (those of you who used one of them back in the day know what I'm talking about). Well that system has long since been stripped apart and the mobo and slotket sat dormant. Until now...
I was doing some back reading over at TomsHardware and I saw the neat little article about modding PPGA slotkets to accept FCPGA Celerons and P3's. Now the fastest P3 my ECS would run is a 800mhz Slot-1 at 100fsb. So I whipped out the old soldering iron and made a quick jumper on the back of my VERY generic and completely no-name slotket.
With my slotket modified and my motherboard with built-in voltage control the only thing left to get was a older FCPGA celeron. So after GeoffS hooked me up with a 600mhz Celeron I was able to get down to business.
I installed the Celeron in my slotket, put a little dab of AS2 on there, smooth it out real nice... put on the heatsink, popped it in... NO POST. Stepped away for a bit, realized I soldered one connection off by one, fixed it, re-install.. IT POSTS!!! So of course I go right into the bios and check temps, 22C for the cpu.. very nice. Now comes the cool part, I power off the system. Then I switch the lone jumper on the slotket.. the unlabled jumper.. it can only do one thing... could it be? YES 100mhz FSB!!! So as of right now I've got a Celeron600@900 at 1.7v. If I can hit the 112fsb that this board can do I will have a 1ghz celeron!!! I'll update for you guys at a later time.. plus I'll have some benchies. Its only got a Geforce2MX @ 200/200 in it so don't expect 100fps but I think it could be a respectable little LAN PC at 800x600 for most older games and 640x480 for some newer ones.
Thanks for listening!!
- J
