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Old AbitBM6 and Celeron 466.

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Nolan75

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I think that the chipsett is 440BX. I have not updated the BIOS yet, though I have the ugrade downloaded. I was wondering about possibly ocing the CPU, or picking up a bit better CPU. This is my old computer and I am basically just playing with it. I think that the max processor that I could stick in the MB is a 500mhz as it will only use ppga CPUs. However, on the ABIT website when I got the BIOS upgrade it said that it should be able to handle a 600mhz CPU. Any suggestions? Comments?

Nolan
 
I had a BM6 over a year back. It is a 440BX chipset, and when flashed to the newest BIOS, I had a Celeron 533 (FC-PGA) running at 800Mhz with no socket adapter. So basically, it should be able to handle any FC-PGA celeron, but I never tried FC-PGA Pentium3's, and I can garuntee you that FC-PGA2 tualatins wont work.
 
No, Celeron 466 is .25 micron. Celeron 533 (FC-PGA version with SSE) and up are .18 micron and therefore easy to overclock up to around the 1Ghz mark, mileage varying.

.25 micron chips max at around 600Mhz, but doing so you would be putting your celeron at one of those "odd" FSB settings. I suppose you could try bumping the FSB to 75Mhz and get about 550Mhz or so.
 
My second PC is a Celly 400@541Mhz on the BM6. It runs at the 'odd' bus speed of 83Mhz, but nothing seems to be phased by it and it's runs solid 24/7.
 
Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
My second PC is a Celly 400@541Mhz on the BM6. It runs at the 'odd' bus speed of 83Mhz, but nothing seems to be phased by it and it's runs solid 24/7.
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Aye, but some people have different hardware. PCI bus at 83Mhz is 41.5 MHz. Some hardrives, PCI cards cannot handle a high PCI frequency. Unless you make sure your hardware can handle it (or just try it out), you dont want to be running at that because it might induce system instability. Besides, 7.5x83 is around 625Mhz, pushing the edge of Intel's .25 micron technology.

Never give up on your good old BX-Platform, it can have more performance than you think (see Sig)...
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There are posts about Tualatin celerons running on a BX platform. It does work, but no one knows the "long-term" consequences are. You could just get a Powerleap adapter and forget about it since it accounts for the voltage differences on the bus. But that would be the best performance option for a BX board. Overclock it and it gets even better. Imagine if Intel made Tualatins work with BX platforms natively. The BX would have one heck of a legacy.
 
So basically I might be able to get away with plugging any FCPGA celeron chip into the board, with the risk of shorter life span. CPU life span or system? I was thinking about purchasing a new MB and a Celeron 1.1A, which run about $100 together, and plugging all the old components in to it. A Celeron 950, the fastest FCPGA that I could locate seems to run around $70 retail. The old celeron and BM6 are my first computer and I am fairly attached to it, but after building my new rig, P4 1.6A, ect, my poor ole celeron 466 just seems like a dog. Would love to keep the spirit of my old machine intact, just faster, with minimum cash flow.

Nolan
 
There are posts about Tualatin celerons running on a BX platform. It does work, but no one knows the "long-term" consequences are. You could just get a Powerleap adapter and forget about it since it accounts for the voltage differences on the bus. But that would be the best performance option for a BX board. Overclock it and it gets even better. Imagine if Intel made Tualatins work with BX platforms natively. The BX would have one heck of a legacy.
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The long-term consequence is definitely my BF6 bursting to flames...seriously...
The capacitors and transistor switches on the BF6 (and most old BX boards) are capable of flows up to 15A...now a Tually-Celeron at 1.7GHz needs up to 25A. 😱 This tells us this setup is not everlasting...except I had a lucky shot and the mobo can take it long... 😉
Otherwise it means picking up a cheap new S370 mobo with native Tually support...btw. cheaper than the powerleap... 🙂
 
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