P3 processor mounts?

[bozack]

I have an older bh6, revision 1.02 and I had a celeron 450 in it but just today I got a slot one pentium 3 650, which works but the mounts don't seem to hold it extra firmly in place, which means I can move the processor in the slot a little more than I think was intended. Should I even bother to fix this? or just wait until I get a new board? and if I do decide to does anyone know where to get the mounts? thanks

 

[pdqcarrera]

I had the exact same experience. Turned out the Celeron mounts I had don't do abit (nice pun eh? ) of good with a P3 CPU. I just went to the local store and got the right ones.

Still lovin' my BH6 but now at 933mhz thanks to STEP-Thermodynamics, but thinking it's time for an upgrade to get ATA100, Raid Support and SoftMenu III (like perhaps an ABIT BX133-RAID i440BX Socket-370 ATX).
Ross

 

[bozack]

I am sure that I could look at work and see if we have anything better but I am still not too familiar with the area and dont know if any local store would just carry the mounts, if anyone could suggest an online source it would be appreciated, I emailed abit to see what they say, maybe I will get some new ones out of them

 

[jhouston]

I also had a Celeron installed in the older BH6. I just used the old retention mechanism as is by installing the P3 with out anything holding it in place. I have been running the P3 500 for about a year without any problems. The intial release of this board came with the Celeron and PII retention mechanism and what you need is a Universal Retention Mechanism. You may have some seating problems with the processor at first but be gentle and install the P3. By the way I was not aware that the old BH6 rev 1.0 bios supported anything above a P3 600 MHZ? I guess i need to check the bios upgrade page at Abit.

 

[bozack]

it isnt supposed to support a 650 as per abits page but since I got it for free I thouht I would give it a shot, turned out there was a setting for it in the bios, 650/100


oh and I have the CPU installed and working, I was just wondering if it was ok to leave it like that, kinda loose and all but sine I never really move my pc I guess it doesn't matter-maybe I will get some mounts if I find them or upgrade my board-whichever comes first

 

[Jeff H]

Checking Abit's page will do you no good, as it tows the Intel line, re processor options. There are posts too numerous to mention in the Abit newsgroup of people successfully running P!!'s up to 850MHz (standard clock).
And, there are numerous reports of successful overclocking of both P!!!'s and C2's on both 1.0x and 1.1 revision BH6's.

FWIW I've been running an FC-PGA P!!!-650 cB0 on a rev1.02 BH6, along w/ an Abit Slotket!!! and a Thermaltake Gorb. Haven't done any overclocking w/ it yet, as I want to do a format/reinstall of Win98 first, and burn an image to CD-R b4 I o/c it.

 

[bozack]

Jeff did you have to change your mounts? or no if so where did you them, thanks

 

[Jeff H]

bozack, when I bought my BH6 the box came w/ both Celeron and PII mounts. The Abit Slotket!!! fits perfectly in the PII mounts that Abit supplied. I'll see if I can find you a website that sells universal mounts, they aren't expensive. If anyone else out there has a source, please let bozack know.

 

[bozack]

Thanks Jeff,

Mine came with celeron/p2 universal mounts too but for some reason the SECC2 cartridge does not fit in correctly-oh well I found a local place that has them but I dont have any free time to get there.