PC100 810 with Socket 370

[kevinthenerd]

What's the quickest chip that'll fit an Intel 810 chipset, 100 Mhz FSB with a socket 370?

My Celeron 433 isn't quick enough to play DVD's effectively. Could this motherboard potentially support quicker playback with a faster chip (such as an 800Mhz) , or would I have to get a new motherboard?

Money is tight. My bills are rolling in with decreased hours after the expensive holidays, and my second-semester tuition is due in four days. Don't you dare suggest a new computer. If a solution costs more than $80, don't even think about it.

 

[KF]

It seems to me quite a few people have said that a speed like 433MHz should be fast enough for DVD playback, and that the CPU is seldom the problem. Maybe the video forum will get you more info.

Make sure DMA is enabled for the IDE controller.
Make sure you have the latest 810/815 drivers, especially if you use onboard video.
Put the DVD on a separate cable from the HD, and set it to master or cable select. Use a good quality 80 conductor HD cable.

Video boards from the last 2 years, even $50-60 ones, have some sort of acceleration for playing videos, I believe.

Later 810 chipset mobos take Coppermine CPUs, and earlier ones don't. I think there are 1100Hz Coppermine(FCPGA) Celerons, but it will be easier to find 1000MHz ($40). Earlier 810 mobos may only be able to use pre-Coppermine, PPGA CPUs. PPGA Celerons went up to 533Hz, which I doubt would help. 810 chipsets were not designed to accomodate Tualatin (FCPGA2) CPUs, although they sometimes work with an adapter. Tualatin Celerons go up to 1.4GHz.

 

[mechBgon]

What brand and model of motherboard is this? I can look up the CPUs that it supports. Do you have enough RAM that the system has some elbow room? Made sure it's not running any unnecessary software below the surface?

 

[kevinthenerd]

motherboard: PC Chips M766LMRT2
- supports slot 1 and socket 370 with up to 100Mhz FSB
(I suppose I should have mentioned the slot 1 capability)
- latest BIOS installed

RAM: 320MB (256+64 PC133)
OS: Win98SE
video: Intel 810 onboard


Is this motherboard overclockable with software? How much would an MPEG capable video card cost me?

 

[mechBgon]

Here's the closest thing I could find at PCChips' site: specs and CPU options. It has no AGP slot, which reduces the video-card options quite a bit... you'll need a PCI video card if you decide to get a new video card.

CPU-wise, if you can get your hands on a 600-700MHz Pentium3 that is based on the 100MHz bus, that would be quite a jump in the CPU department. If you put up a WTB thread in the For Sale/Trade area, you'd get some bites. Here's a thread with a 600E for sale.

Next-best would be a Celeron, and here's one that fits your price bracket: $25 plus s/h or search For Sale/Trade for "Celeron."

There's no guarantee that more CPU power is going to help the i810 onboard video, so do look at video cards. Here's one that looks ok: Radeon 7000 PCI, 32MB DDR

Good luck, hope it all works out 😀

 

[kevinthenerd]

This information here:
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142-bin/cgi-bin/ibrd/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=900

provided a lot of helpful information. I double-checked my BIOS and discovered that my IDE controller wasn't maxed out. I also installed the intel application accelerator mentioned in that thread. Now I get DVD playback that's 1000% better, but it still drops about 10 frames every minute. Any ideas on tweaking the rest out of it?

I think I need quicker software. RealOne was never efficient for anything I've ever used it for, so I'm guessing that's the culprit for this too. What do you all use?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
This information here:
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142-bin/cgi-bin/ibrd/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=900

provided a lot of helpful information. I double-checked my BIOS and discovered that my IDE controller wasn't maxed out. I also installed the intel application accelerator mentioned in that thread. Now I get DVD playback that's 1000% better, but it still drops about 10 frames every minute. Any ideas on tweaking the rest out of it?

I think I need quicker software. RealOne was never efficient for anything I've ever used it for, so I'm guessing that's the culprit for this too. What do you all use?

In my experience, PowerDVD by a company called CyberLink is the best, but only because it allows your video card to output to your tv. But, since you don't have any video card, WinDVD will work just fine for you, too. One of them comes with any new DVD-rom, including the $40 16x's.