Processor compatability - help!

[TonyV]

I have a two motherboards, both Abit, a BE6 and a BH6. On the official site they say that they both top at 700mhz for a pentium II. They update the mobo info slowly though and I know that you can find a 800mhz pIII with a 100mhz bus. My question is, does anyone know oif this combo works or has tried it? I believe the softmenu does have a 8x multiplier so I think it would but im reluctant to waste 250 for the processor and not have it work. Help

 

[Shadow07]

As far as what I have done, yes. I have a Soyo board that I can go as high as 1.04 GHz, but really only supports upto a PII 667 with out using the custom settings.

I don't think that you will have a problem. Besides, the Abit and ASUS boards are great for overclocking.

 

[AndyHui]

Shouldn't be any problem. As long as you have the latest BIOS to support the CPU stepping for your P3-800, it should be fine. If it says support for P3-700, then it will support the P3-800 with no real problems.

Multiplier is not an issue with normal non-engineering sample processors since their mutliplier is locked. They will ignore whatever your motherboard sets the multiplier to and use their own.

 

[TonyV]

thanks all =)