Slocket OT

[Bleep]

Ok I got a motherboard that is a slot 1 but the fsb is only 66 with a multiplier of 5.5, set with jumpers, is there a slocket out there somewhere that will change the multiplier to the chip? I would like to get this board cracking with at least a celron 500
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[Viztech]

Celeron 500s are multiplier locked, so you should be good to go, because the CPU multiplier will over-ride the mobo jumpers.

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[Windogg]

Intel CPUs have their multipliers locked so OCing via the FSB is your only choice.

 

[Bleep]

No! No! you do not understand, the celron 500 has a fsb of 66 as all celrons . My motherboard will only do a multiplier of 5.5 I do not want to overclock anything, I want to run the celron 500 at default settings but my motherborard does not support a multiplier of 7.5 which I think the celron500 uses. Or are you saying that even though the motherboard only supports 5.5 the celron will still run with the 7.5 multiplier? are they like the older AMD chips that if you set the multiplier to X2 it will run itself at whatever the multiplier should be? I forget the term used for this.
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[BurntKooshie]

The multiplier settings should be irrelavent, as the CPU itself over-rides any of them.

So even though the motherboard tries to make it 5.5, it'll still run at the...er....whatever multiplier it was intended to run. EXCEPT, the old LX motherboards had a restriction of nothing higher than an 8x multiplier, or something to that effect. I'm not up to snuff in that category....but depending upon the bios, you can go all the way up to 733mhz 😉

 

[jatwell]

As long as the celeron is PPGA and not FCPGA it'll do fine in a LX board. You can set the MB to any multiplier that you want and it'll still work. Most LX boards don't have the correct voltage regulator and/or BIOS update to work with the FCPGA celerons. Since it's only a 500 and FCPGA's are only 533+, you're fine 🙂

Just pop that chip in there and go!

BK, the LX boards will run ANY multiplier since it's locked, BUT you're right because only FCPGA celerons have multipliers over 8 🙂.

 

[Bleep]

Thanks guys. I will probably have it cracking tommorrow. Just what I need another machine setting around, cant hardly walk in my little room now. 🙂
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[Adul]

the only thing is it may no be report at the proper speed in bios. Don't worry, it is running faster then wat it says.

 

[Bleep]

That is great. I have 4 of these motherboards and 1/2 dozen celron 500,s left over from a project, they all take simms chips, good thing I did not sell any of them.
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