***Trustly old Abit BH6 now @ 1.57 GHz! Slot 1 owners come on in***

[oldfart]

I just upgraded my daughters BH6 rig. This was one of my old rigs a few years ago.

When it was new, it had the classic C300A @ 450, 128 Meg ram, 6.4 Gig HD and a Voodoo 2 SLI (nice rig in its day)

I just upgraded it with a $20 Slot-T slocket that allows use of Tualatin CPUs. The BH6 that I have has only 1/2 and 1/3 PCI dividers, not 1/4 so 133 MHz FSB is not possible. I put in a Celeron Tualatin 1.4 ($62), and overclocked it to 112 MHz FSB. CPUz shows it as 1570 MHz.

I also just bought a used GF3 Ti200 for $50 from the For Sale/Trade forum. So far, I have it clocked to normal GF3 speeds (200/460).

Other past upgrade components include a Promise ATA66 IDE controller, Maxtor 7200 RPM HD, my old Diamond MX300 Aureal Vortex 2 card.

This thing runs pretty darn well. My little girl (8 years old) doesn't need that kind of power, but it gets used now and agian when a friend comes over for some lan action.

If you have a slot 1 mobo and want to get the last bit of performance out of it, this is a pretty nice, simple upgrade. The Slot-T was very easy to setup. Just set the Vcore and FSB jumpers. It booted up first shot and so far looks stable.

EDIT & UPDATE

Please read the posts from Antos on the 2nd page if you have a BH6. You may have an issue. Because of the possible BH6 issue I played around with some undervolting. My C1.4 will run:

1.4 GHz @ 1.3 Vcore (minimum setting on a BH6)
1.57 GHz @ 1.35 Vcore
Default Vcore is 1.5

I bet this thing would do 1.7 on the right mobo.

 

[Trader05]

nice, very nice. I know the BX chipset can handle it....fastest i had my old bx6-r2 was 1ghz, totally stable!

 

[Steven the Leech]

I have been eyeballing this info for a few weeks, This will work nicely on a 1.1 cel i have.

What is nice is the shipping for this item was 4.50, will definitely add a little life to an old board.

 

[dbwillis]

Good info and nice results!

 

[PliotronX]

Nice job Oldfart, and thanks for the linkage. I'm thinkin' of slapping one on my BH6 Best mobo ever.

 

[SupermanCK]

OLDFART farted loud this time...he he

 

[bgeh]

can anyone tell me whether it can be shipped to malaysia???

 

[eplebnista]

Here is a list of sellers.

hth,
eplebnista

 

[bgeh]

thanks eplebnista

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

Nice upgraded and much better then a powerleap
I have try to overclocked a Celeron Tualatin 1.1 but never made it to 133FSB i may try a Celeron Tualatin 1.0 some have goting them up to 150FSB

 

[oldfart]

$70 for the Powerleap is just silly. $20 for the Upgradeware Slot-T is much more in line. The newer Tually's are better overclockers than the first ones. I would have liked to run a higher FSB, but with the 1/3 PCI divider limit this board has, 112 is really all that is practical.

 

[RickH]

Have you run any benchmarks? I wonder how the old BX compares to an early P4 with SDRAM. RRRR

 

[StephenM]

I did this upgrade on a BH6 last week, and posted benchmarks and a brief post-mortem in this thread:

Slot-T thread on oc-forums

Long story short: Cheap and easy upgrade, good performance gains. I had my motherboard die shortly thereafter, possibly unrelated.

-StephenM

 

[RanDum72]

I have two of the Slot -T's on an Intel OR840 duallie board running two 1.26ghz PIII-S CPU's, another on a seperate OR840 on single CPU setup (also 1.26ghz PIII) and one running on an Asus P3C-LS with a Celeron 1.4ghz Tually. Totally stable and seamless upgrade and well worth the $20 to upgrade that aging BX or Slot 1 board (as long as it has at least 100mhz FSB). Tually Celerons are also getting pretty cheap.

 

[RickH]

Thanks for the info StephenM, sorry for your loss. The old BH6 has been in the family along time, I would hater to lose her. I think I will wait a little longer on the upgrade. I have a friend that fryed his BH6 with a PIII 1000MHz slot 1. RRRRRRRRR

 

[oldfart]

Hmmm. The fried thing is a bit scary. I'm doing the exact same upgrade over the Holidays to a friends PC. I think I'll let 3DMark or Serious Sam loop for awhile to see if mine fries first. Hopefully, it was just a randum failure.

 

[RanDum72]

The old BH6 has been in the family along time, I would hater to lose her. I think I will wait a little longer on the upgrade. I have a friend that fryed his BH6 with a PIII 1000MHz slot 1. RRRRRRRRR


I think this is more of a motherboard issue. As long as you are not OC'ing, you probably should be fine.

 

[rogue1979]

That's some good info oldfart. I think I might rustle up a BE6 II and put the Slot-T adapter in there. $41 shipped for another Celeron 1.0a and party down with a 1/4 pci divider. Just have to make sure the video card can take a 100MHz AGP bus!

 

[oldfart]

I let 3DMark 2K1 loop for 3 Hrs, then played a Serious Sam co-op Lan game with Mrs Oldfart for an Hr. Runs great. No crispy BH6 so far. I think it will be fine.
rogue1979. How about a 1.1A or 1.2 instead? This will keep the AGP Freq down to a somewhat more reasonable level. 100 MHz is WAY up there.

 

[Zap]

I'm wanting to get this adaptor for my work machine. It's a P3 550 slot 1 overclocked to 733 on an Asus P3V4X board. My system is the slowest one at work, but runs the best, LOL. Doubling the MHz sounds good to me. Hopefully those burned out Abit boards were just flukes. I'm willing to risk it.

 

[Antos]

Old fart,
Please be careful with this upgrade. I've seen now, two people have their BH6's (all 1.0x boards, no 1.1+ boards yet) fail after running a Cel-T at high speeds, particularly in the 1.4 ghz range. And Spajky told me that he's seen many reports in Europe of people have BH6's burn up, after running 1.4 CelT's in them, or lower speed cel t's overclocked (most of them, with the slotket mod); and apparently most or all of them related somehow to the voltage regulator area or mosfets. There's no way of saying how stable you will be for an extended period of time.

However, do something for me.

Check the TEMPERATURE of the powermosfets on your BH6, and voltage regulators and that coil. if it's burning hot, you have a problem. And I suspect it might be burning hot...

Also note that different boards have different mosfets. Some 1.0x (mainly 1.02) boards have 50n03 MOSFETS which are officially coppermine compatible (1.1 and 1.2 have 55n03). There's no way of currently knowing if the 45n03 mosfets are responsible for the failures at the high CPU frequencies.

 

[oldfart]

Antos
Thanks a lot for the heads up! My board has the 50n03 MOSFETs. They were not at all hot to the touch, neither were any coils. Does this mean I am OK?

The thing is, I had a friend from out of state order the same setup for his BH6. I think his board may be an older one, but I cant really say until I see it. I was going to stop by and see him later in the week and set it up for him on my way to visit family for Christmas. If he has the 45n03, I guess I should be worried. How about if I left it @ stock 1.4 GHz and undervolted it? I know Tuallys can ofen be undervolted when running stock speed.

 

[Cybordolphin]

This actually is great stuff! I have a BH6 that just somehow keeps coming back to me. (been passed around the family)... and would like to find a use for it.

Thanks for the info.

Wonder if I will need a newer PS/case for it...

Would like to know where Stephen purchased his Slot-T from.

 

[Antos]

Voltage itself isn't a problem. Current (Frequency) is, although I have no explanation as to why. In your case, though, you should be fine if nothing is hot. Underclocking or undervolting shouldn't be necessary if those parts aren't hot.

You might want to have your friend check the temps when he gets his slotket, though.

 

[Antos]

Stephen M:
If your board is still available, what were the MOSFETs that were on it? 45n03's?