Use slocket to replace 500Mhz P3 with 1Ghz coppermine?

[barnett25]

I was recently given a used PC to add to my collection, it came with a 500mhz P3 (slot1, 100Mhz fsb), 256mb ram, and a 40GB HD. I have a 1Ghz, 133Mhz fsb Coppermine (socket 370) CPU lying around from a motherboard that got fried and never replaced. My question is can I use one of those slocket adapters to put the 1Ghz CPU in the computer? The motherboard is an ASUS P3B-F.

 

[wisdomtooth]

If your P3B-F can support 1/4 PCI divider and your RAM can handle 133mHz, you can indeed run that P3-1gHz at 133mhz FSB... But your AGP video card will be running at 90mHz (out of spec, may cause problems).

Otherwise, you might be forced to run that P3-1gHz as a P3-750E (by dialing the FSB back down to 100mHz).

HTH.

 

[barnett25]

Two of the three sticks of ram in the computer are PC100 (the other is a 256MB PC133 stick, but it's high density so it is only read as 128MB) so I would be stuck with 750Mhz. That would be ok, as it would still be a significant speed increase. I just wish there was some way I could know for sure that it would work before I buy a slocket.

 

[Arcanedeath]

If you have the latest bios and a slocket that supports the correct VRM for coppermines (8.4 of the spec's I belive) then you should be fine, I know for a fact that that board will support Coppermine CPU's if you have the correct slocket and bios

 

[barnett25]

Does this look like it would work?

 

[bacillus]

it depends on if your board can natively support coppermines in the first instance. iirc support started with version 1.03 boards.
if it can then that slocket may work. if it can't then you'll need a slocket that you can alter voltage on as you'll have to use 1.8V or else the system won't boot.
suggest you look for a slot-T or asus 370-L slocket.