Whats the fastest CPU I can use ona Abit BH6 1.2?

[Eug]

Originally posted by: Budman
Now go update that system rig.

Done! Added my Mac G4 Titanium laptop too.

 

[RanDum72]

Celeron $95 locally

Is that Canadian?

 

[0roo0roo]

celly 2 retail with heatsink at new egg.. 1.1a 40 bux, 1.2 43bux 1.3 48bux, 1.4 61bux.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: RanDum72

Celeron $95 locally

Is that Canadian?

Yeah. $63 US. Includes heatsink and thermal pad. The first thing I did was remove that pad and put on a dollop of Arctic Silver.

By the way, I think the Intel heatsink/fan is quite OK. Relatively short (but wide) and quiet. My PEP66 is nice but HUMUNGOUS - it's being given away with my Celeron 533A@800 for a friend's birthday. I'm keeping the lowly Intel setup for myself. The PEP66 actually has a smaller fan though. It's the heatsink that's monstrous.

Also, I was surprised at the difference between the chips. The Celeron Cumine is tiny. The Celeron Tualatin has this big metal surface, which is several times as big as the surface of the Cumine.

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I was worried a bit that I wouldn't notice a huge change going from 800-->1.4 GHz, since I don't game. (eg. FOUR.DM_68 in Quake III only went from 53 fps to 60 fps in the normal setting with my lowly Radeon LE using Direct3D.)

However, even surfing the net and surfing Windows Explorer is noticely snappier. The place where I notice it the most is browsing thumbnails in XP. I have it set so that thumbnails are generated each time I open a pictures folder. Now lag time is greatly reduced. (I don't cache the thumbnails, because it leaves junk files all over the place.)

 

[oldfart]

Glad it worked out. The Tually has some nice advantages over the CuMine Celeron. Twice the cache, .13u, and data prefetch logic. The Tually also has the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) that gives you a more solid HS mount. Since you are not overclocking it, You can probably undervolt it. How far depends on how good a CPU you have. I have one that will run 1.3 Vcore @ 1.4 GHz.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Glad it worked out. The Tually has some nice advantages over the CuMine Celeron. Twice the cache, .13u, and data prefetch logic. The Tually also has the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) that gives you a more solid HS mount. Since you are not overclocking it, You can probably undervolt it. How far depends on how good a CPU you have. I have one that will run 1.3 Vcore @ 1.4 GHz.

Why do you bother undervolting it? Just wondering, worried about the extra heat?

P.S. I'm not sure how low my VRM goes. The Asus P2B rev. 1.10 only seems to do 0.1 V increments, and I've only ever tested it down to 1.5 V.

 

[oldfart]

Lower heat and to lower the stress on the MOSFETs. Some boards were not designed to handle the wattage of a CPU of this speed.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: oldfart
Lower heat and to lower the stress on the MOSFETs. Some boards were not designed to handle the wattage of a CPU of this speed.

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AFAIK, the 0.13 u Celeron Tualatin 1.3 GHz only puts out about as much heat as the 0.25 u Celeron 533.

 

[bacillus]

The PEP66 actually has a smaller fan though. It's the heatsink that's monstrous.

true but it does a better cooling job than the stock intel hsf!

 

[0roo0roo]

i ran and still run a 1.1a @ 1.5ghz tually at 1.8v with sh@tty generic old powersupplies. so its not all that stressful

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: Eug

Originally posted by: RanDum72

By the way, I think the Intel heatsink/fan is quite OK. Relatively short (but wide) and quiet. My PEP66 is nice but HUMUNGOUS - it's being given away with my Celeron 533A@800 for a friend's birthday. I'm keeping the lowly Intel setup for myself. The PEP66 actually has a smaller fan though. It's the heatsink that's monstrous.

Also, I was surprised at the difference between the chips. The Celeron Cumine is tiny. The Celeron Tualatin has this big metal surface, which is several times as big as the surface of the Cumine.

Did you by any chance try to fit the pep66 over the tualatin, just wondering if the whole heat spreader is covered by the pep66.

 

[Eug]

So my Celerymine 533A@800 has found a good home.

It turns out my friend has the EXACT same mobo, mobo revision, mobo BIOS, and even exact same Aopen HX08 computer case.

So I ripped out his Celeron 400 and put in the Celeron 800, plus an extra bit of RAM. MUCH nicer.

The funny part is that Asus ships their boards set at 2/3rds multiplier for AGP. Thus, he's been running his video card at 44 MHz AGP for the past three years...

Did you by any chance try to fit the pep66 over the tualatin, just wondering if the whole heat spreader is covered by the pep66.

I just gave him the PEP66. I didn't try it on the Tualatin. I think it would work though.