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Slocket adapter
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mboconnell
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Cool!
I would like to have one of those for my Abit BH6.
PS: anyone need a PIII 450?
I would like to have one of those for my Abit BH6.
PS: anyone need a PIII 450?
quinterro
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I think that's the same board I have.
No need for 450s here - I have several of them and a few 500mhz processors as well. The 500 was OK for System Shock 2, but I made the stupid mistake of updating the graphics and models on the game which shows it to a crawl at times.
quinterro
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It showed up yesterday and installed it this morning.
So far it's now running a Celeron 566. While it isn't much above a P3-500, I now know that the motherboard supports it. Somewhere around here I though there was a Celeron 700 but I could not find it. I did find 12 AMD K6-2 chips ranging from 350mhz to 533mhz along with two Celeron 533mhz, 1 333mhz and 1 433mhz processors.
EDIT - the only issue I foresee is that the CPU Soft Menu only goes up to 700mhz. That's fine for the processor I'm using now, but may be an issue when the 1ghz Celeron arrives in the mail.
So far it's now running a Celeron 566. While it isn't much above a P3-500, I now know that the motherboard supports it. Somewhere around here I though there was a Celeron 700 but I could not find it. I did find 12 AMD K6-2 chips ranging from 350mhz to 533mhz along with two Celeron 533mhz, 1 333mhz and 1 433mhz processors.
EDIT - the only issue I foresee is that the CPU Soft Menu only goes up to 700mhz. That's fine for the processor I'm using now, but may be an issue when the 1ghz Celeron arrives in the mail.
dpatten
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With a bit of a voltage bump, you can overclock those 66Mhz bus speed Celerons to the 100Mhz bus.
Also, that 566 Celeron is probably not as fast as a 500 Mhz P3 despite the clock speed advantage.
The P3 has more cache and a faster bus.
Look for a 1Ghz Coppermine P3 FCPGA. You can find them all over Ebay for about $10.
I upgraded a Dell GX something or other with a slocket and a newer Coppermine P3 and it ran well enough for my wife to use it for her main machine until I built a new machine last year. My parents still use it.
Also, that 566 Celeron is probably not as fast as a 500 Mhz P3 despite the clock speed advantage.
The P3 has more cache and a faster bus.
Look for a 1Ghz Coppermine P3 FCPGA. You can find them all over Ebay for about $10.
I upgraded a Dell GX something or other with a slocket and a newer Coppermine P3 and it ran well enough for my wife to use it for her main machine until I built a new machine last year. My parents still use it.
Christopher
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Slocket.......hehehehehehe
quinterro
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I only used the Celeron 566mhz chip to verify that the slocket adapter worked. It is not intended as a permanent solution by any means. The 700 mhz one would have been much better if I could have found it.
A 1ghz P3 Coppermine processor would be nice, but it uses a 133mhz bus speed. This old motherboard uses an Intel 440BX chipset that tops out at 100mhz. If the chipset is overclocked it also overclocks the AGP and PCI buses. Given the age of the cards in here (Aureal sound anyone?) I have my doubts about running them beyond their specs.
I saw a newer slot 1 VIA-based motherboard last weekend that ran up to a 133mhz bus but sadly it was dead.
dpatten
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Depending on the Motherboard, some BX chipsets can be clocked to 133 Mhz. My old Asus P2B with the 440BX chipset runs 133 mhz coppermine CPUs with PC133 Ram. Its has clock speed setting right in the BIOS for 133 (and 112 and 103 and 97 and 83). It also has the ability to decouple the AGP and PCI speed from the bus speed.
I can't speak for your board though...
I can't speak for your board though...
quinterro
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The Celeron 1ghz chip arrived today. After configuring the settings in CMOS it's up and running. IT's a vast improvement over the Celeron 566mhz that was in there.
ComputerGeeks had a 1.4ghz Celeron for less than $12.00 but shipping for small items from them is usually about $6. I paid about the same amount with shipping for the slocket adapter and the processor.
ComputerGeeks had a 1.4ghz Celeron for less than $12.00 but shipping for small items from them is usually about $6. I paid about the same amount with shipping for the slocket adapter and the processor.
Temetka
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Not bad, but to be honest $6 is not bad for shipping. Some places are ridiculous and don't even get me started on e-bay seller wanting $50 for more to ship a machine.
Crazy, man. Just crazy.
OTOH, glad your box is up and running. Now it's time for some old retro gaming. MDK should run great on that box along with Grim Fandango, Quake 2/3, and so on. Heck Half Life and CS2 should be good to go as well.
Crazy, man. Just crazy.
OTOH, glad your box is up and running. Now it's time for some old retro gaming. MDK should run great on that box along with Grim Fandango, Quake 2/3, and so on. Heck Half Life and CS2 should be good to go as well.
quinterro
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The cheapest shipping I paid on a computer was from Geeks when I bought my B/W G3. They had a special on shipping for $2.95. Unfortunately the front foot was broken when it arrived. It's fixed now.
I've finished Quake 1/2/3/4, Half-Life 1/2, Serious Sam First/Second Edition, SiN and SiN Episode 1 and several others. I'm playing System Shock 2 now. I think that I almost completed it before, but don't remember. I have a large stash of several hundred games of which MDK is one, some of which have not been installed. I'll give some of them a try.
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