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"NEW AMD CPU K6-III+ K6-3+ @ 550MHz 500ANZ 1.8v '02 RARE" - This item
is being offered on Ebay for Socket 7 MB's. Can the above CPU be used
with the later versions of the FIC PA-2013 motherboards? Note this is
higher speed that the AMD K6-III/450MHz CPU, which is more common. I
don't know whether the PA-2013 allows speeds greater than 450MHz. I
don't overclock my CPU's. Answers greatly appreciated.
Gibby
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I believe it can, but I am not 100% sure. I cannot find the old FAQ's they used to have up on FIC's Taiwan site. I know for a fact that the VA-503+ and VA-503A can.
The key is that you need a special BIOS update to support the K6-2+ and K6-3+ CPUs. These BIOS updates are "beta" BIOSes in that they are not officially supported by FIC, but they do work. They do not appear on the website, but they do appear in FIC's FTP site. They used to be referenced in the FAQs that I cannot find anymore.
By the way, some of the other fixes they had in the "beta" BIOSes include support for larger hard drives (up to 65 GB or 137 GB, I forget which), compatability fixes for some versions of Windows, and that sort of thing. I am using the last beta BIOS for the VA-503A, and it works just fine.
I do not know if the motherboard goes down all the way to 1.8V, but I am pretty sure it goes down to 2.0V. If you do have to run at 2.0V, that is not too big of a deal. Just make sure you have a decent heatsink. I know that the VA-503A has dip switches that will let you run at 2.0V. The VA-503+ has an undocumented jumper setting for 2.0V that I figured out with a voltmeter (there turned out to be a simple pattern for voltages 2.0V to 3.5V). If you cannot find a 2.0V setting, I could probably figure it out for you.
I believe a "500ANZ" is actually speced to run at 500 MHz (5*100), though the seller seems to have verified that it can run at 550 (5.5*100). It probably can, but that is just something I wanted to point out, since you said you do not overclock.
Hope this helps.
--Alex
Gibby wrote:
> "NEW AMD CPU K6-III+ K6-3+ @ 550MHz 500ANZ 1.8v '02 RARE" - This item
> is being offered on Ebay for Socket 7 MB's. Can the above CPU be used
> with the later versions of the FIC PA-2013 motherboards? Note this is
> higher speed that the AMD K6-III/450MHz CPU, which is more common. I
> don't know whether the PA-2013 allows speeds greater than 450MHz. I
> don't overclock my CPU's. Answers greatly appreciated.
> Gibby
>
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I would say, if you flashed the board to a BIOS version (JI4333) that
supported K6-III+ CPUs, you should have no problem. The 1.8V VCore and 5.5X
multiplier are natively supported by the 2013 so that should not be an
issue. Since the III+ CPUs are laptop processors, they are low power
consumption anyway so current won't be an issue. It would be easier to
first install a K6-2 400 or something similar, do the BIOS update, then swap
in the K6-III+, making sure to change all the appropriate jumper settings.
Sorry it took so long to reply.
Robert
"Gibby" <MrBaltimore@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "NEW AMD CPU K6-III+ K6-3+ @ 550MHz 500ANZ 1.8v '02 RARE" - This item
> is being offered on Ebay for Socket 7 MB's. Can the above CPU be used
> with the later versions of the FIC PA-2013 motherboards? Note this is
> higher speed that the AMD K6-III/450MHz CPU, which is more common. I
> don't know whether the PA-2013 allows speeds greater than 450MHz. I
> don't overclock my CPU's. Answers greatly appreciated.
> Gibby
>
hi im brazian guy that likes a lot to do overclock!!! i have a k6-3 +500 anz and i puted it a 556 (4x 112) and it doesnt heat up!!!this processor is amazing!!!!my mobo is not working because i wrote a wrong bios and the mb does not start!! im already fixing it to put it at least running at 600!!! but a had problems with the cache on the mb,when its on the system crashes!!!if somebody know how to fix this problem please help me !!! thcau
