upgrading from slow to less slow

[kchen]

I currently have a Celeron 500 cpu attached to an Abit BM-6 motherboard. Technically I think the socket is PPGA, infer from that whatever you will. I was hoping to get the cpu upgraded to about 1ghz or so. Does anyone know if that is physically possible given the socket? And would I be able to use a P3 instead of a Celeron? My motherboard and ram both support 100mhz bus (currently running at 66). I thought about overclocking as well, but I figure I wouldn't be able to double the effective speed.

 

[DjKlown]

Kchen you are right it is a PPGA on the 370 socket. But since it is a PPGA the fastest speed out of the celeron family that you can get is a 533Mhz with a 66 FSB. All of this info is from
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030610/images/cpu_history_big.gif

Someone else might have a bit more knowledge on this subject than me since i hate celerons before 1.7Ghz

Mike

 

[Croaker]

There is a socket adapter you can buy. If you could change your motherboard that would be a lot better. You can get a Duron 1.1 for $31.00 and a motherboard Biostar M7VIW VIA KT266A Socket A ATX MBB w/Snd for $49.00. The motherboard has DDR and SDR support. this is at computergeeks.com
A P3 1000 is $90 on pricewatch.com

 

[richdun]

If your motherboard supports a 100FSB, you might try looking at the lower to mid-end P3 based Celerons, but the real question is this: Does your motherboard support the Coppermine core? If so, you can go with a Celeron from 600-1.1 Ghz (or P3 from 500-1.1Ghz).

To that effect, I've found some various websites that say the FSB can actually go to 133MHz (not supported specifically by the manufacturer, but very possible). I also found a converter that will allow you to plug a socket 370 P3 into the PPGA socket, since it can't directly be done (both P3 and Celeron are socket 370, but apparently the 370 pins vary in function between them). With one of these, speeds of 800Mhz P3 have been done safely.

Okay, so you do have some room to move up, but I'll stop my research at the first two google hits, you can do the rest... All these CPUs are cheap if you can find them (~$50 retail, less on eBay), so you might as well go for whatever the highest turns out to be, you just may have to search for what it is.

Me machine in me profile.