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**Paddy** · 16 December 1999, 09:35

Try Goc - he seems to know a bit about the BH6/BE6

**Paddy** · 16 December 1999, 09:36

sorry! he/she/it/them

**Thundrchez** · 16 December 1999, 18:10

If the BH6 is like by BX6r2, there is a BIOS setting for 133MHz. However, it does not do the AGP bus as *0.5 but at *0.667, which could lead to problems. I'm not sure if a BIOS flash could fix this.

Don't downgrade to a 820 mobo. One of my friends got a CC820 mobo with a Cu-mine and it is a nightmare of incompatability.

**Dyre** · 17 December 1999, 00:15

That board WILL run on 133 mHz FSB, but you will need PC133 RAM. Also by doing this your are overclocking the rest of your system (PCI, AGP, & HD's) so your video card might not like this. The problem is the BX chipset lacks a 1/2 divider for AGP, PCI. I agree that you should stay away from the 820 and 840. If you want native support look for the new VIA chipset, that has the AGP 1/2 divider.

the CPU will definatly work on your motherboard (might need a bios update) but the rest of your system might not like running on the faster FSB speeds... Its a gamble. Why not save your self the trouble and just get a 100 mHz FSB CPU? Thats what id do. the 133mHz 600 is no faster than the 100mHz 600.

Greg

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**birdy** · 17 December 1999, 07:06

I have a p3 450 attached to a bx6-2. I currently run it at 600 which of course is using the 133mhz fsb. On bootup my bios (the latest version of course) reprots the chip as a 600B. I don't know for sure but it would seem logical for abit to offer the same support for the bh6 as the bx6 as they are only a couple of months apart (oops sorry i forgot, logic has nothing to do with computer hardware or software tee hee). If your mainboard does not support the 1/4 divider for the pci bus however there may be a problem as the pci bus will be running at 44mhz rather than the std 33. If your motherboard has a fsb of 83 you could test wether or not your pci devices will handle the speed (the pci bus at fsb83 is running at 41.5 so it is a pretty good bet that if it will go as far as 41.5 it wil work at 44). As for the agp divider, if you have a g400 you will probably not have a problem as i have never heard of a problem with the higher bus speed on these cards. An alternative route for you to go is to buy a p3 450 and overclock it to 600 if it will go. As far as i or my motherboard can see there is no difference between a p3 450 and a p3 600b, apart from the money of course which would buy you a spare 450 to see which one you could clock the most. At leaast if you bought a 450 and only got 558 you could console yourself that you saved a few pennies, buying a 600b and then not being able to run at it's intended speed due to your pci bus would be a tradegy. Or of course you could use the money saved to buy a be6 with it's udma66 support and 1 mhz fsb increments and a stick of 133 memory. I wish i could afford a real 600b, wouldn't buy one though.

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