Celemine II. Prognosis?

[cancer]

I don't know about you guys, but the celemine II looks like a good option to breath some more life into my old BH6 bx board. I like this board and it would be a shame to let it gather dust in the corner. Although the celemine is a castrated coppermine core, you can buy a 566 or 600 & o/c to around 850-950Mhz(depending on chip quality) and it would perform around a P!!! 650 spec. There are a couple good articles at FiringSquad on the P3 vs Cel2 & the Celemine II 600. Any thoughts/comments on these articles?
Cheers.



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Aopen HX08 full tower case, Asus P3V4X bios 1.03, P!!! FC-PGA 550e @733, 160M pc100 sdram, Matrox G400MAX bios 1.4 PDesk 5.52.015, Seagate 28.5G Ultra ATA66 7200rpm HD, Pioneer 103s DVD 6X/32X drive, SB AWE64 Gold ISA sound card, SMC pci ethernet adaptor, Castlewood Orb 2.2G media drive, Nortel 100 cable modem, Mitsubishi 1995 19in monitor, occasionally use dualhead for dvd on a Sony 80cm Wega TV, MS natural keyboard, MS Intellimouse Explorer,
Win98SE 4.10.2222A, DX7a.

[dZeus]

You better buy a Coppermine 600. Soon they will be the lowest speed-grade Coppermine you can buy from Intel, (so it will be relatively cheap), and they generally overclock to 800MHz.... then you've got some real power for your BH6

[GT98]

I believe that if your running a BH6 ver 1.0, you can't run a P3 Cumine, do to BIOS limitations with voltage.

Scott

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Abit BH6 with a P3-450@558,128mb RAM,G400 MAX,SB Live!, Optiquest V95 19in montor, Asus 40x CD-ROM, Aopen 5x DVD-ROM,HP9110i 8x4x32 CD-RW,SupraMax 56k modem, Win98 SE on Western Digital 30.7GB, Win2000 on a WD 13 GB HDD

[dneal]

I had a Coppermine 500 going in a August '98 BH6 just fine. Almost positive it was rev 1.0.




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ABIT BF6, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 630MHz, 192MB PC100 SDRAM @ 140MHz, Toshiba 6X DVD, Quantum Fireball Plus KA, Quantum Fireball ST,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 160/200, Creative SBLive Value, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC701A ATX 300watt TurboCool PC Power & Cooling PS, Panasonic Panasync S17

[cancer]

thanks dneal, i had a feeling you could run coppermines/celemines on the older bh6 boards. i believe mine is a bh6 1.01(or maybe 1.02 rev) revision. think you just flash the bios to accept the newer cpu even on the older bh6's. i just wanted to check if anyone had success doing this with a similar aged board.
cheers.

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Aopen HX08 full tower case, Asus P3V4X bios 1.03, P!!! FC-PGA 550e @733, 160M pc100 sdram, Matrox G400MAX bios 1.4 PDesk 5.52.015, Seagate 28.5G Ultra ATA66 7200rpm HD, Pioneer 103s DVD 6X/32X drive, SB AWE64 Gold ISA sound card, SMC pci ethernet adaptor, Castlewood Orb 2.2G media drive, Nortel 100 cable modem, Mitsubishi 1995 19in monitor, occasionally use dualhead for dvd on a Sony 80cm Wega TV, MS natural keyboard, MS Intellimouse Explorer,
Win98SE 4.10.2222A, DX7a.




[This message has been edited by cancer (edited 01 May 2000).]