Personally I don't understand the use of Slotket adapters today. It makes sense when they came out, you don't have to upgrade your motherboard, just your CPU, but today with Socket 370 boards pricing about as much as an average American dinner, I don't see the point.

Ampera wrote:

Personally I don't understand the use of Slotket adapters today. It makes sense when they came out, you don't have to upgrade your motherboard, just your CPU, but today with Socket 370 boards pricing about as much as an average American dinner, I don't see the point.

I guess the primary point of it is to have both Socket 370 + ISA without having to fork extra money for an industrial-grade board, since there are more Slot 1 boards with ISA for sale compared to Socket 370 with ISA, using a Slotket adapter would be understandable if you wanted to build a fast DOS machine with ISA Sound and a Pentium III Processor.

oeuvre wrote:

Anyone else tried this on similar machines? I believe they use a Dell motherboard based on the SE440BX

I remember hearing about someone who used a Slotket adapter and a Celeron 1.4GHz CPU on an Optiplex GX1 and it worked fine, so I don't see an issue with trying this on your Dimension XPS T500, after all both models use the 440BX Chipset which has good compatibility for Pentium III CPUs with a 100 MHz FSB.

Slockets work just fine with Dimension T machines. I use a "passive" slocket (no VRM) and a Lin-Lin FCPGA-2 adapter to run a Celeron-1400 in my Dimension T550. It's very fast and completely stable. Interestingly, the BIOS reports a Pentium Pro @ 1200MHz, but CPU-Z and AIDA64 both show the CPU running at full speed.

Massive improvement over the original 550MHz Katmai PIII.

You would need a Tualatin adapter to use Tualatin CPU's on 440BX. Either from Powerleap, Upgradeware, or Lin-Lin. Those are not very cheap and rather rare. Otherwise, normal slotkets would max out at P3-1.1GHz. However... 100 FSB 1GHz+ Coppermine P3's are also uncommon and cost a bit.

As for why slotket? Because right now good slotkets are still relatively cheap (with that German seller have hundreds of MSI-6905's) and much more cost effective than native Slot-1 P3's.

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Slockets work just fine with Dimension T machines. I use a "passive" slocket (no VRM) and a Lin-Lin FCPGA-2 adapter to run a Cel […]
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Slockets work just fine with Dimension T machines. I use a "passive" slocket (no VRM) and a Lin-Lin FCPGA-2 adapter to run a Celeron-1400 in my Dimension T550. It's very fast and completely stable. Interestingly, the BIOS reports a Pentium Pro @ 1200MHz, but CPU-Z and AIDA64 both show the CPU running at full speed.

Massive improvement over the original 550MHz Katmai PIII.

Thank you... I decided to play it safe and go with a Coppermine 1.1GHz with the cheapest slocket I found in the US on eBay. Hopefully this works out.

Works like a charm! See attached pictures. Played around with some N64 emulation and it runs much much faster.