Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Then my questions are: […]
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Tetrium wrote:Btw, from my experience I've noticed that most BX boards are capable of supporting coppermines.
Then my questions are:
(1) In order to use Coppermine through Slotket adapter, the 440BX mobo should specifically support it, am I correct?
(2) How do we know if a 440BX support Coppermine or not? I have DTK PRM-00801 mobo. All the manual says that the mobo supports up to 500MHz PIII, but it doesn't say anything about Coppermine --let alone Slotket adapter.
(3) (side question) would the DTK PRM-00801 accept 500MHz Pentium III Xeon?
I had the same issue when upgrading my old (and very first!) computer, based on an asus p2b. I had a look on their website and it stated that coppermine was supported from rev 1.12. Alas, mine was a rev 1.10 so I got myself a Katmai 550 and performance was noticably improved from my original P2 350.
Some years later I wandered on a website with unofficial coppermine support for slot 1 boards. Apparently some p2b's did support the coppermine, but only the ones which had a particular chip on it. I checked it, and sure enough I had that chip! I put a coppermine in there (already had the newest bios) and it worked perfectly fine!
And about finding out wether any particular board supports coppermine or not, short of trying to do some research in internet the only way is to get hold of an expendable coppermine and simply try it out.
The only boards that you typically don't need to bother with are the ones made by Intel. They kinda made sure the newer chips wouldn't work
Edit: Taken from this website:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_p … pgrade_faq.html
Theres a list of voltage regulator chip thingies split into the chips that'll support coppermine and the ones that wont
Q: How do I find out which voltage regulator chip I have and what voltages it can provide?
A: You need to look at the board. Near the Slot1 connector there is a chip with around 30 pins or so. Some of these chips can provide 1.3V-3.5V, while others can only provide 1.8V-3.5V. Attention, dual-cpu boards have two voltage regulator chips, and it is possible that one is of the new type and the other not!
Chips that can provide voltages down to 1.3V:
HIP6019BCB
HIP6020ACB
HIP6004CB
HIP6004BCB
US3007CW
Chips that can only provide voltages down to 1.8V:
HIP6019CB
HIP6004ACB