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Does my motherboard support Coppermine

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First post, by Almoststew1990

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I have an MSI MS-6119 with a 440BX chipset. The website states that, if it has a blue sticker with a "c" on it on the Winbond chip, it will support coppermine (once on the latest bios). Mine doesn't have the sticker. However, it came with "a P3 CPU" and it turns out this is a 650MHz coppermine, which works. It is reported in the BIOS as a 650E, although according to the Wikipedia list of P3 Coppermine CPUs, this doesn't appear to exist. It's a SL3XK, which appears under the standard coppermine 650MHz in the table.

Does this mean my board will support all 100MHz FSB Coppermine CPUs? Can I stick a 800 - 900MHz in there?

Reply 1 of 2, by Errius

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I had one of these and used to run it with a 550E. I remember calling the OEM customer support and being told that the fastest CPU it could handle was 600 MHz.

ETA: High-speed Slot 1 Coppermines are absurdly expensive for some reason.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 2 of 2, by PARKE

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Almoststew1990 wrote:

However, it came with "a P3 CPU" and it turns out this is a 650MHz coppermine, which works. It is reported in the BIOS as a 650E, although according to the Wikipedia list of P3 Coppermine CPUs, this doesn't appear to exist. It's a SL3XK, which appears under the standard coppermine 650MHz in the table.
Does this mean my board will support all 100MHz FSB Coppermine CPUs? Can I stick a 800 - 900MHz in there?

The 'E' stands for the Coppermine (as opposed to Katmai) version and is only used when both versions exist with the same Mhz frequency - BIOS or other software may report the E anyway though.
900Mhz / fsb 100 Coppermine does not exist, there are 750/800/850/1000 versions - the 1000 version is very rare.

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