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First post, by byte_76

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I have a Gigabyte GA-60MM7 rev. 2.0 motherboard with the Intel 815 chipset.

I'd like to install a Tualatin PIII 1.4GHz into the board.

I presume that this won't work out of the box but is it possible to do some mods that will enable me to run the Tualatin CPU in this board?

What would I need to do?

Reply 1 of 5, by tauro

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I've done this in the past. You'd need to mod the CPU and optionally the board too.

It's not guaranteed that it will work!
Some motherboards support it, others don't.

Basically what you need to do is to join two pins and isolate three pins. You could also join a group pins to set your desired voltage in case your motherboard doesn't let you change that. You will need a very thin wire. One of the filaments from an 80-pin IDE cable is ideal for this.

It is a bit hard and destructive. Today I wouldn't do it on CPUs that I really care about. But if you have a lot of them or you are willing to sacrifice one, it's fun.

The last step, the one that involves isolating the pins is the one that's the most destructive, because you'll either have to destroy the socket or you could avoid much trouble and cut the pins on the CPU and keep the motherboard intact.

Either way as I mentioned, it's not guaranteed to work so keep that in mind.

Refer to this
https://www.overclockers.com/tualatin-in-a-bx-board/

Good luck!

Reply 2 of 5, by schmatzler

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You can also solder a premade Coppermine adapter to your Tualatin and run it that way - "user8012" on eBay has been selling those for years (as well as premade CPUs, although he ran out of 1.4GHz Tuallys quite a while ago).

It's fairly easy, just a few solder points and a few pins to remove from the CPU. I have two of these running in a Coppermine board.

"Windows 98's natural state is locked up"

Reply 3 of 5, by byte_76

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Thanks for the responses.

There is no mention in the documentation about support for Tualatin CPU's in my board but would it damage my board or the Tually CPU if I just test it? I just want to be sure that my board isn't already capable of supporting Tualatins despite it never being officially stated in the documentation.

Reply 4 of 5, by PARKE

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The odds that Tualatin will run in your Gigabyte GA-60MM7 without modification are zero. When you Google [ Intel Tualatin CPU PCB-type Adapter ] it will bring you to the site of the korean guy and when you scroll down you find a list of motherboards that are tested to work wirth his adapter and the GA-60MM7 is one of them. The option of getting one of these adapters seems -highly- preferable over chopping up your motherboard or cpu if you are not experienced - but that is just my opinion.

Reply 5 of 5, by byte_76

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I agree. I’ll try to get my hands on one of those adapters.

I don’t have any other socket 370 boards with AGP and getting one is a struggle, especially with Tualatin support. So the adapter is probably my best bet.