First post, by teiresias
Does anyone have this slotket and can tell me what the "CPU Type Selection" jumper actually does? The instructions say the two positions distinguish between either "PPGA370" or "Coppermine". Is this really just trying to distinguish between a PPGA and a FC-PGA (were all coppermines FCPGA?). If so I'm wondering why the jumper is currently in the position for PPGA370. The CPU in the slotket right now is a Celeron 566 which I know for a fact I ran on my Abit BH6 v1.01 back in the day (and is the motherboard I'm using for this build), and it's obviously a FCPGA with the die on top but I can't imagine I'd have messed with the jumpers when I took the system apart, so it apparently ran with that jumper set to PPGA370 rather than Coppermine with no ill effects. That's why I'm asking what that jumper actually does - hardware wise. Should I change it to "Coppermine" when I rebuild it?
(I also have a Pentium 3 600E I got from a friend's old discarded computer that I may put in instead if I can determine if the BH6 supports it, though I assume the Celeron would be a better performance choice if it will clock to 850 at 100fsb - I assume I bought it due to the overclock potential - not sure how much the cache difference makes).