First post, by teiresias
Hi all, I currently have a Slot 1P3-600E on my Abit BH6 v1.01 that seems stable enough running with a 133fsb for a 800Mhz CPU, I say stable enough because I've had a few issues.
I've had a few in-game and in-3dmark crashes, but am not really sure of the culprit . . . whether it's the graphics card (an FX5600 Ultra) being on an overclocked AGP bus or the CPU. My guess is leaning to the GPU on the AGP bus since these crashes are generally to the desktop and everything works fine after the crash, not a whole PC freeze or OS freeze or anything.
I'm wondering about getting something like a Slot 1 P3-850 (the 100fsb version) which gets me an "official" clock upgrade and also lets me stay at a 100fsb to avoid potential AGP and PCI clock issues (is the ISA bus affected by FSB on 440BX?). However, I've read elsewhere that my earlier version of the BH6 doesn't "officially" support that CPU, but I'm not exactly sure what the incompatibility could be. Does anyone have any idea? Would I potentially fry the VRMs or something? I'm already feeding the P3-600E with 1.7V on the overclock it currently has, so I'm pretty sure it supports the required voltages?
I do have an Abit Slotket, so maybe the best course of action is to just try a Socket 370 as an upgrade path.