Motherboard support for processor

[allgoodpeople]

I have a SuperMicro P6SBA mobo with a PII 300 CPU. According to the manual it supports up to a PII 450. However, PII's are more expensive than PIII's, so I'm not really looking to upgrade to a PII. However, I was wondering, do you think a Celeron or Duron would run on this mobo? The mobo supports a 100MHZ FSB, so I would think it would run the Durons, and the Celerons have a 66 MHZ FSB like the PII's. Is there anything with these 2 newer processors that would make them incompatible with a PII mobo?

allgoodpeople






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[Guest]

I'm not familiar with that specific board, so I went to the Supermicro's web page that describes it at:

<A HREF="http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/440BX/p6sba.htm" target="_new">http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/440BX/p6sba.htm</A>

The first sentence is:

<b>The SUPER P6SBA running at a bus speed of 100 MHz, supports single Pentium III/II 233 ~ 700 MHz processors.</b>

I didn't look any further, so there might be more specific information. Unless someone else posts more on this, I'd contact the manufacturer (if possible) and find out which CPUs you can use and which BIOS you need.

Your board has a "slot-1" CPU interface. Any AMD chip will not work. Any Intel chip that uses a fc-pga packaging will not fit without a device called a slocket (you mount the newer socket-based CPU and heatsink on the slocket board and slide the board into the slot-1 on your motherboard), assuming you can use one.

With all that said, I know that Intel changed the packaging of their slot-1 CPUs some time back, but I don't recall whether they changed the slot-1 interface, itself. I don't think so, but...

You also need to make sure that the mobo can support the voltages used by current CPUs.

Sorry I don't have more specifics, but I tried to point out a few things you need to think about for your upgrade. I'd advise an email to Supermicro if you can. Get it straight from the horse's mouth.

Mike

 

[chaotictech]

It would work with a slot 1 celeron since3 your p2 300 is running at 66mhz, It should go to 433 but im not sure if or how much faster celerons it will support. It will not take any amd processors. AMD and Intel havent been backward compatable for awhile now.

 

[allgoodpeople]

thanks for the info and the URL. didn't even think to visit the website (duh). I'm curious why the manual says it only goes up to 450? Perhaps that was the fastest processor out at the time?

allgoodpeople






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