server CPU upgrade

[stonerboy]

I got my hands on an old IBM server which sports 6 P-166's. I am wondering if these can be upgraded to 233's. I tried IBM's website but couldn't really find any info. on this. Does anyone have any experience with this or know if they can be upgraded??????.

 

[FatBurger]

Most likely, they can. Check with the motherboard manufacturer.

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[CALV]

is there no info on the board? normally there are details of the jumpoer settings printed on the boards, clock speed, mulitplier etc.

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[Kelledin]

You have to be careful though--the CPU core voltage has to be noted as well. I believe Intel P233MMX CPUs run on 2.88 VCore--the lowest voltage line of any of Intel's Socket7 line.

Kelledin

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[kurokaze]

ACK! Willing to part with that piece of hardware?

I got a dual P166 that will very soon replace my
old P120 as my router. Boy I would love to get
a 6CPU box in the house!

Intel Components, AMD Components... all made in Taiwan!

 

[stonerboy]

Well, I finally got some time and cracked the thing open last night. It turns out the all the CPU's are soldered to the board so no upgrade possibility. It was a job though to get the thing open, they are built like tanks.....and probably weigh as much (about 80 pounds). I have another one also that has 4 Pentium Pro @200 MHz, those are not soldered to the board but are just the standard socket 8. I was going to use it in my house as a server but the thing has 2 470 Watt power supplies. A don't really want a computer that sucks a kilowatt of power running in my house all day. I think I would have to give it its own circuit breaker. This server is even a bigger beast than the one with 6 CPU's. But the good thing is that it has 2 GB of ECC RAM.

 

[Crashman]

For the Pentium Pro you can get a PII 333 overdrive made by Intel from several venders for as little as $79. You canh also get Socket 8 to Socket 370 adapters from Powerleap that accept faster Celerons!

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[stonerboy]

I could put celerons in it, but do celerons support quad processing? Or is that not dependant on the processor but the board?

 

[Crashman]

I know that the original Celerons supported SMP. Whether they would support quad or only dual is something I don't know. My guess is, if the PII supported quad, the Celeron supported quad.
I hear that SMP has been disabled on the newer FC-PGA (Coppermine) Celeron, but have not confirmed this.
So dual PPGA Celerons should work.
4 Celerons might work, I don't know. I would try it. If quad Celerons works, good. If not, put the spare parts in some Intergraph Dual P-Pro machines (because they can be had for little money) and resell them.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine