dee
05-27-01, 08:10 PM
Just wanted a bit of advice. I've been running a bh6 rev1.01 with a celeron 366@550 for quite a while now.
I picked up a p3-850e (secc2 form factor - cC0 stepping) a couple of weeks back and was reluctant to install it (bh6 does'nt officially support anything above 600) and was kinda on the lookout for a cheap slot1 mb. Anyway temptation got the better of me tonight and I popped it in. Everything was just dandy.
Having got this far I just had to see what happened when I upped the bus speed - so I popped it up to 112 (you might remember the bh6 was the board of its day but was limited to 112, 124 & 133 -i think, not like your new fangled mbs with 1MHz bus increments). To be honest I was'nt even expecting a successful post. Needless to say I was a bit surprised when w2k booted staight up at default (1.7) voltage. I then ran a few q3 demos expecting a quick blue screen. Nope. So I'm now writing this from a p3-953 on an old (very old!) bh6.
Anyway, to the point, before I start running some stress tests, I really want to know am I running any risk of damaging the chip. Point really is that the heatsink and fan with the secc2 packaged chips seem a little lightweight. I'm fairly certain that I can get the chip stable at 112 (if its not infact already - has'nt crashed yet) but looking at the hsf on my celeron (big sod-off glogalwin thing) compared to the built in hsf raises a couple of obvious questions.
If you reckon I need to change the hsf for something more substantial I'd need pointers as to how (and how difficult) removing the present on would be & also what sort of replacement I want to get - been a while since I was up on such things.
I picked up a p3-850e (secc2 form factor - cC0 stepping) a couple of weeks back and was reluctant to install it (bh6 does'nt officially support anything above 600) and was kinda on the lookout for a cheap slot1 mb. Anyway temptation got the better of me tonight and I popped it in. Everything was just dandy.
Having got this far I just had to see what happened when I upped the bus speed - so I popped it up to 112 (you might remember the bh6 was the board of its day but was limited to 112, 124 & 133 -i think, not like your new fangled mbs with 1MHz bus increments). To be honest I was'nt even expecting a successful post. Needless to say I was a bit surprised when w2k booted staight up at default (1.7) voltage. I then ran a few q3 demos expecting a quick blue screen. Nope. So I'm now writing this from a p3-953 on an old (very old!) bh6.
Anyway, to the point, before I start running some stress tests, I really want to know am I running any risk of damaging the chip. Point really is that the heatsink and fan with the secc2 packaged chips seem a little lightweight. I'm fairly certain that I can get the chip stable at 112 (if its not infact already - has'nt crashed yet) but looking at the hsf on my celeron (big sod-off glogalwin thing) compared to the built in hsf raises a couple of obvious questions.
If you reckon I need to change the hsf for something more substantial I'd need pointers as to how (and how difficult) removing the present on would be & also what sort of replacement I want to get - been a while since I was up on such things.