New CPU question

[KTiDe24]

I am new to the overclocking world, and had a question about what processor I should purchase for my mobo. I currently have an A-Trend FW-6400GX mobo, it is a slot1 and slot2, and can push the FSB up to 150, and the highest mulitplier in the bios is 8.0x. The board has no jumper settings, everything is in the bios. I dont really wish to purchase a new mobo yet. I was just wondering, what a good processor for overclocking could be placed in there? I dont want a Xeon which is what I have now, but was looking at the PIII 800 w/100FSB, but I wasnt sure whether to go with a slot1 or socket in a slocket CPU. The only drawback I have with a socket CPU, is that I have not been able to find a slocket adapter capable of more than a 133FSB, but like I said, I am new to this.

[Placid]

Better slotkets will have a auto setting that will allow the bios to control the fsb setting.
I do recommend a fc-pga cpu if you are going to upgrade the motherboard eventually.
The multiplie of 8.0 is really not important as intels are all locked so if you put a 1ghz/100 cpu in it would still run at a x10 multiplier.

[batboy]

Yep, what he said. Probably getting hard to find slot 1 CPUs, use a slotket and a FC-PGA socket 370 P-III, plus you'll find better CPU coolers are available too. At most, a BIOS update will be all you need for any P-III CPU to work on that motherboard.

[DAppel]

If your are new to this, you may not know how a slotket works. Slotkets are adaptors used to install PPGA and FC-PGA CPUs, wich use the socket370 interface, on older slot1 boards.

Essentially, it doesn't work at all. It merely serves as a interface between cpu and mobo. They are not capable of setting a specific voltage or FSB, but they can trick the motherboard into assuming a 66MHz FSB CPU is a 100MHZ one, or that the default voltage is set as you please. So if the slotket is rated at 133, it doesn't mean that it only goes as high as 133. It only tells the motherboard that the cpu used is a 133 one, allowing the chipset to set it's PCI and AGP divisors correctly.

Slotkets also make life easier when trying to attach waterblocks (slotkets usually have holes, so you can mount them with screws), gives you plenty of voltage options and so on. And with all those high multipliers CPUs have today, reusing your motherboard is quite possible without the worry of running out of FSB options.

I would suggest a Celeron 900. Since you are new to overclocking it's not totally impossible to fry a chip (i've done it myself ...), and the celly is very cheap and overclocks well. Great way to spend only a few bucks and give a good kick in your system.