Upgrade Help Needed.

[StillBlue]

I have a PCChips M760V mainboard with a Celeron 400mhz on it and want to upgrade it. The manual to the motherboard says that the fastest processor it will take is a PII 500mhz. Have been told that if anyone knows better than the manual, I will find them on this forum. Hope that someone can help. If the fastest processor that the board can take is a PII 500mhz what is the best advise for overclocking it on this mainboard?? Would also be interesting for advise on what the Celeron can be made to do. Thanx in advance for any advise.

[RED Hot Machine]

Welcome to the Forums,

How much have you got to spend on an upgrade?

Going from a 400 to a 500 is not that much of a difference. You would be better of going for a new mobo and cpu.

[Wa11y]

If the manual says PII 500, that's probably the best you're gonna get, unless they have a BIOS that will let you do better. Check the manufacturer's website.

As for overclocking specific to your chip, you probably wanna check under Intel CPUs, or Intel Motherboards. That's probably where you're gonna find your best info for overclocking.

[StillBlue]

Thanks for the replys. Didn't really want to change the motherboard. The main reason I want to change from the celeron is due to the amount of restarts I seem to be doing to keep it at any speed. I will have a look at the relevent overclocking sections as well. Tried the PCChips website and couldn't find anything on it (in fact it barely seems to work from where I am 6 mins to load main page). I am going to e-Mail them and see if they respond. Any other ideas in the mean time would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Blue

(P.S. Would be interested to hear from user Blue as I have used the username Blue in a lot of other forums and never come across someone with the same username as me. Damn good choice of name Blue).

Regards.

[Wa11y]

What OS are you running? If you're running Windows 98, the memory leaks are a known thing. 98 wasn't meant to be left running for any amount of time. If you're having problems with the memory leaks, I'd recommend you get more memory. How much do you have now? You might wanna bump it up to 512MB, but no more than that if you're in 98.

[StillBlue]

I am running 98SE and have read about the memory leak problems but never done anything about it. Why only up to 512mb? My motherboard can support upto 768mb so I will bump the memory upto 512mb. Thanks for that, suppose it is something I should have done before, but reading it doesn't have the same impact as someone telling you. Cheers.

Blue.

[Wa11y]

Well, memory is cheap. Grab two sticks of 256MB SDR from Crucial (http://www.crucial.com) and slam them bad boys in. Why only 512? I've heard rumors that anything more than 512, and your performace suffers. But anything above 256 doesn't do you too much good, but with my Duron 800, I can usually leave my system up for a week or so without needing a reboot.

[StillBlue]

I believe that my motherboard is a Slot 1 motherboard would be grateful if someone who knows could have a look at the information at http://users.erols.com/chare/cpu_sock.htm and tell me if it would apply to my motherboard if so how do I go about putting a PIII 1.13ghz processor on it. If that is possible it would be magic. Better than my greatest dream (well perhaps not my greatest dream :D :D :D ) Thanx in advance.

Blue.

[StillBlue]

Anyone?? I have e-Mailed PCChips but no reply so far. What do you think of the info at the site mentioned above? Is it possible?

Blue.

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by StillBlue
Anyone?? I have e-Mailed PCChips but no reply so far. What do you think of the info at the site mentioned above? Is it possible?

Blue.

I have the exact same board in my Celeron system stated below! I believe that you can put a PIII 600MHz processor in there. Only the Katmai core though. The reason for this is because it is the same voltage. My manuel I believe states up to a 550MHz PIII. Hey have you found a BIOS upgrade for that mobo...I am still looking for one myself.

[Sir-Epix]

Okay I finally found the BIOS upgrade after some digging. When I go home I will try it on this system, and see the difference.

[StillBlue]

Thanks for your reply to that Sir-Epix. I will have a look around. You have given me hope. Will be interested to see how you get on with your bios upgrade. Did it have any documentation with it to give you any idea of what the board might support??

Blue.

[Sir-Epix]

I didn't see any documentation...I will let you know how it goes and what the new settings are if any.

[StillBlue]

Will be interesting to see how you get on. Where did you get the bios upgrade from?? Can't quite understand why the ones on PCChips's site don't have any inforation with them.

Blue.

[StillBlue]

This might be of interest to anyone with a PCChips motherboard. Seems to work better than the official site.

http://ajz.vr9.com/index.html

Blue.

[StillBlue]

O.K. after a lot of research I believe that it is possible to fit a Coppermine 1.13mhz processor to the board using a Slotkets convertor. I will let you know how I get on.

Blue.

[StillBlue]

I have finally got a reply from PCChips and they have said that the newest bios upgrade only supports upto a PIII 550mhz. So now I will see whether I can beat that. will let you know how I get on.

Blue.

[casanovalui]

Originally posted by StillBlue
This might be of interest to anyone with a PCChips motherboard. Seems to work better than the official site.

http://ajz.vr9.com/index.html

Blue.

i am not sure if my board is the same with yours
but the manual sound even worse
the mobo is PC100 M747 (surely the chipsets is different)
the manuals says only can support up to P2 450 max
What is the email addr for pcchips that u sent? maybe i
can give it a try2 :)
anyway i went to the addr given above. Thanks :burn:

[StillBlue]

PCChips Offices

Sales@PCChips.com

or UK Office

Units 1/3 Newmarket Court Kingston,
Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK10 OAG, U.K.

Tel : 0044 1908 481800
Fax: 0044 1908 481885
E-mail: fliu@protac.uk.com

[StillBlue]

Well, I think I have found the upgrade I am going to go for. Using Powerleaps upgrade info program, I got an e-Mail back from them with the following information.

Thanks for sending information about your system to us for CPU upgrade advice.

Based on the details, I'd recommend our new PL-iP3/T upgrade, which will currently take your system's CPU up to 1.2 GHz, using an Intel "Tualatin" Celeron with 256K of L2 cache. For more information on this product, please see
http://www.powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm.

Sounds good to me.

Blue

[BigRed]

Originally posted by StillBlue
Well, I think I have found the upgrade I am going to go for. Using Powerleaps upgrade info program, I got an e-Mail back from them with the following information.

Thanks for sending information about your system to us for CPU upgrade advice.

Based on the details, I'd recommend our new PL-iP3/T upgrade, which will currently take your system's CPU up to 1.2 GHz, using an Intel "Tualatin" Celeron with 256K of L2 cache. For more information on this product, please see
http://www.powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm.

Sounds good to me.

Blue
dont get the power leap adapter if you want to do any overclocking.
and ive heard that the adapter makes the processor unstable because it delivers lower than the default voltage to the cpu.
i beleive your best bet would just be to buy a new motherboard and processor. you can probably get a decent mobo and like a 800mhz celeron for $100

[StillBlue]

I think as long as the powerleap adapter leaves it reasonably stable at 1.2ghz then I will be happy. Probably won't want to overclock it on top of that. If I need it faster than that in the future I will probably replace the motherboard. But for the time being the powerleap option sounds suitable.

Blue