Slotkey Converters, please explain

[Mullzy]

First off I'd like to thank everyone that has responded to my questions regarding oc'ing and CPU upgrades - you've been very helpful.

It looks like I'll be upgrading the CPU in my PC and I have a couple questions about how Slotkey converters work. My questions stem from the fact that I don't understand where the functionality/relationship of the slotkey and the mobo meet/end. Is a slotkey converter simply an adapter to allow you to put a newer CPU into a SLOT-1 mobo that sets only FSB, voltage and multiplier? Or does it do more (like affect mutipliers on PCI and AGP clocks)?

1) Do all the settings (voltage, fsb, multiplier etc..) only need to be set on on the converter itself? If so, what do you set your mobo bios settings to if it doesn't have similar settings? (i.e. voltage) Does it matter what your bios says?

2) I can't use a FSB of higher than 100Mhz in this current system (have tried oc'ing to 112 and 133 but my system is unstable, I am assuming due to the fact my mobo doesn't let me go lower than 1/3 on the PCI bus and 2/3 on the AGP). Will I be able to use a FSB of greater than 100 on the slotkey, and have it not overclock my PCI/AGP buses?

3) Related to #2 - can you set things like AGP and PCI multipliers on slotkeys? Or are you limited to what your mobo can be set to.

The reason I pose these questions is because I am trying to decide on a Celeron to buy and what I might be able to oc it to. I hope these questions are clear enough for some of you to help me out.

Cheers,

[cyberey66]

1) Good slockets have settings for voltage, and fsb. Well almost all have fsb. Multipliers cannot be set by slocket because of intels lock. It cannot set agp, pci dividers, it can just tell the mobo what fsb to use.

2) If your dividers are limiting you then no, you cant use the slocket to run >100 fsb without OCin the pci, and agp.

3) Agp and pci divider are set on mobo not slocket.

Basically you can upgrade to any celeron up to 1Ghz, and any 100 FSB pentium 3. I have a celeron 1Ghz on a abit slocket in my sys. It really doesn't matter what max speed your mobo supports, mine is an old via chipset and it's cpu multiplier is limited to 6, but since intel locks their chips it doesnt matter. The mult is set in the chip. I would recommend a getting a celeron 800-1000MHz. its a cheap upgrade. Check out newegg.com. As for OCing, if you really really want to, check out the celeron 600.

Is you chipset 440BX by chance? If yes, I think new celeron is the best way to go. The bx is good chipset and gets great memory speed.

[Yodums]

Originally posted by Mullzy
First off I'd like to thank everyone that has responded to my questions regarding oc'ing and CPU upgrades - you've been very helpful.

It looks like I'll be upgrading the CPU in my PC and I have a couple questions about how Slotkey converters work. My questions stem from the fact that I don't understand where the functionality/relationship of the slotkey and the mobo meet/end. Is a slotkey converter simply an adapter to allow you to put a newer CPU into a SLOT-1 mobo that sets only FSB, voltage and multiplier? Or does it do more (like affect mutipliers on PCI and AGP clocks)?

1) Do all the settings (voltage, fsb, multiplier etc..) only need to be set on on the converter itself? If so, what do you set your mobo bios settings to if it doesn't have similar settings? (i.e. voltage) Does it matter what your bios says?

2) I can't use a FSB of higher than 100Mhz in this current system (have tried oc'ing to 112 and 133 but my system is unstable, I am assuming due to the fact my mobo doesn't let me go lower than 1/3 on the PCI bus and 2/3 on the AGP). Will I be able to use a FSB of greater than 100 on the slotkey, and have it not overclock my PCI/AGP buses?

3) Related to #2 - can you set things like AGP and PCI multipliers on slotkeys? Or are you limited to what your mobo can be set to.

The reason I pose these questions is because I am trying to decide on a Celeron to buy and what I might be able to oc it to. I hope these questions are clear enough for some of you to help me out.

Cheers,

Usually you'd set default voltage, default FSB, and the Coppermine setting on the slotket. From there you would change the rest mainly in the bios.

PCI bus depends on when you change the FSB obviously depending on your motherboard..

ie: You have 100fsb you turn it up to 120 FSB with a divider of 1/4 then your PCI bus will run at 30..

You would normally set your AGP bus in the bios to 2/3, majority of the vid cards can't handle over 100fsb.