Can i run P3 1ghz in a abit BE6-II??

[RedLiNE]

I have been running my p2 233 @ 300 with 133 mhz fsb for a long time now but will it work to have the a 1ghz p3 with 133 x 7.5 in this quickly aging motherboard??

Has anyone done this succefully with no problems?

 

[batboy]

I believe it will work if you flash the BIOS with the lastest upgrade and use a good quality slotket.

 

[Storm]

Yep, Batboy is spot on... It'll work without a bios update but might not detect as a 1GHz chip so you'll have to go into the BIOS and set everything manually via the user define option in the CPU setup... but if you update your BIOS you'll have no problems

 

[RedLiNE]

but i know technically i can make it work....but will it run stable and perfect like my current cpu! Im just worried that i may be pushing the board to hard and get lock ups and other problems like that! Will i run into problems?

 

[Katabatik]

You have to be careful. The older steppings (cB0 and older) should run fine but I don't know about teh newer ones. They require something called split plane voltage. Only mobos that are i810 and up officially support it. I also guess that it depends on your luck. I had a cC0 850 and it would not run stable on my BE6-II v1.0. Others have better luck. Maybe the v2.0 might be better but I know that it's still not official. Hope it helps.

 

[Sam]

RedLiNE (Jul 07, 2001 01:33 p.m.):
I have been running my p2 233 @ 300 with 133 mhz fsb for a long time now but will it work to have the a 1ghz p3 with 133 x 7.5 in this quickly aging motherboard??

Has anyone done this succefully with no problems?

I had a BE6II V2.0 and I succesfully ran a PIII 1G 133 CPU with no problems whatsoever. I upgraded to an ASUS P3V4X because I wanted to use 4X Agp as the BX boards are limited to 2X agp.

But I sure do miss my BE6IIv2 , I sold it to an overclocker in Australia that had difficulty obtaining one there.
Heres the official specs on the MOBO:

Latest BIOS Update
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BEPXV.EXE
Supports Celeron 800(100)MHz CPUs
Supports FlashMenu.
HPT 370 BIOS version 095b.

V1.20 02/08/2001

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Driver
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BE6-II V2.0 V1.00 08/09/2000


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CPU
Supports Intel Pentium® III / Celeron 450~1GHz processor cartridge based on 100MHzFSB
Chipset
Intel®440BX chipset (82443BX and 82371EB)

Ultra DMA 100/RAID
High Point HTP370 IDE Controller
Memory
Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support up to 768MB SDRAM module
BIOS
SoftMenu™III or DIP switches to set CPU parameters
Multi I/O
Four channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to 8 Ultra DMA 33/66/100 devices

Miscellaneous
1 AGP slot, 5 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot

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