Celeron on VC820?

[DE]

Hi everyone, I'm in the market for a new motherboard and can get a VC820 for pretty cheap. I know this board is designed for PII/PIII @ 100, 133mhz but could I run say a Celeron II 600 on an Abit slockt !!! at 100mhz? Would the motherboard allow me to do this if I know the Celeron will run at 909mhz (100 FSB)?

Thanks
Dylan

 

[wild_andy_c]

This is a very bad idea.

You cannot expect to just get a chip and for it to run at 900Mhz like hey presto. It may need burning in and allsorts.

I would suggest a re-think.

........the i820 was the worst mobo chipset intel has made for years

 

[DE]

Ok, the Celeron is running at 909 right now on a different board and needed no burn in, completely stable. I was more asking if the motherboard would run it at all. Thanks for the advice on the 820 though. Is there another motherboard out that is better and uses RDRAM? I already have 256 PC600 ($50 can't beat that).

Thanks
Dylan

 

[Kube]

Why would you ever get rambus, everyone has yet dropped the idea of it due to the severe architecture mistakes. The stuff runs like conventional 133MHz ram... Notice how in december Intel a company that held over 40% of the rambus market broke all contracts and signed on to work with DDR... My advice is stick with SDRAM and wait till DDR is cheeper and more efficient... Still DDR is only begining to scratch the surface of its potential, currenly it u read up about it DDR is Double-Density Ram, ergo 512SDRAM 133MHz is the same as 256DDR 266...
So now is not really a time to buy new systems unless you got money to burn and don't care...
Good luck with your choice...