Processors and bus speed

[Reffo]

Hi.

I'm having a pentium III socket 370, with
133Mhz bus speed.

I want to upgrade my processor, and wonder if
I can use a Celeron socket 370 with 100Mhz bus
speed?

-Reffo

 

[kony]

Hi.

I'm having a pentium III socket 370, with
133Mhz bus speed.

I want to upgrade my processor, and wonder if
I can use a Celeron socket 370 with 100Mhz bus
speed?

-Reffo

Your motherboard will be backwads compatible to 100MHz FSB
to support a Celeron, but depending on what chipset it is,
it may only support the Coppermine FCPGA Celerons, which
went up to 1.1GHz. It may not support Tualatin FCPGA2
Celerons which overlapped in speed from 900 (or maybe it was
950?) MHz up to 1.1GHz, and beyond to 1.4GHz.

 

[Reffo]

Your motherboard will be backwads compatible to 100MHz FSB

to support a Celeron, but depending on what chipset it is,
it may only support the Coppermine FCPGA Celerons, which
went up to 1.1GHz. It may not support Tualatin FCPGA2
Celerons which overlapped in speed from 900 (or maybe it was
950?) MHz up to 1.1GHz, and beyond to 1.4GHz.

Wel, my motherboard only support upgrading to 800 Mhz... :-(

-Reffo

 

[kony]

Wel, my motherboard only support upgrading to 800 Mhz... :-(

-Reffo

Sometimes they only mention "support" based on what CPUs
they actually tried and tested. Many boards will run a
Celeron up to 1.1GHz even if they only mention support up to
800MHz, but I can't be certain that yours will. It should
do no damage to try it, if it doesn't work it just won't
make it past POSTing.

 

[Sleepy]

Hi.

I'm having a pentium III socket 370, with
133Mhz bus speed.

I want to upgrade my processor, and wonder if
I can use a Celeron socket 370 with 100Mhz bus
speed?

-Reffo

whats your current cpu and whats the cpu you want to put in ?
if you use a Celeron with less cache and slower FSB it may work out slower
than the PIII.