Man, I loved that mobo. I have fond memories of running a 300 Mhz Celeron overclocked to 800 Mhz on one of those puppies. Ran like a dream.-----------
Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundtion.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 (Canada) +1 (202) 683-8534 (USA) On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > At 02:01 PM 10/17/2008, you wrote: > >> Can run a 1 gigger in the bx6, got one did that. Has to be good ram tho. >> > > There is a slot one 1Ghz that will run in the BX6, and that was the fastest > slot one to come out. > You can buy one on Ebay for 20 bucks. http://tinyurl.com/6z48e3 > > However, the fastest thing to run in a BX6 was a Celeron 1.1GHz at 100FSB > with a slot one to socket 370 adaptor card. These cards simply rerouted the > pins. It was a problem free setup. ASUS made the best adaptor cards. > > There was also a company that made a special slot one card that worked with > a Cel 1.4 or a PIII 1.4, but that was more problematic in that the board > itself wasn't designed to run with these CPUs and the card did the > translation. > > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 >> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:51 AM >> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com >> Subject: Re: [H] Odd? >> >> my memory may be a little fussy but not kidding, this chip was in a bx6 in >> a >> customer system with xp until the mb blew caps. check in bios and see if >> 133 >> is available. Like I said, fussy. Still have manuals and original driver >> disks. Have a BH6 dual in the pile also. >> >> I do have slot one cpu's, probably 450, 500, 600, would have to dig in the >> pile. have a bunch of antique cpu's :-D saving for the gold I think. Have >> some slotkets too. >> >> Be a good box for dos and Aces of the Pacific games. >> >> fred >> >> >> >> At 11:33 PM 10/16/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >> >Forc5, >> >RU kidding me? A 1Ghz chip for a Bx6r2? >> >Nowhere in my UM do I see a mention of 1Ghz.......... >> >Really? This prick is an old slot ?something? >> >I forget. It has been too many years..........sorry >> > >> >ATM the P2-450 plays happy where it is. >> >Just trying to find IT an OS....... >> >Perhaps a P2-450 and m/b will not do WinXP? >> >ATM, I just do not know. >> >In the AM I will try Win2Kpro........... >> >after I wash the new drive........... LOL! >> >For MS, I find this really strange.......but not completely, >> >and, I will continue my research; lame as it may be! >> > >> >All of you Vista users need not reply. >> >I really do not want to drown in all the, >> >"get on with it for Gawd's sake!" business. >> >Thank you very much, >> >Duncan >> > >> > >> > >> >At 21:03 10/16/2008 -0700, you wrote: >> >>want a 1GHZ chip for that MB ? not officially but as I recall would run >> 133 fsb. >> >>XP should do fine on that, worried about 1 meg. wipe the drive with zap. >> :-D do fast format. >> >> >> >>fred >> >> >> >>At 08:42 PM 10/16/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >> >>>Trying to build Wxp on a pretty old stack of hdw. >> >>>Abit bx6-r2, P2-450, 512mb ram, seagate 160gb pata drive. >> >>>Yes, I know, how silly can I be? >> >>> >> >>>when I started 6 hours ago, bios said the hd was LBA UD33 136gb and >> >>>winxp formatted 152618mb. 152.618GB. OK. >> >>> >> >>>now that I've killed the 1st install that did not complete, >> >>>winxp is now formatting 152617mb. 152.617GB. Hmm.....? >> >>> >> >>>Where did I loose 1mb of disk space? >> >>>Should I tool-wash the hd again? >> >>>Thanks, >> >>>Duncan >> >> >> >>-- >> >>Tallyho ! ]:8) >> >>Taglines below ! >> >>-- >> >>Education which is not modern, faces the organic fate. >> >> -- >> Tallyho ! ]:8) >> Taglines below ! >> -- >> Nothing is impossible for he who doesn't have to do it. >> > >
