I built a dual celeron 366 overclocked to 2x550 (1100 MHz total) on a BP-6.
I bought the "guaranteed to overclock" chips from Advanced Design of
Kentucky ( http://www.advanceddesignky.com/ ) along with a BP-6 motherboard.
I built a system to run Linux Mandrake with a custom kernel (2.2.9) for SMP
and 686 class chips. It runs very fast, even with the overclocking off (732
MHz) at Here's some issues you'll find with the BP-6, especially if you
overclock:
1. Disable the "Speed Error Hold" in the chipset BIOS
2. Remove the BX board "green heatsink" by squeezing together the "plastic
rivets" in the back of the board. Apply heatink grease and reinstall the
green heatsink, or put a pentium 1 heatsink and fan on the bx chip with
thermal tape. Otherwise your bx chipset may overheat (mine did!) due to
running the bus at 100MHz.
3. Lots of cooling, especially if you overclock in a warm environment.
Probably the best ventilation is to turn all your fans blowing out and
install your board so that the cool air enters the case, blows across the
chips, and is then exhausted by the fans on the other side. In my case the
air is blown out the front by two 90mm fans and enters in the back (by the
CPUs) through vent holes and is drawn accross the processors. Also, if you
run in a warm environment, vent heat from any hot running video cards and
hard drives with "slot coolers" to keep your case cool. The BP-6 board has
built in temperature monitoring thermistors (2xCPU + "Mainboard") and I
installed a Radio shack in/out thermometer with the "out" thermistor right
on top of the green BX heatsink to help monitor the temps. Now at a room
temp of 30C the "in the case temp" over the green heatsink averages 33C
while my processors run at 35C and 37C and the mainboard sensor reads 37C.
The system runs rock solid even when running 2 X SetiatHome programs using
%100 of both processors (this does raise the temp by about 2-3C!) to crunch
two blocks of Seti data in 7 hours.
4. I had to disable the power saving features of the board (I'm a very bad
Sierra Club Member...) because it made the computer lock up.
David Green
Research Engineer
SRI International - Ft Monmouth Office
(732) 427-6435
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 6:38 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Abit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I am interested in building a SMP linux box, and found the Abit BP6
>motherboard is avialable from a local supplier (at about 1/2
>the cost of
>other dual boards (slot1))
>
>Has anyone found any problems with this board? or would i be better to
>steer away from dual socket370, and stay with the Slot 1 arhitecture??
>
>Any asistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Matt
>
>http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm
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