> I have motherboard SOYO SY-6BA and Intel Pentium II 450 MHz
> (100x4.5) processor (slot 1).
> User Manual writes that this mainboard
> supports CPUs with frequency up to 600 MHz.
> Recently I found on www.soyousa.com
> that this board supports up to 800 (100x8) MHz (and I can see that
> in my BIOS settings) and have ordered already processor
> Intel Pentium III 700E MHz (SLOT 1 OEM).
> But some people told me that this "coppermain" processor
> needs 1.5v core voltage and probably my board can't give
> such small voltage.
>
> Please, if someone has info about maximal core voltage of
> coppermain processors let me know.
> Also, how I could check this situation:
> the new CPU could blow-up before I will able to read out
> core voltage value in BIOS?
> Thanks anyway for any info and methodics,
> --
> Stanislav Rabinovich

Stanislav

The voltage specifications for the coppermine processors are as follows
Pentium iii (Coppermine)  External voltage = 3.3,  Core voltage = 1.65 .
Now as for the voltage support for your motherboard, the only one that I see
that will support a P-III 700 is the SY-6BA+100. If this is the board that
you have you should have no problem with your new processor. If you are
using the SY-6BA+IV, this supports up to 600MHz, all the other 6BA models do
not support a 700MHz processor and have even been discontinued.

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