Hi Hal Trachtenberg!   At 07:22 AM 4/2/01 -0400 you wrote:

 >> 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.

I have SY-6BA+IV and they (www.soyousa.com)
display additional table where 700MHz and even 800 MHz are.

You can find that in Support-FAQ-CPU Related section:

                          PIII SLOT I
                    Model       PIII CPU (MHz)
        650     667     700     733     750     800     800EB

6BA+IV  Y       N       Y       N       Y       Y       N

Also I see that in my BIOS settings.
My doubts are only about core voltage but I can't get this info.
If this board support PIIIs does that mean it can produce 1.65v
in CPU auto-detect mode ?
--
Stanislav Rabinovich

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