Re: Upgrade etc for OC BH6

Good folks,

In 2/99 I built a little deskside system for home use
around an Abit BH6 board and a Celeron 300A cpu. It has
been running great at 450 mhz/2.3 v. core since then.

Now it is getting a bit "Long in the Tooth".

Two things to consider ...

1.) Cpu-level upgrade. It _appears_ that it might be
    practical to replace the 300A with a .18 micron
    Celeron FC-PGA on a slocket and, with sufficient
    cooling, run it with 100 mhz FSB. So a Celeron 566
    would be running at about 850 mhz.

    I would expect to have to flash the bios a time or
    2 to get the range of core voltage that I would
    need (not even sure what it would be).

    How much risk is involved with such a planned upgrade?
    Costs? Benefits? Ways in which I could shoot my po'
    self in the foot? <grin>

    If advisable, which slocket (Imiss, Abit, Evercool)?
    What cpu-cooling unit?

    And has anyone seen a step-by-step description of
    the nuts 'n bolts of such a BH6 cpu upgrade on the
    web or <wherever>??

2.) On the BH6 I've been running 1 stick of Mushkin 64 mb
    PC100 SDRAM with Samsung GH cas2 chips. The cas
    latency time is set to 2 in the bios. Its long
    overdue for a second 64 mb board. Should I try to
    get another "like the other" (which ain't cheap)?
    Any cas2? Any PC100?

Any/all info/recommendations would be much appreciated.

  Zalut,
  David

"Its all my fault ...
 I musta Done Somebody Wrong!"
     - Elmore James


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