ASUS P2B, cpu upgradability? Building oldleftoverpartsystem.

[Frolic]

Got old parts lying around, enough to build a system for a friend.
Was wondering how fast cpu I can put on my dear old ASUS P2B BX-mobo?
On the asus.com.tw site all I can find is it supports ?Single Slot 1 for Intel Pentium® II 233MHz ~ 450MHz and Pentium® III 450MHz~600+MHz processors? 600+?? What does it mean, can I use a 700 or 800MHz Cu-Mine or what?
The latest bios 1012 (04/20/2000) includes Cu-Mine support, but I can?t find how high.
Anybody knows, or where I can get the info?

 

[AndyHui]

You can use any Intel processor with a 100MHz FSB, or if you don't mind the AGP being out of spec at 89MHz, you can also use 133MHz FSB processors. Multiplier is NOT an issue, since all Intel processors are mutliplier locked, and they will ignore whatever setting your motherboard has and use its own multiplier.

You must have the latest BIOS, either 1012 Final or 1013 Beta 007.

Depending on the revision of the board, you may or may not need to do a bit of tweaking for it to work. If you have PCB rev 1.12, it already has support for Coppermine voltages. Earlier revisions may not. In such cases, you need to use a slotket with an FC-PGA processor, and set the slotket to manually request 1.80 volts, which is the lowest that boards as far back as rev 1.02 can handle. This voltage is fine for Coppermines, and assists greatly in overclocking should you want to. If you do not set the voltage manually on the slotket, the system will not boot.

 

[Frolic]

Thanks a lot Andy Hui! That's the info I was looking for.