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GA-6BA & GA-6R7+ CPU Upgrade possibilities?

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Josey

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Feb 14, 2002, 8:55:24 AM2/14/02
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Dear all,

I know it's old, but I need a cheap processor upgrade to my GA-6BA.

It's a rev 3.0 board
It's got F1g Bios
And a Ga-6R7+ (jumperless) socket 370 adapter.

Anyone know which of the later faster coppermine's the board supports -
maybe a PIII 850E or a Celeron 1GHz (in socket 370 a they are generally
cheaper).

Does this GA-6BA support processors with CD0 stepping, and split plane
voltages?

thanks.

Peter.
PWa...@sniffout.com


Jeff Cochrane

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Feb 14, 2002, 4:59:23 PM2/14/02
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"Josey" <pwa...@sniffout.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> I know it's old, but I need a cheap processor upgrade to my GA-6BA.
>
> It's a rev 3.0 board
> It's got F1g Bios
> And a Ga-6R7+ (jumperless) socket 370 adapter.
>
> Anyone know which of the later faster coppermine's the board supports -
> maybe a PIII 850E or a Celeron 1GHz (in socket 370 a they are generally
> cheaper).
Yes on the 850, Yes on the 1.0Ghz Celeron, so long as it is a Coppermine
Celeron, not one of the newer Tulatins.

>
> Does this GA-6BA support processors with CD0 stepping, and split plane
> voltages?

Officially, No and Yes.
CC0 is the latest chip supported (Officially), however, there are quite a
few people using cD0 chips in their BXC's

>
> thanks.
>
> Peter.
> PWa...@sniffout.com
>
HTH

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Josey

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Feb 15, 2002, 6:05:24 AM2/15/02
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"Jeff Cochrane" <he...@jeffscomputers.com.INVALID> wrote in message news:<a4hbu8$2fn$1...@gnamma.connect.com.au>...

> "Josey" <pwa...@sniffout.com> wrote in message
> news:MsIq$8VtBH...@stannard.sniffout.com...
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I know it's old, but I need a cheap processor upgrade to my GA-6BA.
> >
> > It's a rev 3.0 board
> > It's got F1g Bios
> > And a Ga-6R7+ (jumperless) socket 370 adapter.
> >
> > Anyone know which of the later faster coppermine's the board supports -
> > maybe a PIII 850E or a Celeron 1GHz (in socket 370 a they are generally
> > cheaper).
> Yes on the 850, Yes on the 1.0Ghz Celeron, so long as it is a Coppermine
> Celeron, not one of the newer Tulatins.
>
> >
> > Does this GA-6BA support processors with CD0 stepping, and split plane
> > voltages?
> Officially, No and Yes.
> CC0 is the latest chip supported (Officially), however, there are quite a
> few people using cD0 chips in their BXC's
>

Jeff, thanks for that. Sorry I have three further questions:

I'm a bit confused - you say people are using CD0 chips in BXC's - I'm
using a 6BA - are they similar, so I should be ok?

I'm just a little worried that I'll plug a 1Ghz Celeron (Coppermine)
in and the F1g Bios will POST and say something like "microcode not
supported?".

If I do use a 1Ghz Celeron FC-PGA in my (jumperless)slocket, what do I
do with the clock multiplier switches on the 6BA board - they only
seem to go up to 9.5 X 100mhz. Does the celeron ignore these, or maybe
it "reuses" lower multipliers?

Thanks.

Peter.

gbt-tech

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Feb 15, 2002, 6:57:35 AM2/15/02
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All current CPU's have their own multiplier wired in, so you don't need to
worry about those settings. Basically if it can't read the code correclty it
will probably miss identify the CPU and run it slower.
Mike Mullen
CST
Gigabyte UK

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Klaus Neubauer

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Feb 15, 2002, 9:29:19 AM2/15/02
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Hi Peter (ao)

Here something from an older Posting:


>Well, here is my report about the GA-6BA (Rev.3)and the 1Ghz Intel PIII.
>I read all posts I found about this before. Some told it works, some not.
>OK, here the result:
>Intel PIII, 1Ghz Slot1 Type SL4KL
>http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm
>Gigabyte GA-6BA Rev. 3 250W AT power supply

>..and it works.

>The BIOS-startup screen detect a 962Mhz processor, the SystemInfo
>means that is a 992Mhz processor.

>The "feeling" is a little bit faster than the 850Mhz CPU I had before.
>I know that the RAM performance is poor (2x256MB 3222) but that is now
>enough for me and I can keep this Computer.

>Has anyone other experience about this combination ??

Now more about Giga-Byte BX Board and newer processors:
Ich bought a Socket370=>Slot1 adapter from http://www.madex.com
and now the newer Celerons (900Mhz-1Ghz FSB100) run stable.
I'm still testing the combination on a GA6BA,BXS,BXU Board.
Report follows if it was successfull or not.

so long
Klaus

Josey

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Feb 15, 2002, 11:39:31 AM2/15/02
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And voltages will be ok from the GA-6BA (Rev 3.0/F1g) for the 1.75v
Celeron? (There is no regulator on my slocket)

Peter.


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Josey

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Feb 15, 2002, 1:24:17 PM2/15/02
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Hi Klaus,

Klaus.N...@de.endress.com (Klaus Neubauer) wrote amongst other
things> >Well, here is my report about the GA-6BA (Rev.3)and the 1Ghz


Intel PIII.
> >I read all posts I found about this before. Some told it works, some not.
> >OK, here the result:
> >Intel PIII, 1Ghz Slot1 Type SL4KL

<snip>

I had spotted this message, but this guy was/is using a slot 1 cc0
stepping processor, where I am proposing a CD0 Socket 370 in a
slocket.

Peter.

gbt-tech

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Feb 18, 2002, 5:48:55 AM2/18/02
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A 6BA rev 3.0 with the latest bios can set the right voltage for Coppermine
PIII's, so you should be fine.
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