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midgit99
November 13th, 1999, 01:51 PM
i have a pc-chips m590 motherboard with a 300mhz k6-2 processor.
the motherboard manual states it supports up to 350mhz processors, but the bios settings will allow for a 500mhz processor (100mhz bus speed x5)
what are the chances of a 500mhz k6-2 processor working on this motherboard?
Larommi
November 13th, 1999, 06:21 PM
If you have a 100mhz frontside bus then pretty good! The new 500's that I have seen in our shop have a 2.2 core voltage. The 450 that I have has a 2.4 core voltage and I had to replace my board. Then of course AMD came out with the 2.2 version.
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midgit99
November 16th, 1999, 11:15 AM
cool!
the bios on my motherboard is brilliant, you can change just about every setting possisble, so core voltage wouldn't be a problem! but i'd also have to upgrade the RAM from pc66 to pc100 type
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Larommi
November 16th, 1999, 10:37 PM
By the way you may have to flash the bios. It may report the chip at the wrong speed.
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tee32
December 11th, 1999, 01:53 AM
Even if you have the settings your bios
might have a limit in mhz that it will
recognize.My gigabyte has x 5.5 and 133mhz
fsb settings but was limited to 475mhz. Flashing the bios allowed me to run my k6-3 at 525mhz.I cant say if your bios is limited
but it may be something for you to check out...........TEE