[RESOLVED] My Motherboard Agghhhhh

[gavin]

I have decided to learn a little more about my system with a view to upgrading it. I have a reasonably good system with a pII 350Mhz, and 128mb RAM. The PII is ofcourse a slotted processor. I am having great difficulty learning about my motherboards capabilities. From the Gateway site I have established that it has an fsb of 100Mhz and that it is a 440BX, but the board itself is made by some croad called Tolstoy, or maybe that is the name of the actual board which ever I can not find any information on the limitations of the board, in particular I want to know about changing the mulipliers, either to buy a new processor(likely) or to clock the one I have a little(less likely)

Please advise

[LagMonster]

you probably want to get a different Mother board and processor if your going to upgrade. I don't know how exactly high your MoBo gets but probably not much higher. Goto pricewatch.com for good deals.

[scutterboy]

I read a really helpfull article about this recently but I cant fin the sucker. It was about using slot1 converters? Oh well.

Heres the how to page on Toms Hardware http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/index.html

CPU tables.. http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/0...412/index.html

Whats best when upgrading?? http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/0...413/index.html

There are many more worth scanning.

[scutterboy]

Oh I meant to say that usually BX boards are quite flexible. As you are running a 100MHz FSB you can get it to run faster than the 350 so you might be able to upgrade quite far depending on your BIOS. I'm looking at Piii550 on a Slot1 BX board.

Hope you find more about your mobo.

[gavin]

So I have found out that the board is Made by Intel and is a Tolstoy RC440BX (intergrated) thanks to the boys at Gateway, can you guys give me any more help here.

Thanks a Mill
Gavin

[Redbull_Monsta]

hiya it goes up to PIII 700MHZ http://www.gotocol.com/inrcpenbranc.html
more info there.

[tablesalt]

I looked this board up on Intel's site. I will support a P3, they list a 600MHz but that might be old. There is no listing regarding Coppermine support so becareful if you do decide to upgrade. I would try to find a Slot1 P3 600Mhz with 512KB L2 Cache. Check the following link for more info.
http://support.intel.com/support/mot...sktop/RC440BX/

[Joker1]

I came accross something similar to this not to long ago. If your looking to max the board. You do infact need a 600Mhz Slot1 Penium with a Non-Coppermnie core.

I'm not sure as to how much luck you'll have tracking one down.