Hello.
Is it posible to get a Tualatin Celeron CPU to work in my old Asus P2b rev.
1.02 ?
I already have a slotkey konverter with volt adjustment and uses the latest
bios (1014.beta2 or something like that). Have been running a Celeron
600@900 so far, but that CPU has to go for an other system and now I need a
new for this one.
Thanks in advance for any answer.
Regards.
Sune
Denmark
According to Roland's web page, the cutoff for Tualatin compatible voltage
regulators is P2B rev 1.12 -
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_procupgrade_faq.html
This means the owner of a P2B rev 1.12 can use an Upgradeware Slot-T plus
a Tualatin. The processor will run at 1.5 volts because the voltage
regulator can go that low. Finding a Slot-T at around $25 or so gives
the basis for a cheap upgrade.
Since your P2B is less than rev 1.12, you need a Powerleap to run a
Tualatin. Your voltage regulator only goes down to 1.8V (never less
than that), so that is too high a voltage for a Tualatin which has
1.75V absolute max and 1.5V normal operating voltage.
http://plpadmin.tempdomainname.com/PLiP3T.html
There is a iP3-T with a Tualatin 1400/100/256 processor for $119.
If your motherboard supports setting the FSB to 133MHz (where PCI
stays at 33MHz, but AGP becomes 89MHz instead of 66MHz), then you
could take a 1000/100 or 1100/100 processor and overclock it to
get performance closer to the Server version of the Tualatin.
I changed the voltage regulator on my board, which enabled me to use
a Slot-T plus Tualatin. Considering the incidentals purchased to do
the surgery, a Powerleap would have been cheaper.
If you can find a Coppermine Celeron FCPGA, you can
use a slocket with VID jumpers, even with your motherboard, by setting
the VID jumpers to 1.8 volts. I tried this originally with a 1.75V nominal
Coppermine on a modified Startech slocket (added VID jumpers) and it
worked fine. You might actually have more luck finding a 1GHz Pentium
cartridge than a Coppermine FCPGA, in which case there would still be
a requirement to hack a 1.8V VID setting for your voltage regulator
( assuming the cartridge needs less than 1.8V, which you can check
by entering the SSPEC number at processorfinder.intel.com ).
To see one unique way of setting the VID on a slocket without VID
jumpers, see this page, where a U shaped wire is used as a shunt.
(I soldered mine). The example shown here is a one wire mod to run
a 1.7volt processor at 1.8volts. Other processor voltages are a
little more complicated, because more than one VID signal needs
to be modified (may require cutting a track on the cartridge or
fitting wires and switches on the motherboard) -
http://www.tipperlinne.com/p2b-ds.htm
The latest batch of Tualatin processors have a CPUID of 06B4. The
microcode to support this processor isn't in the latest beta BIOS,
so you can add support with low risk, by using CTMC and instructions
found here:
http://www.tipperlinne.com/bios6b4.htm
The main page on the site is here:
http://www.tipperlinne.com/p2bmod.htm
In terms of processors, here are a selected few entries:
SSPEC Core/Bus/Cache CPUID Pkg Vcore Pwr Typ Tmax Geom
Pentium Coppermine with 100 or 133MHz bus (cartridge needs VID
setting hack depending on regulator) -
SL4BR 1000/100/256 0686 SECC2 1.7V 26.1W cC0 70C 0.18u Both
SL4BS 1000/133/256 0686 SECC2 1.7V 26.1W cC0 70C 0.18u Both
Coppermine in FCPGA (Coppermine slocket with VID set to 1.8V)
SL5QV 1000/100/256 068A FC-PGA 1.75V 29W cD0 75C 0.18u OEM
SL5QW 1100/100/256 068A FC-PGA 1.75V 33W cD0 77C 0.18u OEM
SL5DV 1000/133/256 068A FC-PGA 1.75V 29W cD0 75C 0.18u Boxed
Tualatin in FCPGA2 (Slot-T or Powerleap, depending on regulator)
SL6JQ 1000A/100/256 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.5V 29.5W tB1 69C 0.13u Boxed
SL6JR 1100A/100/256 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.5V 29.5W tB1 69C 0.13u Boxed
SL6JS 1200/100/256 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.5V 32.0W tB1 69C 0.13u Boxed
SL6JT 1300/100/256 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.5V 32.0W tB1 69C 0.13u Boxed
SL6JV 1400/100/256 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.5V 33.2W tB1 67C 0.13u Boxed
Tualatin server version (expensive) - same as Tualatin above
[ Benchmarks don't seem to get enough benefit from the cache... ]
SL6BW 1.13-S/133/512 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.45V 28.7W tB1 69C 0.13u OEM
SL6BX 1.26-S/133/512 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.45V 30.4W tB1 69C 0.13u Both
SL6BY 1.40-S/133/512 06B4 FC-PGA2 1.45V 32.2W tB1 69C 0.13u OEM
There are more types than that (some with 128K cache), but that
is all I can figure out from my list of processors. The Tualatins
can still be bought at retail, but have gone out of production.
The other processors will be Ebay material.
Have fun,
Paul