fastest cpu for BH6 ?

I'm going to dedicate a now retired BH6 with an OC'ed cel 1.1 to digital
audio recording. I'm thinking I should upgrade to a 1 gig 100fsb slot 1
cpu. These are still not that cheap, would this be my best upgrade path.

Thanks
Larry

Lane Lewis wrote:
"Michael Cecil" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:48:22 GMT, "Lane Lewis"
wrote:


You can buy a new board and faster cpu for less money, even one that will
use sdram.

The BH6 uses SDRAM.

How could you buy a entire board and processor for less than just the
cost of a processor alone?



Because the slot one CPUs are overpriced.
Try a celeron 1.4gig and a new board both $120 usd
Smokes a PIII 1gig 100 mhz slot one. $200 usd (last I checked)

Lane



But a 40 buck 1.3 Gig Tualatin and a 20 buck Slot-T comes to 60 (6 bucks more
for a 1.4 gig) and then overclock.

Or, if he's got the skill set, he could probably modify his existing slotket
(probably has one for the 1.1 celeron), perhaps with some processor pin pulls,
and save the 20 for a slot-T.

The BH6 uses SDRAM.

How could you buy a entire board and processor for less than just the
cost of a processor alone?



Because the slot one CPUs are overpriced.
Try a celeron 1.4gig and a new board both $120 usd
Smokes a PIII 1gig 100 mhz slot one. $200 usd (last I checked)

Lane



But a 40 buck 1.3 Gig Tualatin and a 20 buck Slot-T comes to 60 (6 bucks
more for a 1.4 gig) and then overclock.

Or, if he's got the skill set, he could probably modify his existing
slotket (probably has one for the 1.1 celeron), perhaps with some
processor pin pulls, and save the 20 for a slot-T.


Looks like my current setup (1.1 cel - OC'ed to 1.2 in the BH6) will
work fine as a digital audio recording machine. I spent quite a while
with Sonar today - several tracks of audio and midi without a problem.
I'll see how far I can push it, dump the sound blaster POS and get a pro
audio card.

Larry

Larry Webb wrote:

The BH6 uses SDRAM.

How could you buy a entire board and processor for less than just the
cost of a processor alone?



Because the slot one CPUs are overpriced.
Try a celeron 1.4gig and a new board both $120 usd
Smokes a PIII 1gig 100 mhz slot one. $200 usd (last I checked)

Lane



But a 40 buck 1.3 Gig Tualatin and a 20 buck Slot-T comes to 60 (6
bucks more for a 1.4 gig) and then overclock.

Or, if he's got the skill set, he could probably modify his existing
slotket (probably has one for the 1.1 celeron), perhaps with some
processor pin pulls, and save the 20 for a slot-T.



Looks like my current setup (1.1 cel - OC'ed to 1.2 in the BH6) will
work fine as a digital audio recording machine. I spent quite a while
with Sonar today - several tracks of audio and midi without a problem.
I'll see how far I can push it, dump the sound blaster POS and get a pro
audio card.

Larry


Yeah. That's a tualatin already, right?

I guess your BH6 is an original issue like mine, with no 1/4 PCI divider, or
else that 1.1 should go to 124 MHz FSB for 1.36 gig, or 133 MHz FSB for 1.46 Gig.

Larry Webb wrote:
David Maynard wrote:

Larry Webb wrote:


The BH6 uses SDRAM.

How could you buy a entire board and processor for less than just the
cost of a processor alone?



Because the slot one CPUs are overpriced.
Try a celeron 1.4gig and a new board both $120 usd
Smokes a PIII 1gig 100 mhz slot one. $200 usd (last I checked)

Lane



But a 40 buck 1.3 Gig Tualatin and a 20 buck Slot-T comes to 60 (6
bucks more for a 1.4 gig) and then overclock.

Or, if he's got the skill set, he could probably modify his existing
slotket (probably has one for the 1.1 celeron), perhaps with some
processor pin pulls, and save the 20 for a slot-T.





Looks like my current setup (1.1 cel - OC'ed to 1.2 in the BH6) will
work fine as a digital audio recording machine. I spent quite a while
with Sonar today - several tracks of audio and midi without a
problem. I'll see how far I can push it, dump the sound blaster POS
and get a pro audio card.

Larry


Yeah. That's a tualatin already, right?

I guess your BH6 is an original issue like mine, with no 1/4 PCI
divider, or else that 1.1 should go to 124 MHz FSB for 1.36 gig, or
133 MHz FSB for 1.46 Gig.



It's a version 1.0 and it's been a while since I tried OC'ing it but I
think 1.2 was all I could get - but it's working great.

Larry


Matches my experience. No tualatin, regardless of the starting point, would go
over 112 MHz FSB on a BH6 v1.0, and I tried a 1.1 too (plus 1.2 and 1.3).

Nothing to do with my PCI cards, though, as I ran a P-III 750 at 930/124MHz FSB
on it for quite a while before I switched to the tualatin.

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:07:15 -0700, "Fishface" ?
wrote:

Spajky wrote:

Hope you have a 300W PSU ...

I took my 350 watt Enermax out and put in a PowMan 240w.
I'm running the BF6 overclocked to 1.56 GHz with 384 MB
memory, three hard drives, two optical drives, a fan, a firewire
card, a ATA100 card, a modem, a U160 SCSI card.

Is that bad?! It must be my low-power Matrox video card
saving my ass...

No, IMHO that even a less power but QUALITY (hope so for you!) PSU
does.
I have 235W Enlight ! (the "older" stuff is usually made better...)


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Is that bad?! It must be my low-power Matrox video card
saving my ass...

No, IMHO that even a less power but QUALITY (hope so for you!) PSU
does.
I have 235W Enlight ! (the "older" stuff is usually made better...)

yeah, my enlight 250W was about 2x as heavy as the noname crapass 350W i
have now.