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What's the fastest reliable CPU for an Intel SE440BX mobo?
Hi,
I have an old Win98SE PCs based on an Intel SE440BX mobo, with P2-350 CPUs. I also have Pinnacle DC20 video capture card and a Guillemot Isis 8+8 audio I/O system, both of which refuse to work reliably in any more recent mobo (P3-866, P4-2.60 and a Celeron), so I'm stuck with the dinosaur, at least until I can justify buying all new hardware. A P2-350 lets me easily record 8 audio tracks + Midi to a removable hard drive (I then edit, mix and overdub on a P4-2.60). But video capture just doesn't cut it. There are plenty of cheap old CPUs about, so I'm thinking of upgrading as far as possible, to see if the video capture works better. The SE440BX mobo manual says it takes slot 1 P2 CPUs only up to 400MHz (not much of a jump from 350), but the latest (1999) BIOS upgrade from Intel indicates P3-450 is OK. Should I regard that as the real limit? I can buy a Slot1-Skt370 adapter quite cheaply. Since there seem to be more skt 370 CPUs about, would a P2-450/skt370 + adapter work as well as a slot 1 version? Would it use less power? Would I need to worry about CPU voltages etc? TIA Regards, Tony (remove "_" from email address to reply) |
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despite what the specs say the board will actually take up to a
1000mhz/100mhz fsb P3 but you may have trouble finding one and even if you do it may not be worth what it will cost. i put one in my Dell R400, replacing a 400mhz P2, and it's been going strong for a few years since. http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/Produc...ductCode=80607 "Tony Roe" wrote in message ... Hi, I have an old Win98SE PCs based on an Intel SE440BX mobo, with P2-350 CPUs. I also have Pinnacle DC20 video capture card and a Guillemot Isis 8+8 audio I/O system, both of which refuse to work reliably in any more recent mobo (P3-866, P4-2.60 and a Celeron), so I'm stuck with the dinosaur, at least until I can justify buying all new hardware. A P2-350 lets me easily record 8 audio tracks + Midi to a removable hard drive (I then edit, mix and overdub on a P4-2.60). But video capture just doesn't cut it. There are plenty of cheap old CPUs about, so I'm thinking of upgrading as far as possible, to see if the video capture works better. The SE440BX mobo manual says it takes slot 1 P2 CPUs only up to 400MHz (not much of a jump from 350), but the latest (1999) BIOS upgrade from Intel indicates P3-450 is OK. Should I regard that as the real limit? I can buy a Slot1-Skt370 adapter quite cheaply. Since there seem to be more skt 370 CPUs about, would a P2-450/skt370 + adapter work as well as a slot 1 version? Would it use less power? Would I need to worry about CPU voltages etc? TIA Regards, Tony (remove "_" from email address to reply) |
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Does it have a soft or hard jumpers? Check the bios for a multipiler
function. If nothing there check the jumpers on the mb |
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:05:21 GMT, "WooduCoodu"
wrote: despite what the specs say the board will actually take up to a 1000mhz/100mhz fsb P3 but you may have trouble finding one and even if you do it may not be worth what it will cost. i put one in my Dell R400, replacing a 400mhz P2, and it's been going strong for a few years since. http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/Produc...ductCode=80607 if this works like you said, than is time to buy from strattoncomputers.com a Slot-T adapter (slotket) & a Tuallie & he would be very happy IMHO :-) -- Regards, SPAJKY - http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/Spajky.htm Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## |
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Tony Roe wrote:
But video capture just doesn't cut it. There are plenty of cheap old CPUs about, so I'm thinking of upgrading as far as possible, to see if the video capture works better. Dropping frames? The issue is probably more the IDE controller than the CPU. I'd try a PCI ATA100 controller card with a 8meg cache HD. Then once you capture, transfer the file via ethernet to a faster system for editing. Editing and compression will be PAINFUL on a system that slow, even with a 1 gig chip in it. -- Stacey |
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I thought 33MB/s would be fine for streaming data like video, as long as it
isn't being interrupted by other IDE accesses (the media HDD has its own IDE port). But I was going to buy a separate ATA100 controller for the "good" PC anyway (so I can give each device its own port). I think I'll buy it now, try it in the old clunker first, and see if it helps the video capture. All the editing etc is done on the P4-2.60-800MhzFSB, which makes that party tolerable. Thanks also to all who replied - its all food for thought. On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:18:11 -0400, Stacey wrote: Tony Roe wrote: But video capture just doesn't cut it. There are plenty of cheap old CPUs about, so I'm thinking of upgrading as far as possible, to see if the video capture works better. Dropping frames? The issue is probably more the IDE controller than the CPU. I'd try a PCI ATA100 controller card with a 8meg cache HD. Then once you capture, transfer the file via ethernet to a faster system for editing. Editing and compression will be PAINFUL on a system that slow, even with a 1 gig chip in it. Regards, Tony (remove "_" from email address to reply) |
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