Printable View
Well I have been looking for a cheap slot1, 1Ghz, 133Mhz FSB processor but with no luck under the word cheap!!! Then I was looking on ebay and i found this!!! If this is a real product it is great, but I am having a problem finding information about it. Can you guys (and girls) help me out???
Thanks
It's a real product. They're not common anymore because there aren't many Slot1 mobos around these days, but they were commonplace in 2000 or so.
Do you know of a website that sells them still?
Type SLOTKET into the Froogle search engine.
http://froogle.google.com/
I use one in an Asus P3V4X motherboard, and it works great..! It will accept all Coppermines, but not Tualatins, unless stated as so...
Do some of the models accept the Tualatins core???
Dunno...
Its possible that a slotket was made after the Tualatins became available, though. Mine is for Coppermines only...
well I found one that uses the Tualatin core, here
I am going to look around some more but I think I like this one
You will save money on that one. For some reason, the later CPUs are less expensive than the older ones. But, the price on all of them went up from a couple years ago...
I think I only have one more question. On this chart my DELL series is not on there. I have a Dimension XPS B. The 'R' and 'T' on the site but not the 'B'. I guess it could be that no one has email them on that series. But the real question I have be do I need the normal SLOT-T or the SPECIAL SLOT-T??? My PC specs are below and I am running an i820 chipset.
Oh... Rambus RAM.
Documentation for the i820 can be found at Intel.
http://search.intel.com/corporate/se...pset&x=44&y=12
If that link doesn't work for you, then do a search for i820 chipset using the Intel search engine (or even Google).
One important factor about upgrading Pentium processors is the often forgotten about, MICROCODE placed into each Intel processor.
To be properly recognized, Intel microcode allows the system to identify the processor, and about the only way to upgrade to a significantly faster Intel processor is to flash the BIOS with an updated BIOS that contains the microcode for that newer processor.
Without the new BIOS, you may still be able to upgrade your computer to 933 or 1gHz processors.
Since the object of a SLOTKET adapter is to change the wiring in order to accept a processor using a different packaging, it is not difficult to figure out that this adapter, in order to run a Tualatin processor would have to do some wire re-routing and some voltage changing in order for a Tualatin processor to work correctly on an older Slot 1 board.
So even though the adapter can serve the purpose, a BIOS upgrade may also be necessary in order for the board to recognize a Tualatin processor.
Might be easier to just stay with a faster Coppermine...
Dell (or a Dell expert) can probably tell you if BIOS updates are available.
Well I flashed my bios like a month ago for the first time, so my bios is the lasted version. I was looking on dell's website and i cannot find the documention for it so see what all it did.
I did not totally understand what you were trying to say with the intel site link. Can you explain that to me?
Thanks
The best place to find documentation on the i820 chipset is to do a search for the i820 chipset at the Intel site.
The reason to do that is because any upgrade info, chipset abilities or limitations can be found in the data sheets for the chipset. The link I posted has a PDF version of that data sheet. You might want to browse through it before purchasing anything.
The most popular P3 chipset is the i815 chipset, which is indeed upgradeable to Tualatin processors, and there is still one Tyan board available for Tualatin processors. The i820 chipset only recognizes Rambus Ram, and may have some other limitations since I never saw an i820 board that would accept Tualatin processors. Doesn't mean that they can't, though. Popularity of a certain component determines its availability, and Intel chose to provide chipsets that recognize Rambus RAM using the P4 rather than upgrading the i820 to recognize Tualatin P3s.
Hope that explains it...
Ok I understand what you saying but I am not sure what I need to be looking at. Here is a pdf of the i820 chipset. Does this file help at all???
I would suggest before purchasing a slotket or Tualatin processor that you check with Dell to make sure that your new BIOS will recognize the Tualatin processor. See what the fastest processor is that the BIOS will recognize, and go with that. Doing so will save you some money and some grief...
I would like to add a bit here. I too thought a sloket would be my solution to a better processor. I bought one, installed it per instructions, and my computer would not boot no matter what jumpers I changed. So this is actually just a warning, unless you're completely sure of what you're doing, and are completely sure what Dell's mb will allow, take another hard look at buying a sloket and another cpu. Hope this helps!!
What motherboard did you try to install it in? What brand slot adapter did you use? What speed processor did you install?
It was a Gigabyte mb. I'm not sure what brand the adapter was but it was a slocket for 370 sockets. The installing cpu was a Intel 900mhz P3. In fact, I still have the slocket, but ended up just buying a new mb and installing the 900 in that, also a Gigabtye board.
EDIT: Casper, I found the slocket card I have. It's called a Super Slocket 3. It was meant for 370 Celeron's, 370 Cyrix, and 370 P3's. On the package it says:
Intel P3 Coppermine/Cyrix/Celeron to Slot 1 Adapter.
Supports 66/100/133 MHZ CPU bus clock
Supports Dual/Single CPU