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Trying to find out how big a CPU I can plug into THIS BOARD. It's in an IBM 2270 running a Celeron 566. System Information says it's a Genuine Intel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3. The only thing I could get off Google says it's a Socket 7. Stickers on the board say ID #211890042210406, Rev A01. The chips are Intel FW82810E and FW82801AA.

Reason I'm asking is I just set this up as my fourth machine doing Folding @ Home and thought maybe I could pick up a faster CPU on Ebay.

TIA

DM

By the numbers on the intel chips, it looks like an 810 Chipset:

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/810/

I would imagine you could stick at least up to an 800mhz P3. Since it's an IBM machine, could probably dig up the specs on IBM's site. Beware, the celery you're running is most likely running a 66mhz FSB, so your memory may not run at the 100mhz FSB needed to run a faster P3.

810 chipsets went to 1ghz IIRC

Thanx guys.

Vander, actually it's running on Auto, but has 66, 100 and 133 FSB available. I found that too, MD. Problem is when you click on Product Info you get a blank page. So, I'll see if I can pick up an 800 or 900 cheap and play around.

I can't speak for your case but when I pulled the mobo out of my folks Aptiva (a 32A I think. Celeron 600, i810 mobo, etc, etc) to replace a dead CPU fan (yay for Socket A HSFs fitting Socket 370 boards!) I noticed that it was still marked with the original manufacturers (Gigabyte in this case) model numbers.

As for RAM, i810s (at least the versions with integrated graphics) forced at least 100MHz RAM speed irrespective of FSB speed due to needing reasonably fast RAM access for the onboard graphics processor IIRC.