[NTLUG:Discuss] Slot(1 or A) adaptors??[was: Req Foropinions:Overclocking K6-3 400Mhz]

[Dan Carlson]

I'm not aware of any products that will do what you want.

The only "slocket" boards I've seen take a Socket 370 CPU and allow it to
plug into a Slot 1 system board.  This is possible because the Slot 1 and
Socket 370 interfaces are basically the same interface logically and
electrically, just with different physical form factors.

The K6-3 has a Socket 7 interface that is quite different logically and
electrically than the Slot A interface used by the Athlon.  While it might
be possible to produce a board that would do what you describe, it is hard
to see what the advantage of it would be.  It would have a relatively high
price because the volume would be low and it would have to contain a fair
amount of active logic.

One of the best uses of the existing slocket boards is to take a couple $50
400 MHz Celerons overclocked to 500 MHz, a couple $20 slocket boards, and
put them in a $200 dual-processor Slot 1 system board.  It is hard to beat
the price / performance of that system.

In one of my systems I'm running a 400 MHz Celeron overclocked to 500 MHz
using an IWill slocket board in a single-processor Slot 1 system board.  It
works great for me and has been 100% stable.

Dan Carlson

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Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slot(1 or A) adaptors??[was: Req
Foropinions:Overclocking K6-3 400Mhz]


> when browsing at fry's I saw adaptor boards for soket 7 cpus,
> I think it was 7 and not 370 .....hmmm
> I did not notice if they had them foe slot A boards
> Any one tried them?....how well do they work?
>
> The Idea is to buy a Athlon board and a k6-3
>
> good idea...bad idea
>
> what ya think?>
>
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