Hello, Just had a thought. I wonder if socket 370 boards with LinuxBIOS (i810) would support Tualatin (FC-PGA2) processors as long as the FSB was compatable. You would probibly need a FC-PGA to FC-PGA2 converter because of the voltage differences, but this would allow much faster processors, up to 1.4Ghz :-)
Thanks - Joe
Quoting popkonserve popkonserve@gmx.de:
most boards are incompatible because intel chose a different pinout for fcpga-ii cpus on purpose. a hardware modification (or an expensive adapter) is needed to run a tualatin cpu on such boards. the cpu voltage is one of the minor problems. anyway, we should support all processors and their microcode updates. the processor support in general needs some rework as most cpus are completely unsupported. the generic functions are mostly useless and only control general parameters (if anything at all). Holger
I beg to differ Holger, I have bought these on ebay cheap, and they work just fine on boards that support them.
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-370-CPU-Celeron-3-Converter-Socket-for-Tualatin_W0QQ...
Here is one for 15$
Thanks - Joe