Need info on ASUS CUV4X-DLS CPU support

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Th3_uN1Qu3
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Hey all, i have one of those coming in the mail: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/asuscuv4xdls/

My system right now looks like this: Gigabyte 6BXDS, dual 1.4GHz Tualatins (unfortunately running at 1.05GHz as the board is capped to 100 FSB) on modded MSI 6905 Master slotkets, 4x 256MB CL2 SDRAM, vmodded Radeon 9800 Pro VIVO 256MB, Sil 3112A PCI SATA card + WD 320GB, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, Realtek network card, Lite-On DVD burner and Creative AWE64 ISA soundcard. All displayed on a huge IBM P275. :mrgreen:

The 100FSB limitation was starting to bug me so i thought about retiring this system. I have a somewhat high-end C2D at home and two midrange gaming laptops, but this PIII is what i have at my grandparents' place and for what it's used here it's fine. I've been tweaking at 'er for the past few years and it's STILL not completed, so i'd rather get the best out of her rather than just get a new one. A computer with a personality, you know. :) And i happened to read about this VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset... So of course, fully adjustable FSB AND asynchronous FSB/RAM, an AGP 4x slot (HD4650 anyone???) and support for 4GB of memory means that i'll be keeping the Tualatins around for 5 more years... of course when i found one of those boards for sale in my country i immediately said i'll buy it.

Now, here's the biggie. The board does NOT officially support Tualatin processors. It says it's Coppermine up to 1000MHz (yeah right, that's why it supports up to 166 FSB)... There's also no ISA slot so i'll lose the AWE64, but it's got onboard LAN so i'll be able to free up one PCI slot for a PCI soundcard. The thought of a BIOS mod does not scare me at all, but i'm afraid that if indeed it is made for Coppermine only it may require hardware mods. Now, my two Tualatin processors have mods soldered to them and insulated pins as to work with the 6905 slotkets, so my first thought is to simply drop the modded CPUs in and hope for the best. If that doesn't work, i'm honestly afraid to undo the mods, especially as i actually broke one pin off one of the Tualatins when i modded them (luckily it's one of the pins that needed to be insulated for them to work in the Coppermine slotkets). I actually ripped it clean off the ceramic so no way getting it back there.

The seller also has a pair of 1Gig Coppermines but i decided against buying those as well. I know the 1000s were crap clockers, and i bought the board mostly for running the Tualatins at their full potential, as i can play the recent titles on my laptop so the Radeon 9800 Pro is good enough for this rig. Buying a new board that does the same thing as the old one would kinda suck, so it's 1.4GHz or bust.

So, awaiting opinions on this. It should be in the mail in 3-4 days... The seller said i can test it before i send him the money, and to simply mail the board back to him if it doesn't work with my CPUs, as long as i don't break it that is. He's a nice guy alright. :)
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http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpus ... uct=1&os=4

no tualatins in sight... you will have to use FCPGA2 adapters I think so be prepared to fiddle with your heatsink as well...
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FCPGA2 adapters? Bah, i think that's the last thing one can find here. My heatsinks are fine, thanks. But, if it's just the FCPGA2 chip in FCPGA board thing, then the mods i have already done to the processors so as to work with the MS6905 slotkets should be enough and enable the CPUs to work without any sort of adapter.
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meh, just relaying what I found elsewhere, if you use those this board is reported to run fine with 1.4s
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Th3_uN1Qu3
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edwin wrote:meh, just relaying what I found elsewhere, if you use those this board is reported to run fine with 1.4s
That's encouraging. By their looks the adapters are WAY too thin to incorporate any VRM circuitry so they probably do what i already did to my CPUs. Anyway, the seller has informed me that he has sent the board and it should arrive in a couple days.
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there's nothing fancy about tualatin support for anything that is Slot1 or Socket 370. i used to mod those PPGA only boards (with 100MHz FSB at least ofcourse) for FCPGA. quite simple (only 2 pins removed from the socket and one short) and yet effective. those 100MHz FCPGA P3s even ran with 1,3v.

you can find a quite exhaustive explanation here!
If you email me include [WIMSBIOS] in the subject.
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Erm, i knew that site already, as i said, i currently run a pair of modded MS6905 slotkets. :P In my case, i also had to solder a pull-up resistor to the CPUs themselves. THAT is what i'm most afraid about, i mean, honestly, i'm kinda afraid to even pull the CPUs out of the slotkets.

I'll swap the "tops" of the sockets from the slotkets to the new board, as they already have the needed holes enlarged (for insulation to fit, i didn't fancy painting the pins or anything), and a place for those resistors. The resistors are regular size as i didn't have any SMD parts on hand at that time, so i did need to cut away some of the plastic on the top of the socket for them to fit flush when the CPUs are installed in the sockets. I don't have "Tualerons" but the real deal, the 1.4Gig 512k cache ones.
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Well anyway... The board has arrived, it works, i even managed to get the same windows install to boot with it... Now i just need a new soundcard. :D Pix coming tomorrow, i took them while installing the thing, but right now i've been drinking way too much to manage to find the camea to download em.
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