Does anyone know PowerLeap PL 370/T ?

[Atropos]

Hi there,

i'm new to this forum.
I found a bp6 at eBay and I hope it'll arrive tomorrow ...
The one I got is already equipped with 2 433MHz Celi CPUs.

After browsing this forum a bit I understand that there's no way
for SMP with other CPU than Celi1 without modding the board.

Then I found a PowerLeap PL370/T adapter - and I wonder if
this adapter will help doing SMP with dual PIII FCPGA ....
A quick search at powerleap.com told me that there's a PL - Neo/T and
a PL -370/SMP .... which one should support SMP.

So the PL370/T seems to be a mixed name from these two adapters?
Does anyone know the mentioned adapter and can tell me / us if
one will be able to run dual PIII using this adapter ?
(I'm aware of that FSB will still be limited to 100 - 110 MHz even if the
adapter propperly translates PPGA to FCPGA1.)

Thanx for any help,

Atropos

[phaedrus]

You want the Neo 370S, this is the original socket 370 adaptors. The Neo 370S translates a PPGA socket on the mobo into an FCPGA1 socket. The others you mention go from FCPGA1 on the motherboard to FCPGA2 (so you can put Tualatine CPU into a mobo designed for a Coppermine CPU, where what you're trying to do is put a Coppermine into a Celeron1 board).

The Neo 370S requires minor modification to get working with SMP, but you should be able to get it stable at 100MHz FSB.

Again, as best as anyone here knows, no one makes a socket adaptor that correctly translates the BP6 sockets from PPGA to FCPGA.

Jeff

[hyperspace]

At one point in time, we talked about "stacking" the PL -370/SMP on top of the NEO, to see if this would do SMP with newer processors. No one tried this configuration.

[BCN]

what works is upgradeware GU370 on top of neo370S if you wanna tualatinway, but you'll need to mod the board a bit and neos

[Atropos]

Well, doing the sandwich-thing
with the NEOs will probably to the trick.
But at the time I can't get my hands on a NEO adapter.

Maybe I'll find a pair of them some day ...

Thanx for your replies,

Atropos

[phaedrus]

Well, doing the sandwich-thing
with the NEOs will probably to the trick.
But at the time I can't get my hands on a NEO adapter.

You only need to do the sandwich thing if you're going with tualatines. If you just want to use coppermines (PIIIs up to 1 GHz), then you just want the Neo 370S.

Maybe I'll find a pair of them some day ...

Ebay. I got mine off of Ebay. There's only one over there right now (and it's attached to a processor), but some might pop up later.

You could also contact Friendtech, the guys who make them. I haven't had much luck with their email form, but I was asking technical questions about their BP6 mod. They might be more responsive if you're trying to throw money at them.

Jeff

[Atropos]

Thanx for your answer and the link.

Maybe I'll contact friendtech sometimes later.
At first I'll try eBay - but I guess there have not been a large number
of S370s sold in Germany.

Bye,
Atropos

Ps.: At the time I have a VP6 dual 833 and a BP6 dual celi 533.
That's why modding the BP6 is not the most important thing for me atm.
So I can take some time to get the S370s