[citation][nom]mitch074[/nom]@MU_Engineer: the 440BX started with Slot 1 CPUs (PII) and ended with Socket370 ones (PIII) - starting at 266 MHz and ending up at one GHz (except some very limited samples that could reach 2 GHz - a friend of mine ended up with one through military contacts, and you couldn't get much better at the time than his 2 GHz PIII - I know, I couldn't believe it either until I saw it).The reason I say 440BX ran like a champ, is that when the i815 came out (it was a PIII chipset), it actually had worse RAM performance than the BX! I'm not kidding, THG's benchmarks of the time are still online - it shows i815 beating the BX only on those cases where an AGP 4X interface was required not to bottleneck the GPU...And, yes, the Rambus thingie was a debacle; I dare say that, had Intel not entered that deal with Rambus, AMD would probably not raised from the boonies of IT so much (regardless of how good the K7 was, the truth is that Rambus cost an arm and poor students had to buy their GHz machines somewhere...)[/citation]
What you're saying isn't really true. The 440BX was not for 266 MHz Pentium III, although, if you were stupid you could buy one and use it that way. The 440LX was used for the 66 MHz parts, and when Intel came out with the 100 MHz bus, they came out with the 440BX which supported it.
The Pentium III never ran at 2 GHz. The last model was 1.4 GHz, and without a lot of effort you could get it to 1.6 GHz. But, most importantly, the 440BX did not support these processors anyway. Tualatins were only supported on the updated 815, the Apollo Pro 133T, and Apollo Pro 266T. There were also some ServerWorks chipsets, which had excellent memory performance (using SDRAM), but had too many problems with AGP to be useful outside of the server environment.
The fastest processor Intel released for the 440BX was at 1.1 GHz. Try tried a 1.13 Coppermine, but it was withdrawn. As I mentioned, the Tualatins after that were not supported by the 440 BX, and could not be used without adapters.
Of course there were dual processor 440BX, but the i840 ate them up with two processors instead of one. The 440GX was generally used for dual processor motherboards, also.
What you're saying isn't really true. The 440BX was not for 266 MHz Pentium III, although, if you were stupid you could buy one and use it that way. The 440LX was used for the 66 MHz parts, and when Intel came out with the 100 MHz bus, they came out with the 440BX which supported it.
The Pentium III never ran at 2 GHz. The last model was 1.4 GHz, and without a lot of effort you could get it to 1.6 GHz. But, most importantly, the 440BX did not support these processors anyway. Tualatins were only supported on the updated 815, the Apollo Pro 133T, and Apollo Pro 266T. There were also some ServerWorks chipsets, which had excellent memory performance (using SDRAM), but had too many problems with AGP to be useful outside of the server environment.
The fastest processor Intel released for the 440BX was at 1.1 GHz. Try tried a 1.13 Coppermine, but it was withdrawn. As I mentioned, the Tualatins after that were not supported by the 440 BX, and could not be used without adapters.
Of course there were dual processor 440BX, but the i840 ate them up with two processors instead of one. The 440GX was generally used for dual processor motherboards, also.
Some games still can't be played maxed out.
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