P III Tualatin 1.4

[LesMan]

I got a deal on a PIII Tualatin 1.4 and I want to use it in a server. Seems few boards support the 512 cache of this processor. Any recommendations for a stable board would be appreciated. I want to avoid the 815 chipset as I will have over 512 MB of RAM.

Thanks
Les

 

[Crashman]

I'll sell you an Abit BH6 for $35 plus shipping. It supports my Celeron 1.1GHz at 1466MHz, it should have no problem supporting the PIII 1.4. It also supports 512k Cache, as that's what most PII's came with. You'll need a Slot 1 to Tualatin converter for it, available for $20 from the american distributor for Upgradeware.

Oh, back to the question: I'd recommend a BX chipset board, maybe even a nicer one than mine. You could get a BE6-II v2.0 or BX133-RAID, for example. They support 256MB/slot, can't remember weather that board was 3 or 4 slots though.

Of course you could use that Tualatin adapter on an i840 slot1 board, with RDRAM.

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[LesMan]

I had a ASUS TUV4X board, which ASUS stated would not support this processor, tried it anyway and it works fine. Posted speed is 1400 and WCPUID recognizes the 512 cache. Go figure?

Thanks anyways
Les

 

[snotling]

many server boards will give you satisfaction... think of using a bi-processor board with a dummy they'll cost you but you'll get what you paid for. the i815 is not that bad either.

 

[Crashman]

It might work to some extent, but it's still using a crap chipset which can't compare to the BX.

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