Pentium III FCPGA

[Guest]

Can someone please help me? I have a pentium III 667Mhz FCPGA with 133 FSB, what will happen if I run this with PC100 SDRAM. My board does not support 133 system bus.

 

[SoulReaper]

It will run at 100mhz bus, if at all. I wouldn't try to overclock ur bus either. u'll end up buying a new motherboard. ;o)

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[Guest]

hmm,
yeah, you're cpu will simply run at 100 mhz system bus, thus not using the full speed of the processor. You'll have to buy a new MB. I recomend the Asus P3V4 or P3V133, they're not that expensive and they can support 100 Mhz SDRAM with 133 Mhz FSB ( A unique feature of the VIA apollo chipset). So you won't have to buy new ram.

I got the P3V133 MB from ASUS, it's running a PIII650@100 now at 910@140 with 100 mhz SDRAM.

Godim

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice guys, you've confirmed what I thought, but I didn't know about the asus boards. I think I will try one.
By the way do you happen to know if they a slot or a socket, and if they are slot are the converter cards stable?

 

[Guest]

They're both slot-1 motherboards. I don't know anything about the p3v133 but I've had a slot-1 550E running fine in my kid's p3v4x at 803 MHz. for months. The p3v4x has a newer VIA chipset, at least according to ASUS' web site. This is a bit of a controversial board. I don't know how well a slocket works in one, but <A HREF="http://www.overclockers.com.au" target="_new">http://www.overclockers.com.au</A> have a formum devoted to this board.

Asus also have a cuv4x, a socket 370 board that's supposed to be pretty good, though I've not used it. My personal practice is to avoid slockets becasue I don't want to add something else that could go wrong. I might have to change that, though, when I upgrade as the 370 Pentiums are becoming more abundant...esp. the new stepping CPUs.

Mike