Spudly,
I have three P3B-F based systems with PIII chips (ALL "E" chips).
My 600E has TNT2 based Elsa board in it. It was originally a gaming system, but was relegated to the business platform when I upgraded the gamer. Along with the Elsa graphics card, there's an old ISA adaptec 1520B in one of the 2 ISA slots controlling three SCSI II devices: a Toshiba 40x CD-ROM, a 100MB zip drive, and a 300dpi UMAX scanner with the transparency adapter. There's also an Tekram UW SCSIIII adapter DC390F in there supporting the 30Gb IBM 7200 rpm 'half height' HD (and a 4.5Gb Quantum VikingII UW7200rpm HD). Sound is provided by an Ensoniq AudioPCI card, and the modem is a Trendnet 560PCI. A Linksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card and RAM is three PC100 chips (64MB each) purchased a couple of years ago from thechipmerchant (walked in and picked it up at the San Diego store when I lived there).
You should know that even though this computer has two SCSI cards, I am running the 600E chip at 800MHz. It is 100% stable. I have some cheap generic slotket in there (no core voltage options), but all I had to do to allow this O/C setting of 133MHz FSB was to switch the system power jumper from 3.5Volts (default) to 3.65Volts.
Look in your manual. It is J20. Don't worry about the TNT card, it is OK at 88MHz AGP. If it is a PCI TNT2 (did they make 'em ?), don't worry.. the PCI is 33MHZ at this setting.
Give it a try... move the jumper over to 3.65.. set your CPU External Frequency Selection (page 18) to the 133/33 jumper settings, and hit the switch.
You'll get an INSTANT 33% PERFORMANCE INCREASE !! Not to mention overclocked AGP TNT 2 graphics !!! Awesome.
Sweet chip, these PIII600Es !
Oh, my 700E (gamer) runs 980MHz (7x140FSB !!), and I've got an 800E at work that is running 8x120=960MHz. Had to up the voltage to 2.05 (core) to make the 800E do that !
Have fun !!
I have three P3B-F based systems with PIII chips (ALL "E" chips).
My 600E has TNT2 based Elsa board in it. It was originally a gaming system, but was relegated to the business platform when I upgraded the gamer. Along with the Elsa graphics card, there's an old ISA adaptec 1520B in one of the 2 ISA slots controlling three SCSI II devices: a Toshiba 40x CD-ROM, a 100MB zip drive, and a 300dpi UMAX scanner with the transparency adapter. There's also an Tekram UW SCSIIII adapter DC390F in there supporting the 30Gb IBM 7200 rpm 'half height' HD (and a 4.5Gb Quantum VikingII UW7200rpm HD). Sound is provided by an Ensoniq AudioPCI card, and the modem is a Trendnet 560PCI. A Linksys 10/100 PCI ethernet card and RAM is three PC100 chips (64MB each) purchased a couple of years ago from thechipmerchant (walked in and picked it up at the San Diego store when I lived there).
You should know that even though this computer has two SCSI cards, I am running the 600E chip at 800MHz. It is 100% stable. I have some cheap generic slotket in there (no core voltage options), but all I had to do to allow this O/C setting of 133MHz FSB was to switch the system power jumper from 3.5Volts (default) to 3.65Volts.
Look in your manual. It is J20. Don't worry about the TNT card, it is OK at 88MHz AGP. If it is a PCI TNT2 (did they make 'em ?), don't worry.. the PCI is 33MHZ at this setting.
Give it a try... move the jumper over to 3.65.. set your CPU External Frequency Selection (page 18) to the 133/33 jumper settings, and hit the switch.
You'll get an INSTANT 33% PERFORMANCE INCREASE !! Not to mention overclocked AGP TNT 2 graphics !!! Awesome.
Sweet chip, these PIII600Es !
Oh, my 700E (gamer) runs 980MHz (7x140FSB !!), and I've got an 800E at work that is running 8x120=960MHz. Had to up the voltage to 2.05 (core) to make the 800E do that !
Have fun !!
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