And into the realm of . . Slot 1?!?!
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:11 am
All,
Hey, well, looky what I acquired...
I wasn't that impressed at first . . a P-II system with a 333MHz chip.
No biggie, but might make something nice to have lying around.
Motherboard is a Tekram P6B40-A4X Rev 1.01.... alas it doesn't have the "manual override of FSB" jumper that the later versions have to force a 66MHz FSB CPU to run at 100MHz FSB, so the system autodetects.
However, the BIOS lets you overclock, and for CPUs with a base 100MHz FSB, will go as high as 133MHz.
Now here's where it gets weird: the latest manual seems to imply that it will support P-II and P-III procs that use a 133MHz FSB base.
However, an email to tech support says that it's been too long outdated for them to have any info. BUT . . they say someone's used a 733 successfully.
However, other information on their own site seems to indicate that if you use a CPU with 133MHz FSB, that the system will be overclocked.
I was trying to figure out what would happen if I did plug in an Intel CPU that uses the 133MHz FSB. Would it run the PCI and AGP normally? Would I have to use the BIOS to set it to 133? Would the PCI and AGP be running way over spec?
ARrrgh!! No solid answers that I've been able to find with all my googling....
So I've resigned myself to using whatever I can get with 100MHz FSB.
But, what are my options? Tekram's website says it'll support CPUs up to 700MHz, or even possibly 800MHz.
All well and good . . but would I get more bang for the buck going with a slocket? Maybe getting something over 1GHz?
I suppose I should finish tinkering with that Athlon Slot A system before I delve into this Slot 1 computer, but the Slot 1 system is at least working.....
(I should probably also get to work on a certain project car in my garage before browsing the classifieds for another one too...)
Hey, well, looky what I acquired...
I wasn't that impressed at first . . a P-II system with a 333MHz chip.
No biggie, but might make something nice to have lying around.
Motherboard is a Tekram P6B40-A4X Rev 1.01.... alas it doesn't have the "manual override of FSB" jumper that the later versions have to force a 66MHz FSB CPU to run at 100MHz FSB, so the system autodetects.
However, the BIOS lets you overclock, and for CPUs with a base 100MHz FSB, will go as high as 133MHz.
Now here's where it gets weird: the latest manual seems to imply that it will support P-II and P-III procs that use a 133MHz FSB base.
However, an email to tech support says that it's been too long outdated for them to have any info. BUT . . they say someone's used a 733 successfully.
However, other information on their own site seems to indicate that if you use a CPU with 133MHz FSB, that the system will be overclocked.
I was trying to figure out what would happen if I did plug in an Intel CPU that uses the 133MHz FSB. Would it run the PCI and AGP normally? Would I have to use the BIOS to set it to 133? Would the PCI and AGP be running way over spec?
ARrrgh!! No solid answers that I've been able to find with all my googling....
So I've resigned myself to using whatever I can get with 100MHz FSB.
But, what are my options? Tekram's website says it'll support CPUs up to 700MHz, or even possibly 800MHz.
All well and good . . but would I get more bang for the buck going with a slocket? Maybe getting something over 1GHz?
I suppose I should finish tinkering with that Athlon Slot A system before I delve into this Slot 1 computer, but the Slot 1 system is at least working.....
(I should probably also get to work on a certain project car in my garage before browsing the classifieds for another one too...)