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And into the realm of . . Slot 1?!?!

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:11 am
by His Royal Majesty King V
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However, an email to tech support says that it's been too long outdated for them to have any info.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...)

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:29 pm
by georgep1
The Tekram you have is a 440BX chipset motherboard. So there is no way at 133 MHz FSB the AGP bus will run in spec. However, most later BX boards had PCI dividers that allowed the PCI slots to run at 33 MHz at that FSB. Some video cards could handle the AGP overclock and some couldn't.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:08 pm
by His Royal Majesty King V
Ahh . . gotcha.

So even though *some* BX boards may have incorporated a 1/4 PCI divider for 133FSB usage, the AGP *always* used a 2/3 divider, so any FSB over 100 would overclock the AGP.

Well, that and my board's definitely one of the earlier ones.....

Thanks for the info.

Now to figure out what the best processor upgrade I can do for it on the cheap would be.....

...

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:58 pm
by jsc1973.
A BX board with a usable 133 MHz bus setting will run the AGP at 89 MHz. Most cards can handle that, or at least they could in the heyday of BX133, but some can't.

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:35 am
by Wiggy
An Nvidia of the era would be fine. (or newer)

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:54 am
by His Royal Majesty King V
Could be . . but I think I'll stick with a 100MHz FSB chip . . I don't want to get a chip that's meant to run at 133, then find out that the board documentation, which seems to have some odd quirks, isn't all that accurate.

I could always crank it up in small increments from 100MHz FSB though, if the need for that much speed hits me.

Then again, I've been living happily in my 500MHz Socket 7 world all this time, so how fast do I really need? Hah! Famous last words!!

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:10 pm
by Guest
I have that motherboard (p6b40-a4x) but i donĀ“t know how to change the FSB... could you help me please?

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:00 am
by Jim
King is temporarily incommunicado. He has recently moved, on a temporary basis because his old place was sold, and his new one is not yet finished building. Expect him back some time in December.