Question about an oldie

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Nico

Does ASUS P2L97-DS supports Intel Pentium III and if yes, what about the
frequency jumpers on board? Can I put a CPU that have more than 5.5 as
multiplier? OR, is there a sort of tweak I can use to make this board go
further than 100MHz FSB / 5.5 Multiplier?

Thanks

Nico
 
Nico said:
Does ASUS P2L97-DS supports Intel Pentium III and if yes, what about the
frequency jumpers on board? Can I put a CPU that have more than 5.5 as
multiplier? OR, is there a sort of tweak I can use to make this board go
further than 100MHz FSB / 5.5 Multiplier?
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I would say that you can't put a P3 chip in a P2 socket.

Download some specs from Asus here:
http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/mb_archives.htm

From that it looks like a P2 - 333Mhz or Celeron 466Mhz is the max

Adam S
 
Hmmm... I once had a aOpen board that supported both P II and P III Slot 1
(AX64 pro)... I already have a PIII 550 (100 x 5.5) and wonder if, with a
matching pair (I'll find another one on eBay), I can do something with this
ASUS motherboard.

I fear that P II will be too "Slow" for the app. I wish to use with this
Mobo. For sure I won't run Windows Server 2003 on that machine (this will
probably be a little Linux file server) but I want to hane some
responsiveness from it. I'm asking the question because I have this board
with all the SCSI kit (and it is working) and this could avoid me to buy
another board.

Thanks
 
Nico said:
Does ASUS P2L97-DS supports Intel Pentium III and if yes, what about the
frequency jumpers on board? Can I put a CPU that have more than 5.5 as
multiplier? OR, is there a sort of tweak I can use to make this board go
further than 100MHz FSB / 5.5 Multiplier?

Thanks

Nico
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The P2L97-DS only supports 66mhz front side bus which limits you to the P2
up to 333mhz or some celeron chips. I don't know what the voltage limits
are on your board but as Adam S said, it looks like a Celeron 466mhz is
your limit.

If you want to run a PIII you would need a P2B-DS for an equivilent board.
The differences being the in the chipset. All Asus P2 *L* boards are
limited to 66mhz based chips due to the 440lx chipset. The entire P(2 or 3)
*B* (P2b-f, p3b-f, p2b-s etc)run on the 440bx chipset which supports 100mhz
front side bus and allows you to run PIII chips that are not PIII EBs which
run at a 133mhz front side bus.

Chris
 
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