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Good evening,

Just got a P3BF rev.1.03.
I flashed it to the latest bios with Tualatin support.
Now running a PIII 600 on it.
What can (may) I expect in term of stability/performance with a
Tualatin 1.1 on a Slot-T with a stick of 256 PC133 memory ?

The PIII 600 is running fine now at 4.5 X 133.

Thank you
 
Bolooser11 said:
Good evening,

Just got a P3BF rev.1.03.
I flashed it to the latest bios with Tualatin support.
Now running a PIII 600 on it.
Click to expand...

Since you say it's a FSB133 part, is this a PIII-600B or PIII-600EB? The
former would be the hot-running and somewhat slower Katmai.
What can (may) I expect in term of stability/performance with a
Tualatin 1.1 on a Slot-T with a stick of 256 PC133 memory ?
Click to expand...

That 1.1 GHz Tualatin should run fine at least at the 124/31 setting
(1364 MHz is manageable by almost any Tualatin), with no stability
problems. Depending on what exactly the current CPU is, the CPU/memory
subsystem should become a good bit faster (remember the Tualatin Celeron
equals a Coppermine PIII at the same FSB and core clock), something
between around 50 and (rarely, e.g. for MP3 encoding) up to 100% or a
bit more. Should overall system performance still not be satisfying,
upgrade the storage subsystem. (E.g. Promise Ultra100TX2 with current
BIOS and U133TX2 drivers, plus, let's say, a 160 gig Deskstar 7K250 with
8 megs of cache.) An occasional game is not out of the question either,
given the graphics card is speedy enough. (I prefer silence and thus use
Radeon 9000 cards, from Sapphire. For more advanced gaming needs,
anything up to the level of a GF4TI4200 would be worth it. Too bad that
Radeon 9600s do not work in the old BX irons.)

Stephan
 
Stephan Grossklass a écrit :
Bolooser11 schrieb:




Since you say it's a FSB133 part, is this a PIII-600B or PIII-600EB? The
former would be the hot-running and somewhat slower Katmai.




That 1.1 GHz Tualatin should run fine at least at the 124/31 setting
(1364 MHz is manageable by almost any Tualatin), with no stability
problems. Depending on what exactly the current CPU is, the CPU/memory
subsystem should become a good bit faster (remember the Tualatin Celeron
equals a Coppermine PIII at the same FSB and core clock), something
between around 50 and (rarely, e.g. for MP3 encoding) up to 100% or a
bit more. Should overall system performance still not be satisfying,
upgrade the storage subsystem. (E.g. Promise Ultra100TX2 with current
BIOS and U133TX2 drivers, plus, let's say, a 160 gig Deskstar 7K250 with
8 megs of cache.) An occasional game is not out of the question either,
given the graphics card is speedy enough. (I prefer silence and thus use
Radeon 9000 cards, from Sapphire. For more advanced gaming needs,
anything up to the level of a GF4TI4200 would be worth it. Too bad that
Radeon 9600s do not work in the old BX irons.)

Stephan
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ok thanks for your reply. I'll put the Tualatin in tomorrow and
try to bring it up step by step.
As there is some 133 memory in there 124 should be ok.
Have a nice week end
 
Doesn't a Tualatin need a special Tualatin slotket to work on the P3BF??
Those aren't cheap? Thanks ahead.

Michael
 
p3bf does not support 1ghx+ cpu...however, that does not mean you
cannot set it manually...


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