I have an old Asus p2b. A friend of mine has a few retail P3's he wants to get rid of at a fair price. My p2b will support a 133mhz fsb. Can I swap in a P3 slot 1 in place of my P2 slot 1? He has an 1100 sitting there, and I'd just love to speed up "Old Reliable"

Running at 66Mhz in a 400Mhz world.

From memory there is no such thing as a 1100MHz PIII, are you sure it isn't a 1133MHz? Anyway, from memory all PIII 1133's used the Tualatin core with a 370pin PPGA2 layout. Assuming you are just getting the chip, you will need a Slot 1 to Socket 370 PPGA converted, then you will need a PPGA to PPGA2 converter. I have seen this work before, but we only had success with 440BX chipset based boards.

Adam

Hi Adam, Oldsystem

I came up with these for slot 1:

Pentium III 1133EB 1133Mhz 133Mhz Coppermine
Pentium III 1100E 1100Mhz 100Mhz Coppermine

but I have no idea if either would work on that board.

Skip

Hey Skip

Have you got a link? Come to think of it, I recall seeing something about PIII's over 1GHz with a coppermine core, but they were recalled soon after their release. The coppermine core simply couldn't handle speeds above 1GHz.

Adam

You have to find out if the board supports it. P2 Slot 1 runs on 2volt, and the PIII Coppermine is 1.75 and Tualutin is 1.475.

As for multi and speed, at worst it goes to the lower setting. I don't think your board support 133 FSB.

If you use a slot 1 converter, it has a VRM on it so you can set the voltage accordingly, the only reason you cannot use a Tualatin on one of these converters is because the pin layout is slightly different, another way Intel tried to shaft its customers.

Adam

Hey Adam,

Yeah, I use this list.

http://computing.net/cpus/wwwboard/forum/9058.html

Skip

Hey Skip

I figured thats where you would have found it. Should have looked there myself.

Adam

I do have the bios update to support the coppermine v.1012. and he has 4 or 5 of them ranging from the 600's up to 1133. Maybe I shouldn't mess with it, But I have the Tim the toolman Tailor disease "MORE POWER"

Running at 66Mhz in a 400Mhz world.

Try this link http://www.asus.com/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx it is from the ASUS site it will give you a detailed list of what can and can't be used as well as what MB revision and what BIOS revision are required. Also try http://www.powerleap.com/ there maybe be a Tualatin core solution that will work in you application they even have a software tool to test your system and and give you a product list