1.3 GHZ PIII?

[Agentbolt]

Thanks for all the awesome info, guys.

Just wanted to chime in, this laptop is hardly warming up at all even when ripping MP3s. The CPU appears to run quite cool.

 

[Ultralight]

I am still running a Tualatin 1.2 in my P3 rig and it is as steady as the day I booted it for the first time.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea i had a cumine i overclocked long ago. still the rest of the components were dog slow..atleast for todays standards. its in an old system i don't use anymore, everything in xp is slow as sh*t.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Captante

around 1.2ghz to 1.4ghz, I believe the p3 started having overheating problems.

My 1.4ghz Tualatin ran very cool ... in fact the HS never even gets warm to the touch in an old Acer mid-tower case with marginal cooling & the 1.2ghz chip I sold off worked fine with a tiny 1/4 inch high HS & low-rpm fan... as I recall the AT review of these chips concluded that passive-cooling was a very viable option.

My 550Mhz PIII running at 769Mhz only hits 32C at full load with its little nugget heatsink. I could run it passively if i could get an SI-97 on it. But alas, I use a slotket.

 

[PhlashFoto]

I had a dual P3 coppermine 1GHz/100MHz FSB system with 1 GB of ram a few years back. Sandra showed it being equal to a P4 2.4GHz.

I have a server with 2x P3-S tualatin 1.4GHz/133MHz FSB, 4GB REG/ECC RAM and 2TB of HDD. I haven't benchmarked it but it sure flies. Maybe someday I'll bench that one. I am thinking it should be equal to a P4 2.8GHz. But since they use SSE2/3 with the new versions of Sandra, it wouldn't be fully comparable to the old setup with an eariler Sandra.

Heh, thinking of all this just made me realized why I am not impressed with these new dual core cpus, since I have built and been using dual cpu systems since around 1994/5. Though I am very much looking forward to lower prices on the quad core Intel cpus.

 

[Techno Pride]

My first DIY rig was a Celeron 1.2@1.5GHz. I paired it up with an FX5800. heh.

 

[GFORCE100]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: piasabird
The Tulatin Core PIII's on the desktop had 512kb L2 Cache

Not quite true. Here are the various Tualatins:

100MHz FSB 256k cache = Celeron
133MHz FSB 256k cache = Pentium III
133MHz FSB 512k cache = Pentium III-S

The two different Pentium III chips overlapped on some and not on other clock speeds. The III-S version was intended for servers and supported SMP (dual CPU). The normal P-III did not support SMP.

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
If I remember correctly, the Pentium 3 was actually better at the same clockspeed. The Pentium M was based on the Pentium 3.

It was loosely based on the P3, and the Core 2 Duo was loosely based on the Pentium M.

well partially correct. normal p3s did support dual configuartion up to 1GHz, after the tualatins - 1.13, 1.26 & 1.4Ghz - had the 256k and 512k version and at that point only the 512k versions were smp capable.

so the early p3s like the 733s, 850s, 933s and 1Ghzs could be setup in a dual skt 370 m/b with no issues whatsoever

True but only for the CB0 and later revisions. The CA2 revision wasn't SMP certified.

 

[Blain]

All this talk about P3's in SMP is getting me jacked up to build one...
OLD SCHOOL :thumbsup::laugh: