8x multiplier on an ASUS P3B-F?

[Painman]

Hi everyone, long time no post I see some familiar names with some very large post counts next to them...

Anyway, I'm trying to help my sis squeeze a little more life out of her ancient P3-450 box; it has the P3B-F and a big 'ol .25u CPU stuck in its slot. My idea is to give her my GF2 GTS, get a socketed 800E and put it on an MSI 6905 slocket adapter that I have, but before I go hunting for a CPU I need to know which multipliers the board can handle with its latest BIOS. I'd rather leave the board in use to keep this upgrade on the cheap for my sister's sake. Do any of you remember? Thanks in advance.

P.S. Wish me luck with my 1.8A rig. Coming soon!

 

[KingDog]

I am using a P3-1100 with mine and the last bios 1008 (beta). 11x100.
I think that you might have issues running at 133 bus speed, as board only officially supports 100 fsb w/o
taking the pci/agp speed out of spec, but I am sure many have been successful at fsb speeds over 100.

 

[Painman]

Cool, looks like I'm in business. I'm not going to be overclocking this box BTW, so 133 FSB won't be an issue. (Lord knows I spend enough time playing tech support for my family as it is, lol.) I'm just going to give the machine a 'lil kick in the pants to buy my sister some more time with it.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Sophia]

You can also use Celerons up to 1.1 plain (not 1.1A) with the same bios update. These will keep you in spec (also 11x100) and should be cheaper ($65-70 retail on pricewatch) and not as "few and far between" as the high end p3/100 fsp cpus.

You might have some luck selling your old cpu on ebay. A good number of slot 1 450s seem to be selling at $40-$50.

 

[Painman]

Good tips... I confess I haven't been looking at CPU prices much in the past months, I didn't know cellies could be had that easily. I was figuring on picking up a used 800E somewhere, but a new chip sounds far more appealing.

P.S. I was planning on adding the 450 to my retired hardware Hall of Fame after bolting it to my 5-pound Alpha P3125.