Best PIII for older Slot 1 BX boards?

[Zach]

I need to upgrade some systems running older slot 1 BX boards, one's some sort of QDI, the other an Abit BX6-R2. I don't know if the websites just haven't been updated, or if the PIII 600 (100Mhz FSB) is best. Help?

 

[GFORCE100]

If it can take Coppermine Pentium III then the 1000E (1Ghz) chip is for you. Remember about the 100MHz variety.

 

[Boogak]

Probably a 700 for ~$100 or a 750 for ~$115 would fit the bill.

 

[NeMeSi]

I have yet to see a BX QDI board take anymore then a 600E Mhz. Slot 1 Pentium III. You, definitly, have to flash the bios before you attempt it.

 

[Helznicht]

What de H377 was I thinking, totally ignore the whole post below. the BX6 will take up to 1ghz, just make sure the cpu is the 100fsb variety and you flash the latest MB bios.


Depends on which BX motherboard (brand and model)

Almost all all will take up to a 600 P3 (2.0V version) (like a P6SBA SuperMicro made before 12-98)

Or go up to the 1ghz (100FSB)(1.65V) Cu-mine P3s officially (P6SBA after 12-98)

Or some will work unofficially like my Abit BH6 (web and tech says NO, but no-one is having trouble getting them to work. Mine detected my P3 750 and the proper voltage right off the bat.

So give us some MB details and we will try to help ya.



😱

 

[ziggie]

If i remember (har-har), the abit bh6 has 66/100 fsb limit so coppermine is out. multiplier and core voltage shouldn't be thou.

CU8er
ZiGGie

 

[Helznicht]

The BH6 will go all the way to 133fsb. 66 to 133 in about 14 steps.

Although anything over 100 starts to overclock your AGP and PCI devices.

That said ziggie, there several Comermine P3s that run on 100fsb including the 600, 700, 750, 800 and 1ghz(now these are hard to find).
I run a 750 cmine on my rev 1.0 BH6 as we speak.

 

[sadb0i]

700E

 

[Kwad Guy]

If your board can support Coppermine processors, the sweet
spot right now is the PIII 750Mhz / 100Mhz FSB processor, which
can be purchased as a slot 1, OEM configuration for $100 from
GoogleGear (and a bit less elsewhere).

If your board can support any Coppermines (depends on both
the VRMs on the board and on the BIOS), then it will likely
run with all Coppermine 100Mhz FSB processors...

Kwad

 

[Davegod75]

what about a bx133-raid mobo...what will that support?