Best place to get 700Mhz -> 933Mhz PIII's

[Fun Guy]

Going to get a 700Mhz P3 soon, though I don't want to pay extra to get a pre-tested chip. Do most 700's still run up to 933? Where would be the best place to get one of these at a good price? Anything I need to be thinking about as I shop for one?

 

[bannor11]

I got 2 from GoogleGear a couple weeks ago and both overclock to at least 933 with decent cooling (never tried oc'ing with stock fans). It's only $185 for retail version and Fed-ex 2 day shipping puts you to about $200 shipped. If you're planning to overclock, be prepared to spend a few extra bucks for a good motherboard (ASUS, Abit), good RAM if you're going over 133fsb, case with good airflow, and of course a good cpu heatsink/fan (GORB, Alpha) for cooling. The Alpha FC-PAL35 is a very good setup with the ASUS CUSL2 m/b for that CPU in my opinion.

 

[Stallion]

I got a pre-tested 700@933 from Compuwiz1 along with a MSI slocket and Gorb. A pre-tested one might be more but I have seen people post who can't get there 700E past 115FSB. You could get lucky like bannor11 did though.

 

[thermite88]

I second everything that bannor11 said about Googlegear, MB, RAM, case and HSF.

I got a P3-700 from Googlegear two weeks ago. It oc to 980 MHz at default vcore voltage on Asus P3V4X (VIA) and P3B-F (BX). The Alpha FCPAL-35t keeps the CPU temperature about 3 deg F lower than the Golden Orb, but the Gorb is definitely more than adequate.

 

[Khabel]

Whats the addy for the compuwiz1 site please?

Thanks

 

[snoogans]

thermite, what are your settings to OC that high? If my chip will do that w/ default voltage, I'll be a happy man

 

[MoneyMINTR]

I second googlegear, it's cheap and their CPU's are pretty good at getting 933MHz.

BTW, someone emailed me asking about a good place to buy P3 700Es. Sorry, I lost your email. Anyway, think of this as my reply.

-MM

 

[Stallion]

Khabel, you can mail him at compuwiz@owt.com or his site is http://www.compuwiz-tech.com

 

[Stallion]

Oops

 

[PliotronX]

Got me a little gem from Googlegear.. 933 at 1.65v.

 

[thermite88]

<< I got a P3-700 from Googlegear two weeks ago. It oc to 980 MHz at default vcore voltage on Asus P3V4X (VIA) and P3B-F (BX). >>



snoogans, the setup can consistently complete booting W2K. But I did not say that it will run stable 100% of the time. High quality ram is paramount to the success. Mosel Vitellic runs more stable than Apacer/Infineon or KingMax at 140MHz FSB, CAS2. At 133FSB, it is much less critical. Everything can run rock stable.

 

[masterskartrg]

i too got mine from googlegear but the sucess of getting 933 out of it is more of luck.if i were you compuwiz1 or bonkers got some nice pretested ones

 

[Blord]

Bought 2 OEM P3-700E ( SL3XX ), one from Costa Rica and one from Filipines.

Both can reach 933Mhz at 1.85V ( 1.75 will do but 1.85 is better for stability )

Blord

 

[android]

I've bought 4 cpus over the past few months. The first two, Malaysian cb0's were great, they went up to 933 at stock volts. The second two, from Phillipines were terrible. They wouldn't go past 868 at any voltage. (And that was hard to get them stable.) Unless you want to play the fleabay if they don't overclock game, I'd also suggest paying a little more for pretested and guaranteed cpus.

As another option consider the new Celeron 633, which most people (including myself) are overclocking to 950 to 975 with little difficulty. For around $80, you can't beat it.

 

Compuwiz1s mail addy is down.
Any other way of contacting?
Cant get my pretested 700 to hit 933 reliably
=\

 

[Linh]

I just got mine from ac micro for ~$178. Been cracking rc5 for 3 straight days now at 945mhz and 1.7v

 

[Fun Guy]

Hey Linh - what the S-Spec# and batch code on your proc?

 

[Linh]

It's an SL3XX. I've already attached the Gorb, so I don't wanna take it off to look at batch code.