I have an ASUS P3B-F, what is the fastest P3 I can use?

[johnny1111]

Hello all, I hope you can help me out. I have an ASUS P3B-F mobo that needs a CPU. Does anyone know what is the fastest slot 1 or 370w/ slocket I could drop in? I would like to use a coppermine P3. What are you guys using with this motherboard? I know the BIOS was flashed less than a year ago. I am still looking for my documentation to see what board revision I have. Any input is appreciated. Thank you. -john

 

[Pikachu]

Swear to God, if you aren't running AMD, you ain't gettin' any help around here! :disgust:

Here's Intel's Core Speeds and Multipliers

P3B-F bx3f1006.zip BIOS
Support 566MHz and 850MHz CPU with clock ratio equal or greater than 8.5x

Pentium® III 850Mhz, SLOT1(SECC2) $140 is a pretty safe bet. I still think there's more bang for the buck in an overclocked Celeron 600. $60 for the CPU and slotket adapter for 900+MHz stable, with no special HS/fans, PS or memory.

 

[thermite88]

You can use any coppermine P3 in production now.

I have used the P3B-f running Celeron at 9.5 (multiplier) x 100MHz FSB with no problem.

The board supports FSB up to 150 MHz.

Currently P3 1GHz running 7.5 x 133 should work just fine.

Theoretically, it can run 9.5 x 150FSB = 1.4 GHz, but no such P3 exists.

 

[Hanpan]

Be aware however that if you run fsb speeds over 100 your agp is out of spec. This means some video cards my not function currectly.

 

[zzzz]

Sweet mobo. If you are using the Geforce version of video cards it should not be a problem.
The best is to buy P3 700, 100 fsb version and overclock to 133 fsb.

 

[AndyHui]

I recommend you run the latest BIOS, version 1008 Beta 002, as this has support for the latest steppings, cC0 and cD0 stepping Pentium IIIs.

 

[johnny1111]

Thanx for the info guys (and gals?). -john