P!! 333.....

Have a p!! 333. 66mhz bus.
Heard they OC well.
Need a BX board to work with.
What would be a good cheap solution?
Is there any board with 1Mhz increment changes for FSB?
Help a brotha put togeather a old box.

 

[paulip88]

With any sort of luck, you might be able to run it at 100FSB no prob. Of course the above solution works much better for the PII 300s.

 

[Plester]

the best bang for your buck would be an Abit BF6 (under $100), it has the 1mhz increments, and is about as optimized and fast as a bx based board can be. it is, however, an Abit, and thus a roll of the dice. if you get a good one, and i did, they are fantastic boards, but many of the pros(eg. russ,johnny guru) around here don't even deal in them due to high RMA rates. otherwise, a SOYO 6BA+IV or MSI MS-6163Pro are also in the $90 range and are excellent BX boards. i helped a bud who had a noname P2 333/BX system, and wanted to upgrade. moved a 66/100 jumper, and it fired up at 500/2v with the weak retail intel cooling on it. been running there for 6 months now. i'm sure in a good board the chip has more to give. have fun.

 

[oldfart]

double post

 

[oldfart]

There were 2 different PII 333's. The early ones were NOT LOCKED!, the later ones were. Put it on a good BX board of your choice (I like Asus P3B-F). If its the non locked one, you should be able to run 4 x 100 easily @ 2.0V. You may be able to squeak out 4.5 x 100 @ 2.1V or so if you are lucky. If not, 4 x 105 or so. You will have to play around with the settings. If its one of the locked ones, you are stuck at 5x multiplier. If so, I'd say 5 x 75 is a good bet. I dont like 83 bus speed. PCI bus is too far out of spec. 5 x 100 is a real stretch. Plester, damn you got a good one!

 

Cool, thanks for the input.
Now I gotta figure what I want to buy.
A used board that is known to work would probably be best.
Dont really want to spend too much money,
Just to toss togeather another number cruncher box, mabey a proxy.

 

[Plester]

go grab a used BH6 for 50 clams.