Pentium III SL3JM or SL43E

[Sultan]

how do i determine which Pentium III model number will fit in my motherboard? I have a Intel 440 BX. So which is it, SL43E or SL3JM???

PLEASE let me know asap.

A for the first who answers it

 

[rogue1979]

First you have to know if your motherboard supports a 133MHz fsb processor. The Pentium III FCPGA Coppermine comes in both a 100MHz (very rare) or the more common 133MHz fsb version.

If you do not have a cpu purchased already, forget the 1GHz PIII. Get a socket T converter and pruchase a 1200-1400MHz Celeron Tualatin and save a bunch of money. It will still have 256k of L2 cache and with data prefetch will be faster clock for clock than a Coppermine (of course 1000MHz is the fastest Coppermine P3).

If your motherboard and ram support a 133MHz fsb you could actually get a 1GHz or 1.1GHz and use a 133MHz fsb to overclock it to 1333-1466MHz.

 

[IamTHEsnake]

good old P3s. I'm running a P3 - 733 @ 825MHz.


Where has all the good P6 architecture gone....

 

[Sultan]

Originally posted by: rogue1979
First you have to know if your motherboard supports a 133MHz fsb processor. The Pentium III FCPGA Coppermine comes in both a 100MHz (very rare) or the more common 133MHz fsb version.

If you do not have a cpu purchased already, forget the 1GHz PIII. Get a socket T converter and pruchase a 1200-1400MHz Celeron Tualatin and save a bunch of money. It will still have 256k of L2 cache and with data prefetch will be faster clock for clock than a Coppermine (of course 1000MHz is the fastest Coppermine P3).

If your motherboard and ram support a 133MHz fsb you could actually get a 1GHz or 1.1GHz and use a 133MHz fsb to overclock it to 1333-1466MHz.

I have a 100MHz FSP. What processor will go with that?

here's a link to my systems manual Link (pdf). I have the one with 100MHz and 3 DIMM slots

 

[Spikesoldier]

get a socket T converter and a 1.4GHz tualatin powered celeron, its your best choice. and also upgrade to 512MB of ram if you have not already.

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
get a socket T converter and a 1.4GHz tualatin powered celeron, its your best choice. and also upgrade to 512MB of ram if you have not already.

what he said

 

[techwanabe]

I bought a Tualatin 1.0A and put it on an ABIT ST6 mobo, and set the FSB to 1.33 to get 1.34 Ghz - runs like a champ and pretty cool too. I slightly better thing would be the 1.1 at 133 FSB for a 1.46 Ghz CPU.