Pentium3 800mhz on a Asus P3B-F mb,is that possible?

[Klesk]

Hi,i have a Pentium3 500mhz actually and i want to buy a 800mhz but not sure if my Asus P3B-F will support it.Please anyone can help me before i buy a CPU that my mb maybe will not support?
Anyone is running that combo?Thanks to you all.

 

[Eug]

Get the latest BIOS, and you should be fine, assuming you get the PIII 800E, not the EB. Preferably you should have mobo rev. 1.03.

 

[SlowBones]

Klesk,

Did you get the 800? Let us know how it worked out. Did you have any reasoning behind the 800MHz vs. 700 or 750 that might overclock better?

 

[kyoshozx]

I'm running a p3 800e on the Asus P3b-f. Just make sure your motherboard revision is 1.03 or greater. The best way to check is just open up your case and on the motherboard where it says Asus P3b-f
right under you should see the revision number.

If you're planning to overclock it, just get a better heatsink the 800E should have no problem hitting 900mhz+ but if you're looking for over 1GHZ better look into some exotic cooling.