PIII 550E

[Alphacowboy]

I have the PIII 550E Slot1 (system in sigature) What is the max I can get this sucker? I have had it at 733 for months with no problems (I am also using a 3 fan heat sink with a peltier cooler plate) Any ideas?

 

[oldfart]

I'm also running 550e @ 733 (flip chip). 1.6V, bone stock heatsink and fan. WIth that setup, I would think you should be able to get it higher.

 

[ForeverSilky]

Maybe 825 if you're lucky.

 

[Windogg]

I built my brother a 550E system that is also doing 733Mhz with the stock heatsink @ default voltage. Since you have a peltier, crank the sucker as high as the memory/AGP/PCI bus can stay stable.

Windogg

 

[BuckMaster]

I had my P3-550@825MHZ running on Windows 98SE for 5 months stable. Muskin 128MB PC 133. CPU Fan Arctic Circle CPU Cooler. I just installed Win 2000 so I only have it at 766MHZ i beleive now. I took it back down before installing Win2000 just to be safe. But i will go back up to 825MHZ in the next few days. I just want to make sure it stays stable first. But it shouldnt be a problem for me going back up. With the right cooling and Hardware it can be done!

 

[Alphacowboy]

So do you think I should dump my 512MB PC100(4x128MB) and go with a single 256MB PC133 and see what she does or just stay at 733MHz with 512MB?

 

[BuckMaster]

Alphacowboy,

It all depends on you. 256MB of Ram is more then enought if you want to try and get more MHZ@FSB speeds out of your CPU. Is it worth trying to get another 100MHZ out of that CPU and looseing 256 MB of ram to you? Its a hard decision, but its one you'll have to make If you want try going to 766MHZ and with all your ram in. If stays stable for a few days try alittle more.

Good Luck!

 

[Wik]

Wow 512 is alot of ram. I can see using that much for a large server but man for a home machine?

 

[Alphacowboy]

512 is awesome when working with Adobe PhotoShop

 

[Dark4ng3l]

keep the 512 mb and leave the cpu at 733. You could also try to get the bus a bit higher with that ram and see if it works. I would not drop 512megs of ram and get 256megs of pc-133 just to o/c my cpu a bit more.