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PIII 550E

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Alphacowboy

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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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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!
 
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?
 
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!

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