Got a PIII 700 from Onvia. It was shipped from PA and is a cb0 - SL45Y Malay. Set it to 933 and it booted fine right into Windows at default voltage. No lockups on post or registry errors or freezes getting into Windows. I could immediately that I wasn't going to have to tweak the voltage much at all if any. After about a half hour of general surfing, email etc., Windows locked. Icreased the voltage to 1.7 and all is fine. 3DMark 2000 came in at 6802, aboout 350 points higher than with my PIII600e@800. I looped Q3 demo001, quaver and nv15demo for a half each with no problems.
Sweet so far. You know when you can just tell you got a good one? That's how I feel given that I had to almost nothing. Also as most of you know, more times than not after you run a brand new chip for a while with increased voltage, you can usually turn it down a notch in a month or so. Another good sign here is that my PIII 600e@800 ran at a cool 34C, which I was very happy with. This 700@933 is at 27C and this is with Radio Shack thermal compound on my orb.
Anyway, thought I would post this info for those thinking about the PIII 700.
LJ
Sweet so far. You know when you can just tell you got a good one? That's how I feel given that I had to almost nothing. Also as most of you know, more times than not after you run a brand new chip for a while with increased voltage, you can usually turn it down a notch in a month or so. Another good sign here is that my PIII 600e@800 ran at a cool 34C, which I was very happy with. This 700@933 is at 27C and this is with Radio Shack thermal compound on my orb.
Anyway, thought I would post this info for those thinking about the PIII 700.
LJ
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