Question: Is it possible to run a 800EB at 100Mhz?

[elvisAteMySandwich]

The PIII 800EB is expecting a system bus at 133Mhz. Would I be able to run this at 100Mhz instead?

So far researching on the Internet, it doesn't look promising. But I wanted the knowledgeable people on Anand's boards to tell me for sure.

Thanks,

 

[billw]

you can run it at the 100 FSB but then you would only be running the chip at 600mhz... doh!

 

[jsbush]

Yeah it would run at 600mhz. The multiplyer is locked thats why. So the 800eb (133mhz) the multiplyer is locked a 6x and the 800e (100mhz) the multiplyer is locked at 8x.

 

[elvisAteMySandwich]

Doh :Q is absolutely right! Is that because of the multiplier?

 

[billw]

yep, it's because the multiplier is locked.... and to this day, nobody has found a way around it (intel not included)