Upgrading soon. is P3-700E and Asus P3V4X the way to go?

[DO97]

I been reading through some older posts and it seems to me that a P3-700E and an Asus P3V4X is the way to go for overclocking and stability. Is this true? Is this setup similiar to the classic Celeron 300A/Abit BH-6 combo? Remember that guys? hehe

Anyway, is the P3-700E a Coppermine? All I know is that it runs at 100Mhz fsb by default and has a 7.0 clock multiplier.

Any help would be great. Sorry if this topic has been covered many times, I've been out of the loop lately in terms of all of Intel's new stuff. Thanks


dave

 

[alchemist]

If you can wait a few months or at least till august, go for the duron and asus mb or tbird. It looks like that will give you the best oc and future expansion. It should cost the same as going the p3 route with a new mb.

 

DO97: That's the combo I am going for to replace my 300a/BH6. I had a 600E on order that never came because supplies are drying up. With a 700E and a P3V4X I am hoping for 931Mhz.

The 700E is a Coppermine and it runs on a 100Mhz bus. Lot's of people have had success at 133FSB. Some people have hit 1Ghz+ with radical cooling.

 

[sleepdragon]

yeah...i have both celeron 566 that can do 850 and p3 600e that does 800+...p3 is faster...especially in 3d games...

 

[dakost]

dwell
Asus has changed the memory clock chips on the P3V4X. Read all about it here ... http://www.overclockers.com/
So make sure you get one of the older boards to have 32 fsb instead of 16 fsb settings !
Moreover, there have been many reports that 700e oc as high as 140 fsb, but also many reports that they don't even get to 133 fsb. So
if you want to be sure, get a pretested cpu.

 

[snow patrol]

Pretested 700e's, sure to run at 933Mhz and above:

http://cheapchips.virtualave.net/index.htm

 

[alchemist]

if you go duron, or tbird, you have more options in the future, and have a better platform to work with IMHO

 

[lifeguard1999]

The newer P3V4Xs come with a Winbond PLL-IC which has 16 FSBs -- 66 (1/2), 75 (1/2), 83 (1/2), 100 (1/3), 103 (1/3), 105 (1/3), 110 (1/3), 112 (1/3), 115 (1/3), 120 (1/3), 124 (1/3), 124 (1/4), 133 (1/3), 133 (1/4), 140 (1/4), 150 (1/4).

Meanwhile, the older ICS PLL-IC has 32 FSBs -- 66 (1/2), 68 (1/2), 75 (1/2), 80 (1/2), 83 (1/2), 85 (1/3), 90 (1/3), 95 (1/3), 100 (1/3), 103 (1/3), 105 (1/3), 109 (1/3), 112 (1/3), 114 (1/3), 115 (1/3), 118 (1/3), 120 (1/3), 124 (1/4), 126 (1/4), 129 (1/4), 135 (1/4), 133 (1/4), 138 (1/4), 140 (1/4), 141 (1/4), 143 (1/4), 145 (1/4), 147 (1/4), 150 (1/4), 154 (1/4), 160 (1/4), 166 (1/4).

Rumor has it that if it's a Winbond chip (W83195R-08), then it is supported by SoftFSB. I have not checked it out though.

The ICS chip with its 32 FSB speeds is not supported by SoftFSB. However, the ICS chip IS supported by CPUCool which can also adjust the FSB from windows just like SoftFSB.

I do have an older verion ASUS P3V4X which runs great. It gets up to 146 MHz FSB with no cooling on the ICS chip. I have yet to try it with serious cooling on the clock generator (I stuck a fan on it and got 148 MHz ... but that was not serious testing).

 

[Blain]

The SOYO, 6VCA & 7VCA both have got great reviews. I'm running the "6" right now, it's great. About the only limiting factor is the 10% core voltage cap. But still, 10% puts it around 1.8v. That should be high enough for just about all but the most extreme overclocking. This thing boots like lightning too!

Yadda, yadda, yadda...
Slot 1,
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/sy-6vca/sy-6vca-1.html
Socket 370,
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/mainboards/soyo/7vca/7vca_p1.html