What's a good Pentium III motherboard? need reccomendation quick please..

[KameLeon]

I have to order a Pentium III motherboard for a friend in a foreign country. He doesn't want the new ones like i850, i815 or whatever. Just a regular old PIII board that costs ~$100 that'll accept a Pentium III 866. I have a athlon myself, So I have no clue what kinda boards are there for a Pentium III. He also said It must include a manual and a cdrom etc.. I guess he means a retail version? Anyways, thanks for helping

 

[bonkers325]

abit sa6 or se6 v2.1

 

[LXi]

Slot 1: Asus P3V4X
FC-PGA: MSI 815E Pro

 

[KameLeon]

Doh! I don't know what kinda processor he has..whether a Slot 1 or the FC-PGA...
Anyways, thanks for the help!
I'm gonna have to ask him..

 

[Vrangel]

Slot or socket? No problem. Tyan Trinity 400 (s1854)
has both slot and socket. Just plug in whatever P3 you have.
Very stable mobo. I overclock everything on it
and still didnt have to reformat HD in more that a year.

$84 on pricewatch, comes with printed manual.

 

[LXi]

Tyan is stable and reliable, but they overclock like grandmothers. My friend got one of those and he didnt nearly reach the speed he was running on a no name crappola board, he sold it the next day.

 

[AmdEmAll]

I have a question. Would a PIII FC-PGA work in an old Abit BE-6?? with an adapter card? I think there current bios on it lets it go up to 850mhz or so.

 

[KameLeon]

It says that the tyan trinity 400 only accepts CPU's up to 733mhz. Will his 866mhz work with it?!

 

[LXi]

VIA 133A chipset handles P3s up to 1.13GHz, with the latest BIOS it should be no problem. My suggestion is to get the Asus and buy a Slocket, in case he has FC-PGA, you use the Slocket, in case he has Slot1, you just plug it right in.

 

[oldfart]

Damn LXi, I'm shocked you didn't pimp the MSI!! I'll do it for you. Assuming the 866 is a FCPGA (socket), for $100 the MSI 815E board cant be beat.

 

[LXi]

Intel solutions dont interest me anymore, Im pimping the MSI K7T Turbo as we speak.

 

[Vrangel]

Talking about overclocking TT400.
I had c600@900 on it and currently I have c533@906.

Earlier revisions accept P3 up to 933MHz, later rev. ok with 1GHz.
I noticed that bigger PSU improves overclocking success on TT400.

EDIT
733 MHz limit is for very early rev. ,produced in 1999 which didnt support FC-PGA.
I doubt you can find one even if you wanted to.

 

[oldfart]

Crap, you did pimp that board! I missed the post way up there. Anyway, for $100 that is the one to get.