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

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KameLeon

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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 🙂
 
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..
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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