Where have all the Slot 1 MB gone

[Jim123]

Long time looking, Hello, I've been looking for a slot 1 motherboard to upgrade from an Asus P3B-F.
So far all I can find is the Tyan Trinity 400, anyone know where the other slot 1 motherboards are hiding, did everyone get rid of there slot one cpus.

What I'm looking to do is reuse a PIII 700MHz 100bus cpu, and 512MB of PC133 DIMM RAM, but upgrade to AGP 4X, and maybe to ATA100 would be nice to, with a little bit more upgrade possibilities to.

The reason is I got that PIII 700 about two years ago and paid alot for it, so much it has to die before I stop using it.

What do you guys suggest?

Thanks

 

[jaybittle]

Jim,

Try looking for the Asus P3V4X mobo.. I built a system around it about 3 years ago, and it still runs today.. It is an awesome motherboard, and runs just like a champ..

cheers,
--jb

 

[AndyHui]

Nothing wrong with the P3B-F....it's still a top class board.

AGP4X doesn't bring much additional performance over AGP2X; PC133 RAM works fine and you can always add a PCI ATA100 Controller card.

 

[oldfart]

What Andy said.

 

[girish]

you have a very good prized piece, the Pentium-III 700/100! It can be pretty easily overclocked to 933 MHz without much effort by simply switching the FSB to 133 MHz! Of course, you have to do it step-by-step to ensure proper voltages are applied and how far it could be overclocked with stock settings.

You also have a very good mobo in the P3B-F, AGP4X wont make much difference. You can buy a external ATA/100 or ATA/133 or even a ATA/100 RAID controller for as low as $30~70 to use larger and faster hard disks.

I dont see any reason for you to upgrade, if you do want to change your parts, how about sending them over to me? I stay in India and hope you wont charge me much for that!

If you do want to upgrade, get the whole rig upgraded, with a newer processor, board and a AGP card!

girish

 

[Jim123]

Thanks everyone, OK I'll stick with what I have, I do have a PCI ATA100 controller card at work within the system, it was the AGP2X over the AGP4X mostly, I have a new GeForse3 card in it and I'm not sure I'm getting the best out of it.

Where can I get info on overclocking the PII 700?

Again Thank you, everyone.

Jim

 

[FatMan42]

Jim, try the Overclockers.com CPU database. I'm in the same situation - I just got a second-hand P3-700E that I'm gonna try and run at 930MHz. It looks like you'll probably need 1.70 or 1.75 v to stabilise at 930. Let us know...

 

[mattyrug]

<< you have a very good prized piece, the Pentium-III 700/100! It can be pretty easily overclocked to 933 MHz without much effort by simply switching the FSB to 133 MHz! Of course, you have to do it step-by-step to ensure proper voltages are applied and how far it could be overclocked with stock settings.

You also have a very good mobo in the P3B-F, AGP4X wont make much difference. You can buy a external ATA/100 or ATA/133 or even a ATA/100 RAID controller for as low as $30~70 to use larger and faster hard disks.

I dont see any reason for you to upgrade, if you do want to change your parts, how about sending them over to me? I stay in India and hope you wont charge me much for that!

If you do want to upgrade, get the whole rig upgraded, with a newer processor, board and a AGP card!

girish >>



I pretty much have the EXACT same setup as mentioned. Promise ATA-100 Card, Dual Head Matrox just went in there! It's a GREAT performer! Played many a game of Need for Speed Porsche, and some Madden 2k1 w/ a Radeon LE, (gone for a Matrox Dual-Head, now)It's a dual boot setup w/win98/2k I use the win98 setup as a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and it works great, and most of all is STABLE! The BX Chipset has a lot of throughput on the PCI Bus as well. I can get about 30 Tracks of Audio w/ Reverb and EQ Plugins on each track w/an Adaptec 2940UW card, and a 4 Gig Seagate Barracuda. Like I said it's stable and the PIII700 on an IWill SlocketII easily goes to 933 just by upping the FSB to 133. It dosen't even seem like overclocking! My Celeron 533 easily hit 992, and for a while at stock voltage, although I think I just got a 'lucky' chip, 'cause it did the same on my i815 setup!