Will a ABIT BX6-Rev2 board run a Pentium III 667EB?

[bmchenry]

I have an ABIT BX6-R2 mobo and I was wondering if it would handle a PIII 667EB with the 133MHz FSB. I will be using a Voodoo3 3000 so that should handle it, but will everything else be ok? Thanks in advance for any responses.

 

[Ulysses]

Generally you don't use a P3 designed for the 133 MHz system bus, like a 667, in a BX board which officially is designed for a 100 MHz bus. You pro'ly should get a P3 for the 100 MHz bus and overclock it as best as you can.

Look up your board at the Abit site and get the latest BIOS if needed and pick a P3 that BIOS supports and that fits your budget.

 

[Tripleshot]

bmchenry
with the bios revisions,your cpu will be detected correctly and run fine at that speed.The bios resets the fsb and agp at 133,however,i think agp is still out of spec at 133 as it is a 2/3 step,not 1/2 as in a via board.Abit has released the BX133(i have 2 of them coming now).That leads me to believe bios will support the chip.

Forwarned,This is speculation.I run all my intel PC133 cpus on Via boards.I know they work there.

 

[NOS440]

Only problem you may have with doing that is your video card the AGP will be running at 89mhz which is way out of spec. there are many Video cards that will run at those insane speeds like the geforces do well at that speed. I have my 600E running at 800 mhz as we speak with a geforce with no problem on a BX6 rev. 2