don't ya just luv it when...

[DuRaNgO]

I just ordered a P-III 450 (which will be running much higher ) and a Max (ditto) on monday, boy I feel good right now!
P.S. P-III cost $179 USD, Max slightly more
P.S.S. anyone know a good cooler for the P-III?
jim

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PII-350mhz @ 450, Abit BH6 mobo, 128mb pc-100, Mill G200 8mb sgram @ 210 with MGATweak) PD 5.25, IBM 8.4 gb hdd, SB Live!, winblows 98se, DX6.1, THREE BIG FANS, four little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!



[This message has been edited by DuRaNgO (edited 09-22-1999).]

[Jorden]

Coolers?? Hmm, got mine a TennMax P3 TF (twin fans) For SECC 2 ... do plug in the P3 firmly or it flies through the room

No, not OC'ing, btw.

Jorden.

[cjolley]

Hi DuRaNgO,
Where did you find the P3 450 @ $179?
Sounds good to me
chuck


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ABit BH6 w/ Celery 333@500, 128mb gh@cas2, 10gb IBM@7200, SB Live Value@????, noname CDRom@40x, Mitsumi CDRW@2x2x8, Zoom@56k, Princeton EO75@1024x768x32x85hz, Matrox G400 MAX!!!!

[DuRaNgO]

Thanks Jorden, I'm using the Tennmax type on my g200 right now and has worked great.

Cjolley, I've got a distributor here in Nashua, NH, I'll get his web page & post it!
jim

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PII-350mhz @ 450, Abit BH6 mobo, 128mb pc-100, Mill G200 8mb sgram @ 210 with MGATweak) PD 5.25, IBM 8.4 gb hdd, SB Live!, winblows 98se, DX6.1, THREE BIG FANS, four little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!

[Zypher]

*cough* copper plated alpha 125 *cough*

Make sure your mobo has clearance. Check Hardocp, overclockers.com and the like to find out about it, and more important, where to buy. Around $50 with the two fans. The god of coolers, if you discount the ones that require lots of end user trouble, and possibly some mad skillz with tools: water pumpinbg/immersion/peltier cascade/pretty much anything on japanese 'oc websites etc etc...

[DuRaNgO]

now we're talking, arr arr arr
can you say L2 shims
jim

[Mark F]

cjolley- BUY.COM has them retail boxed for $178. Got mine from them.

Haven't pushed it past 560 because I don't want to risk MAX at higher AGP speeds. Useing Tennmax P3TF.

Mark F.


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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[DuRaNgO]

hey mark,
what do you have for a mobo?
I've the BH6
jim

[Mark F]

AOpen AX6BC, not one of the newer ones (Pro or Gold) with VCore adjustments, Just good old 2.0V. They tend to be very stable and don't have too many problems dividing up the IRQ's on all 5PCI slots, like some boards are known to.

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[DuRaNgO]

any other BH6+g400+P-III 450 owners with good fishing stories would be greatly appreciated
jim

[DuRaNgO]

UPDATE:
well got my P-III 500, yes 500! my distributor couldn't locate any 450's so he got me the 500 for a measely $20 bucks more!
After running the Abit BE6 mobo, Maxtor 13.2gb ultra ata 66 hdd, and P-III 500 at stock speeds for a day (to load that crap back onto my hdd ) I went into Frankenstein mode

Step 1: tear that silly black cover off the P-III
Step 2: attach the Tennmax P3TF cooler to the chip side of the P-III
Step 3: use small slices (about 3/8") of a Papermate pen as spacers for the back side of the P-III
Step 4: attach a carefully chosen heatsink found on an old 486 mobo (about 3/4" x 3/4" square) to the BACK side of the P-III chip with a little frag tape
Step 5: attach a Tennmax Stealth cooler to the rear heatsink with two fabricated aluminum clamps
Step 6: reinstall P-III!
booted system up at 5x124(620) rock solid for 24 hours! running Q2 loop!
the supplied thermistor (I think thats what they call it) from the BE6 mobo, connected directly on the Tennmax heatsink shows a temp of 93* F
next step: wait for PC-133 to be affordable
also, after having wierd lock-ups at stock speeds, I moved the sblive from the 5th slot to the 3rd slot and BAM! went away! (irqs I guess)
now all I need is the Max to arive!
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620!, Abit BE6 mobo, 128mb pc-100, Mill G200(still!!!) 8mb sgram @ 210 with MGATweak) PD 5.25, Maxtor 13.2 gb udma66 hdd, SB Live!, winblows 98se, DX7, THREE BIG FANS, six little ones and a case that sounds like a turbine engine...doh!

[tish beta2]

Where did you order the Max from? is it on it's way?

I have an asus p2b-ds and p3 450@504 (x2) and the Max. Anyone here know if the p2b can get any higher Fsb speeds than 112? I've heard somewhere 133 is possible, but not how!

my Max won't go any higher than 154mhz core. damn. how about you (when you get it)?

I had a water-cooler with my old P2 266@333, but the pump was too noisy! I will probably use it with my dual setup if I find a more silent pump...! Anyone know of any small handpumps? damn, the CPU was chiller than the ram

[motub]

Tish, the new revision Asus P2B-boards can go higher than 112FSB. Sounds like you got stuck with the same as I am..

Jorden, alone again

[Grimace]

I also have the P2B-DS with 2 PIII 450@504. I heard that only newer plain P2Bs support the 133 FSB. I got my board in February so it's not that old. Also, I just built another P2B-DS machine for work in August and it didn 't support the higher FSB speed.

[Maggi]

yep, from P2B series rev. 1.10 onwards Asus supports more frequencies and divider settings.

The only sad point is that I never saw a Dual board with that kind of revision

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Cheerio,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH