Sharedoc wrote:So you let the last smoke out of the PIII-500. Good that the motherboard wasnot toasted.
You want't to try again 100MHzbus with the next processor?
Did you ever consider buying a MMC2-Celeron? They come with 66MHz bus, so I have understood. I have seen MMC2-Celerons up to 700MHz in eBay.
I am not totally sure if over 466MHz Celerons are with 66MHz bus, but 466 and lower are for sure with 66MHz bus.
THE 600E WORKS PERFECT WITH A MMC2 CELERON 433/66,@466/72FSB)
*THE 450 MMC2 +UP CELERONS ARE LATEST MODEL COPPERMINE SPEC WITH ENHANCED MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONS +100FSB NATIVE FSB
WITH THE FSB MOD IT RAN APPROX 490/108MGHZ +DESPITE ITS 128 CACHE ,EASILY OUTPERFORMED A DESKTOP P2 EVEN WITH 512L2 CACHE ONBOARD,THAT CPU WAS THE COOLEST RUNNING CPU I OBSERVED ON THE THINKPADS +I HONESTLY DIDN'T NOTICE ANY DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE TO THE 650 (256) CPU I TRIED
OF ALL CPUS THAT 450@490 REALLY SURPRISED ME OVERALL.
I RECKON THOSE CPUS WOULD OVERCLOCK EXTREMELY WELL.
HE HE ,I MODDED THE TUALATIN CPU +IT BOOTS AUTOMATICALLY @ 1.6 GHZ ON MY DUAL TYAN MOBO + RUNS A TREAT.
BUT NO SMP AS YET,GOT SOME 1466/256/133 ,P111 SPEC READY
+1600/256/133 ,NOW WORKING ON 1733 MGZ VERSION BUT VERY HARD TO FIND THE RIGHT CPU TO MOD.ALL THESE LEFT THE SINGLE 1.4 S FOR DEAD SO MUCH SO THAT I SOLD MY 1.4S +BOUGHT A FEW MORE CPUS TO MOD.PLENTY OF LIFE IN THE P111 INDEED