CPU update for a P2B!!!!!!(maggi any advise)

[alessandro]

I've got £900 to spend in and system update and i need advise.
From what i see my mobo highest cpu is the PIII600Mhz so i need a new mobo!
For the money i'm willing to pay what is the best update i can do???????
It's either a new Asus mobo(VIA Apollo PRO 133A or a 820i) or (i can't believe i say that) i'm considering to BUY a AMD mobo(k7 ).
For processor either Piii800Mhz or AMD Athlon 800Mhz!!!
Any advise please

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[Wombat]

I have to buy a new system ASAP, so I'm building an Athlon system with a MSI-6167 motherboard.
However, I'd wait about 4-6 weeks if I could. The new generation of Athlon motherboards will be out. They will support AGP 4x, and a 133Mhz FSB speed.

[alessandro]

But the AThlon is supposed to work at 200Mhz bus speed so a 200Mhz bus speed Mobo is a good thing!

[Wombat]

I'm sorry, but you're a bit confused. The Athlon runs on the EV6 bus, which allows different speeds. The processor has a 200Mhz bus interface, but the FSB is still 100Mhz. This means the RAM communicates at 100Mhz. The 133Mhz bus is a big improvement over that.

[alessandro]

Wombat,
I don't know anything about AMD processors and i'm just now reading infos about the Athlon cpu for the first time..so i'm speculating when i talk about Athlons

[alessandro]

My problem is that like many out there that want to buy or upgrade there system i don't know what to do any more (heavily confused)
What i sould buy : slot 1 or the new slot FC-PGA .....buy AMD or Intel ....and if i stay to intel as i did 15 years now sould i buy a 820i mobo ..but this fuc*ing RAMBUS prices are not for me.for a 800Mhz K7 the new ASUS K7M is the BEST mobo right now but the price of the 800Mhz Athtlon is not for me either(extremly expensive).
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
Anyway i sould buy the new Playstation 2 and wait for the linux port of 3dStudioMAX to be used with the sony machine

[Maggi]

mmmh ... sweet ... quite some money to spend



Hi Alessandro,

I surely cannot help you out on Athlon based systems, but I'm sure that Greebe could give you a hand on that.

What I would recommend on the Intel side are the following components:

- Asus P3C series using the Intel 820 chipset
(http://www.asuscom.de/Products/Motherboard/slot1.html)

- Slot 1 Coppermine P3 600E for 100MHz FSB with 256KB fullspeed L2 cache
(http://www.asuscom.de/Products/Techref/Cpu/Coppermine/index.html)

- some PC133 SDRAM

- decent cooling (big heatsinks and a few fans)



The chances are pretty good that you can run the CPU above 100MHz FSB, which give you quite a good bang for the buck.
<FONT SIZE=1>dare I say it ? ... 133.3 x 6 = 800 ...<FONT SIZE=2>



Of course there's no guarantee, but if I had the money, I'd do it tomorrow.


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Cheerio,
Maggi

Home rig:
Celeron333A @ 500MHz
Asus P2B-S @ 100MHz FSB
2x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox G400 @ 150/200MHz core/mem clock
Pioneer S303 DVD
... and some other goodies ...

[DentyCracker]

If I had that money I'd buy MSI6167 and one of them Eclipse'd Athlons that Greebe makes, and o'c the hell out of it hehe

[birdy]

I know what id do with 900 quid.

Abit BF6 motherboard
Promise ata 66 Ide Raid Controller
2 13.5gb IBM ata 66 7200rpm Hard drives with 2mb cache
2 Stick pc133 128mb ram

then i would sell what you already have and then buy the fastest chip i could afford (or get a retail box 450 and clock the B******)
With overclocking you are looking at 600mhz,256mb,27GB (132mbs burst 33mbs sequential speed) and some change to buy dvds with.

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[paulcs]

Of course, you could flash your BIOS to 1010 or higher, buy a Coppermine that runs on the 100 MHz FSB, and put off the big upgrade for a while. I think you need Rev. 1.12 of the P2B or higher.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[agallag]

The processor has a 200Mhz bus interface, but the FSB is still 100Mhz.

Actually, FSB refers to the speed that the processor talks to the motherboard (more specifically the "north bridge", the AMD-751 system controller). The FSB is in fact 200MHz on Athlon systems. The memory bus communicates with the north bridge at 100MHz, requiring only PC100 SDRAM, so you're mostly right

The new athlon mobos will support a 133MHz ram interface (PC133), but it will still have a 200MHz FSB.

[This message has been edited by agallag (edited 04 January 2000).]

[Wombat]

Thanks, I thought I might have had my terms a little messed up.

[alessandro]

Page 103 in ZD PC Magazine US edition December 1 says the following:
<<The AMD 750 ("IronGate")chip set,used in all of today's Athlon systems, doesn't support a 133-MHz bus(throught a 200-MHz bus is in the works)or 4X AGP....>>
Just adding something

[alessandro]

Page 103 in ZD PC Magazine US edition December 1 says the following:
->The AMD 750 ("IronGate")chip set,used in all of today's Athlon systems, doesn't support a 133-MHz bus(throught a 200-MHz bus is in the works)or 4X AGP....
Just adding something

[alessandro]

I comfused!!!!
Is it possible to use a PIII800Mhz/100Mhz bus with my P2b yes or no??????