ASUS P3C2000 New Bios available

[Guyver]

Don't know much about, cepting that it's out there...

Been playing around with this mobo for a while and I like it, it may not be quite as fast, but it has a lot of nice "features" and options...

You can increase the front-side and run the memory at full FSB or a fraction of the FSB (not sure what the ratio is right now - I think it's 3/4 of the FSB). You can set CAS/RAS all 3 steps, it offers almost every other step on frequencies (similiar to the BE6-II and BF6), and has the auto-reboot if you set it too high...

I went ahead and ordered a PIII-650E as I've seen a lot of people having good luck with it OC'ing way past 133FSB...

Will keep you all posted...

Guyv

[Mark F]

Were did you find a 650 CuMine? I've been looking. Figuered I had to wait for Intel's fire sale next month

Mark F.

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[Guyver]

www.googlegear.com

Intel Part # BX80526U650256E which according to Intel's site is a Pentium III-650 with a .18 micron core and 256K cache (it may not be ATC, but I'm not certain)

Price including 2nd day fed-ex was about $440 USD...

Guyv.

[Mark F]

Thanks for the link. Will you let me know if/when you get the CPU?

I expect you will get about the same top speed out of it, as your 700. But at a better (higher) FSB. 133+

Mark F.

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[Mark F]

Just saw this OH OH:

Big problems with i820 & i840...again

The trouble arose when Intel's 820 and 840 chip sets, which were designed to take advantage of speedier Rambus memory, RDRAM, were configured to work with SDRAM.
According to Intel, memory errors may result from the combined use of the memory-repeater hub (known as MRH-S), which is used to translate native RDRAM support to SDRAM, and ECC (error correction coding).

Intel said it believes few customers will be affected since most 820 and 840 chip set customers using ECC, commonly in workstation and servers, are likely to have gone with Rambus memory for greater performance.

However, customers seeking a lower-cost server or workstation solution may have elected to go with less-expensive SDRAM over RDRAM in order to get the highest amount of memory for their money.......

If the problem is actually tied to just the memory-translation hub, it could spell big trouble for Intel, said Mike Feibus, principal analyst at Mercury Research in Scottsdale, Ariz.

"We're predicting that more than half of the 840 chip sets that will ship this quarter will be configured with SDRAM," Feibus said. "So if there's trouble with the memory translator, that could pose major problems for Intel."

A spokesman for Dell Computer Corp. said the company has avoided packaging SDRAM with 820 and 840 chip sets after it became aware of the problem a couple of weeks ago.

Big problems with i820 & i840...again

From:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/...440675,00.html

HMMM might have some relavence to your 'timeing' problems.

Mark F.



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[Guyver]

Mark,

Got the PIII-650 - It is coppermine, it does have ATC, and I am currently running it at 900Mhz (138FSB) - Woo Hoo!!!!!

Guyver

Still working on tweaking settings...

[Mark F]

What's ATC?

So they realy did have them in stock! Cool, I'll have mine soon then.

900 WOW!!!!

Go Guyver!!

Mark F.



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[Guyver]

ATC - Advanced Transfer Cache...

Fancy way of saying On Die, Full CPU Speed cache - there may be some other benefits, but that's what I know of...

Thanks,

Guyv!