P3 Tualatin Mobo

[PhoenixOfWater]

I looking for a mobo that will take a P3 Tualatin or a slot 1 that will run better then what i have now,
I would like to overclock my CPU more but my PCI/AGP are holding me back (PCI is run at 37.5, 150/4=37.5)

1. so its there a mobo that have 1/6 or is able to lock the PCI/AGP?
2. Is there a 370 Tualatin mobo or a slot 1 modo that takes RAMBUS or DDR ram?


Here what I have now
Asus P3C-E
P3 Tualatin 1.2GB (not 1.266) 512K "Locked ES" with a Powerleap Ver. 2.0 Run at 1.35GB (9*150)
256MB of Samsung PC800 Rambus - 40n
ATI Radeon 8500 128MB

Here my PCmark2002 score
Link

Thank you for your help

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

I think that chipset for the DDR is SiS 635T... is that right?

 

[KGB1]

You can look into a Tyan Tomcat 815 eb (socket 370) board, Tyan Baby! its really stable, I think it has some options, but it is PC133 and has integrated video. P3 really does not need DDR. How come you cant overclock well? Is your power supply sufficient??

 

[RanDum72]

It seems like you have the mobo I sold you up and running We basically have the same setup with one of my machines (P3C-LS, same as yours but has U160SCSI and LAN, 512mb Samsung PC800, PIII 1.266ghz 512k cache with powerleap v2.0, Radeon 8500 128mb retail). I also have an ECS mobo with the SiS 635 chipset (Tually ready, uses both SDRAM and DDR)and their performance is basically the same using DDR. The ECS maybe just slightly faster but its unnoticeable. I get the ff: with the ECS:

CPU: 4057
Memory: 2708
HDD score: 859

This are all at stock settings, no OC. The Asus P3C-LS roughly gets the same scores. The harddrive is a Maxtor 740DX, 40gb, 7200rpm attached to a Promise Ultra133 card. The only reason I'm using the Asus is because I have a few U160 SCSI drives coming in and I don't want to buy a SCSI card. I just sold my friends Intel OR840 (840 chipset) mobo which is dual slot 1 ( its on Powerleap's compatible list) and has a dual RDRAM bus (same as the 850). You have to use RDRAM in pairs and use CRIMM's for the empty slots. You also need to use a term card on the empty slot 1 if using only one CPU. I will have for myself shortly courtesy of my friend so I'll let you know how well it performs. The only downside is it uses 133fsb CPU's only and its picky with certain RDRAM.

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

The ECS mobo with the SiS 635 chipset..how well can you overclock on it? can you lock the PCI/AGP or have a 1/5 and can you up the FSB like the asus mobo?

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

hmm..one more thing if i overclock SDRAM to 166 would that be faster then what i have now for my MEM score? would it be faster the DDR?

 

[Binox]

cool, that would be pretty good if you can get a pci divider of 5 to run your 1.2ghz @ 1.5ghz.... with 512k cache, must be pretty fast!!

me I have the ASUS P3V4X (via 694x) with powerleap v2.0 running my celeron 1.1ghz @ 1.46ghz (boosted fsb up to 133 from 100)

it runs great, I just had to put voltage up to 1.525 instead of the default 1.475 on the adapter...
now I don't like the adapter thing, and my friend will buy it, in which case I can buy a new ASUS TUV4X which is the same board except socket 370 with native tualatin support (via 694t chipset)

just want to be sure from more then one person if the celeron will still reach the same speeds with that board. and will I have any problems adjusting the voltage to 1.525?
I heard of some bios issues on that board...

if so, should I maybe consider another board? what should I get?

 

[blackhawk]

Asus makes the TUA 266 that will take ddr or sdram and tualitans. Fairly inexpensive but getting harder to find.

 

[RanDum72]

I don't think there are any P3-based mobo that locks the the AGP/PCI ( I may be wrong so LMK if you know of one). You have to basically crank up the FSB and overclock the PCI bus along with it. As for the ECS board, there are no OC options at all other than settings for 66/66, 66/100, 100/100, 100/133, 133/133, 133/100 (FSB/memory).

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

I was hopeing the ECS mobo would be a good overclocker... Here a Link that you guys my want to look at.. it talks about the DDR chipsets for the P3. OK if there are none that lock the PCI/AGP is there any with divider of 5? or any thing better then divider of 4

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

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