p3800 vs p3933

[bKo]

i was planning to upgrade, i'm getting a be6-2 mother board from abit, and was wondering if i should get p3800 or p3933,
which one should b worth getting?

 

[Big Lar]

I have a P3 800 slot1 100mhz running on the asus P3b-f, with great cooling it runs at 1120, but I run 1064 daily, I would opt for the 800, and the be6-2 is a great board, I've had 2 of em.

 

[bKo]

i guess getting a be6-2 v2.0 would be a good idea eh?
anymore info on why i should or why shouldn't i get it?
danx late

 

[lilstevo]

if the be6 is a bx chipset board and it doesn't have a 1/2 agp divider you might be pushing your video card to the limit. If you got a great cpu like big lar running at 140fsb that would mean that you are running the agp at 90+ mhz which might not work with all video cards and also that fsb will also put stress on your pci slots. So you need either very overclock compatible parts or a motherboard that has the extra dividers for the higher FSB settings. Those will probably be teh i815e or via chipset boards.

 

[bKo]

i815e's are very high cost, i think i'm going to stick with the be6-2 bcuz its has a great cost. the i815's require rdram, which cost a G for 128mb, which sux.

anomore input on the be6-2 v2.0 & P3-800e???????

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

what video card is bKo gonna use witht he BE6-2? Some vid cards are happy with AGP2X @ 100mhz.

 

[RedRooster]

815 boards don't need RDRAM, in fact they use just regular old SDRAM.
If that's a hang up for you, I'd go with the 815, as it allows the AGP dividing options needed to overclock or run that 933 at the 133Mhz FSB.
I love the BE6-2 boards though, great boards.
If you want to try the 815E boards, get an ASUS CUSL2/CUSL2-C. For features, they're better than BX boards, however they are just a wee bit slower.

 

[m1911]

bKo:

You might want to check out this 933 MHz chip


Big Lar:

I've got a p2b-f. I know I can run a p3-700 slot 1 without problems (borrowed one for a couple of days, but never tested OC'ing because it was a retail chip and not mine). Seems you're running stable at 8*133=1064. Heard anything about the p2b-f running stable with 133 FSB, too? The p2b-f/p3b-f appear to be the same boards (same BX chipset), except the p3b-f has 6 PCI and is "p3-ready." Compatibility with the p3 and coppermine chips for p2b-f boards was achieved with bios updates.

-M