Asus P2B-S

[Guest]

I've got an original Asus P2B-S and am running a Pentium II 450Mhz on it reliably for the last two years. But its time for a faster processor. I'd like to run a Pentium !!! 800Mhz at 133, is it possible? The Bios update says it will support up to 673. I just read a post where someone indicated that the P2B-D will support up to 800Mhz. Is this possible on the P2B-S?

From looking at the board, it can not be jumpered higher than 6x and 113Mhz. Are there ways around the fact jumpers don't exist to clock it higher? Any insight would be nice, I'd hate to have to replace the board, newer P2B-S's are selling for $502.00 (canadian with taxes).

 

[jclw]

It depends on the revision of the board. It should work with P2B-S rev 1.02 or up. You must use a PIII-xxxE FC-PGA chip in an Asus S370-133 (Rev 1.01 or later) slocket. You must set the slocket voltage jumpers to 1.80 volts and the slocket bus speed to AUTO. Use the jumpers on the m/b to adjust the FSB speed for overclocking.

You can't run PIII-xxxEB chips (133MHz) for sure. You can buy a PIII-800E (which is 100MHz FSB) and o/c your board to at least 120MHz which will give you a processor speed of 960MHz.

Don't worry about the 6x multiplier because the multiplier is locked on the chip (ie: 8x for a PIII-800E).

No guarantees 'tho
- JW

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by JCLW on 01/29/01 10:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>