What is most overclockable PIII?

[Guest]

I am building a new comp and have an ABIT VP6 dual board and was wonderin what the best processor speed is most overclockable? I have seen in posts that the 733eb with cCO stepping would be the best because of its high multiplier that would allow it to clock much higher with minimal fsb jumping. Am I right about this? I am new at this and appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks in advance.

 

[Arrow]

I would recommend the 700E, which usually overclocks to at least 933mhz (and at most times, beyond!).

Rob
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[Guest]

But that is only 100 mhz fsb right? The board supports up to 133 mhz. The 700 would run a lot slower then wouldn't it?

 

[wapaaga]

in an intel system you can only overclock the fsb.

the mmultiplyer in the 733eb is only at 5.5 where as the multiplyer in the 700e is at 7 that so that if you bump the buse up to 133 your going to get 931mhz and alll the bus will still be in spec

i'm pretty sure both chip will end up with close to the same bus speed in the end

 

[Unolocogringo]

Another post to confirm the above messages.About 97% of the 700E series chips with cCO stepping will run at 933 with 133 fsb with no modifications.Give it a little more voltage and a good heatsink and you can probbably get 980@140 fsb and your PCI and AGP will only be slightly out of spec..

 

[Crashman]

The whole point of using a 700E is that it IS a 100MHz FSB processor. It is the best processor for overclocking to 133MHz FSB, with a 97% success rate at voltages between 1.65v and 1.75v. The 750 has about a 50% chance of running 1GHz at 133, but usually requires at least 1.85v-1.95v to do it!

You see, overclocking the FSB is the only way to overclock, as the PIII is multiplier locked. As such, the 500E is the MOST overclockable as it will usually do at least 900 at 180MHz FSB! But that requires MAJOR cooling, high voltages, limited PCI cards, a well cooled graphics card, and secial memory!

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[Guest]

So.... An AMD processor with an unlocked multiplier could just up the multiplier and affect the processor speed only without changing or affecting your PCI and AGP cards then?

 

[rcf84]

P3 500e... I had my at 100ghz (5 x 200) well my pelter broke and end of the p3. My new 1ghz athlon at 1.5ghz is much better on an ALi chipset cause VIA sucks.

!!! Leader of the Anti-via army !!!

 

[FUGGER]

www.overclockers.com

check the CPU table

I would say 700E for best results