Pentium III FCPGA

Can someone please help me? I have a pentium III 667Mhz FCPGA with 133 FSB, what will happen if I run this with PC100 SDRAM. My board does not support 133 system bus.

hmm,
yeah, you're cpu will simply run at 100 mhz system bus, thus not using the full speed of the processor. You'll have to buy a new MB. I recomend the Asus P3V4 or P3V133, they're not that expensive and they can support 100 Mhz SDRAM with 133 Mhz FSB ( A unique feature of the VIA apollo chipset). So you won't have to buy new ram.

I got the P3V133 MB from ASUS, it's running a PIII650@100 now at 910@140 with 100 mhz SDRAM.

Godim

They're both slot-1 motherboards. I don't know anything about the p3v133 but I've had a slot-1 550E running fine in my kid's p3v4x at 803 MHz. for months. The p3v4x has a newer VIA chipset, at least according to ASUS' web site. This is a bit of a controversial board. I don't know how well a slocket works in one, but <A HREF="http://www.overclockers.com.au" target="_new">http://www.overclockers.com.au</A> have a formum devoted to this board.

Asus also have a cuv4x, a socket 370 board that's supposed to be pretty good, though I've not used it. My personal practice is to avoid slockets becasue I don't want to add something else that could go wrong. I might have to change that, though, when I upgrade as the 370 Pentiums are becoming more abundant...esp. the new stepping CPUs.

Mike