burned on googlegear PIII-700

[kim]

Sucker flat out wont run at 933/133. Tried voltage as high as 1.95, GlobalWin/Delta cooling on a Asus CUSL2-C, 256mb/133 sdram. CPU box sez packaged on 30Sep2000, so may lend credence to that posting that 'late summer' chips were duds--OR intel has tweaked its performance specs... (Really disappointing--beware...) BTW, how do you tell the stepping is cB0 or cC0? Does it say that on the chip or box, or do you have to decipher some code?
Thanx.

[vipez888]

Yo have to look at the SL-code

it's on both the Retail box(sticker) and on the chip.

You can also use Sisoft Sandra, and go into motherboard/cpu info, it will tell ya if it's cbo/cc0.

[Jon]

I bought my retail P3 700 from there too. Generally Googlegear is a good company with great prices and fast shipping, but my chip won't go 133 FSB at all.

Overall I'm pleased with them as a whole. Got my Celly 2 533 from there and it did 800 after burn-in, but I don't think they purposely ditribute unclockable chips. It's just the luck of the draw. I still recommend them.

FYI mine is cB0 as well.

[Reddywing]

Read the S-spec number on the processor and then check what you've got on this Intel page.
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm