Getting P3 450 tomorrow, need help!

[Carmine_Paterno]

I am getting a P3 450 tomorrow from this kid i know for 20 bucks. (he is an idiot, and he is giving me a bx mobo with it, i dunno what yet) I am hoping to hitt 600+ on this chip, just to get good performance in quake3. I am going to use it as a secondary computer with a voodoo3 agp. (going to o/c the v3 to 200+, i have good heatsinks) Do you think it will go that high (the chip).

Also, i have a old p2 300 big momma heatsink, and i wanted to know if it would work on the P3. But isn't the p3 secc2? I will get it to fit!

And about the fsb, @ 160fsb the divider has to be set to 1/4, giving you a pci bus speed of 40! Thatz pretty high! Is this telling me that the other fsb's i paid for (i didn't pay for this board) don't do anything?
THANX

[Mr B]

The P// hsf will not work without serious modifications the mounting holes have a much different spacing.

the P/// 450 is a chip you can actually work with, though I wouldn't guarrantee 600+ from it, but then I haven't had reason to look thru the database to see. For $20 you got a pretty good deal, there. It's hard to find a P I 233 MMX for less than that.

If you start drilling holes in the P// sink to make it work, lap the sink smooth again when you are done.

A BX mb, too? Be interested to see what one it is.....

Mr B

[Carmine_Paterno]

I can't wait! The kid finally agreed to 35 bucks, a 64mb stick of ram (100mhz) for the p3 450 and a voodoo3 agp with some games! Not too shabby. I am going to get this chip high i know it. I have a feeling! this chip will show me some good performance in quake 3 becuase of the higher fsb. This should be a good test of my ram.

Thanx for the post, but you still didn't answer my question about the 160fsb. the pci would be @ 40mhz if i have the fsb to 160 right? Isn't that high?

[Tim-]

Yes, with the PCI divider set at 1/4 it will be 40MHz. That's VERY fast for many PCI devices- hopefully you don't have too many. The PIII 450 will be a Katmai core, so don't get your hopes too high. It will probably have 1/2 speed cache and may not like overclocking very much.

[Carmine_Paterno]

It should do like 550 + right, on the website they do 720 (highest) and most around 600. I think it should do it pretty easily with not to high voltage.

[Lucky]

Sweet deal my buddy has a 450 and didnt no about o/c and i went over to his house and it did 600 with standard heatsink and voltage so you might get lucky.

celeron 566o/c to 977.
Hey it mght not be a p3 but when u get 100+ frames in q3 who cares : )

[Carmine_Paterno]

This chip rocks!!! I got it to 600 (133fsb) @ 2.3v. I know 2.3 is kinhda high, but i am using standard heatsink/fan. This chip could use a good burn in and could take it higher. I am going to put a fan on the northbridge as well as some thermal paste. I love this chip! This chip destroys Celeron's!!! It even boots faster! BF6 rocks! I could post at up to 653 and it would freeze before it inits the memory. I even tryed cas333 and still no boot. Changing heatsink and we will see!!!

[pestul]

Very good. I'm stuck at 540MHz with my PIII450 right now, but it's most likely my memory limitation @120MHz. I'm going to take out the PC100 right now to see if it goes higher with my PC133.

Wish me luck.