Newbie question about my P3-533 CPU

[CobaltBoy]

When I purchased my P3-533 chip over a year ago it was packaged retail and I was told it was a P3-533EB/256k-L2 - 133FSB
Now that I pulled it out of my board and look at it, the writing on it says:

533B/512/133/2.0V S1
99360473-0382 MALAY
im© '98 SL3E9

Am I to assume I was told a lie?
Is this actually a P3-533B-512k instead of EB?
I was using it in an Asus P3C2000 and that mobo sucked

If so, will this work in my Asus P2B-440 mobo?

[Phil]

The E means it is a coppermine or not. Intel tended only to label chips E if there was a katmai of the same speed. For instance the 600 came as 600, 600B, 600E, 600EB. If your is only labelled B and has 512k of ram and runs at 2v then it is a katmai (which I didn't know came in that speed) so you have been lied to as the coppermine version is the better chip. It may work in your p2b board as long as your ram handles 133mhz, and your vid card handles an 89mhz agp bus

[Shadow ÒÓ]

were you actually told it was a coppermine or just that it was a 133 w/512 cache? As far as the sale goes, did they say the word coppermine or EB? If not you may have exactly what you paid for.

[CobaltBoy]

I paid for a 533EB with 256k, which I was to assume it was a coppermine?
I guess I should have looked for myself before they put it in.

[Phil]

wher did you buy it from? If it was from a shop or company and not second hand then I'm not sure how it being a year old affects it but you should go to your local citizens advice office.

[puppet]

That is a katmai processor with a 512 L2 cache meant to run on a 133FSB. In your other post you thought this chip was an EB.......now I know why you didn't fry it. While you wouldn't be able to run an EB in that Asus P2B........you might be able to run this one.

[Phil]

He would be able to run an EB in the p2b. For a slot 1 EB he would need revision 1.12 onwards but if it were an fc-pga EB and a slocket then any would do.

[puppet]

Nope......not according to Asus. The rev1.12 or later will support an E series....but not an EB. (I posted a link to the page @Asus in his other post). Makes you wonder if this B chip will be workable. It may have nothing to do with whether or not the board can do 133FSB.....but the instructions that the cpu gives the mobo may not be recognized correctly in the BIOS.

All he can do is try it. At least he won't burn it up.

[Phil]

Sorry for not explaining it better. No BX chipset supports a 133mhz fsb. That doesn't mean they can't run on one though, it will just be running the agp speed at 89mhz instead of 66mhz. So the p2b from revision 1.12 onwards will run but not support any pentium 3, and if you use a slocket and fc-pga chip then any p2b with the right bios will run any p3, be it E, B or EB

[CobaltBoy]

After playing around with it in my P2B the only operational setting it will work with is 4.0x100mhz
So I guess I'm going to keep my 350 cpu in it for now.

Here's what I have to work with:

Intel P3-533B/512/133 & Intel P2-350/512/100
Asus P2B-440BX v1.12 & Asus P3C2000 (junk)
1 x 128mb PC100 ram
3 x 64mb PC100 ram
Diamond Viper550 16mb AGP
S3 Virge 4mb PCI
3dfx Voodoo2 1000 12mb add-on
Plextor 16x10x40 IDE cdr-w
Yamaha 4x4x16 SCSI cdr-w
Sony 48x cd-rom
Creative SoundBlaster Live
2 x 45gb ATA66 WD 5400rpm
2 x 10.2gb ATA66 WD 5400rpm
2 x 3.2gb ATA33 WD 5400rpm
Adaptec 2910C SCSI card
2 x 3com 10/100 NIC
Viewsonic E790 19" monitor
Acer 76e 17" monitor
Full Tower 300w case

[Phil]

Are you using the same ram in your Asus P2B-440BX v1.12 as in your Asus P3C2000?
If so and you weren't using a host-pciclk option for ram then it is likely to be the vid card holding you back.

[CobaltBoy]

Ya it is the same RAM that I'm using for both, I figured it was the AGP holding me back as well....

I'm looking to replace my P3C2000 with a P3V4X because it will let me keep using my same components without spending extra cash...

Do you have any other suggestions on what mobo to get so that I don't have to upgrade anything else?

[Phil]

why not buy a vid card that will handle the 89mhz agp bus instead of a new motherboard. It doesn't have to be the latest geforce 2/3 a tnt2 or geforce could do it. Or you could go for the really cheap tnt2 m64 (still better than what you have)