p3 450

[glenn]

help ive got a pentium3 4500Mhz a tempest2 motherboard and im new to this how can i get it going faster lots:(

[muddocktor]

4500 mhz? If that were true, you'd have everyone running to your door for that chip!;)

What brand is a tempest2 motherboard? If it has a selection for 133 mhz front side bus, try it out. That would give you a 600 mhz P3. You might have to raise the vcore on your chip though, which shouldn't give you any problem if you cool it decently.

[glenn]

ok so i put one to many 0`s my board only supports 66-100Mhz bus and whats a v-core the board`s name just says tempest 2 but the comp is a packard bell club 80

[[OC]_SR20DE]

If your motherboard supports upto 100mhz bus, you don't have the option to increase the FSB?.. If it won't allow you to increase the FSB above 100mhz, there's nothing you can do with your system. A new mobo would be good :p :D

[Yodums]

Your 100 bus won't do anything because basically your chip is using the 100bus and if you were to get a new motherboard ... I believe you have the old Katmai core which craps out for those chips at about 525mhz from 450..

[minoukat]

Originally posted by Yodums
Your 100 bus won't do anything because basically your chip is using the 100bus and if you were to get a new motherboard ... I believe you have the old Katmai core which craps out for those chips at about 525mhz from 450..

normally about 600MHz

[Yodums]

Originally posted by minoukat


normally about 600MHz

Heh my 500 Katmai won't even reach 600 without disabling the L2 Cache which makes the computer useless. So I run 575 with a L2 Cache Latency of 1.

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by Yodums


Heh my 500 Katmai won't even reach 600 without disabling the L2 Cache which makes the computer useless. So I run 575 with a L2 Cache Latency of 1.

Why would you want to disable the Katmai's L2? This is what makes the chip good even today. I would think that this chip would post better with the L2 then the extra MHz you would pick up.