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I have a Compaq 7855 with a P3 fc-pga 550? I was not sure they made them at this speed? Anyway, I would like to upgrade..will a P3 700 pop in with no problems..I would asume that it would becuase they run at the same voltage..but I could be wrong..let me know what you think..thanks
Should work just fine as long as it's a 100FSB Chip. The Motherboard should adjust the Multiplier automatically.
DarkArctic
01-12-02, 12:43 PM
Intel actually made 2 550 Pentium III chips that were in FC-PGA form. It should run fine on your motherboard. Since the multipliers are locked your motherboard doesn't have a choice what to run it at.
-DarkArctic
That 550E you have can easily go @733 default vcore...and also go all the way up to @800.
If you have the 550E thats the good chip(Which you probably do).
If you have the 550 Katmai thats the bad chip.
But you don't have overclocking options with a Compaq so thats the downside.
Yodums
Dear friend "Paulk" said he has an fcpga 550...so he definetely has the coppermine 550E.
That means way-way up o\c.
I would suggest that instead of buying a P3-700 cpu.....you can
get your self a new mobo (Tualatin) and keep all the other parts
of your system.
Overclock your 550 at 700++ (better performance than a P3-700)
and still have a new mobo with much more capabilities for future
use with tualatins cpu's....probably raid,ata100....ech.
That is my opinion.
Originally posted by TASOS
I would suggest that instead of buying a P3-700 cpu.....you can
get your self a new mobo (Tualatin) and keep all the other parts
of your system.
Overclock your 550 at 700++ (better performance than a P3-700)
and still have a new mobo with much more capabilities for future
use with tualatins cpu's....probably raid,ata100....ech.
That is my opinion.
Hmm if he gets a new motherboard he will have to get a new case and probably a new PSU as the PSU are made by Compaq and they use their own thing and their case is too small for an ATX board.
Little cost more for the case+psu....far far more benefits from the new combo!!!!
Also we are an overclocking site...not an upgrading site for minimum bugget...:)
Anyway..i can also agree with your side of view...it's up to him.
Originally posted by TASOS
Little cost more for the case+psu....far far more benefits from the new combo!!!!
Also we are an overclocking site...not an upgrading site for minimum bugget...:)
Anyway..i can also agree with your side of view...it's up to him.
Actually those slot 1 BE6-II are being sold for nearly a 100 dollars it'd be wiser if he can see the 550E for some cash and buy something like an Abit ST6 and a Celeron 850-900 and he can overclock further to enter him in the 1 gig club.
My two cents.
Yodums
We just posted our opinions..."Paulk" will decide what to do.
Nice Avatar...new one?:cool:
You wont notice much improvement from a p3 550 to a 700. If your gonna spend $$$ and need a 100FSB chip then get an 1100E. Might as well get the fastest chip you can put in if your not gonna OC
Thanks for all the responses..I scrapped the idea on the Compaq and just bought a tyan tiger 100 and two 1100's that I plan on running at 1232/112fsb.. P4's watch out :D
sweet...but why the dual setup? do you do a lot of rendering or ripping? You shouldn't have any probs running @1232 with decent coolers and can probly run both in the 1300's with copper.
Not familiar with that boards OC'in options though...let us know how you do
I've been bit by the dual bug :D I have two abit slotket IIIs and two agilent arcticoolers..will be a sweet setup, oh yeah, got all 4 of my crucial pc133 256mb ecc dimms :) By the way, the tyan only has 103,112,and 133fsb settings..so 112 will be my only option for overclock..unless anyone has gotten thier 1100 to run at 1463..haha, don't think so. Yeah, I plan to start doing a/v work so I want lots of power.
radadman is running his at 1463 on air but most of us are running somewhere in the 1300's
What OS are you going to use?
Actually you should have gotten EB's then.
For power if you can't do much overclocking mine as well get the best out of the processor.
133fsb may take some more cooling than average, if your willing to take that step I'd probably get a water cooling setup.
Yodums
wow! really? 1463? that would be killer if I could make it run that..at what voltage? 1.9? think my arcticoolers could handle that speed? I plan on running 2K..the new XP look doesn't really appeal to me very much and they are almost identical under the skin. Only prob with running 133 on the tiger 100 is that there is only a 1/3 PCI divider...so the PCI bus will be over clocked..not sure if all my hardware will agree with it..I'll list it all..tell me what you think
GeForce 2 MX 400 210/200
Promise Ultra 66
SB Live value
Hauppauge Win-TV dbx
3com 905c
IBM deskstar 20gb 75gxp
Toshiba 6x dvd
let me know what you think about this set up
Your HDD and other PCI devices might have a chance to take the 40+ PCI Bus...
Usually they will hit 133 fsb with mainly 1.9-1.95v.
To go higher you'll probably vidpin mod it and get some better cooling.
vidpin mod? this is new to me..
ok, I found the mod..but I don't think I would need it as the abit slotkets are fully adjustable in .05v incraments all the way to 3.5volts
I think radadman is at 2.05v with his 1100E@ 133FSB
I'm hoping to hit that high after burning in for a bit longer
Originally posted by PaulK
ok, I found the mod..but I don't think I would need it as the abit slotkets are fully adjustable in .05v incraments all the way to 3.5volts
You don't change the voltages on the slotket you leave it to auto and you change it in the bios.
Yodums
muddocktor
01-17-02, 09:34 AM
Originally posted by Yodums
You don't change the voltages on the slotket you leave it to auto and you change it in the bios.
Yodums
It is handy to have the voltage adjustments on the slotket; they will work just like vid pinning a proc to give you a higher vcore adjustment in bios. I've confirmed this with my P3 rig; got vcore set to 1.85 volts and I've run it up to 2.05 volts in bios, which my soyo board won't do by istelf in bios.
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