Help Me Decipher this Computer. (big image inside 161kb)

[Capt Fiero]

Help Me Decipher this Computer. (big image inside 161kb)
Ok I looked in the Abit MB section, then checked the Intel CPU Section, then thought maybe the Ram Section or and decided hell this is a general computer thing that some people might have some fun with.

This machine is for my Mother, she has been running a Compaq PII 300 machine with 256mb of PC100 ram and an antique 6.4gb drive.

I came across this machine on a news group and picked it up for her. Now I never used anthing with these specs. I have never even seen an ABit board so I am hoping some people can help me figure out what I can tweak with this machine maybe even point me to a place to give me the specs on this board. Hell I will bet a few of you even know the specs good or bad on this board.

Next up, how does this CPU run, how much of an OC do you think I should be able to get out of it. It looks to me that it is running 700mhz / 100mhz bus, the ram is 512mb of PC133 total in the machine. I tried to OC it even a tiny bit and it froze up solid. It is a socket 370CPU on a Slocket to fit in a Slot 1 board.

So lets have some fun, What can you guys tell me about this setup. If you want a screenshot from something else let me know and just for the hell of it I will run diffrent appys and post screen shots.

By now the pic should have loaded.

 

[Chixofnix]

hmm... i got the first line "CPU-z" loaded after i finished your little speech...

maybe you should write more to make that last statement true? !

...or resize

 

[Capt Fiero]

Ok I moved the pic to a much faster server. File should take less than a second for someone on broadband to load.

All I know about the machine is

Abit Board,
P3 700 CPU
512mb ram
40gig Maxtor Drive
32mb DDR Geforce Card
52X Creative CD Rom Drive

I got the entire machien for 220$ CDN thats about 140$ USD.

 

[JCLW]

What Abit board is it?

Most 700Es will do 933 (7x 133FSB) if the board has a 1/4 PCI divider, especially if you have PC133 memory in it.

 

[DDR-PIII]

meh, figure out what mobo it is, install cpuFSB select the mobo maker, the mobo model pump that FSB upto 133Mhz

 

[twump]

according to those screens you have an abit be6-II. they were the king OC board of its time. i know the be6-II v2.0 can take any PIII that runs on 100-133mhz bus up to 1ghz but you have the be6-II v1.1 i'm not sure if it accepts the same speed cpus. abits website only states that it will accept up to 800mhz PIII


the be6-II came with onboard IDE raid, accepts up to 768mb pc133 ram.


this system should be a nice step up for your mother.


even with how old those mobos are i still see them sell for $50-60 on ebay. more then some new mobos.

here is a link to abits specs on it. since it is discontinued they don't keep much info on it but you can kind of get an idea.
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=118

 

[Capt Fiero]

Man you guys are awesome. I am installing a wireless nic into the machine tonight so I will see about tweaking the settings. I am not sure what someone meant about 1/4 pci setting. But I am guessing it refers to locking the PCI bus down to 100 or something. I will check for that kind of setting.

768mb of ram really is not that much, as it has 512mb in it now but I think it will be enough for her to use as a web browsing, email machine. She only plays minimal web based games with it.

 

[JCLW]

1/4 PCI divider means the PCI bus will be 1/4 of the FSB. At 100FSB you use the 1/3 divider (100mhz/3=33.33mhz). At 133 you'd use the 1/4 divider (133mhz/4=33.33mhz).