Do you get more speed from a 133fsb chip or 100fsb?

[KD]

(1) I have an asus CUSL2 running a PIII 700 @ 910 and I want to upgrade to a PIII 1gig. I understand that an overclocked 133fsb chip is faster and more stable than a 100fsb chip? Is this true?

(2) Can anyone tell me how to overclock a 133fsb on this board?

Thank you for your input

 

[tainice]

my suggestion would be mod your mobo, so it can host a tualatin type of celeron or PIII (depends on your wallet ), for they will ourperform a regular PIII. In addition, the mod is fairly simply, many people have done, (just check the sticky posted in Intel chip section). going for t-cel will cost u 70~90 shipped, and pIII will be 200~370.

How to oc? check overclockers.com's front page, there should be a article call beginner's guild, read it, and you won't regret it

 

[takiwa]

I understand that an overclocked 133fsb chip is faster and more stable than a 100fsb chip? Is this true?

I would disagree w/ this...most Intel chips in a batch top out around the same numbers (like the tualatin cellies, at 1500-1600), regardless of size. So, I would rather go with a 100FSB chip, because you will end up getting more FSB out of it...the 133FSB chip may run more mhz, but the higher FSB on the 100FSB chip would more than make up for that..IMHO

 

[KD]

First I dont have the money to mod the mobo.

I've read that most PIII 1gig, 100fsb wont reach 133fsb or if they do there very unstable and run hotter. So if you start out with a 1gig, 133fsb, wouldnt that be faster? Since its already at 133fsb shouldnt do just a little bit better?

Advice?

 

[tainice]

"First I dont have the money to mod the mobo"

?_? ok, just check the thread entitled "running Tualatin on CuMine MB w/o Powerleap"

u don't have to buy any special equitment, all you have to do is find cut off and connect some pin, and drop a celeron 1A in there u are ready to rock n' roll!

 

[Johan]

If you don't want to go the Tually Celly route and stick w/ a P3, I'd go with the 1000EB (133 FSB) chip. You can (usually) get the 1000EB to 150 FSB w/o problem whereas the 1000E (100 FSB) will probably stop short of 1300 MHz (but this depends on mobo and chip). Question is if the 1000E at, say, 1250 MHz is faster than the 1000EB @ 150 FSB or 1125 MHz. I'm guessing that the 150 FSB will result in better performance assuming your RAM can handle 150 FSB @ CAS2 (what RAM are you running?). Plus the 1000EB is cheaper to buy.