From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 14:31:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.carpoolbc.com (cr45465-a.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.176.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AE137B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roop@localhost) by gw.carpoolbc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11205; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roop@gw.carpoolbc.com) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Roop Nanuwa To: Josh Paetzel Cc: webmaster@wmptl.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dristovsk@home.com Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Hardware mb/cpu question... In-Reply-To: <006201c04a08$6feef920$0200000a@vladsempire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Subject: OFFTOPIC: Hardware mb/cpu question... > > > > > > Has anyone got an Asus P3B-F (440BX) mainboard to successfully run with > > an Intel PIII 800/PIII 850 mhz CPU ? Just want to assure the possibility > > before purchasing new cpu. > > One of my two workstations has a P3B-F Mobo and is running a P3-800MHz cpu.. no problems, no complaints... (I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest version, so I'm not sure if older BIOS' will cause an issue or not) > The ASUS website says that motherboard will support the P3-800 if it is of > hardware revision 1.03 or later, and BIOS revision 1004 or later. (You can > update the BIOS, but you can't do anything about the hardware revision #) > Given the pricing of AMD to Intel right now I would be leary of buying a P3, > especially a slot 1....looks like the p3-800 100mghz is running about $190. > The Duron 800 is about $90 right now, and the Athlon 900 is about $190....of > course you probably already have a P3 motherboard. If you are not set on going for another Intel chip, I would HIGHLY recommend going for an AMD solution.. you can get a decent new mobo and a high speed thunderbird cpu for just a bit more than just a Intel P3 coppermine.. my first workstation has this configuration (A7V + TBIRD 800) and I regret not going for this for the other workstation RSN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message