PIII 600

[MBCArchangel]

I have a ASUS P2B-DS motherboard which has a 100FSB, and I will receive two (2) PIII 550 MHZ, 100 Mhz, 512 Cache tommorro. Kinda new to the game, so is this combination able to be overclocked?

[Target]

Reports here earlier have listed the PIII-550 E's to be very good over-clockers. If that is what you have, and your board supports FSB speeds in excess of 100Mhz, then your chances are pretty good I'd say.

[Roy]

The PIIIs with 512MB L2 cache are not "E"s.

They overclock, but not quite as well because the L2 speed is 1/2 core speed, not 1x.

[MBCArchangel]

Thank you for the post, I am a little confused about what the difference between a 550E, 550, and processors with an A behind them mean. I found a post once that sort of explained, but I'm unable to find it now. Is the 550 with 100MHz, and 512 cache considered a 550E

[Target]

Good catch Roy....I glazed right over that 512 cache statement. Between the topic and the body discussing different CPU's, I guess I missed it.

Anyway MBC, as Roy correctly stated, your 550 is not of the "E" variety, and though it will not over-clock all that well, it will still likely do some above spec.

[MBCArchangel]

Thanks guys, I just got the cpu's in and have been able to get them to run at 617@112Mhz with 5.5 core voltage. Will have to see it runs stable or not.

[Roy]

EEEK! I hope that 5.5V core voltage is a typo! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[... nice 'clocking! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif]