ASUS P3B-F Support Coppermine?

[deadkenny]

My question is regarding the processor support of the P3B-F mobo. I read something on the ASUS site that seemed to confirm that PIII up to 800MHz was supported by the rev 1.03 board with BIOS revision 1004. I have a friend with this board. When I checked the board info in Sandra it said Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004. So, it appears that the BIOS is O.K., but will there be any problem with board rev 1.01 in supporting the voltage and multiplier etc. for an 800MHz+ PIII Coppermine processor? :confused:

[NDD]

Haven't seen this mobo for a long time, looked at the latest BIOS updates on Asus' site, and with version 1006 :
Support 566MHz and 850MHz CPU with clock ratio equal or greater than 8.5x.
Revise Coppermine Vcore limit for 128K cache Coppermine..
So I guess putting there 800MHz PIII shouldn't be a problem.

P.S. Not sure about mobo's revisions, though.

Best Regards ...

[Bonehead]

All P3B-F support Coppermine so you don't have to worry about the voltages. You got an old bios, flash with bios 1006. I think a 1Gig PIII should work just fine on a P3B-F.

[Remy]

I am pretty sure that there is a 1007 beta bios out there somewhere. That bios will for sure handle a PIII 1gig.

[deadkenny]

Thanks for the help guys. I'm really concerned about the board rev. issue. I'd really like to know why ASUS specified rev. 1.03 or higher (as well as BIOS 1004 or higher). At this point 100MHz PIII's at 1GHz might be kinda hard to find. Anyway, I'm not really worried about getting the absolute fastest possible processor. Even an 800 or 850MHz PIII Coppermine would be an improvement over the 400MHz PII my friend is running now. Thanks again.:)