Need help with a P3 mobo
My dad picked up an old computer from a goodwill near his job. He says it used to be from some insurance company or something. Well, he wants to give this computer to my brother, so he can play his games on it, instead of my parents' computer. Even he knows it will need some upgrading. 
We need some new ram for it. PC133. I think he's got that covered.
Right now it's got a 866 MHz PIII in it, but we want to make it faster. I found out a little bit about this board. It has the Intel 82815 chipset, so it has an AGP port on it, not bad. I think I can get a R8500 in it. What we don't know about it, is what kind of processor we can throw in this machine. Intel's webstie didn't specify. It only said 66/100/133MHz fsb P3. Something like that.
Can you help? What's the fastest processor we can slap in this mobo? What would you recommend?? Thanks!
-Rick
PS. In the meantime, I could always add this machine to my mini folding farm!
We need some new ram for it. PC133. I think he's got that covered.
Right now it's got a 866 MHz PIII in it, but we want to make it faster. I found out a little bit about this board. It has the Intel 82815 chipset, so it has an AGP port on it, not bad. I think I can get a R8500 in it. What we don't know about it, is what kind of processor we can throw in this machine. Intel's webstie didn't specify. It only said 66/100/133MHz fsb P3. Something like that.
Can you help? What's the fastest processor we can slap in this mobo? What would you recommend?? Thanks!
-Rick
PS. In the meantime, I could always add this machine to my mini folding farm!
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The Intel 82815 chipset went on boards that supported Pentium 3s as slow as the first edition Katmai chips to the fastest Tualatins.
Are ram timings of 2-2-2-5 an accomplishment on old PC133? I have a compaq from about the same time as this machine that also uses PC133 we got from circuit city. Timings are 2-2-2-5 at default. I'm thinking the same stuff would serve very well in this computer.
make sure the PC133 you get is Cas2 and everything should be golden.
And it all depends on the board. Does it have the right power features? BIOS support? The chipset may support it, but the board itself just might not.
The coppermines are indeed .18u FC-PGA and the Tualatins are indeed .13u FC-PGA2.
Then you could pick up this <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-114-163&depa=0">1.13 tualatin pIII</a> from newegg for $44.
cpu upgrade for under $50.....
BTW, the mobo is Intel D815EEA. Goes up to 1 GHz Coppermine PIII's I'm pretty sure.
As long as the mobo has AGP it is prob worth messing with.
It won't be any slower than a P4
You should hunt for a bios update.
Yes you are stuck with 133FSB, but so are a lot of us.