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First post, by buckeye

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Been searching high/low for a home to put my P3 800-133 slot one in but most of the boards run at least 100 bucks or more. So I snagged this SuperMicro PIII SCA with the 820 chipset which was a lot cheaper but should've done some studying before buying it. Some questions:

1. Has a AGP Pro slot. Will a GF2 work with this? The slot is rated at 3.3V (I think!)

2. Separate memory banks for rimm and dimm chips. This worries me the most, keep reading about stability issues going with either bank. Go with rimm or dimm?

If anyone has experience (hopefully good!) with this board please chime in! See also pics attached.

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Reply 1 of 2, by lazibayer

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1, Yes
2, RIMM for fun, neither for serious use.

In 2000 Intel had a major recall on all 820 boards with MTH chips. I think this particular board is qualified for a piece of abandon-ware because Supermicro has pulled off all information and support for it, so I don't know if there is a later BIOS that could make the board more stable at least with RAMBUS memory. It's cool to have a demo machine with RAMBUS running on an ill-fated board.

Reply 2 of 2, by buckeye

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lazibayer wrote:

1, Yes
2, RIMM for fun, neither for serious use.

In 2000 Intel had a major recall on all 820 boards with MTH chips. I think this particular board is qualified for a piece of abandon-ware because Supermicro has pulled off all information and support for it, so I don't know if there is a later BIOS that could make the board more stable at least with RAMBUS memory. It's cool to have a demo machine with RAMBUS running on an ill-fated board.

In a word.......crap! Back to the drawing board.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

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