Since I found a cheap shuttle mvp3 591p board would it be worth it to run my 166 @ 100x1.5 or 100x2 (if 200mhz is stable), or should I stick to 66mhz fsb. Note this is a p54c not an mmx.
Worth it for what?
If you want to run slowly, go for 1.5x whatever the lowest FSB is you can set (P54C starts at 50MHz, but many MVP3 boards don't go under 60 or even 66).
Worth it for improved preformance 🤣, is it noticable at these low speeds.
The manual for the 591p that I found at
http://www.elhvb.com/supportbios.info/Archive … 591p/index.html
doesn't mention using 100mhz for a p54c.
It says to use 66mhz x 3 for 200mhz for a p54c
and 66mhz x 2.5 for 166mhz
Doesn't mean you can't do it 🤣
I haven't tried it, but it would be interesting to see a 66x3 vs. 100x2. 100x1.5 is not so interesting. My prediction is that it is equal to or slower than 66x2.5.
When I compared a P55C at 75x4 on a socket 7 board vs. 100x3 on a Super7 board, the results were 124.2 vs. 126.3.
I also compared a P55C at 75x3.5 on a socket 7 board vs. 75.3.5 on a Super7 board and the socket 7 board won the battle, at 112.0 vs. 109.5. Clock for clock, it seems like the i430tx board has an edge upon MVP3 boards.
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
Faster FSB means faster L2 cache.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
Indeed. At 75 MHz, 430tx vs. mvp3, the L2 and memory speeds were about the same. For 75 MHz FSB 430tx @300 MHz vs. 100 MHz FSB mvp3 @300 MHz, the MVP3 board certainly had an edge in L2 and RAM, but the overall benchmark results didn't reflect this.
Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.
Ah, sorry, missed the "FSB" bit. Yes, more than worth it. Never ran a P54C at that, but had a P00MMX running at 350MHz (3.5x100) for a while. It surprisingly outperformed my K6-2 350 and was a good home to two Voodoo2 (in the time you could get them for almost nothing). But also true that the MVP3 chipset is inherently slower than i430HX or TX, so it's not going to be that much faster than on one of those boards.
