luckybob wrote:its a crap shoot. The more reliable brands of motherboards will work. That said, adapters are NEVER a good idea. In reality you are better off getting a tualatin native board. keep in mind, 440 class motherboards were NEVER designed for 133fsb. 95% worked at that speed and many many companies took advantage of it, but still my advice is to find a tualatin native board.
I think i'd consider Intel as a reliable brand (my board has been solid for years!)... The adapter comes with a 1.4GHz Celeron with 100fsb and it's own power circuitry and jumpers etc. I don't want to lose ISA slots, the SB-Link connector or use a VIA chipset... Seems the Powerleap is the only way forward 😎.
gerwin wrote:The celeron tualatins with 256kB L2 cache are designed for a 100MHz bus and have the higher multipliers, if that is what you want.
I have three systems with tualatins on adapters, and they are totaly reliable AFAIK. A native tualatin mainboard means either no ISA slots or a VIA chipset.
The Powerleap adapter i'll be getting comes wth a 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron (100fsb). I definitely can't be bothered tracking down a native Tualatin 370 board and lose features! One thing i love about my 440BX board is it's ability to support full DOS audio through the SB-Link connector on the board... It connects to my Yamaha PCI sound card and works very well 😀. Plus my Intel SE440BX2 board has been 100% reliable for years and i don't want to risk getting a duff board (i hate VIA chipsets too!).
Powerleap is the only way to boost my Win98 PC, i just wanted to hear some opinions from anyone that uses them. It should be ok since they list the SE440BX2 board as being compatible 😀.