First post, by Grayshazzle
Hey everyone, I am working on a 98 build and need some help on what the highest MHz my motherboard can take for a Pentium III. My MB is a ECS P6BXT-A+ REV 1.3B. Now I know I could just look at it quickly myself but somehow I got a little confused because I know the later Pentium IIIs such as the Tualatin were not out when this MB came out so the documentation only states that is supports up to or "more" in MHz. I even got myself a modified Tualatin on the way for chipsets (Intel 440BX) that do not support the GHz CPUs but the sad truth I found out is that the CPU's bus speeds are supported up to 133Mhz but the FBS is only 100Mhz, so it won't work unless it's 133Mhz as well as stated on eBay. I want to only use the Socket 370 and not the Slot 1, just noting this here as well so you can ignore the support for Slot 1 unless it somehow is more superior in some way. I also tried the website "cpu-upgrade.com" but my revision is not listed as it only lists revision 2.2. If I could have just a little help on knowing what the max is for the motherboard for Socket 370 that would be awesome. I would also like to throw out there if CPU cache even matters for compatibility and if mine can achieve 512MB. I am also pairing this CPU with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 just so everyone knows so if anyone finds out the max for this MB, then maybe you can correct me too whether this is the right card in terms of "speed" for compatibility (smooth FPS). I also have linked another specs chart on this MB that shows there are clock speed settings and I have a jumper on the MB too that has options for 66MHz or 100MHz FBS speed. Thanks everyone!
Manual: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/Ecs%20 … /p6bxtaplus.zip
Information: https://assets.hardwarezone.com/2009/reviews/ … p6bxtap-13b.htm