Dual 1GHz Pentium III Coppermine VIA Apollo Pro 133A Build

Reply 20 of 25, by boggsman

Posted on 2023-08-24, 14:16

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Thanks guys!

Reply 21 of 25, by appiah4

Posted on 2023-08-24, 14:34

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I have the same motherboard and I'm looking forward to making a dual Coppermine + Voodoo 3 Win2K PC with it to replace my AthlonXP + Voodoo 3 Win 2K build.. But the PIII-866s I have are not the same SLXXX code, in fact one is 1.65V and the other 1.7V. I was wondering if this board requires them to be identical and what CPUs you are running. It is hard to make out from the blurry photos 😀

Come to think of it I also have non-matching PIII-1000s, one with a heatspreader and one without.. Hmm..

Reply 22 of 25, by H3nrik V!

Posted on 2023-08-24, 15:14

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appiah4 wrote on 2023-08-24, 14:34:

I have the same motherboard and I'm looking forward to making a dual Coppermine + Voodoo 3 Win2K PC with it to replace my AthlonXP + Voodoo 3 Win 2K build.. But the PIII-866s I have are not the same SLXXX code, in fact one is 1.65V and the other 1.7V. I was wondering if this board requires them to be identical and what CPUs you are running. It is hard to make out from the blurry photos 😀

Come to think of it I also have non-matching PIII-1000s, one with a heatspreader and one without.. Hmm..

One of those could in theory be a Tualatin-256 then 😉

If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎

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Reply 23 of 25, by appiah4

Posted on 2023-08-24, 15:34

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-08-24, 15:14:

appiah4 wrote on 2023-08-24, 14:34:

I have the same motherboard and I'm looking forward to making a dual Coppermine + Voodoo 3 Win2K PC with it to replace my AthlonXP + Voodoo 3 Win 2K build.. But the PIII-866s I have are not the same SLXXX code, in fact one is 1.65V and the other 1.7V. I was wondering if this board requires them to be identical and what CPUs you are running. It is hard to make out from the blurry photos 😀

Come to think of it I also have non-matching PIII-1000s, one with a heatspreader and one without.. Hmm..

One of those could in theory be a Tualatin-256 then 😉

This, perhaps?

Reply 24 of 25, by H3nrik V!

Posted on 2023-08-24, 20:35

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Definitely a Coppermine https://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL5B3.html

If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎

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Reply 25 of 25, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2023-08-25, 05:48

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To begin with, Pentium 3 Tualatin-256 supposedly does not support SMP, because it's the same silicon as Tualerons.

boggsman wrote:
I think the 4 DIMMs will be stable since they are Registered.

Since they are double-stacked, I have some doubts. But regular registered modules (18/20 chips) most likely will work fine.

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