Why choose? Upgrade everything to the best available when the board was EOLed 😀

C0deHunter wrote on 2022-08-18, 20:19:

2) The other curious thing is that most 800EB come in Socket 370, and NOT in Slot1, how's mine possible then?

3) Could it be my RAM stick? I have a single 128MB PC100 installed.
Any suggestions?

There were 14 800EB's issued by Intel, 7x Socket 370 and 7x Slot 1 so the odds are 50/50.

There are pc100 RAM sticks that run flawlessly at 133 MHZ but not all of them do; it depends on the quality so you better try a PC133 stick.

There were 14 800EB's issued by Intel, 7x Socket 370 and 7x Slot 1 so the odds are 50/50.

So are you saying that my P3 is special and rare?

C0deHunter wrote on 2022-08-19, 15:25:

There were 14 800EB's issued by Intel, 7x Socket 370 and 7x Slot 1 so the odds are 50/50.

So are you saying that my P3 is special and rare?

14 different models, not 14 examples 😉

C0deHunter wrote on 2022-08-19, 15:25:

There were 14 800EB's issued by Intel, 7x Socket 370 and 7x Slot 1 so the odds are 50/50.

So are you saying that my P3 is special and rare?

No, all I am saying is that there were as many sSpec models of the 800EB in socket 370 version as in Slot 1 version. How many of each sSpec cpu were produced would indicate the relative 'rareness' - there are possibly more socket 370 samples around in the wild but that is pure guesswork.

I swapped my RAM stick with a PC133, and still Win2K Pro does not boot up. As I lower the clock to 600EB (it always defaults to that speed , if the setting is amiss) Windows 2000 boots fine.

If you set cpu speed to auto, what will it run? Might be a remarked 600?

H3nrik V! wrote on 2022-08-19, 21:08:

If you set cpu speed to auto, what will it run? Might be a remarked 600?

Well, there is no "auto" just different speeds (at only 100MHz FSB), but if I ch0ose 800(100) it indeed defaults back to 600E.

Let me ask you this:
If I put back in the original PIII-450 that came with this system, going from 800MHz (well 600MHz in my case), down to 450MHz, would FPS games (Quake II, Quake III, Unreal Tournament, etc.) suffer badly?

I have a GeForce2 GTS installed to handle these games.

In other words: refresh my memory:
Are these old FPS games CPU bottle-necked or more GPU bottle-necked?

Thanks!

C0deHunter wrote on 2022-08-19, 21:25:

In other words: refresh my memory:
Are these old FPS games CPU bottle-necked or more GPU bottle-necked?

They are both, typically.