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First post, by Nooflebot

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Been looking all over the place online and every time I've tried to order from websites they cancel my order because they don't actually have them in stock anymore /:
I specifically need the 2.8v version of these processors since the system I plan to pair these with is a silicon graphics visual workstation 540 and the motherboard / VRM's only support 1.3 - 3.5 voltage range CPU's.

The SKU for the 2.8v 900MHz Pentium III Xeon's is SL5D3 or SL4XY.

I'm trying to not spend a fortune on this as I need 4 of these CPU's to complete the system. Already had to spend a decent chunk of change on the specific VRM model that supports these CPU's.

Reply 1 of 10, by PD2JK

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Can't help you with (only one) 700 MHz SL49P without any heatsink I guess?

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Reply 2 of 10, by red-ray

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QAK9 should also work.

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Reply 3 of 10, by Nooflebot

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I am still looking for these CPU's. I've only managed to source 1 out of the 4 I need because I got lucky with a eBay listing, they unfortunately did not have more.

Reply 4 of 10, by Nooflebot

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Update on this, now have 3 out of four 900MHz CPU's installed. If anybody has just one SL4XY they'd be willing to part ways with I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny for it. It would complete the CPU side of my SGI 540 Visual Workstation.

Endgame of what I'm aiming for:
- 4x 900MHz Pentium III Xeons (Currently 3/4)
- 2GB Proprietary SGI SDRAM (Accomplished)
- Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum (Can transplant from other machines)
- Some graphics card that works with the weird firmware of the SGI 540 (currently testing options)
- SD1100 Serial Digital Video Interface Card (One sold on eBay recently that I missed, I have a feeling I will be waiting a long time before I see another)
- Blu-ray optical drive with sata to IDE converter
- Internal Superdisk drive (saw some external SGI Superdisk drives on eBay that could be a good source for a internal drive colored black)
- SATA Raid controller (Finding something that is bootable will likely be extremely hard if not impossible so I might be stuck with SCSI / IDE)
- If the SATA Raid controller works out I want two SSD's in RAID0 for the system
- SGI Gigabit Ethernet Card
- SGI 1600SW or SGI CRT Monitor
- Accompanying USB SGI Keyboard and Mouse

Reply 5 of 10, by eisapc

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Same problem here: I own 5 of the 2.8V 900MHz 2MB CPUs, but need a fourth sixth one to complete a HP Netserver currently running 6x 700 MHz 1MB.
I did not find a single affordable one during the last 10 years.

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Reply 6 of 10, by Nooflebot

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eisapc wrote on 2026-02-06, 11:51:

Same problem here: I own 5 of the 2.8V 900MHz 2MB CPUs, but need a fourth one to complete a HP Netserver currently running 6x 700 MHz 1MB.
I did not find a single affordable one during the last 10 years.

Well if you ever want to part ways with one of the 900MHz 2.8v PIII Xeon's I'm able to do $250 since I really really want to finish my SGI 540's CPU's.

Reply 7 of 10, by luckybob

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I haven't seen a positive hit on my ePay searches in YEARS.

I have four of them, but I want to build them into a Supermicro S2QR6 build. (I need a chassis for it)

Hells bells, i'm having trouble getting P-PRO OD chips for my 6x6 without spending $500 a chip.

I will go through my box of processors and check if I have a stray 900/100/2m/2.8 cpu.

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Reply 8 of 10, by Jackhead

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I remember reading that the SL4XY has a problem before production week 14 2000. Random freezes on CPU load. Anyone more about it?
Im trying to find the site again. Was from IBM a recall.

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Reply 9 of 10, by luckybob

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First I've heard about it.

I know my chips are good, I ran them for years as a home router. 😀

Id be interested to see what you find.

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Reply 10 of 10, by Jackhead

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found it again:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/intel-penti … rce=chatgpt.com

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Win98SE: Asus XG DLS 1x SL4XY - SG Voodoo 5 6000 PCI - 2GB RAM ECC- Audigy 2 ZS - MX300