This page has all the info you need

https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013933/ht … pgrade_faq.html

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:00:

This page has all the info you need

https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013933/ht … pgrade_faq.html

Thank you. It looks like I can use a 1.4Ghz Tualatin with the proper slotket, and can have 133Mhz FSB with overclocking. However, I don't want to put any stress on the caps. Depending on price and availability, I may just settle for a 500Mhz CPU. My Gateway P3 from back in the day (before learning to build my own systems) was a 450Mhz and that was an amazing machine for the time period. I played Deus Ex on it at 1024x768 and played a lot of classic games like Hidden & Dangerous and other games like Urban Chaos and Interastate 82', and it despite already loving computers, that system was what inspired me to be the techie I am today.

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:00:

This page has all the info you need

https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013933/ht … pgrade_faq.html

Awesome I was struggling to get this page to come up the other day to answer OP's other post!

Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:25:

[However, I don't want to put any stress on the caps. Depending on price and availability, I may just settle for a 500Mhz CPU. My Gateway P3 from back in the day (before learning to build my own systems) was a 450Mhz and that was an amazing machine for the time period. I played Deus Ex on it at 1024x768 and played a lot of classic games like Hidden & Dangerous and other games like Urban Chaos and Interastate 82', and it despite already loving computers, that system was what inspired me to be the techie I am today.

You can go use a 600Mhz Katmai without worry. have had 2 in my Rev 1.03 P2B-DS for years without any issues.
Price wise the 500Mhz will be fair bit cheaper though as quite a few slot 1 boards max out at 600Mhz

chinny22 wrote on 2020-04-26, 15:46:

Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:25:

[However, I don't want to put any stress on the caps. Depending on price and availability, I may just settle for a 500Mhz CPU. My Gateway P3 from back in the day (before learning to build my own systems) was a 450Mhz and that was an amazing machine for the time period. I played Deus Ex on it at 1024x768 and played a lot of classic games like Hidden & Dangerous and other games like Urban Chaos and Interastate 82', and it despite already loving computers, that system was what inspired me to be the techie I am today.

You can go use a 600Mhz Katmai without worry. have had 2 in my Rev 1.03 P2B-DS for years without any issues.
Price wise the 500Mhz will be fair bit cheaper though as quite a few slot 1 boards max out at 600Mhz

Thank you. I found a 600Mhz CPU on ebay. I'm going to buy a 128gb CF card to use with my IDE adapter and flash the bios to the last beta release. My last choice to make is whether or not I stick with the Voodoo 3 or get a G400 Max and try glide wrappers for the older voodoo titles... Or a G400 Max with voodoo2 SLI, or a Voodoo3 and a G400 Max and a VGA switch box...

And of course the AWE64 Legacy when they are available, and a Dreamblaster X2 and a Roland MT-32 (until I can grab a CM-500.)

or a Voodoo3 and a G400 Max and a VGA switch box
If your doing this then may as well plug a 2nd monitor in the other card and extend the desktop, that's what I did.
No real point but works well and makes late 90's you feel pretty l33t 😉

The G550 has DVI, so you could avoid a switch box .

darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 20:34:

The G550 has DVI, so you could avoid a switch box .

No Windows 3.x driver, however...

Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-26, 22:00:

darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 20:34:

The G550 has DVI, so you could avoid a switch box .

No Windows 3.x driver, however...

But the Voodoo 3 does, so you can use that in Windows 3.1 . It's not like windows 3.1 supports multiple monitors or 3D acceleration .

Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-26, 20:06:

chinny22 wrote on 2020-04-26, 15:46:

Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:25:

[However, I don't want to put any stress on the caps. Depending on price and availability, I may just settle for a 500Mhz CPU. My Gateway P3 from back in the day (before learning to build my own systems) was a 450Mhz and that was an amazing machine for the time period. I played Deus Ex on it at 1024x768 and played a lot of classic games like Hidden & Dangerous and other games like Urban Chaos and Interastate 82', and it despite already loving computers, that system was what inspired me to be the techie I am today.

You can go use a 600Mhz Katmai without worry. have had 2 in my Rev 1.03 P2B-DS for years without any issues.
Price wise the 500Mhz will be fair bit cheaper though as quite a few slot 1 boards max out at 600Mhz

Thank you. I found a 600Mhz CPU on ebay. I'm going to buy a 128gb CF card to use with my IDE adapter and flash the bios to the last beta release. My last choice to make is whether or not I stick with the Voodoo 3 or get a G400 Max and try glide wrappers for the older voodoo titles... Or a G400 Max with voodoo2 SLI, or a Voodoo3 and a G400 Max and a VGA switch box...

And of course the AWE64 Legacy when they are available, and a Dreamblaster X2 and a Roland MT-32 (until I can grab a CM-500.)

So, I used to own this board with this revision. I did use a generic Slocket adapter I acquired (mind you this was like two decades ago) and the fastest CPU I had on it was a Pentium III 866Mhz running the chipset at 133Mhz FSB.
Zero stability issues.
I had four different CPU's on this board.. Started with a PPentium II 400Mhz, traded my old AMD K6-2 500Mhz for a Pentium III 450Mhz CPU (slot) to go on as an upgrade.. had and tested a Pentium II 266Mhz (which I abused with this board, running a multiplayer of 2.5x @ 124Mhz FSB.. That chip was fast but it ran hot... my early attempts at overclocking...)

Final CPU was a fully stable 866Mhz Socket 370 in a generic Slocket Adapter.. I just made sure I had fresh thermal compound on the north bridge heatsink even though the thing was plastic.. A quality power supply and I think I ran it with 512MB of ram total... This setup was my eventual transition from Windows ME to XP back in the day (tested Win2k on it also)

This is one of my favorite old boards.. I unfortunately gave it away when I jumped to my first AthlonXP build running an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.

My point being, you aren't going to stress this chipset running it at 133Mhz.. It has jumpers to set it to 150 (I only ever got a CPU to post at that speed, like I said, I wazs still an overclocking n00b at the time) so left it at 133.

This is on the short list of my all time favorite boards..

If you get weird glitches or issues, from time to time it helps to completely unplug all power and let it sit for 24-48 hours.. not sure why older stuff had intermittent issues like that but out of the years I had it, I only had to do this once.

I rode this board hard and it returned great service to me.

I'd like to see a Tuialatin CPU on this board and see some benchmarks.... Be sure you run as obvious as it sounds, QUALITY memory modules.. PC133 minimum.. come to think of it, if I had the PC-150Mhz memory at the time, I probably could have easily punished that 866Mhz CPU I had... 🤣

If Tualatin-1400 is possible on a Slotket, but you wouldn't want to run 133 FSB, I guess that a 1400 would be happy to run 1050 at 100 FSB and with a lower powerconsumption ..?

I ordered a 550Mhz CPU because the price was right, and I flashed the bios. This board is acting strange with my AWE32/joysticks/PS2 extension cables...

H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-04-27, 11:13:

If Tualatin-1400 is possible on a Slotket, but you wouldn't want to run 133 FSB, I guess that a 1400 would be happy to run 1050 at 100 FSB and with a lower powerconsumption ..?

I ran a Tualatin 1400 at 1050 Mhz with no issues for a little while on a 440BX board. I was using a Powerleap PL-iP3/T adapter (slotket) .

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:00:

This page has all the info you need

https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013933/ht … pgrade_faq.html

Thank you so much for this link, I now can confirm what my P2B-F can and can't run..