Overclocking a PIII 500 Katmai--curious as to predicted resu

[INFERNO2000 0]

I just bought a new motherboard(Tekram P6Pro-A+ for $52 on ebay)...Via Apollo Pro 133 chipset.

 

I'm going to be overclocking my PIII 500 katmai(pre-Coppermine) from my Compaq with it.

 

I'm curious if I can reasonably expect to get to the 133 mhz FSB (666 Mhz CPU)...and can I reasonably hope to surpass that?(the motherboared was made for the 133 FSB...so I think I can run that, thus overclocking the CPU, but not the rest of the hardware. (Please tell me if this thought is incorrect)

 

My other peripherals are a Voodoo3 3000 AGP, an ISA NIC, a Soundcard, and the mouse and other standard peripherals.

[Gerbache Kaznet 0]

My P3-500 is currently overclocked to 550. I can run 575 as well, but anything above that refuses to boot. The catch is that I'm running a BX chipset, so I'm not too sure if that limit is due to the chip itself or the rest of my system refusing to run that fast. Good luck to ya!

[MoreLight 0]

I saw your post today and did some messing with a PIII550 slot one in the P3B-F.

 

The highest bus speed it would post at was 124 with VCore set to 2.5 = 682Mhz. It wouldn't load the Kernel for Advanced Server.

 

The fastest it would boot and run Server at was 120 with VCore at 2.2 = 660MHz. Ran stable at that speed, played MP3's no problem and Motherboard Monitor reported cpu temp about 24degC.

 

However, as soon as I started playing any game using D3D, it immediately did a core memory dump and required a shut down.

 

If the OS had been Win98, it probably would have been fine.

 

I think you should be able to get over 600Mhz with your 500, but if you plan on running it in any Win2000 OS, you are going to have problems there.

[INFERNO2000 0]

Nah...maybe a dual boot...but I doubt it...I'm wanting this strictly for 9x...it's my travel PC(LAN PC ). I have my 800eb and cusl2 for my 2000 needs and desires.