I was wondering if it is possible to stick slot 1 pentium 3's in a pentium 2 motherboard? This is a very similar server to the one that I am getting - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=51226

If I bought 2 P3's with a FSB of 100 (same as p2's) and with 512k L2 cache, would this work?

Cheers for any help

you should go to the Dell website and look up the MOBO, and see if
will handle P3's first b4 bidding!!

Finally a question I remotely know something about.

There are two linux PC's next to my foot (and a windows pc). Both contain motherboards that were originally designed for PII slot 1 processors. Both contain PIII's. One is an asus p2b-ds, it has dual PIII 500's. The other is a ws440bx, and it also has a pIII 500.

I'm told my asus p2b-ds could go up to pIII 1gz's. BUT. It depends on the "revision number". But that's for 1gz. So how fast is your P3?

That was the good news, and now the bad news:

Dell hardware is HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE! It's not only proprietary, it's booby-trapped proprietary. They may not be bothering to release bios upgrades the way asus does. The board may be capable "if only" the bios could be upgraded.

omg, how happy am i?!?!

Check this out, is this the sort of update you were on about- http://support.dell.com/filelib/form...leaseid=r21844

Cheers

I still wouldn't buy dell hardware, but good luck.

HAHA!! okay