From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GLqft-0000PX-1T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:26:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k890PUmV005484; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:25:30 GMT Received: from linda-2.paradise.net.nz (linda-2.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k890L1dc026333 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:21:02 GMT Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (tclsnelb1-src-1.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.172]) by linda-2.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0J5A00G71UAZTZ@linda-2.paradise.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:21:00 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-29-47.dsl.clear.net.nz [218.101.29.47]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868F55643FB for ; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:20:59 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:20:55 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} New CPU for my motherboard In-reply-to: <49bf44f10609080959r3e534743vba8179ada8a263ca@mail.gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <450208E7.3090300@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060704) References: <49bf44f10609062054x294373a9j271407cecabae791@mail.gmail.com> <1157609016.1536.25.camel@orpheus> <49bf44f10609080959r3e534743vba8179ada8a263ca@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9da5bb96-ee19-417e-a3a5-67a3979450f6 X-Archives-Hash: ad3bd82def9dc7fa02cb06dbca32dcfe Grant wrote: > > I'm going to try a Tualatin P3-1.26 in my i810E motherboard. I did a > ton of research and I think my motherboard will support it. It comes > down to whether or not it's a revision B board. lspci -v just says > (rev 3). eBay has it for $31 shipped and guaranteed not DOA. > > My main concern is the memory. My motherboad supports PC100 memory as > well as a 133fsb although it's not running at that speed now. I'll > have to crank it up to 133fsb to support the Tualatin CPU, and I > wonder how that will affect the PC-100 memory. Would it be better to > buy good Kingston PC-100 memory and hope it can handle the extra > speed, or to buy PC-133 memory for the motherboard that officially > supports PC-100. > > One thing that comes to mind is that the Tualatin P3-1.26 is a server cpu and does not work in many desktop boards (I have *heard* that it requires motherboard/memory ECC). If you've done the checking, and the board is suitable then cool. Assuming that is the case :-), I would hunt PC133 memory on ebay - there is a lot of it, and provided the Dell does not require rare or odd DIMM layouts, it should be cheap. Again - check if you need to buy ECC memory due to the choice of cpu (that will make it more expensive!). With respect to the question "yeah - but is it worth upgrading?" - I think there is plenty of life left in PIII machinery - I run one of these: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P3/VIA/P3TDDE.cfm and it is just great! Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list