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Grant wrote: |
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> I'm going to try a Tualatin P3-1.26 in my i810E motherboard. I did a |
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> ton of research and I think my motherboard will support it. It comes |
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> down to whether or not it's a revision B board. lspci -v just says |
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> (rev 3). eBay has it for $31 shipped and guaranteed not DOA. |
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> My main concern is the memory. My motherboad supports PC100 memory as |
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> well as a 133fsb although it's not running at that speed now. I'll |
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> have to crank it up to 133fsb to support the Tualatin CPU, and I |
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> wonder how that will affect the PC-100 memory. Would it be better to |
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> buy good Kingston PC-100 memory and hope it can handle the extra |
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> speed, or to buy PC-133 memory for the motherboard that officially |
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> supports PC-100. |
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One thing that comes to mind is that the Tualatin P3-1.26 is a server |
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cpu and does not work in many desktop boards (I have *heard* that it |
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requires motherboard/memory ECC). If you've done the checking, and the |
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board is suitable then cool. |
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Assuming that is the case :-), I would hunt PC133 memory on ebay - there |
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is a lot of it, and provided the Dell does not require rare or odd DIMM |
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layouts, it should be cheap. Again - check if you need to buy ECC memory |
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due to the choice of cpu (that will make it more expensive!). |
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With respect to the question "yeah - but is it worth upgrading?" - I |
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think there is plenty of life left in PIII machinery - I run one of these: |
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http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P3/VIA/P3TDDE.cfm |
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and it is just great! |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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