Is it possible to use a CPU with a FSB of 133 mhz in a motherboard that's only 100 mhz?

Question

I bought this dual processor Pentium III slot 1 motherboard since it's kind of odd and would look neat in a windowed case...

This one I think:
http://www.baber.com/baber/411/tyan_s1833d.htm
Anyways, it is actually cheaper nowadays to buy a Pentium III slot 1 processor with a FSB of 133 mhz instead of 100 mhz.

I'm wondering if it's possible to use a 133 mhz Pentium III processor in that motherboard,
if so will it work at it's proper clock speed,
and will it affect the RAM.

Answer 1

Sorry, I can't help you but I am curious as to why you would want to do this. P3's are getting long in the tooth and even if you run 2 I don't think it would amount to much. Plain old sd-ram (not ddr or ddr2) is expensive if you don't have any to re-use. I bet that with the cost it will take to build this type of system you could probably purchase some decent components for a much faster, more up to date system. Like I said, just curious.

Answer 2

The other gentleman is incorrent you cannot change jumper settings to facilitate the higher FSB speed of anything above 100mhz. It stipulates in plain english on the MOBO product information sheet 'up to 100mhz'. The FSB speed determines the CPU multiplier values of the CPUs final speed in Mhz. In this case you will be forced to get a P3 CPU with an effective speed that is a multiple of 100 not 133. Hope this provides you the answer your looking for.

Answer 3

Motherboard: Abit IP35 professional CPU: Intel middle 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz i've got equipped a computer with the Abit IP35, common to artwork with, very solid and a lot of helpful components CPU is the recent 45nm build for C2D, mind-blowing overall performance and OC capacity

Answer 4

just change the jumpers on the board there should be a graph imprinted on it to tell you what jumpers clock @ what...if no clock jumpers then you might be able to go into BIOS and make these changes...but since the motherboard is so old - that option might not be available (OC-ing wasnt near as popular back then and those options were not viable to the end-user.

But , yes its possible - it will just depend on the quality of mobo.RAM, and how steady the CPU feels like being...

Answer 5

I think it could; but I know for sure only for 100 RAM running as 66 MHz, I once ran what you said by mistake and it was no problem as I remembered.