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GreyMatterTripp

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I have a question about a Pentium 2 or 3. This is a really old friends computer. I was just wondering what socket this CPU is?????


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pentium 2's and some pentium 3's were in the Slot 1 format. It looks kinda like a sega genesis cartridge. At the same time, the celerons and later P3's were socket 370.

And yeah, wtf is that pic.
 
slot 1 sucked. so weird trying to get it out. all my p3s are socket 370 :cool:
 
samsung.204b said:
sig! i think.
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Thats what Im leaning towards. But yeah Slot 1 was different and the Socket 370s were better but I think the Slot 1s might of been more common. exspecialy in the early years.
 
come to think, i remember slot1, and i liked at the time, strange it didn't last. a huge proc. if we still had it, wouldn't it be better to deal with the cooling process? separated cpu from mobo, etc.?
 
Slot 1 was great, good ol intel 440bx, still run mine, going over 8 years running 24/7.
 
time flys... i remember my P3 1000Mhz socket 370, but sold it to someone who has a PII and still works! :eek: man i cant belive its been about 7-8 years ago that i had that thing, wow.
But back then that thing flys sometimes i liked more then my P4 2Ghz. ah. the good old days.
 
Thanks for the Info. He just wants to get it up and running to record music onto from various sorces and maybe do a tiny bit of low end gaming. First upgrade will be RAM as this thing only has 8MB of RAM PC 100or130 RAM. I am still wresting with getting past the password on the Windors Server Family built with NT technology.

and the pic is my sig.
 
Lich said:
slot 1 sucked. so weird trying to get it out. all my p3s are socket 370 :cool:
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Slo1 was easy. Especially retail CPUs. You didn't even have to install the heatsink (already attached to the CPU). Just pop it in the slot. the retention brackets weren't really nessessary at all unless you had a CPU with a heavy 3rd party heatsink (like the Alpha P3125).

I liked the idea of attaching the heatsink to the CPU, as you don't have to disassemble the entire thing to swap out CPUs. I bet reviewers would like that.

I still have an abit BE6-II with a Celeron 300A @ 450 running Windows 98SE. It still runs older games great :eek:
 
I still have that Slot 1 Alpha heatsink lol I have been dreading to throw it out reminds me of my first OC
 
i still have the thermaltake slot 1 golden orb in its retail white packaging
wow did it look kick ass back then
 
Soparik2 said:
i still have the thermaltake slot 1 golden orb in its retail white packaging
wow did it look kick ass back then
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I have a P3 1ghz 370 with a Golden Orb on it sitting right here.. Seems so long ago, but it really wasnt.. (Had a Slot one P2 400 at one time too..)
 
Still running two PIII 850s that are S370 on Asus BX mobos. XP SP2. (Had to put 512 meg of ram in them when they were upgraded to XP SP1).

One is my moms computer the other is a SAMBA server. Both are on 24/7.

They are tanks.

Had to replace a couple of fans. That's about it.
 
Wife's pc is a Slot 1 PIII 850 Coppermine on a Abit 440 BE6II
Son has a Slot 1 Tualatin 1.2GHZ [Powerleap] in a Dell that was a P2 450 originally.
Both have GF4Ti-4200's in them.
They are over 8 years old and run problem free.
I also have a Plll 650 s370 on an Abit BE6, GF2 GTS pro'
The slot 1 cpu's snap in nice and tight.
I like slot 1's. I like Abits ;)
 
Before you go aging the P-3 back to the dinosaurs and telling everyone you have been running your for 8 years or more I think you should be aware of one little fact.
The P-3 was officially released on FEB.26,1999 and was really unobtainable til March 1 1999 then Intel opened the flood gates. It was slot one just like the P-2 cuz they were in a hurry to keep up with AMD. and of course slot one was already being used with the P-2 The first processors in 450 and 500. The P-3 450 was about 5% faster in apps than the P-2 450 and by late 2000 Not even 2 years later the P-3 was done as the first P-4's released on October 20, 2000. They were actually slower on most apps than last P-3's. Ok well that is enough history for one post. I must tell you the highest OC I ever saw on a celeron 300A was 547mhz and I saw lots of them.

WZ
 
WeldZilla said:
Before you go aging the P-3 back to the dinosaurs and telling everyone you have been running your for 8 years or more I think you should be aware of one little fact.
The P-3 was officially released on FEB.26,1999 and was really unobtainable til March 1 1999 then Intel opened the flood gates. It was slot one just like the P-2 cuz they were in a hurry to keep up with AMD. and of course slot one was already being used with the P-2 The first processors in 450 and 500. The P-3 450 was about 5% faster in apps than the P-2 450 and by late 2000 Not even 2 years later the P-3 was done as the first P-4's released on October 20, 2000. They were actually slower on most apps than last P-3's. Ok well that is enough history for one post. I must tell you the highest OC I ever saw on a celeron 300A was 547mhz and I saw lots of them.

WZ
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Mine started it's life as a single PII 350 with 96 megs of ram in Aug. of 1998, it now runs dual PIII 600s with a gig of ram, other then getting a 9200se a couple of years back and migrating to a antec 3700, the tyan 440 bx motherboard in it has been running for over 8 years straight with the same soundcard and nic along the way. Wasn't this post about Pentium 2's and 3's and their sockets? I'd say an 8 year life span in which mine went from running NT4, 98SE, ME, 2000 Pro, XP to 2003 running AD is a pretty good lifespan.
 
tyan made a 440bx board with 2 s370 sockets that permitted non xeon mp? how about that. i remember when the via chipset abit board (vp7) that permitted 2x celeron it caused a freaking uproar at intel.
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
tyan made a 440bx board with 2 s370 sockets that permitted non xeon mp? how about that. i remember when the via chipset abit board (vp7) that permitted 2x celeron it caused a freaking uproar at intel.
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Maybe your thinking of the abit bp6
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
tyan made a 440bx board with 2 s370 sockets that permitted non xeon mp? how about that. i remember when the via chipset abit board (vp7) that permitted 2x celeron it caused a freaking uproar at intel.
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Not sure if they ever had a dual 370 board, mine's a dual slot 1, this one to be exact. Runs like a champ, had to put aftermarket coolers on the PIIIs because of the layout though, the passive heatsinks just didn't cut it.
 
ND40oz said:
Mine started it's life as a single PII 350 with 96 megs of ram in Aug. of 1998, it now runs dual PIII 600s with a gig of ram, other then getting a 9200se a couple of years back and migrating to a antec 3700, the tyan 440 bx motherboard in it has been running for over 8 years straight with the same soundcard and nic along the way. Wasn't this post about Pentium 2's and 3's and their sockets? I'd say an 8 year life span in which mine went from running NT4, 98SE, ME, 2000 Pro, XP to 2003 running AD is a pretty good lifespan.
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Uh, No it was not about Pentium 2's the title was Super old P-3's. All I was saying is that P-3's are not super old!! 1999 was not that long ago and it is no miracle for a computer to last 8 years.

WZ
 
Hey the only reason I remember is cuz I was waiting and watching for their release. I was right there on the morning of March 1st 1999 to get mine!! I was the first guy I knew that had one. I liked it the processor beccause it was better than previous processors at mutli-tasking or so it felt like it to me. And it sometimes that seems like it was a long time ago.
What is really amazing is that P-3 450 system cost as much to build as my current
P5W DH, E6400, 2x1024 G.Skill 6400HZ, Enermax liberty 500watt psu, 7900GT vid card,
2X160gig hdd's in Raid0 array, Watercooling system, DVD-RW, 19in LCD wide screen, well you get the idea. I can remember when people were spending over $2000 for a 233mhz system and thought they were kicking ass!! I remember in august of 2000 when the P-3 600 came out at only $699 people were stunned by the low price as it was suppose to cost $827. Makes Conroes look real reasonable!!

WZ
 
loxety said:
Maybe your thinking of the abit bp6
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Nope, there was a BP6 and a VP6. The BP6 was limited to Celeron CPU's only, and the VP6 could dual Tualatin and Coppermine Pentium III's. Unfortunately, the VP6 suffers from the capacitor leakage issue and as was pointed out in another post, it was too late to market.
 
GreyMatterTripp said:
I have a question about a Pentium 2 or 3. This is a really old friends computer. I was just wondering what socket this CPU is?????
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Yeah, I guess the OP's question was only about P3s... :rolleyes:
 
I still have a BP6! Was my old linux router/firewall box.had 2 Celeron 500's in it...with...guess what...GOLDEN ORBS!

I also have an Asus P2B-DS that had dual 333's in it. Man...those were the days...big, fat, clunky, hot-running cpus.

I used to have a VP6, nice board that was as well. Had 2 P3-1Ghz in it. Had it outside the case working on it one time and my friggin' cat decided to rub up against it and discharged a shitload of static into it. Ran real quircky for 2 days and died. Still have that damn cat too but he hasn't fried anything else.
 
better rma that cat before it breaks any more hardware.
i had a slot 1 celly, and a p2 or 2, but i remember the biggy for me was getting the s370 coppermine 500, which was another great overclocker. the only thing that held it back was the non-locking agp/pci bus's, but whatever vid card i was using ( canopus tnt2 ultra or leadtek gf2) could run up close to 100mhz on the agp bus. so a lot of these chips got 50% oc's with an asus p3b or some version of the abit be6, or bh6.
 
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