Re: hardware question : P2B and PIII 800

["Bryan Mark" <bryanmark@example.com>]

Well, this is more of a take your own chances kind of advice...

Theoretically is should work since the "Voltage Reglator Selection (VID) is 
not needed for the Pentium II processor because it sends a VID signal 
directly to the onboard power controller." - right from the Asus site.

On a P3BF board I've used a 2.0V 450P2, and a 1.65V 650P3 - it has the same 
design (so I've heard) for the voltage regulator as the P2B series.

Worst it will do is fuse your CPU into molten slag. <smile>

>It's not linux related, but I think any of the gurus may know:
>
>I have an ASUS P2B motherboard with a Pentium II 450 Mhz, and I want to
>replace the processor with a Pentium III 800 MHz. Would it work?
>
>I was looking at the specs and found that both use the same Slot 1
>socket, but the P II works with 2.0V, while the P III 800 with 1.65 V,
>
>I went to the asus web page and found that the processors supported for
>the P2B are "Single Slot 1 for Intel PentiumR II 233MHz ~ 450MHz and
>PentiumR III 450MHz~600+MHz processors with 512KB integrated L2 Cache,"
>but it doesn't mention about 800 MHz.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Hector

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