Weird PIII 400MHz(?) without stepping (does not exist officially)
Yero
enough, the FSB is set at 100 and the multiplier at 4, which makes it
a 400MHz chip. BUT... A PIII 400 does not exist, as it starts at 450!
Though I'm sure its a PIII, as it has the pretty blue PIII processor
in the middle and two cache chips on the RIGHT.
Could this be an early sample?
It also features:
* Disabled L2 cache 512Kb
* No SSE
* No PSN
* Family 6, Model 5, Stepping 2 (comparable with late PII's)
It works fine, but as it has no L2 cache, it performs like a PII 350.
It is stable at @450 v2.0. sad enough I don't have PC133 memory
otherwise I'm sure it would work fine at 533MHz.
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Matt
processor from? I think that you may have been conned,
Yero <exam...@home.nl> wrote in message news:38c42d0f.6441817@news...
Kristopher/EOS
>
> I found a true Pentium III chip that has NO STEPPING on it.
> Weird enough, the FSB is set at 100 and the multiplier at 4,
> which makes it a 400MHz chip. BUT... A PIII 400 does not
> exist, as it starts at 450! Though I'm sure its a PIII, as
> it has the pretty blue PIII processor in the middle and two
> cache chips on the RIGHT.
>
> Could this be an early sample?
> It also features:
> * Disabled L2 cache 512Kb
> * No SSE
> * No PSN
> * Family 6, Model 5, Stepping 2 (comparable with late PII's)
My first guess would be that its a p-2 counterfeited to look
like a p-3.
Kristopher/EOS
Yero
>processor from? I think that you may have been conned,
Possible... bought it for $10 anyways, so no prob.
(at a computer conference; broken stuff etc)
Yero
>like a p-3.
It was produces by Intel though. A box can be counterfeited, but a
chip cannot. The cache chips are on the right instead of left AND
right on a PII.