Thread: P3 Tualatin overclockers. Anybody still here ?
Started 1 year, 5 months ago by 6502kid
muddocktor, Flu!d, ol'man, Celemine1Gig or anybody else who was
doing the Tualatin OC thing back in the day still around ?
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=52032
Reason I bring it up is that both my Asus P4 boards died
suddenly within 2 months of each other. (p4p800 & p4p800-e deluxe)
Did some checking on pricewatch, and while there are some junky
socket 478 boards ...
Dude! Those tually Celeron's were awesome! So cheap, so fast, 256k L2 cache, and every single one of them overclocked so well. I bet that dual P3 setup is awesome!
Yeah, it is screaming right along. Its passed a week of tests, and I got it setup
with Fedora 8 as Apache/Tomcat webserver, ftp and mysql servers no problem
so far. Gonna get the gameservers setup on it this week and then it should go
online to replace one of the older boxes.
The DSL line will choke long before this machine would. It needs a T1.
I have a trio of Dells with 1.26 GHz Tualatins crunching seti at this very moment. I may replace all but one of them with a single Atom setup, I've yet to decide. They're quite the robust systems, sitting in a stack on the floor, headless, running linux 24/7. They receive practically no physical maintenance and still keep chugging along at 100% loads.
Scott, I sold my old P3 setup years ago. But I remember that with the GA6-0XET board you could run the ram asynchonously from the fsb speed using the jumpers on the board. That was the way I could get up to 180 fsb with my 1.26S with a pelt. The Crucial stuff I had was only good to about 155-160 fsb before it would crap out. Look in your manual and see if you can find how to set the ram to run ...
My home server is a P3S 1.26 on a MSI 694T Pro. Its a workhorse. So far no cap problems, but I do need another one for a friend. Her kids puter took a dump and I need to get her a working rig going for school. I have one of those Tut Celerons to use in it and plenty of SDRAM. My 1.26 does 1.4@150fsb. But I really dont need the xtra power. So I have it running at stock. Missed one on fleabay, ...
I hate to admit it, but I am still running my Tualatin core system as my main machine. I was never into games (other than Quake III) or anything really processor intensive so I just never had a need to replace my system.
Current specs:
Asus TUSL2-C mobo
Intel Celeron Tualatin core 1300MHz @ 1550Mhz (yeah, it's old.)
And a whole 384MB of PC-133 :-P
Don't forget the GeForce FX5500 AGP...
Great MB. The server that is getting replaced is on a TUSL2-C. Its been running
constantly for years with no problems.
Plan on sticking it in a backup desktop system and maybe overclocking it some when
the swap is done.
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"Now look sad and say 'Doh'...." - Homer's brain
#1 - P4 3.0E@ 3765mhz
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Originally Posted by 6502kid
Great MB. The server that is getting replaced is on a TUSL2-C. Its been running
constantly for years with no problems.
Plan on sticking it in a backup desktop system and maybe overclocking it some when
the swap is done.
Ohh yeah, with my "hacked" BIOS, it makes...
Mine is also running the "Evil Inside" bios......
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"Now look sad and say 'Doh'...." - Homer's brain
#1 - P4 3.0E@ 3765mhz
#2 - P4 2.4c@ 3012mhz
#3 - P3-S 1.26@1434mhz
"Are you sure you just haven't made thousands of mistakes ?" -- Monty Burns
Bump. In the process of rebuilding my main P4 box, so I fired up the TUSL2-C a few days back. It is still cranking right along. Running it at 1501mhz now. mem at 2-2-2 5/7. It dual boots Fedora 8 and Win98SE. And no, you cant buy it from me......
hehe, those were the good times... the overclocks actually counted for something. __________________ dothan 730 @ 2.6Ghz l p4c800ed l 4x512MB bh5 2-2-2-5 5:4 ~3v l Antec Neo 480 e6600 @ 3.6GHz l P5W64 WS Pro l 4x1GB D9GMH (B6-3) 3-3-3-3-12 4:3 2.2v l PCP&C 750 *** Sen's Massive NF7-S 2.0 BIOS Vault *** Tuniq and the Seven Fans :P - ocf mini-review *** My Heatware
Quote: Originally Posted by 6502kid Great MB. The server that is getting replaced is on a TUSL2-C. Its been running constantly for years with no problems. Plan on sticking it in a backup desktop system and maybe overclocking it some when the swap is done. Ohh yeah, with my "hacked" BIOS, it makes it even nicer :-D The only issue I have is to get it to overclock more than 3MHz (FSB) I had to put a southbridge heatsink on the...
I have a few P3 tualatin 1.4ghz 512k cache machines with a gig of ram. They are all folding away with hardly a problem. I should retire them @ 100 ppd, but I enjoy the nostalgia. __________________ --Q6600 G0 2.4 @ 3.6 ghz, 25/38c P5K dlx on Swiftech H20-220 water, Nvidia 8600 GT, Crucial Ballistic pc8500. --E6600 2.4 @ 3.6 ghz, 25/45c 965P-DS3, SI-128 120mm fan w/exhaust duct, Nvidia 7600 GT, Ultra pc6400 dual-channel. --940 3.2 @ 4.0 ghz,...
I am still running my Tualatin Celeron 1.1@1.45 after all these years as my main rig. Like others I don't game so I've been able to nurture my system up to this point. Actually it's been years since I've actively posted I'd imagine Flu!d, ol'man and Celemine have surely moved on to more robust platforms. I actually just purchased a PIII-S 1.4GHz new for dirt cheap and looking for another 256mb stick of RAM to see...
if you really dont want to give up your P3 rigs or tuallies, imo the best thing you can get for them is a SSD drive. will make it feel like a whole new computer... if you really want something but dont need much power then really look at picking up atom setup board/cpu is only $64 at www.ewiz.com . i still have my Tually celey 1.2g in the garage with 2x256mb cruical sticks on a Abit ST6.
I've got a working Pentium Pro 180 system still. It's actually fairly snappy as a web surfer sidekick computer, but any site with flash animations on it just about locks up the box.
They were something else...that's for sure. Were it not for the i815e's 512MB ram limitation, I might still be running my ST6 with it's PIII-S 1.4 ... well, that and the bulging caps
Dude! Those tually Celeron's were awesome! So cheap, so fast, 256k L2 cache, and every single one of them overclocked so well. I bet that dual P3 setup is awesome!
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