From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 20:48:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B3437B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-721.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.21]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA30707; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:48:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <006201c04a08$6feef920$0200000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , Cc: References: <3A09C68F.BEACB95F@wmptl.com> Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Hardware mb/cpu question... Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:49:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Vidican" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: OFFTOPIC: Hardware mb/cpu question... > > Has anyone got an Asus P3B-F (440BX) mainboard to successfully run with > an Intel PIII 800/PIII 850 mhz CPU ? Just want to assure the possibility > before purchasing new cpu. > > Drage > The ASUS website says that motherboard will support the P3-800 if it is of hardware revision 1.03 or later, and BIOS revision 1004 or later. (You can update the BIOS, but you can't do anything about the hardware revision #) Given the pricing of AMD to Intel right now I would be leary of buying a P3, especially a slot 1....looks like the p3-800 100mghz is running about $190. The Duron 800 is about $90 right now, and the Athlon 900 is about $190....of course you probably already have a P3 motherboard. To answer yuor question specifically, I have never owned the P3B-F, but I have had quite a few other ASUS motherboards, P2B and CUBX and so forth....they have always supported exactly what ASUS claimed they would. I wouldn't think there would be any reason to doubt their website about yours.. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message