Dual Coppermines
So I found a dual Pentium III setup on ebay for 15 dollars and decided to go for it. Turns out better than I was expecting. It's a Tyan S1837 motherboard with 2 1000MHz Slot 1 Coppermines, 1GB ECC memory (4 256MB PC100 SDRAM), GeForce2MX AGP graphics card, and IO shield. Old, but worth 15 bucks, at least to me.
I can't leave anything alone, so here's what I've got coming to me.
2 1.26GHz Tualatin Pentium III processors
2 Tualatin socket converters
2 slotkets
2 GB PC133 SDRAM
This thing works pretty well as is, but as soon as I saw that 133.3MHz FSB option in the BIOS, I figured I had to do it. The Tualatins have twice as much L2 cache in addition to the faster bus speed and operating speed. Even if the performance isn't what I expect I still have other slot 1 motherboards to play with.
It's weird, loading programs takes a little longer, but it streams video way better than my Athlon XP 2000+. It will even stream in fullscreen smoothly. Although, both processors run at 70-90% load. Still impressive for 16 years old.
I can't leave anything alone, so here's what I've got coming to me.
2 1.26GHz Tualatin Pentium III processors
2 Tualatin socket converters
2 slotkets
2 GB PC133 SDRAM
This thing works pretty well as is, but as soon as I saw that 133.3MHz FSB option in the BIOS, I figured I had to do it. The Tualatins have twice as much L2 cache in addition to the faster bus speed and operating speed. Even if the performance isn't what I expect I still have other slot 1 motherboards to play with.
It's weird, loading programs takes a little longer, but it streams video way better than my Athlon XP 2000+. It will even stream in fullscreen smoothly. Although, both processors run at 70-90% load. Still impressive for 16 years old.