Just ordered a...

[x64208203]

P3 600E with the new cB0 stepping from pcnut.com. It says that they are still in stock but well' have to see when I check the status on FedeX. Say's it should be here in 3 days. I'll try to get benchmarks and tell you how well it o/c's as soon as posible.

see ya later guys.

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[saltedeggman]

what mobo will you be using??

salt

[Hikeon3]

bet SETI will run mighty fine on that thing. My celly2 is sub-standard when it comes to WU's.

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[x64208203]

Salt,

I will be running it on a P3V4X with mushkin pc133 hsdram. I will be getting the rest of the system as I make money from my summer job. It will probably be complete around the end of July or begining of August.

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[saltedeggman]

the fsb of the asus board max out @ 150...

salt

[warhorse]

Whats stepping again? I thought it was like the Crusoe where you can scale back processor speed, but then how does that help SETI?

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[Hikeon3]

Doesnt help seti much, just helpes the oc.

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[x64208203]

Wow the Asus boards only go to 150.

I may rethink this then and go with a BE6-II. The only real reason I was going with the p3v4x was for the 4x AGP and the point that most fans don't take up one dimm on it.

Thanks for the Info.

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[saltedeggman]

well I am not 100% sure...you may want a confirmation on this...

helps o/c mean helps seti, higher mhz mean high mflops...

salt

[Machupo]

x64... did you already buy the HSDRAM? just curious, because i've got two sticks of the Rev. 1 Higher performance stuff from Mushkin (i'm keeping one and jopey's got dibs on the other, so sorry, i can't sell)... but i just got it to boot at 169mhz (ram speed). i'm using an abit KA7 with the beta bios (#42) and i had the memory bus set to host + pci clock and the hostclock is running at 127mhz... --> 169mhz sweeeeeet!

so, just in case you haven't bought your ram yet, you may want to consider the High Performance stuff at mushkin.

oh yeah, i was running this at 3-3-3

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[Machupo]

just to answer your Q.... stepping is sort of like a "revision" of the processor die...

i think the name comes from a machine used in the lithography process called a "stepper"

the cB0 stepping of the coppermines is the newest stepping and it supposedly allows for a) SMP and b) higher overclocking

[x64208203]

Thanks Machupo, no I haven't got the RAM yet so I will take that into consideration.

Thanks again,
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[saltedeggman]

I just checked with my friend...

the highest fsb is 166...

salt

[x64208203]

Thanks salt, I don't think that it will get any higher than that with air cooling anyways so I think that I will stick with the P3V4X. I may change my mind though... Who knows.

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[Machupo]

which Abit boards use SoftMenu III ??? that goes up to 200mhz