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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (10674)	3/13/2000 12:27:00 AM
From: TH	Respond to of 14778

Howard, Ran the Intel utility you provided a link for. It says that my expected frequency is 600 at 100Mhz, but my actual reported frequency is 800 at 133 for the system bus. It also says, "The tested Intel(R) processor and system bus appear to be operating above their frequency specifications, a condition commonly known as "overclocked". As I understand it, this ASUS board allows you to set both an internal and external frequency, which IMO is an attempt to market this board to overclockers. Section 4.4 of the P3C2000 manual says the following, "When the motherboard is set to JumperFree(tm) mode, this field allows you to select the internal frequency of your CPU." On the BIOS advanced menu you have three controls to adjust the system rate setting. First is an adjustment for the CPU Internal frequency, second is for the CPU frequency multiple, and last is the CPU external (fsb) frequency. What I understand is that you can adjust the frequency of the CPU only, while keeping the required 100 Mhz for the system bus. This is what I have done and its working great. Thus, I have a P3 600E that is running at 133 with a 6x multiple, yielding 800 Mhz. My PCI (and AGP I assume) as well as my DIMMS are running at 100 Mhz. Hope this clears it up. I thought this one was of the known advantages of this board and chipset. Maybe in my research I got it wrong and just ended up lucky. Let me know if there is something else you are interested in. Here is the link for the manual, but you have to download it. cgi.asus.com.tw Here is the link for the board itself. I think that because this board uses PC 100 DIMMs only, but will allow the use of the Coppermine EB series (133 FSB), the ASUS people built this feature in realizing that many would try to overclock the 100 FSB Coppermines to get some extra bang for the buck. asus.com.tw Works for me, as the P3 800 are pretty expensive, if you can even find one. The people at Access Micro cancelled my order last week and told me that Intel was recalling a whole bunch of Coppermines in 600-800 Mhz range. Good Luck. TH