old intel MOBO

[sbohdan]

my mom still using an old PIII 1Ghz. the motherboard is from intel (D815EEA) and I wanted to OC the CPU (PIII EB 1000Mhz) but can't find any adjustments in the BIOS. is it possible to OC the CPU on this MOBO through jumpers maybe or any other way? any suggestions? thanks in advance.

the MOBO chipset is: i815/E/EP (according to CPU-Z) rev.2
BIOS: 11/28/2000

I couldn't find anyting to OC the ram eighter or change the timings.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by sbohdan

my mom still using an old PIII 1Ghz. the motherboard is from intel (D815EEA) and I wanted to OC the CPU (PIII EB 1000Mhz) but can't find any adjustments in the BIOS. is it possible to OC the CPU on this MOBO through jumpers maybe or any other way? any suggestions? thanks in advance.

the MOBO chipset is: i815/E/EP (according to CPU-Z) rev.2
BIOS: 11/28/2000

I couldn't find anyting to OC the ram eighter or change the timings.

Chances are if its a 1Ghz P3, its running at the 133MHz bus, (or 100) whatever the P3 max was, and an Intel motherboard, your OC options are basically no existent.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

Chances are if its a 1Ghz P3, its running at the 133MHz bus, (or 100) whatever the P3 max was, and an Intel motherboard, your OC options are basically no existent.

The 1ghz cpu ran the 133 fsb.

But as Lead Head mentioned, the OC options are really non existent on the Intel boards. At that point in time, you pretty much had to have boards like Asus, MSI, or Gigabyte to be able to do any overclocking.

[JCLW]

"E" means Coppermine core
"B" means 133mhz FSB

But yeah, as the others said you can't overclock on (older) intel boards.

You probably wouldn't get much more out of it anyways - those Coppermines topped out at around 1100.

It should still have no problem running WinXP & MS Office, given enough RAM. My mom is using a Celeron-1200 and it works fine. My other half uses a PII laptop and even it runs WinXP & Office '03 without much difficulty, and that's with only 320MB of memory.

Since it looks like that's a "B" stepping of the i815, you could probably drop in a Tualatin core but it's probably a waste of money at this point.

If it's too slow for your mom, offer her $100 for it and make it into a file/FTP server.