[rescue] upgrading sun pcii card

steve price rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 30 09:31:52 CST 2001


can you point me to a doc-set on the jumpers et al -
i've got a business friend who has 800, 900, 1000
speed chips he'll let me try...
what would you recommend?

--- Chris Byrne <cbyrne at insl.ie> wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> The chipset and board jumpers will support a P3 up
> to 1 ghz (100mhz bus
> speed, 10 multiplier is the max for the chipset) ,
> but I havent tried it
> yet. I was thinking of picking up a p3 800 or so for
> experimentation
> since they are relativley cheap these days. Once you
> hit the ghz mark
> I'm not sure what the results would be due to heat
> and power supply
> issues anyway, and theres only the 1 ghz 100mhz FSB
> P3 anyway.
> 
> I do know that it works quite nicely with 512mb ram,
> and I think that it
> will take 512M SO-DIMMS if you can find any even
> though Sun says it cant
> cuz the chipset they are using has a 1.5GIG memory
> max. When Sun
> released the thing 512mb so-dimms werent available.
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org
> [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of steve price
> Sent: 29 October 2001 15:55
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org; rescue at sunhelp.org;
> sales at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [rescue] upgrading sun pcii card
> 
> 
> has anybody attempted to upgrade the processor on a
> sun pcii processor card to anything faster than a
> 733
> celeron?
> 
> regards
> 
> 
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