Pentium III-S 1.13GHz/512K adapter for ecsP6VXA board

DRDavo · #1 (**permalink**) 21-08-09, 10:34 PM

Does anyone know if an adapter for S-model P3 (Tualatin) is needed to work on the P6VXA ECS board? The P3 1.13GHz/256K is in the supported list but not the P3-S. Maybe it wasn't out yet, I don't know. DRDavo

Mr. Chris · #2 (**permalink**) 22-08-09, 08:00 AM

AFAIK, the -S is the server CPU which runs at a different voltage than the other P3's. so, yes, you would need an adapter to keep from frying the CPU. Chris.

cstore01 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-09, 05:13 AM

There were two variations of Pentium III Tualatin microprocessors. Desktop version of Pentium III Tualatin CPUs had 256 KB L2 cache. Server-class processors had 512 KB L2 cache and were branded as "Pentium III-S". The difference between desktop and server Tualatin microprocessors was not only in L2 cache size. Desktop processors didn't support dual-processing, and only Pentium III-S CPUs could work in dual-processor systems.
The above info from CPU-World. Also, as Mr Chris said, there is a voltage difference between the 2 with the S processor rated at 1.45v and the standard at 1.475v. Not a huge difference, but probably enough to cause a problem, if not immediately, then in reduced CPU life.