Is there any MoBo for a PIII 1 gig that supports more than 1/2 gig RAM?

[desertbluesman]

Is there any MoBo for a PIII 1 gig that supports more than 1/2 gig RAM? I would not mind keeping this PIII it works well but my CUSL 2 C+ only will support a half gig of RAM and with the new Vista OS you really need more I think.

[h20-ski]

To be honest even if there was one which I am not knowing, it might be a better investment to just get a new computer.

[desertbluesman]

Originally Posted by h20-ski

To be honest even if there was one which I am not knowing, it might be a better investment to just get a new computer.

Thanks for your reply, I know how to build my own computers, and have several other computers more powerful than the PIII, but it is so reliable I want to upgrade it a bit, a new MoBo and Ram are only a few hundred bucks. I don't buy prebuild computers by vendors so that puts me in the 8 hun + range to build something less than state of the art, so your answer although appreciated is not the one I was looking for.

Any others with an answer for my original question??

[PeterT]

I think the only chipsets with official support for the 133 FSB P3s and >512 RAM were VIA. Asus CUV4X?

[desertbluesman]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I think the only chipsets with official support for the 133 FSB P3s and >512 RAM were VIA. Asus CUV4X?

Thanks, I have bad memories of my first Windows computer with a VIA chipset. It was crash city from day one, I thought after coming over from the Mac series in 1999 what a horrible mistake I made switching to windows boxes.

Of course after XP Pro came out, and I switched to Intel chip sets, that question never arose again.

Nowadays I don't need no stinkin Macs anymore, although I would love to get an Intel Mac and a full pro Pro Tools HD system because that is the industry standard but I am a little short on cash right now, about thirty five grand short.

[SpeedDMN]

I know my P3 lappy will only support 512mb of RAM (pc100). Not sure about the desktops. In any case I don't think Vista would be a good idea on such a vintage PC. Aside from memory shortages, I think you would have more problems then benefits trying to push Vista with a 1g P3. It is pretty processor intensive.

[JCNiest5]

Up to 1GB is possible with this from Newegg: Newegg.com - DFI CA64-TC ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Nothing go past that (not to my knowledge anyway).

[SRTDodge05]

I ran vista on a P3 1ghz @ 1.2ghz with 512mb ram and it just sucked. I would not recommend doing it.

[Drufuss]

He, don't treat the old P-III like that.

Did think about upgrading my rig further several times. More RAM would be nice, if there would be a decent motherboard with the right cipset.
Also thought about getting a dual CPU board. But adapting my watercooling system to that would be to time consuming at the moment.

Greetings

Dru

[k0NG0]

There is the old VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset that uses DDR for the PIII. Boards like the Gigabyte GA-6RX.

DDR won't give much of an improvement compared to PC133 since the PIII is the bottleneck, but it will probably be cheaper and easier to find these days, and the chipset supports up to 4GB of memory.

Since these old chipsets are so mature, I would think most of the kinks in chipset drivers and such have been worked out.

Here's an old review of the aforementioned board: X-bit labs - Articles - Gigabyte GA-6RX Review

[traveler]

Originally Posted by SRTDodge05

I ran vista on a P3 1ghz @ 1.2ghz with 512mb ram and it just sucked. I would not recommend doing it.

Thanks for that bit of info. I had been wondering about that.

Conclusion: Use older hardware to run older OS's and games. Those games don't run right on the new stuff. Keep the old.



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[TheMatrix]

I know that the VIA Apollo 694x chipsets supported up to 1.5G. I know this for a fact because I sold off my Abit VH6T board and was able to load XP with 1.5G without a sweat. I also used it at one point as a Win 2003 test server. I never tried Vista on it as my video card blew. You should be able to find a few 694x boards left on New Egg that will meet your upgrade needs. However, since you have an aversion towards VIA chipsets this suggestion might be moot. I don't recall a chipset other than VIA that supported more than 1G of RAM. The good ole Intel BX chipsets did 1G and were very reliable. I have an Asus P3B-F that I still use as a Win 2003 server.

Hope you find this informative!

[ddoggma]

I'm using a DFI CM33-TC/TL for my LR server box. Its working fine. But has no AGP slot. Only 3 pci and 2 memory slots.I think its the PLE/133T chipset.I got mine new. for $30.00 on clearance sale.It running my 1.26S PIII @150 fsb with no problems. Its on 24/7 with a avg 33% load on her. Does windows media encoding and pushes my gigalan pretty good. Also handling teamspeak. It will take upto a gig of RAM.