At 09:29 AM 07/04/2000 , Dan Duffy wrote:
>I am going to be putting together a 733mhz Pentium III within the
>next couple weeks and I have a couple questions that I hope you can
>help me with.
>
>1. What socket does this chip use...370?
>
>2. Must I get 133mhz memory?
>
>3. What chipset for the motherboard?
>
>4. How about suggestions for the motherboard?
>    (This computer will be used by a college freshman, no overclocking
>     needed nor is it going to be used by a game player.)


The Intel PIII 733 CPU comes in two flavors, flipchip and slot one.
Both are excellent chips, but you will find the flipchip or FCPGA chips
are more economical to purchase.

We use the Flipchip in a Intel CA810EAL motherboard quite successfully
for servers.  The nice thing about this board is that it also has the audio,
video and LAN built into the motherboard, saving you from buying the I/O
cards.  This board uses the Intel 810 chipset.  Since your system is
not intended for gaming this would be a good choice.  Another point
here, is that most colleges today provide students access to the Internet
through the campus network, so the built in LAN adaptor solves a great
many issues right up front.

As far as PC133 SDRam, you really will not save much by downgrading
to PC100 SDRam and you will have a full 33% faster ram access with
the PC133 dram chips.   This is not an item I would skimp on since the
dollar difference is minor.

There are other motherboards we currently use regularly due to compatibility
and quality in the PCs we build, such at the Tyan S1854 Trinty400 motherboard.

There are cheaper motherboards around, but when you built a system that
is not going to be close at hand if problems arise, such as your situation,
it is always best to go with something that will be least problematic in the
future.

     Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group

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