Intel Pentium II processor board

Advantages: Its Intel
Disadvantages: Its Intel

...Unlike the jump from Pentium to Pentium II, which could justifiably be described as a revolutionary step, Intel's move from Pentium II to Pentium III is evolutionary. The new chip, which will initially be available in 450MHz and 500MHz clock speeds, uses the same 100MHz system bus, and Intel's preferred 440BX motherboard chipset, as its predecessor. The main differences are optimisations. In particular, the new chip has 70 extra instructions which have been designed to accelerate the performance of multimedia and Web-based operations such as audio/video streaming. In other words, the Pentium III is to the Pentium II what the Pentium MMX was to the vanilla Pentium. One highly controversial feature of the Pentium III processor is its machine-readable serial number, which can potentially be used to identify users to remote systems. Intel... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average off topic

Advantages: fast, new
Disadvantages: expensive

...I upgraded from an Intel Pentium II 450 mhz to the new Intel Pentium III 700 mhz mainly because of the upgrade offer at a low cost. I found that immediately there was a noticeable difference and just the way in which my computer carried out every day tasks like opening programs and the likes seemed to fly through as if my old chip was carrying 4 suitcases with it on it's chores! I find no problems at all with it and I would seriously recommend it to anyone after a high speed processor with lightning speed and good capabilities.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Temperature sensors, free software
Disadvantages: None

...I have a chaintech motherboard in my P3 system and it hs lots of good points to it: - Supports Intel Pentium II and Pentium III processors up to 733MHz Celeron 466MHz System clock 66/100/133MHz Slot 1 with convenient retention mechanism High efficiency switching power module There are temperature sensors on the board to keep you updated all the time about temps and fan speeds. It will take up to 768 MB of ram at speeds of 66/100/133MHz ram depending on the processors bus speed. It comes with a cd full of drivers and some free software like antivirus which is very helpfull.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful