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P3-S QEL8ES on a P2B-DS
I obtained a pair of Tualatin P3-S engineering samples, sSpec QEL8ES,
and tested them on an Asus P2B-DS using the 4 (long disused) multiplier jumpers provided on the board. I expected these processors would respond to changes in multiplier setting (they do), but didn't know how the settings would be interpreted since available documentation is from the P2 era and only goes to 8x - whereas retail P3-S processors have fixed multipliers of 8.5x, 9.5x, or 10.5x. I assumed these would be supported, and hoped for some additional more interesting numbers, but was disappointed. My results were : Jumper Setting(Decimal) Observed Multiplier Nominal Multiplier 0 4 2 1 9.5 4 2 8.5 3 3 9 5 4 NP 2.5 5 NP 4.5 6 NP 3.5 7 5.5 5.5 8 6 6 9 6.5 8 10 7 7 11 7.5 Reserved 12 8 6.5 13 NP 1.5 14 NP 7.5 15 4 2 NP means the processors did not post - not even at 66Mhz FSB, so I assume the setting is not supported. Nominal Multiplier refers to CPU:FSB clock ratios as documented for the P2. If there's a pattern here, I'm not seeing it - even after various binary sorts on the jumper setting. Seems plain odd. As you can probably guess, I was hoping to clock these processors beyond 10.5x, but can't even get there. Any suggestions? TIA P2B |
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wrote: I obtained a pair of Tualatin P3-S engineering samples, sSpec QEL8ES, and tested them on an Asus P2B-DS using the 4 (long disused) multiplier jumpers provided on the board. I expected these processors would respond to changes in multiplier setting (they do), but didn't know how the settings would be interpreted since available documentation is from the P2 era and only goes to 8x - whereas retail P3-S processors have fixed multipliers of 8.5x, 9.5x, or 10.5x. I assumed these would be supported, and hoped for some additional more interesting numbers, but was disappointed. My results were : Jumper Setting(Decimal) Observed Multiplier Nominal Multiplier 0 4 2 1 9.5 4 2 8.5 3 3 9 5 4 NP 2.5 5 NP 4.5 6 NP 3.5 7 5.5 5.5 8 6 6 9 6.5 8 10 7 7 11 7.5 Reserved 12 8 6.5 13 NP 1.5 14 NP 7.5 15 4 2 NP means the processors did not post - not even at 66Mhz FSB, so I assume the setting is not supported. Nominal Multiplier refers to CPU:FSB clock ratios as documented for the P2. If there's a pattern here, I'm not seeing it - even after various binary sorts on the jumper setting. Seems plain odd. As you can probably guess, I was hoping to clock these processors beyond 10.5x, but can't even get there. Any suggestions? TIA P2B The only thing that comes to mind is, do you think the BSEL pins are also inputs to selecting the multiplier ? Maybe the codes change as a function of the perceived bus speed. Try the lowest multipliers and ramp through the BSEL values, to see if the definition is changing at all. That seems unnecessarily complicated, but you never know. Maybe the higher multipler codes simply aren't supported in that stepping ? There are four (dual purpose) signals on the Pentium that are sensed on one of the edges of the RESET signal. One of them is called IGGNE. No amount of searching on the Intel site would give any more information on the table of values - the specs just say that the four signals are sampled. Good luck, Paul |
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Paul wrote: In article , P2B wrote: I obtained a pair of Tualatin P3-S engineering samples, sSpec QEL8ES, and tested them on an Asus P2B-DS using the 4 (long disused) multiplier jumpers provided on the board. I expected these processors would respond to changes in multiplier setting (they do), but didn't know how the settings would be interpreted since available documentation is from the P2 era and only goes to 8x - whereas retail P3-S processors have fixed multipliers of 8.5x, 9.5x, or 10.5x. I assumed these would be supported, and hoped for some additional more interesting numbers, but was disappointed. My results were : Jumper Setting(Decimal) Observed Multiplier Nominal Multiplier 0 4 2 1 9.5 4 2 8.5 3 3 9 5 4 NP 2.5 5 NP 4.5 6 NP 3.5 7 5.5 5.5 8 6 6 9 6.5 8 10 7 7 11 7.5 Reserved 12 8 6.5 13 NP 1.5 14 NP 7.5 15 4 2 NP means the processors did not post - not even at 66Mhz FSB, so I assume the setting is not supported. Nominal Multiplier refers to CPU:FSB clock ratios as documented for the P2. If there's a pattern here, I'm not seeing it - even after various binary sorts on the jumper setting. Seems plain odd. As you can probably guess, I was hoping to clock these processors beyond 10.5x, but can't even get there. Any suggestions? TIA P2B The only thing that comes to mind is, do you think the BSEL pins are also inputs to selecting the multiplier ? Good thought, hadn't occurred to me - but it seems not :-( My previous results hold true regardless of BSEL settings. Maybe the codes change as a function of the perceived bus speed. Try the lowest multipliers and ramp through the BSEL values, to see if the definition is changing at all. That seems unnecessarily complicated, but you never know. Maybe the higher multipler codes simply aren't supported in that stepping ? Unfortunately that seems the most likely scenario at this point. The 1.4Ghz-S processor was released quite a while after the 1.13 and 1.26Ghz versions, so perhaps my samples date from early in the P3-S development lifecycle - but I'm still surprised they don't appear to have allowed for testing at higher multipliers. There are four (dual purpose) signals on the Pentium that are sensed on one of the edges of the RESET signal. One of them is called IGGNE. No amount of searching on the Intel site would give any more information on the table of values - the specs just say that the four signals are sampled. The other three are A20M, LINT[0], and LINT[1]. The table of values can be found in section 5.2 of the "P6 Family of Processors Hardware Developer's Manual" - where it says to see the processor datasheet for supported settings :-) Good luck, Thanks, P2B Paul |
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