This is provided of course that the i820 mainboard the user has selected is capable of utilizing PC-133 SDRAM via a 2 + 2 memory format, as not all boards will be able to do.
Again, information regarding the entire i820 mainboard situation is covered in full detail in our first i820 mainboard review.
The bottom line is that if a user wants it badly enough, a 133MHz front side bus based system is more than possible, it's available thanks to the introduction of today's two CPUs.
But are they worth it? Is it justifiable to purchase a new Pentium III CPU right now when the superior Coppermine CPU line is nearing its debut?
Lets look now at the performance of the P3-533B and P3-600B towards answering that question.
In order to properly examine the speed potential the new P3s, we decided to compare them against a standard 100MHz based P3-600MHz CPU in an identical system.
We also decided to use the same benchmark suite we utilized when testing the Intel i820 Vancouver mainboard last week, which stresses the system bus and CPU performance equally.
