Rarest PII/PIII?

[sammyc]

866 will still fetch good money *ish*

[el_gecko]

Wrong. PIII 1133 Slot-1 has existed.
Look at this article (source: www.redhill.net.au)

Intel Pentium-III 1133

An extraordinary debacle. In an attempt to maintain some credibility at the top of the performance tree, Intel announced the 1130Mhz Pentium-III in July 2000. As we had grown used to by this time, it wasn't available to the public in any quantity, but more of a very low-volume marketing stunt. And this time, it was a stunt that backfired. Several of the reviewers who were lucky enough to get early production samples sent to them had difficulties. Tom's Hardware, for example, were unable to complete a Linux kernel compilation without it crashing, neither were Hard OCP. (Both sites have extensive write-ups of the issue, which are worth searching out.)

The initial reaction from Intel was to ignore the warning signs, and say that there were no known problems with the 1.13GHz P III. But soon it became apparent that the problems were real, and that the poor old P6 core just couldn't be pushed any further in the then-current 0.18 micron process. Humiliatingly, Intel were obliged to withdraw the P III 1133 from sale and issue refunds to those who had bought one.

From this point on, what had long been obvious became quite unmistakable: the P-6 core had reached the end of its road. There was to be one final re-shrink of the Pentium-III but this was never going to arrive in time to compete with the ever-improving Athlon Thunderbird. From here on for Intel, it was Pentium 4 or bust.

Form: Slot 1
Design: Intel
Manufacture: Intel
Introduction: July 2000
Status: Recalled August 2000

Good luck

[Mixeur]

So it should be the rarest PIII I think...

[sammyc]

Well researched Gecko.