P3TSSE mobo + VIA C3 800MHz?

Will the P3TSSE motherboard work with a VIA C3 800MHz (Ezra) processor? The
VIA compatibility list doesn't many any Supermicro motherboards, but the
P3TSSE is based on the Intel 815e chipset, and there are plenty of boards
based on 815e on VIA's compatibility list.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/vml.jsp
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/815/p3tsse.htm

Thanks,

James

In article <br4tjh$oht$07$1@news.t-online.com>, james RemoveThis @exim.dyndns.org says...
 > Will the P3TSSE motherboard work with a VIA C3 800MHz (Ezra) processor? The
 > VIA compatibility list doesn't many any Supermicro motherboards, but the
 > P3TSSE is based on the Intel 815e chipset, and there are plenty of boards
 > based on 815e on VIA's compatibility list.
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/vml.jsp</font" target="_blank">http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/vml.jsp</font</a>>
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/815/p3tsse.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/815/p3tsse.htm</font</a>>
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > James
 >
 >
 >

Unless someone authoritative tells you that it is supported, don't bet on it. The
chipset is just one component. You also need BIOS support for the CPU. I have had
good luck with that C3 Ezra in an MSI 6309 v 5.0 (aka 694T Pro) motherboard, one
of the supported boards and also one of the very few that supports ECC. Recently I
tried the newer C3 Nehemiah in the MSI board, which should have been noticeably
faster. It barely ran since there was no support for the new CPU in the BIOS and
the processor caches were not enabled.

There is also a Gigabyte board, GA-6VTX I think, that has the Via 694T chipset and
would be a good one to look at.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->