Fry's latest loss leader, price good through Thursday, October 24th.
A bare Celeron 1.7 GHz OEM CPU and a Shuttle MV42N motherboard for $100.
The motherboard is a 478 pin jobbie with the VIA P4M266 (VT8751) chipset. It has onboard S3 Savage4 video, sound and LAN, plus 2 SDRAM slots and 2 DDR slots. It has an AGP 2.0 slot and 2 PCI slots, plus an invaluable CNR socket. The Shuttle page claims the board supports 400 MHz FSB, so I'm not sure it would work with a 533 MHz FSB PIV.
Pricewatch bottom lines a (retail) Celery 1.7 GHz for $71 and the mobo for $63 delivered. Of course, you could get a Biostar M7VIG for $59 and an AMD Athlon XP1700+ (that puts out the same heat as the Celery 1.7) for $61 and the Athlon processor would give you about 35% more performance, but for most purposes I don't think the average user could tell the difference & $20 is $20, plus the Intel CPU won't fry like an egg if the heat sink pops off for some reason.
A bare Celeron 1.7 GHz OEM CPU and a Shuttle MV42N motherboard for $100.
The motherboard is a 478 pin jobbie with the VIA P4M266 (VT8751) chipset. It has onboard S3 Savage4 video, sound and LAN, plus 2 SDRAM slots and 2 DDR slots. It has an AGP 2.0 slot and 2 PCI slots, plus an invaluable CNR socket. The Shuttle page claims the board supports 400 MHz FSB, so I'm not sure it would work with a 533 MHz FSB PIV.
Pricewatch bottom lines a (retail) Celery 1.7 GHz for $71 and the mobo for $63 delivered. Of course, you could get a Biostar M7VIG for $59 and an AMD Athlon XP1700+ (that puts out the same heat as the Celery 1.7) for $61 and the Athlon processor would give you about 35% more performance, but for most purposes I don't think the average user could tell the difference & $20 is $20, plus the Intel CPU won't fry like an egg if the heat sink pops off for some reason.
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