Does anyone sell Slotkets anymore?

[Jzero]

I finally have an opportunity rebuild my beloved multiprocessor box, but it is a dual Slot 1 P3 board.

Does anyone know where the devil I can get Slotkets that let you use FC-PGA chips in Slot 1?

I checked the usual suspects - Newegg, ZipZoomFly, and CompGeeks....no dice.

 

[jalaram]

FS forums. I have two myself that I've never been able to sell. I'm sure there are others who still have them. I'm guessing you want them NIB?

Funny thing is that I bought my slotkets for the same reason, a dual p3 board. I had put p3-700 chips on them. IIRC, it was a Tyan Tiger 100.

 

[LeadMagnet]

You can find some thru Google & ebay - but I don't see how i could possile be cost effective. The performance that dual 1.4GHz P3 cpus (the best yo coul do) would barely rival a single 2.4GHz Celeron / Sempron 2500+ / XP2700 that all cost ~$100 including mobo and shipping. Acording to www.PriceWatch.com

You can get a barebone - Athlon XP3400 delivered for $150- and it's single CPU performance would benifit every OS & App.

 

[Ramma2]

Slotket 1

Higher end Slotket

 

[Oscar1613]

www.powerleap.com

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: jalaram
FS forums. I have two myself that I've never been able to sell. I'm sure there are others who still have them. I'm guessing you want them NIB?

Funny thing is that I bought my slotkets for the same reason, a dual p3 board. I had put p3-700 chips on them. IIRC, it was a Tyan Tiger 100.

NIB isn't a showstopper...long as they work!

Do you have them listed on FS/FT? I forget what board is in this...it's rebadged Tyan from a Gateway E5200.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
You can find some thru Google & ebay - but I don't see how i could possile be cost effective. The performance that dual 1.4GHz P3 cpus (the best yo coul do) would barely rival a single 2.4GHz Celeron / Sempron 2500+ / XP2700 that all cost ~$100 including mobo and shipping. Acording to www.PriceWatch.com

You can get a barebone - Athlon XP3400 delivered for $150- and it's single CPU performance would benifit every OS & App.

I'm more interested in stability than performance. I was perfectly happy with 2x450MHz celerons. I only upgraded b/c that board died. I was perfectly happy with 2x1000MHz PIII until that board died.

I've got all the bits...just need the adapters.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Sometimes it's not about the power of the PC it's about the nostalga. Sometimes, I miss my Dual Pentium Pro 200 with 192MB ECC Buffered EDO DIMMs and all SCSI drives, with a FireGL 1500 video card with 32MB RAM on a DIMM and Soundblaster 16 ISA sound card.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
You can find some thru Google & ebay - but I don't see how i could possile be cost effective. The performance that dual 1.4GHz P3 cpus (the best yo coul do) would barely rival a single 2.4GHz Celeron / Sempron 2500+ / XP2700 that all cost ~$100 including mobo and shipping. Acording to www.PriceWatch.com

You can get a barebone - Athlon XP3400 delivered for $150- and it's single CPU performance would benifit every OS & App.

I'm more interested in stability than performance. I was perfectly happy with 2x450MHz celerons. I only upgraded b/c that board died. I was perfectly happy with 2x1000MHz PIII until that board died.

I've got all the bits...just need the adapters.

Doesn't sound too stable, if these boards keep dying.

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Sometimes it's not about the power of the PC it's about the nostalga. Sometimes, I miss my Dual Pentium Pro 200 with 192MB ECC Buffered EDO DIMMs and all SCSI drives, with a FireGL 1500 video card with 32MB RAM on a DIMM and Soundblaster 16 ISA sound card.

If you want, I got a single PPro w/ 128 mb ecc ram you can have... this before I send to dell for recycyling..

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Doesn't sound too stable, if these boards keep dying.

It's all Abit and those ghetto capacitors :|

 

[nakedfrog]

If I can find my old slotket, I'll gladly send it to you for the price of shipping only. I haven't used it in 4 years and have no way to test it, so no guarantees, of course.

 

[mobobuff]

I always called them "Slockets".

 

[Stumps]

hehe i have about 10 in storage, some with processors some with out..pity there all the way down here in the land of oz

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: forcesho

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Sometimes it's not about the power of the PC it's about the nostalga. Sometimes, I miss my Dual Pentium Pro 200 with 192MB ECC Buffered EDO DIMMs and all SCSI drives, with a FireGL 1500 video card with 32MB RAM on a DIMM and Soundblaster 16 ISA sound card.

If you want, I got a single PPro w/ 128 mb ecc ram you can have... this before I send to dell for recycyling..

thanks but no. I don't have room for anymore computers unless it can fit on a rack.

 

[jalaram]

I have 2. But like nakedfrog, I have to find them and have no way of testing them. If you still want them, pm me and we'll work out a fair deal. One is a MSI and one is an ABIT.

Nakedfrog, what brand is yours. We may be able to match a pair for him. I think it's easier when the slotkets match.

 

[LeadMagnet]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
You can find some thru Google & ebay - but I don't see how i could possile be cost effective. The performance that dual 1.4GHz P3 cpus (the best yo coul do) would barely rival a single 2.4GHz Celeron / Sempron 2500+ / XP2700 that all cost ~$100 including mobo and shipping. Acording to www.PriceWatch.com

You can get a barebone - Athlon XP3400 delivered for $150- and it's single CPU performance would benifit every OS & App.

I'm more interested in stability than performance. I was perfectly happy with 2x450MHz celerons. I only upgraded b/c that board died. I was perfectly happy with 2x1000MHz PIII until that board died.

I've got all the bits...just need the adapters.

A makeshift dual Slotket setup would be far less stable than any single cpu system. If you want stability you would be better off buying a old namebrand server or workstation off ebay with ECC ram and SCSI drives and all quilifed components.

If you are doing this for the gee-whiz factor of flushing your money down the toilet then I can see where your coming from, and have fun. I also have a box full of old worthless computer parts, and if I was one of those SlashDot linux nuts I would justify making a router out of it.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
A makeshift dual Slotket setup would be far less stable than any single cpu system. If you want stability you would be better off buying a old namebrand server or workstation off ebay with ECC ram and SCSI drives and all quilifed components.

I'm not convinced. I read a number of reviews that claimed BP6 and VP6 boards were also "unstable" because they basically were dual slot 1 boards with PGA sockets bodged onto them. Yet aside from the well-known capacitor defect, I never once had stability issues with them.

What would the difference be here? It's not like i'm overclocking them. It's not like they are running on a bus faster than 100MHz. Unless the slotkets are crappy, I can't imagine why it would not be stable.

If you are doing this for the gee-whiz factor of flushing your money down the toilet then I can see where your coming from, and have fun.

No, I'm doing it because I had dual-processor boxes for 6 years and it sucks going back to one - I want the SMP box back, especially if I can do it for under $50.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: jalaram
I have 2. But like nakedfrog, I have to find them and have no way of testing them. If you still want them, pm me and we'll work out a fair deal. One is a MSI and one is an ABIT.

Nakedfrog, what brand is yours. We may be able to match a pair for him. I think it's easier when the slotkets match.

OK let me know if you dig them up. I agree that a matched pair would be better, but it would be cheaper to only pay shipping once, so if nakedfrog is out it's not a big deal.

 

[Jzero]

Jalaram and NakedFrog, in the event you were digging in your closets, hold off for now. I found another 800MHz PIII in the storage room, so I will probably not need the slotkets. It would be nice to have 1000MHz, but the 800s are cheaper and easier

I appreciate your offers to help!