Dual PIII/Celeron FC-PGA2 New Retail Box only $39.95 plus Shipping

[Gawaine79]

I know it's old but it's hard to find a dual motherboard for cheap now a days. Especially new.

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Here are the specs:
Dual Intel Pentium III/Tualatin-512K/Intel Celeron & Celeron FC-PGA2 Processor
Intel I82815 North Bridge, Intel I82801BA South Bridge
2 x Dimm Sockets. Supports a maximum memory size of 512MB with SDRAM
3 x ISA Slots. 4 x PCI Slots.
1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse, 2 x USB, 1 x Parallel, 2 x Serial, 2 x LAN

 

[fumbduck]

noooooooooooooo AGP!!!!!

 

[inochi]

Nice I just bought it. I've been trying to find a dual p3 mobo for a while. Thanks for the info

 

[klein297]

If you need an AGP version without the ISA slots just ask on For Sale/ For Trade.
I'm sure you'll find one at a good price

 

[rasputinj]

Good find for a cheap dual CPU server, 512 is a little lite, but a good deal.

 

[geecee]

Just out of curiousity, you can't actually run 2 celerons in this, can you? Not like the old BP6 with 2 PPGA celerons which was wired especially so you could run 2. I thought Intel didn't allow MP on the newer celeron line. Well, if anyone knows... Good find though.

 

[klein297]

I thought the 815 chipset was only for FC-PGA processors,
but manual states .
CPU
Dual Socket 370 for Intel PIII processor.
Intel FC-PGA/PPGA Celeron processor.
Via Cyrix III proccessor.
"Please make sure your cpu is able to support dual CPU."

 

[Csium]

Originally posted by: geecee
Just out of curiousity, you can't actually run 2 celerons in this, can you? Not like the old BP6 with 2 PPGA celerons which was wired especially so you could run 2. I thought Intel didn't allow MP on the newer celeron line. Well, if anyone knows... Good find though.

Nope. You can run 2x PIII coppermines (usually 1GHz or less), or 2x PIII-S tualatin (usually 1.13GHz - 1.4GHz). Notice that's PIII-S tualatin's, PIII tualatins aren't dual capable. Easy distinction between the two is the -S has 512k L2 cache, the non S has 256k L2. (other easy way is that the -S is roughly double the price).

2 1GHz Coppermine PIII ~$200
2 1.4GHz Tualatin PIII-S ~ $400

Basically, if you don't have the CPU's, stay away.

 

[VSOP]

The S chips have 32mb L1 cache and 512k L2 or the opposite..

They are good chips for a mid class server

 

[geecee]

Nope. You can run 2x PIII coppermines (usually 1GHz or less), or 2x PIII-S tualatin (usually 1.13GHz - 1.4GHz). Notice that's PIII-S tualatin's, PIII tualatins aren't dual capable. Easy distinction between the two is the -S has 512k L2 cache, the non S has 256k L2. (other easy way is that the -S is roughly double the price).

Thanks for the answer. I didn't think so. I was just hoping so that I would have something to do with a couple of old cellys I had lying around. Not that I needed another machine. HA!

I'd agree with your last assessment, if you have to buy the cpus then it's not worth it. I'd think that a single modern cpu (P4 or XP) would still run better than say a couple of old p3-700's or something. Then again, in a file server environment, who knows? Actually, I'm sure someone here does.

 

[yodayoda]

there really is no point in buying this unless you already have the chips. the chips are so expensive that you are better off getting any AMD 760MPX chipset motherboard at newegg for under $200 and two 1700+ XP chips for $50 a pop. AGP, DDR, 64-bit PCI, and a hell of a lot faster and cheaper than dual P3.

 

[towelrod24]

512 max ram too, which might be a problem for a server. Still, this is a cheap board, and might be fun to play with.

-Mike

 

[Cheapest]

Hey, what about this dual matherboard ?

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/sys/13844163.html