how many of you had a socket A system?

[Lonyo]

Where's the polll option for "tried them all?" Yes, had socket A. Yes, had socket 370. Yes, had socket 478. Yes, had socket 7 and Super 7. Yes, had socket 3. Yes, had socket 775. Yes, had socket 754. Yes, had socket 939. Yes, had socket AM2/AM2+/AM3. Yes, had socket 1156. Yes, had socket 1366.

I guess that just about covers all "consumer" ZIF sockets except for socket 423.

What about 940?

 

[Blain]

940 wasn't considered a "comsumer" CPU, same with Intel's socket 8, socket 603 and socket 604.
A case could be made for the later 940's that supported the Athlon 64 FX line.

 

[jchu14]

My very first home built computer was based on a Thunderbird 1.2ghz that was overclocked to 1.43ghz! I used an Iwill board with the VIA chipset. Whatever happened to Iwill anyways.

I remember being terrified when first hooking up the heatsink and hearing a crunch. I thought I had crushed the core. Those were the days... crushed core and no thermal protection!

One thing I don't miss is the 60mm fan and tiny heatsinks though. Anyone else remember those screaming delta 60mm fans?

 

[acheron]

Yup, had a Socket A Thunderbird, my first non-Intel computer. Actually was probably my least successful build -- never figured out what the problem was but the system was never very stable.

 

[Niege]

Yep. T-Bird 1.2 that would only overclock to 1.35. And on an Iwill, too. Very loud crappy fans. I remember feeling soooooooooo cool to come to the this forum and announce that I, too, was now a member of the 1Ghz club!

It replaced the Socket 7. Then I went to 939.

 

[nickbits]

just sold my 2 socket a systems in the last month

 

[notposting]

Have a bunch I'll be putting up for sale pretty soon.

First self-build was an XP 1800+, JIXIB stepping, Tbred-B on an A7N8X.

Also ended up with an Athlon 900, XP 2000 and XP 2600. Set up brother-in-law with the 2000 (a Thorton core if I remember right) and my old A7N8X. Lots of Via boards and a couple stray Sis boards as well. The best bit of software I ever found was S2KCtl. It implemented the Halt/Stop command that most motherboards didn't use. Good way to reduce temps at idle by 5-10C!

Have a socket-754 and socket-939 combos going up for sale too along with all the DDR-400 and AGP videocards....modernized the whole household finally and better long-term than trying to support the older stuff.

I do think Socket-A was one of the best ever though, so many chipsets, boards, coolers, etc and the performance is still quite usable especially for someone who might not use it a lot (okay us on here with dual/quad core machines for gaming would notice but we don't count 😛).

 

[boran]

I had both, a socket A Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz (this was before the naming scheme) and a P4 2.4 Ghz

edit, Posted before reading the whole thread.
Lots of people who also had a TB 1.2 here 🙂 it definitely was a very good processor.

 

[radioouman]

I still use my socket A system. 1.73 gHz Athlon XP.

 

[dman]

Still running a Barton XP3000+ for my Kids PC. I need to swap out the CMOS battery, it looses the settings now and then (if AC power is cut off), defaults to a 100MHz FSB so I have to force it to the 200MHz setting.

Anyway, I miss the days of just swapping in a new CPU instead of upgrading the MB+RAM+whatever else.

 

[hoorah]

I still use an XP3000+ in my garage because its one of the few computers I still have running with a serial port which I need for my ECU diagnositics setup. Supposedly the system gets a little flakey with a USB to Serial adapter, so I just keep the old socket A system running. Of course, then I had to install itunes so I could listen to music in the garage.....then started watching recorded TV shows when I was working on the workbench, then "if i only had a little more memory......"

 

[WT]

Where's the poll option for "tried them all?" Yes, had socket A. Yes, had socket 370. Yes, had socket 478. Yes, had socket 7 and Super 7. Yes, had socket 3. Yes, had socket 775. Yes, had socket 754. Yes, had socket 939. Yes, had socket AM2/AM2+/AM3. Yes, had socket 1156. Yes, had socket 1366.

I guess that just about covers all "consumer" ZIF sockets except for socket 423.

Ditto. I still have a 423 stuck in a box somewheres, and a few slotkets around ... Celeron 566@850 was a nice setup !! I still own a FC-PGA Pentium III 1000 (100 FSB chip rarity) on a slotket.

 

[sonoma1993]

I had a socket A system, thunderbird 1.2GHz, some asus motherboard with a ULI chipset, had both sdr and ddr memory slot on it.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i bought gigabyte socket a with two duron 800's and a thunderbird 1.2 but never built them. they are still in a spare bedroom in my house, which i havent visited in almost a year

 

[Bacstar]

I built both a Slot A and a Socket A system. Matter of fact, my sister inherited the slot a system, and it was running until last year when she finally decided to get a new computer.

It was kinda funny when she told me when the cable guy came over to help her set up her internet, and the tech commented on how ancient her system was but the quality of the components were top-notch. I kinda felt good about that since various people have gotten my hand-me-downs over the years.

 

[Dsorgnzd1]

I still have one: Athlon XP 2800+, 1 gigabyte of ram, ATI Radeon 9600 graphics board. I don't play games on it, so it does everything I need. Just about everything has been replaced over the years, but the Maxi Switch keyboard came from a system I bought years ago (1993, if I'm reading the date code correctly) and is still going strong.

 

[kornphlake]

My desktop PC is still running after 6 years with a 2500+ at stock speeds, I intended to overclock it but never got around to it. I have a proxy server/firewall/content filter in the garage with a 2800+ processor, one of these days I should swap the processor in the desktop with the processor in the server, but it doesn't really matter, I'm due for a complete upgrade to an AM3 processor soon.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

i had a socket a for a while, it was the first pc i ever built fully customized. but i eventually got a p4, then i went back to s939. I think it was an athlon xp 2000+

 

[swillfly]

HAD?!? lol My POS pyooter I'm currently -and have been using for many, many years- is socket A. Years ago when I first built it -it was the bomb. Now it's a dessicated turd that wouldn't run Oblivion, Half Life 2, or a bazillion other games I own but cannot play.

The ancient POS computers in the public library are speed demons compared to this hunk of junk. But at least I have a pyooter, eh?

What sucks is that I own a bunch of new games that came out years ago and have since disappeared/unavailable. They're brand new in the shrink wrap waiting for me to come across some dough in this wonderful economy where jobs are plentiful and everyone is happy.

Cheers!

 

[HybridSquirrel]

HAD?!? lol My POS pyooter I'm currently -and have been using for many, many years- is socket A. Years ago when I first built it -it was the bomb. Now it's a dessicated turd that wouldn't run Oblivion, Half Life 2, or a bazillion other games I own but cannot play.

The ancient POS computers in the public library are speed demons compared to this hunk of junk. But at least I have a pyooter, eh?

What sucks is that I own a bunch of new games that came out years ago and have since disappeared/unavailable. They're brand new in the shrink wrap waiting for me to come across some dough in this wonderful economy where jobs are plentiful and everyone is happy.

Cheers!

bravo to you sir. thats some serious dedication!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I had a Tyan Tiger MP with two Duron 1.3's, which required a slightly different pencil trick to unlock them for SMP usage. Ah the days before multicore...

Also had a Duron 750 which was my first computer... ever!

 

[Fox5]

Socket A was great, cpus and motherboards were so cheap my system was in a constant state of flux. Cheap barton mobiles were great too, great overclocker for less than what a desktop barton cost, with lower power usage to boot, and this was before nvidia started to segregate their motherboard offerings quite as much, so a $50 nforce2 mobo was as good as a $150 one (if such a thing even existed back then).

The platform really only came out on its own with an nforce2 chipset though. Big performance boost, and much more stable than the VIA stuff. Heck, stable, better featured, faster, and easy overclocking.

Just recently though, my dad still had a tigerdirect pc he put together a while back using some crap soyo motherboard, very insufficient cpu cooler, and an athlon XP. After messing around with it for a bit, I ended up just taking the harddrive, memory, and video card and buying a refurbished 2.8GHz p4 system off tigerdirect (athlon 64 systems were slightly more) for under $100 and slapping that together. Shame to discard a good platform like that, but it wasn't worth the hassle.

Also recently killed a laptop that used a mobile duron. Duron was great back in the day, but the small L2 cache kills it on XP or newer, tried to upgrade its harddrive with an ssd, stupid sony proprietary adapter must have broken.

 

[JayBlay77]

Yup still have one sitting right next to me though I don't use it much anymore. Ran W7 just fine too.

 

[piasabird]

Had a Tandy 1000A.
Had an IBM P 113??
Had an AMD 300.
Had an Athlon XP
Still have an old 1.2 gig Celeron that still runs.
Have a C2D E7200 now. It runs great for an itegrated PC

 

[zerocool84]

Socket A, when AMD was the top dog.