Need mobo + case for a Pentium 2.40B Socket 478

[jrstevan]

A friend of mine says he has an old Dell and he would like to get a new case, psu, and mobo to fit his Pentium 2.40B Socket 478 processor. The link he gave me is here. He has been looking at barebone units, but from my own research maybe he should just save his money for something else? What would you guys suggest? He seems to be looking at the cheapest way to upgrade while still keeping his processor. Is that processor even overclockable? Any help would be great. I know you guys won't let me down!

 

[jrstevan]

No ideas?

 

[jrstevan]

still nothing? Come on.. somebody can tell me something!

 

[NucEm]

I like the ABiT IC7-G board but if you can find them they've become very pricey and perhaps over kill for your application. The IC7 is a little cheaper without some of the features of the IC7-G mainly the gigabit Ethernet.

ASUS has an inexpensive socket 478 board that I've installed for clients.

I have seen some of the ECS boards with socket 478 fail because of the bad capacitors. I thought the industry had cleaned up there act on the bad capacitors near the end of the socket 370 board rein.

Let me know if you come across a good (cheap) source for the IC7-G boards.