Retail EPOX mobos $40 and under

[Jayczar]

Compgeeks.com has a massive amount of PII/PIII retail EPOX motherboards
for sale all for $40 and under. Better snatch them up they won't last
here is a link: Compgeeks

 

[beekeeper]

I've got an extra Celeron 900, but the fastest of the boards say they will only support chips up to 800 mhz. Can I just underclock the chip or is an 800 chip the limit?

 

[Killrose]

You have to watch out though, they don't support much in the way of current CPU's. The one only has support for PPGA upto 500 I beleive. Not bad though for a second box to keep the kid happy.

 

[Icarus]

beekeeper,


I've got a Celeron @ 950MHz on a older Slot-1 board that's only rated for 450MHz in one of my boxes. If it's on a Slocket with the jumpers, the board doesn't care.

The only potential downside is the board bios won't properly display the correct CPU and speed at boot-up, but you can always run CPUID.

 

[beekeeper]

Icarus,

Thanks. That's what I wondered. I've got a slightly underclocked AMD K6-3 running nicely on an ancient PCChips socket 7 (not super 7) mobo that doesn't recognize the chip, but it works fine if you ignore that.

-beekeeper-

 

[patrickj]

Nice prices....any reviews anywhere?

 

[oshelef]

If you check epox's website they recommend only up to the 800 on a rev .5 version. It might not have bios support. if you get it to work, let us know.


Orie

 

[icer]

does not support FCPGA

 

[Icarus]

Doesn't need to if you use a Slocket with a Coppermine jumper.