warm chaintech + duron $61.31

[novice]

Maybe not quite hot, but IMO at least a little warm, take a look here for a Duron 900 with chaintech 7aia5e motherboard with cheap heatsink and fan for $61.31 plus shipping. They also offer the Duron 1.2 gig with same board for $75.76. The board is a micro atx format, Via KT133E chipset so doesn't support 133 fsb, which rules out running one of the cheap XP1600+ cpus, but for a cheap functional web surfer, office type machine it should work great. Maybe even some mild gaming thrown in, with the right video card. What do you think?

 

[rhand]

It's warm enough. I'm trying to upgrade my sister's old HP Pavillion. So, compared to 233 mHz this will fly.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Jugernot]

Actually the KT133E did run 133MHz CPUs, but it wasn't an official speed rating. I came out at the same time as the KT133a and from what I remember, most reviewer thought that it was the same chip on cheaper boards...

I could be wrong...

 

[novice]

I have the similar full size (5 PCI slots, 3 DIMM slots) AJA2E, and it lacks the 100/133 jumper and the soft BIOS only allows up to 130 Mhz fsb, so mine won't run 133 processors, (unless they can be autodetected by BIOS upgrade, haven't gotten a definitive answer on that yet) But still for a decent upgrade and ability to use existing PC100 or PC133 ram, I still think it is a good deal. I ordered from sybercom before and they offered reasonable shipping charges and shipped promptly.