(looking for) old Socket A cpu

[William Park]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:40:27AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:03:54PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > I hope you don't mind this post.  It's Linux related. :-)
> > 
> > If you have an old Socket A cpu with 200-400MHz FSB, I would like to
> > buy it.  Ideally, I would prefer Duron 1000 (Morgan) because it
> > closely matches VIA mini-ITX range, like 64MB cache, 1GHz, etc.
> 
> Actually if you are looking for fast, but low power and potentially no
> fan (just heat sink), maybe finding an AMD Geode NX would be an idea.
> It is a low speed (around 1GHz) athlon XP mobile chip for socket A.
> THey should be possible to purchase you would think.
> 
> Lots of info on them on AMD's website.
> 
> The Geode NX runs 133mhz bus (266 effective) at 667, 1000 or 1400 MHz.

Thanks.  After reading the specs, they use 1.0 Vcore, hence require
special motherboard.  I'm not aware of any retail board which allows
user to set Vcore that low.  I'm afraide they are even more difficult to
find than VIA EPIA. :-(
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