(looking for) old Socket A cpu

[William Park]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:09:46PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> 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. :-(

Finally found prices...

    - Geode NX 1500 (cpu) - $65 in 10,000 unit
    - Geode NX DB1500 (motherboard) - $500 in single unit

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