place to buy discontinued motherboard? (and, free Celeron/466)

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 5 00:52:28 UTC 2005


| From: William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>

| After 6 years of faithful service, one of my dual-P3 is showing the
| "symptoms".  It's the motherboard.
| 
| Does anyone know where I can buy a discontinued dual/single-P3 (S370)
| motherboards?   Excess-inventory motherboards would be ideal.

Dual boards are a lot rarer than single.

Lots of folks are getting rid of whole P3 systems for cheap prices.
You might find a cheap system and extract the motherboard.  Look at
tor.forsale.computers, for example.

Above All Electronics (Bloor & Markham) often has old motherboards.
They have to make a living at it, so they may not be as cheap as you'd
like.

Or: give up.  Much more powerful systems are available fairly cheaply.
(This from someone how hasn't even let go of his eight-bit computers.)

For example, you can buy a MB (choice of two) and Celeron D 340 CPU
(just below 3GHz) for ~$100:
  <http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184108>
This does not include a HSF (heat sink, fan).
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