AMD Athlon 700MHz SlotA "A0700MPR24B" - $10 w/free ship

[klah]

http://www.bananapc.com/products/productInfo.aspx?category_id=60&product_id=1908

 

[KenSr]

I voted

 

[mscdex0]

Originally posted by: KenSr
I voted

 

[breweyez]

oops...double post

 

[breweyez]

hey...i want some PIZZA

 

[Triggerhappy007]

I remember buying an overclocked one of these for $300. What a waste of money, I'm not buying a CPU that costs over $200 again.

 

[kkip]

Idunno, if you had a motherboard laying around this might be okay. I have one of these in my kids computer and it does okay. But if you had to spend $20 or $30 for motherboard (with shipping) on eBay it wouldn't be worth the cost.

I think a lot of people throw away computers with this speed CPU.

 

[Nikamichi]

That's not bad at all for a 700Mhz proc; time to test out the old mobo's!

 

[Cheapest]

How come they don't have the PIII 700?

 

[Nick5324]

From the site: "After purchase, the free shipping will be applied to your account on the following business day"

Why not just do it right away..... strange.

 

[OCedHrt]

Shipping came out free for me even w/o that promo code. Maybe cause I'm in Cali. Total of 10.88 but I won't be able to do anything with it for a month. They don't sell slot a fans either :/

 

[Netopia]

I actually have two lying in a drawer right now! Now worth buying a motherboard for them.

Joe

 

[RedShirt]

Originally posted by: Triggerhappy007
I remember buying an overclocked one of these for $300. What a waste of money, I'm not buying a CPU that costs over $200 again.

Oh yeah. I remember paying 600 for a PII 400. Since then I've not spent more than $140 for a proc. And in the last 2 years I have not spent more than 100.

10 BUX shipped for this is a good deal.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Ironically, perhaps, I have a friend that was given a Slot-A mobo recently. I'll have to mention this thread to him.

Edit: Actually, if the specs are accurate, that's a very modern Slot-A CPU, it has on-die L2. Cool! That should be comparable in performance to my XP CPU running at a similar clock rate, I would expect.

 

[billywiggins]

I just pulled out a Slot A mobo today, and have a good/cold hs&fan for it. I went ahead and bought one, be good for a linux box or MAME box.

 

[aldamon]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Ironically, perhaps, I have a friend that was given a Slot-A mobo recently. I'll have to mention this thread to him.

Edit: Actually, if the specs are accurate, that's a very modern Slot-A CPU, it has on-die L2. Cool! That should be comparable in performance to my XP CPU running at a similar clock rate, I would expect.

Be careful guys. If this chip actually has on-die cache, it's a T-Bird. The Slot A T-Birds cannot be used with a lot of motherboards.

 

[Gagabiji]

Hehehehehe, buy it for 10 then take it into CompUSA and get 200 for it.

 

[formulav8]

It does seem to be the TBird by the specs at the website. You will need I believe, a AMD chipset mobo for it to work properly. I believe timings has something to do with why the TBird won't work on the Via chipset mobo.s It could be the other way around and it works on Via chipsets and not AMD chipsets. I don't remeber to be honest


Jason

 

[Jojo7]

Originally posted by: aldamon
The Slot A T-Birds cannot be used with a lot of motherboards.

That's true. Check your board to see if it will support the slot a thunderbird.

I believe the classic athlon slot a's have 512k cache and the thunderbirds have 256k.

I've got the classic 700 and I use a Gigabyte board (GA-7IXE) and it doesn't support Thunderbird cpu's.

I use mine as a smoothwall linux machine. It's awesome stuff.

 

[PsychoCrazy]

I've got the classic 700 and I use a Gigabyte board (GA-7IXE) and it doesn't support Thunderbird cpu's.

That's funny since I have the same motherboard running a T-Bird 700 at the office.

 

[Jojo7]

Originally posted by: PsychoCrazy
That's funny since I have the same motherboard running a T-Bird 700 at the office.

Well, I dunno. I haven't personally tried. The gigabyte site says that mobo doesn't support the thunderbird, and I tend to listen to what the manufacturer says.