Old Tech Question: What's the best dual processor board for Slot-1 P3

[SpocksBrain]

Anyone able to help on this?

A friend of mine has a LOT of old P3/P3 Slot1 CPUs, and I thought I might give him a dual processor P3 board as a gift...at the top end of his pile, he has 2x Katmai 500s.

He likes to salvage old parts and put together systems from what he can find.

This board MUST use PC100/133 RAM, NOT RDRAM.

So far the best (featurewise) oldtech board I've seen is:

Tyan Tiger 133 (Apollo Pro 133A S1834D Revision F, earlier revs were unstable w/dual CPU)

AGP4x, ATA66, and the 133mhz FSB

The other issue is that he doesn't have a copy of NT4 or W2K...for the dual support.

Any suggestions?

-SB

 

[Peter]

The VIA 694X chipset was the most capable chipset for dual PIII with SDRAM. The only other choice is Intel's BX, with quite a few drawbacks against the VIA: No 4x AGP, no support for large DIMMs, no fast IDE, FSB and RAM limited to 100 MHz.

 

[SpocksBrain]

Any idea what boards are out there with the 694X and Slot-1 interface? I've tried a search or two on Google, but it's slow going...

-SB

 

[Peter]

You got one right there. Can't think of any others.

 

[SpocksBrain]

True, but there's the slight problem of availability...*sigh*
Always helpful to have alternatives. Guess I'll have to keep looking and checking the boards.

-SB