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03-Jul-2009, 08:22 PM #1
Looking For an Athlon
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I'm deciding to change out my Intel based Motherboard for an AMD based one. I found a motherboard on ebay less a cpu. Where can I find a Slot A Athlon Classic 900-1000 (looked on ebay- nothing, however there was an 800)? Board is a GA-71XE.
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03-Jul-2009, 08:52 PM #2
Ugh. What's the point in all that? You can get a core system 17 times better than that for around 50 $ if you look for it for a while.
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03-Jul-2009, 10:02 PM #3
I have no point, just felt like tinkering.
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04-Jul-2009, 12:11 AM #4
They should be pretty much free for 8 year old tech.

AFAIK... Slot-A only went up to about 800mhz. The Socket A had the faster CPUs.
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04-Jul-2009, 01:01 AM #5
Here's the official Slot A info

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/TYP...Slot%20A).html

Your best bet is to buy a board and CPU combo on Ebay- if you are are sure you want to play around with a Slot A system. I can tell you they need lots of cooling and you need to have some really quiet running fans or the noise level is a lot different than the Pentium 4's you may be used to.
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04-Jul-2009, 12:51 PM #6
Thanks, I think I found a Classic 900 on eBay. The reason I'm looking for a slot a board instead of socket a is because the socket a boards i've seen on ebay are 2-4 times more expensive than Slot A ones.
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04-Jul-2009, 01:01 PM #7
There are quite a few slot a processors on eBay.
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04-Jul-2009, 06:12 PM #8
Slot-A boards were more unstable. The early Athlons were problematic not because of the CPUs but the motherboards.

Only when the Thunderbirds and VIA KT133 came out that AMD had a solid platform.

I wouldn't touch a Slot-A for a normal use system. If to tinker, fine.

An old AMD-64 3x00 CPU and mobo (used) is worth about $10~25.
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