Pentium III 733 Processors for sale (SLOT 1)

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Hey everybody,
The AGP slot on my motherboard recently broke and I am left with two
Pentium 3 slot 1 733MHz processors. If anyone is interested, I am
asking $350 American each or $550 for both. I also have 256 MB of
RDRAM with ECC if anybody is interested, $150 American. Just drop me a
line if you're interested, or if you have a slot 1 motherboard with an
Intel 820 chipset that supports PC800 RDRAM with ECC. Thanks a lot.

Steve
chopsenterprises@hotmail.com

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Ch0ps wrote:

> Hey everybody,
> The AGP slot on my motherboard recently broke and I am left with two
> Pentium 3 slot 1 733MHz processors. If anyone is interested, I am
> asking $350 American each

LOL you can buy a P-4 AND a motherboard -with- ram for that! They might be
worth $50 each?
--

Stacey

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Nate Edel wrote:

> Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Ch0ps wrote:
>> > Hey everybody,
>> > The AGP slot on my motherboard recently broke and I am left with two
>> > Pentium 3 slot 1 733MHz processors. If anyone is interested, I am
>> > asking $350 American each
>>
>> LOL you can buy a P-4 AND a motherboard -with- ram for that! They might
>> be worth $50 each?
>
> $50 to maybe $70 each on Ebay right now; MAYBE as much as $150 as a
> matched pair.
>

And even that is silly. WTF would anyone want that when something like an
AMD XP would be cheaper and faster? You can buy an XP chip and board for
$150 or less add $30 for some much faster DDR ram and it will KILL those 2
chips.
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Stacey

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Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nate Edel wrote:
> >> > The AGP slot on my motherboard recently broke and I am left with two
> >> > Pentium 3 slot 1 733MHz processors. If anyone is interested, I am
> >
> > $50 to maybe $70 each on Ebay right now; MAYBE as much as $150 as a
> > matched pair.
>
> And even that is silly. WTF would anyone want that when something like an
> AMD XP would be cheaper and faster?

Athlon XPs start new around $80, don't they? I mean, a Duron would be under
$70 for sure, but that would require a new motherboard, and new RAM.

> You can buy an XP chip and board for 150 or

Which is a much heavier-duty upgrade than simply switching a Slot-1 CPU...
one of the reasons the slot-1 chips seem so overpriced.

> less add $30 for some much faster DDR ram and it will KILL those 2 chips.

$30 these days won't get you 256mb... prices are back up, though I hope it's
a blip. If you've got 768mb in an existing P3 motherboard...

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"Elder Party 2004: Cthulhu for President -- this time WE'RE the lesser
evil."

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Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nate Edel wrote:

> > Stacey <fotocord@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Nate Edel wrote:
> >> >> > The AGP slot on my motherboard recently broke and I am left with
> >> >> > two Pentium 3 slot 1 733MHz processors. If anyone is interested, I
> >> >> > am
> >> >
> >> > $50 to maybe $70 each on Ebay right now; MAYBE as much as $150 as a
> >> > matched pair.
> >>
> >> And even that is silly. WTF would anyone want that when something like
> >> an
> >> AMD XP would be cheaper and faster?
> >
> > Athlon XPs start new around $80, don't they?
>
> $50'll get ya an XP1800 at new egg.

So same price to at most $20 less than a new Slot-1 CPU.

> Biostar has an Nforce IGP board for $65.

That's $115 now.

> Some cheap DDR ram

Have you noticed the price going up lately? It's up to over $100 for 512mb
again... not much by the standard of a few years ago, but pretty pricey
compared to the last couple.

> Besides you'll get ata133 support etc.

Which requires you get a new hard drive, likely as not, to take advantage of
....

Plus the new motherboard will possibly require a new power supply and case
(certainly both of those if the Slot-1 system was from an vendor that used
non-standard ones, like say, Dell.)

> Upgrading a slot one board just seems kinda silly to me unless you can buy
> the CPU's for like $10-$15.

It's certainly silly over $100; under that, if you're comfortable building a
new system, it's probably better to build a new system or replace the
motherboard. But they're not _as_ cheap, and they do take more time, which
is more valuable to some people than it is to others.

As for the matched pair issue, there's a certain silly cachet around duals
that seems to drive up the price of matched pairs on eBay.

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Nate Edel http://www.nkedel.com/

"Elder Party 2004: Cthulhu for President -- this time WE'RE the lesser
evil."