...............................old celerons or P II or P 3 i have a salvaged mainboards & i dont know if it works but i need to buy a new cpu to try it & i cant find any cheap celeron PPGA (thats the socket right) under 533mhz or P2's & p3's (SECC2) under 850mhz (thats the slot right) ive tried e-bay & there all more than i can afford on there i need to find one for under £20 as i dont know if the board works, any ideas lads?
I found you a P2 233MHz Slot 1 for £19.99 here: http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/A_U_T_Direct_Celeron__PII___PIII_Slot_1_Processors_47.html Is this what you are after? I've dealt with them once before and they seemed pretty good. edit - I just noticed that they even have socket 7 P133 CPUs for just £1 if anybody needs those - With all this skip tomfoolery who can tell eh!
thanks for the link, just what i was after (now gotta wait for some more cash in my account), if this works this salvaged mainboard (micro ATX) will be my new server with a groundbreaking mod, no case but all bolted to the wall, imagine the respect you would get for that a computer without a case but the mainboard, drives & psu are all bolted to a wall with the wires runing neatly inbetween all the bits (skip scavending has alwasy been a hobby in my family but my dad simply pulled furnature, i have now moved on &* the board is nearly dry so we shall soon see if it works) /me getting exited (& waiting for my bank ballance to go up)
Just glad it was what you were after m8! As for the scavenging habits, I would do some myself if I could find any skips!
schools, they have a habit of getting rid of farly new equiptment, unis, colleges, offices, anywhere, try the bins of PC world if you get despirate, anywhere they build, repair upgrade of sell computers you will find skips & as far as i know if it fully dries out & there is no corrosion, it does not matter much if it gets wet
high schools are ussually pretty good.... hmm old p3s eyh...if you come across a reliable source tell me cause i might be interested...
there seems to be a heck of a lot of the cartrage based ones on e-bay & as the board i pulled out of the trash cna take a socket or a catraged p3 up to 850 ( ithink it can @ least) the cartrage ones are perfect for jsut setting it up as a server that is if it works, i dont kno if it will as it was dripping when i pulled it out of the skip but its bone dry now & no corrosion (must remember to check the skip for a p2 cpu as im sure i saw more slot 1 boards but they were all smashed by the automotive department & college just got rid of the p2's if i get a few i may be interested in selling them
