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Best Place to Find a Socket A Motherboard?

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Best Place to Find a Socket A Motherboard?

Hey all,

So I'm looking to revive my old Athlon XP system but need a new motherboard for it.

Anyone know where would be the best place to find a Socket A motherboard in the GTA?

Thanks!
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Which model of CPU do you have ? And what kind of RAM (ie. DDR) ?
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Tharyn wrote: Hey all,

So I'm looking to revive my old Athlon XP system but need a new motherboard for it.

Anyone know where would be the best place to find a Socket A motherboard in the GTA?

Thanks!
My basement. Although not in the GTA, and can't guarantee functionality.
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kijiji is also another good option.
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I have an abit nfs-s v2 that I may be willing to part with. Runs like a champ w/ 2500+ mobile cpu. PM me if interested.
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To answer some questions, my old system had the following:

Motherboard: Epox 8KHA+ (KT133A Chipset) *succumbed to all the faulty capacitors used during that time (ie: they leaked out and stopped booting)

CPU: Athlon XP 1600+ Thoroughbred (1.4 GHz, 266 MHz FSB) Socket A
RAM: 2 GB of DDR266 (PC2100)

Thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look at F/S/T and such. But if anyone's got any leads on one let me know!!
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vdub07 wrote: I have an abit nfs-s v2 that I may be willing to part with. Runs like a champ w/ 2500+ mobile cpu. PM me if interested.
I have 2 of this exact setup still running fine right now ...
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Tharyn wrote: To answer some questions, my old system had the following:

Motherboard: Epox 8KHA+ (KT133A Chipset) *succumbed to all the faulty capacitors used during that time (ie: they leaked out and stopped booting)

CPU: Athlon XP 1600+ Thoroughbred (1.4 GHz, 266 MHz FSB) Socket A
RAM: 2 GB of DDR266 (PC2100)

Thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look at F/S/T and such. But if anyone's got any leads on one let me know!!
I can't recall KT133(A) can handle DDR RAM ... I think it has a KT266A chipset instead ...
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ncix has a 3000+ socket 754 with an embedded processor for $38
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Tharyn wrote: To answer some questions, my old system had the following:

Motherboard: Epox 8KHA+ (KT133A Chipset) *succumbed to all the faulty capacitors used during that time (ie: they leaked out and stopped booting)

CPU: Athlon XP 1600+ Thoroughbred (1.4 GHz, 266 MHz FSB) Socket A
RAM: 2 GB of DDR266 (PC2100)

Thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look at F/S/T and such. But if anyone's got any leads on one let me know!!
When my Abit KT7-Raid had blown caps, I just spent a few bucks and changed them out myself. System ran great for 9 years.

Still have an XP2500m + Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (1.1 I think) buried somewhere in the basement.
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