bofh.fromhell wrote:Second that.
No visible branding and only 2 memory slots are usually a big giveaway.
And this board also adds leaking caps. […]
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The Serpent Rider wrote:Some cheap 845E board. Useless junk.
Second that.
No visible branding and only 2 memory slots are usually a big giveaway.
And this board also adds leaking caps.
Salvage the memory and the CPU (unless its a Celeron =)
The top bit of the socket can also be nice to have if you're planning on straightening pins on some CPU later on.
Personally I usually take all jumpers and the BIOS chip too, but thats just me (tho soldered chip on this MB).
Thanks for the advice.
What about the heatinks, are those good? Or a coolermaster is better?
Cpus are P4 2.4/533/256, so I'd say mediocre
Ram: kth-d530/1g DDR400 CL3, they can come handy
Supposing they still works.
I also have received a ECS MB694A (V1.0), ram are non working, I don't know the cpu, almost any capacitor is bulging, is this going to recycle center too?
According to the information I found it uses a VT82C694X and the VT82C686B (I can see this one, not the nb that has glued heatsink).
The Serpent Rider wrote:
Nothing spectacular about this board too, in fact it's horrible. Best you can and should get for Socket 478 is Intel 875P motherboard like ASUS P4C800. There's also late S478 + PCI-E options which are probably fun to tinker with for benchmarks, but apart from that are quite useless.
VIA/SIS based boards with universal AGP are certainly useful for old video cards.
Unlucky those intel mb aren't cheap, I agree on that mb, I had also to recap it.