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Never seen one in real life - a great collectors item for sure.

The last time I saw one was for sale in Toronto in 1997.

The only time I've seen one in person was in the late 90's on a flea market for way too much money.

In 97 I was supposed to get one in a prebuilt machine for my birthday, but when the machine arrived the first bit of paperwork in the box was a letter that I got a free upgrade to a K6 166, which was neat. I still have that machine happily running at 200Mhz today.

soulmata wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right way to do this. If not, please let me know.

Years ago I lost my rare CPU collection and now I'm looking to rebuild it. One of my favorites was a working AMD-K5 PR200. I've been looking for a while to acquire one. If anyone has any tips on where I might able to do that, please let me know.

What is your budget?

soulmata wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right way to do this. If not, please let me know.

Years ago I lost my rare CPU collection and now I'm looking to rebuild it. One of my favorites was a working AMD-K5 PR200. I've been looking for a while to acquire one. If anyone has any tips on where I might able to do that, please let me know.

Haha, welcome to the club.
You can get in line on cpu-world's forum, amibay and vintage computer forum.
That's where I got most of my uncommon stuff.

What would such a chip cost... 200$?

amadeus777999 wrote:

What would such a chip cost... 200$?

It would depending on the bidder and how well advertised the auction was. Recently, people were willing to pay north of $500 for a Cyrix 5x86-133/4x. Comparing the rarity of the two chips, the K5-200PR was less rare, so I suspect it would fetch in the $150-$300 range. For someone just trying to offload the chip to other collectors on CPU-World, perhaps it would fetch $70.

As of a year ago, I could still remember where I sourced mine and for how much, but now it escapes me. What is happening to my memory? Oh... 3 screaming kids and little sleep can greatly accelerate the aging process.

Trying really hard to recall, I think I paid $65 USD for mine many years back, from a collector retiring from the hobby.

Was the PR200 in OEM machines only? I have a PR166 laying around that I bought a good 20 years ago, I don't remember any higher options being available at the time.

I remember reading, probably on a forum, that it was quietly released in the asian market. Any truth to this?

They were definitely being sold in China towns in Toronto. Must be true. If you look up old issues of the Toronto Star technology section, I am pretty sure you can find them for sale.

Did you ever physically see one for sale? I'm skeptical of advertisements. It could be that you go to order the chip from whatever store front and the store cannot get ahold of them either. Or may be you order a K5-PR200 and what you get is a K6-PR200.

I am pretty certain that the shop I bought my K6-200 from had some K5-200s in their glass display case. I remember that specifically, because I felt it was funny that AMD would undermine their K6 by making a a K5 that ran at the same "speed". Sure, they had 166MHz K6s too, but who bought those? In fact, later I was surprised to learn that the K5-200 was a rare chip.

feipoa wrote:

soulmata wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right way to do this. If not, please let me know.

Years ago I lost my rare CPU collection and now I'm looking to rebuild it. One of my favorites was a working AMD-K5 PR200. I've been looking for a while to acquire one. If anyone has any tips on where I might able to do that, please let me know.

What is your budget?

I'd easily pay $200+

feipoa wrote:

Did you ever physically see one for sale? I'm skeptical of advertisements. It could be that you go to order the chip from whatever store front and the store cannot get ahold of them either. Or may be you order a K5-PR200 and what you get is a K6-PR200.

I bought the one I had from an eBay lot probably 14-15 years ago, and the last one I saw on eBay was 4 years ago.

If you add another zero, you could probably get one of the CPU collectors to sell it to you. And depending on the collector, you may still be refused outright at any price.