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First post, by Viper87

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What board is this and is it any good ?

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Reply 3 of 8, by PcBytes

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It's a Q-Lity P3BX. Interesting that they went with AMI BIOS instead of Award.

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Reply 5 of 8, by dionb

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Viper87 wrote:

i want to buy this pc for slot 1 testing board, slot 1 mobos are rare and quite expensive, this pc cost ~200pln ~54usd

That's pretty pricey for an otherwise totally uninteresting Slot 1 board. Have you looked on Amibay? You should find lots there for less than that, even if you have to pay shipping across Europe I should know, I have at least one for sale myself

That said, if you want a testing board, I wouldn't choose either this one or the one I'm selling. The i440BX chipset is the fastest slot 1 chipset, but not the most compatible. Ideally you'd want something with a Via ApolloPro133A (694X) chipset, as that supports 133MHz FSB (BX can frequently do 133MHz, but at that speed you're overclocking the AGP port, and PCI bus too if you're unlucky) as well as AGP 2.0 (4X). It also supports those nasty DIMMs with 16Mx4 and 32Mx4 chips.

Most 694X boards are So370 FC-PGA, but there were still enough Slot1 versions made. Asus' P3V4X is well-known, I have a Tyan Trinity 400 (no, not for sale, this is my test board) and there are lots more out there.