Interesting - I had no idea AMD-750 chipset was also used on socket 462 boards. 😀 It was kinda obsolete in 2001 - only PC100 SDRAM, AGP 2x, no FSB266 support, etc. KT133A and maybe even KT266A was available in late 2001. Very strange choice from Gigabyte...

havli wrote:

Interesting - I had no idea AMD-750 chipset was also used on socket 462 boards.

Me either, very interesting.

Yes, it is a bit of a strange one, that's what attracted me to it in the first place(along with the price, it was £5 with CPU, cooler, 128MB RAM & a Asus Geforce 2 GTS AGP card).It was a pretty cheap motherboard at the time of release, I'm guessing it was a product to use up AMD irongate chipsets that had already been manufactured while that was still viable option. Quality however is very good, it's a nicely produced board with a good layout.
This is my second Duron Spitfire build, the other one is a 650 MHz on a DFI AK74 with VIA KT133A chipset, it's the same age but a far more advanced board.
Most of my builds just end up as a home for one of another old and obscure 3D card anyway as this is the part of the hobby i find the most interesting.
Right now I have systems with ATi Rage Pro,ATi Rage 128, Chromatic Mpact2, Nvidia RIVA128, Matrox Mystique 220, Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D 5464, 3Dfx Voodoo3. Plus lots of other 3D cards that i can swap in and out on a whim, S3 virge, virge DX, Trio 3D/2X, 3D Labs Permedia2, Power VR KYRO, Trident 3D Image,SiS 6326, SiS 315, plus the usual TNT, TNT2, M64, Geforce 2, 3, Matrox G100, G450, G550 etc.

Here is a comparative review of socket A boards from the era, the gigabyte is indeed the cheapest, and slowest of those in the review.
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/testingsocketa/

Playing Need for speed III on this beast right now, runs a treat(as it should), still a brilliant game. 😀