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Finding my first build specs- what board was it.. (clues inside)

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First post, by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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this is back in 1998 (i think) my first "upgrade" i did ..

i cant remember the make or model of the MB... all i know was that it was CHEAP!... i fitted a cyrix MII Pr266(or 300)..and then put in a AMD K62 450 (running at 375MHZ - 83MHZ fsb)

the board had (heres the clues that i remember)
- SD ram and EDO memory slots
- was a NON-Intel chipset
- was a golden colour
- could do up to 83MHz
- did NOT have an AGP slot
- i believe it had an AT power (might have had ATX connector as well) and KB connectors (i reused my old P100 case/PS and keyboard)
- it was in a MID size tower
- i bought it in 1998 i think

lets see if any of you guys can solve the mystery

Reply 1 of 6, by Joseph_Joestar

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kennyPENTIUMpowers wrote on 2022-08-27, 05:39:

- i believe it had an AT power (might have had ATX connector as well) and KB connectors (i reused my old P100 case/PS and keyboard)

If it hat both power connectors, that might narrow things down.

Possibly PC Chips M571 or a similar model?

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
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Reply 3 of 6, by AlexZ

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I had PCChips M571 back in the day on my Pentium 200 MMX rig. It had graphical AMI BIOS. This could narrow things down as it wasn't very common back then. Most of boards had AWARD BIOS.

It was a good Windows 95 board. It didn't have AGP or support K6-2 (100Mhz FSB) which is why I ended up replacing it with another PCChips board about a year later.

Pentium III 900E, ECS P6BXT-A+, 384MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 128MB, Voodoo 2 12MB, 80GB HDD, Yamaha SM718 ISA, 19" AOC 9GlrA
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Reply 4 of 6, by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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yeah, i dont think it was the PC chips board as that name just doesnt ring a bell, though it does visually look like it ... pretty sure it didnt have a graphical bios... was likely AWARD bios..

could have been the Amptron PM-8500... though i seem to remember the chipset chips having a different logo..

Reply 5 of 6, by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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this pic is shown under the PC CHIPS https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m571-v3.2-a .... but it is an A PM9100...
it really seems to fit the bill..
the user manual for the M571 also shows 4.5x jumpers which is the max i could go on the K6-2 450 (4.5x 83 = 375).. and it shows the Sis chipset which i seem to remember seeing (didnt have a heat sink like the PC CHIPS one)

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Reply 6 of 6, by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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a bit more research... ive found this one..
and the model number sounds familiar
ECS P5SJ-B

anyone got one for sale?

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