Reply 52340 of 53280, by Trashbytes
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zuldan wrote on 2024-03-28, 10:13:Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-28, 09:44:I bough one of my Unicorn Motherboards today, a Epox EP-MVP3G5 Super 7 motherboard with a full fat 2Mb of L2 Cache . The board h […]
I bough one of my Unicorn Motherboards today, a Epox EP-MVP3G5 Super 7 motherboard with a full fat 2Mb of L2 Cache . The board has been tested by the seller who is a retro collector themselves with some rather rare parts and I have bought parts from them before.
Been hunting for this board for a number of years now and this is the first I have seen for sale, I think it deserves to be paired up with a modded K6-2+ 577 to K6-3+ 600 I have and possibly a Voodoo4 4500 or 5500. (I might throw a non modded K6-2+ 577 in there at 600 and see which one performs better with the 2Mb L2)
About the only blemish I see is some socket discolouration, seller says its likely from Ozone being produced by the nearby VRM coil components browning the socket plastic and doesn't affect the board at all, I have no reason to doubt this as it seems plausible.
Epox EP-MVP3G5.jpg
Such a lovely rare board.
You lucky bugger. I didn’t see this on eBay today. Where did you find this beauty?
I have it saved as a saved search and its never popped once in the five years Ive had it saved and then bam it pops at 3am from a seller I have bought other rare parts from out of Germany (Seller is a great Guy). I didn't even care what the price was and just bought it honestly the Voodoo5 cost me more than this board did.
Totally worth it to have this board, not often you ever see 2Mb of L2 on a Super 7, should have good AGP compatibility too so it may even run the ATI Fury MAXX *yeah not likely that GPU only likes a handful of boards