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First post, by swaaye

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I've been occasionally looking at eBay for a Socket 4 setup for a long time. They aren't out there in huge volume. I stumbled on an auction last week and dropped in a $1 bid and won! Apparently it is an Intel "Batman" Classic/PCI Pentium mobo with the 430LX Mercury chipset.

I wonder if it works or if I've tossed $8 ($1 + shipping) to the wind!? How very excited I am to play with a 60/66 Mhz Pentium.... or something.... 😉 Maybe I'll post a decent photo once its glory arrives!!!! 3 PCI slots...pffft.

BTW, I would really like an Intel Advanced/EV or Advanced/AS Socket 5 mobo. An EV with the video and audio would be particularly neato to me. For some reason or another...

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Reply 1 of 8, by Amigaz

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That 5volt Pentium 1 will save you some heating costs during the coming autumn I guess, hehe

Nice find, what do you plan using it for?

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Reply 2 of 8, by swaaye

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Yeah people really did go nuts over the heat they put out. Something tells me that those people couldn't foresee the 65-150W CPUs of today, however.

I'll load up Win95 and play some games, of course. Nothing long term or specific really. I've never touched a Socket 4 sys before so that's the big draw.

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Reply 3 of 8, by Amigaz

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swaaye wrote:

I'll load up Win95 and play some games, of course. Nothing long term or specific really. I've never touched a Socket 4 sys before so that's the big draw.

I'll be you'll throw in a Voodoo 1 card also, right? 😉

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Reply 5 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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Nice, I like it. I've never seen a 430LX board before. I've been running a POD133 in my socket4 motherboard for a while because it's too hard to find a P66 without the fdiv at a decent price.

BTW: "Dude. You're gettin' a Dell!"

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Reply 6 of 8, by swaaye

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yeah it's a Dell!

Dell and Gateway are great sources of Intel OEM boards. I found some Intel Advanced/EV "Endeavor" boards on ebay now too, but no audio. Just S3 Trio64 video. Endeavor is interesting to me because I had a friend with one back when they were new.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-08800-Dimension-PXXX … 1QQcmdZViewItem

The audio that would normally be on these boards was a Creative Vibra16 chip. That combined with the S3 Trio would make a nice all-in-one DOS game mobo. 😉 The loss of the onboard audio is hardly a big one though as it has plenty of ISA slots for better stuff anyway.

Reply 7 of 8, by swaaye

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Well, it got here a few weeks ago now, but I haven't messed with it at all. I just can't get excited about a Pentium that would be slower than a AMD 5x86 that I could build. 😉

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Reply 8 of 8, by Amigaz

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swaaye wrote:
Well, it got here a few weeks ago now, but I haven't messed with it at all. I just can't get excited about a Pentium that would […]
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Well, it got here a few weeks ago now, but I haven't messed with it at all. I just can't get excited about a Pentium that would be slower than a AMD 5x86 that I could build. 😉

batmanp5lq7.th.jpg

hehe, some Pentium optimized games might run faster though? like Privateer 2 for example.....

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