Rhuwyn wrote:

Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal. […]
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Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal.

Asus P5A Rev 1.04 Socket 7 ATX Motherboard - ALi M1541 A1 100 MHz
I/O Shield for Motherboard
AMD K6III 400MHz w/CPU Heatsink & Fan
384MB RAM (3X 128MB SDRAM PC133)
6 GB IDE Hard Drive
ATi Rage IIC AGP Video Card
3Com 10/100 PCI Network Card
ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive / DOS Emulation Onboard Audio

For me this seems like a lit!
The board is good and I especially like the K6-III non-plus (especially if it's a 2.2v variant and not the hotter 2.4v one 😜 ), but the rest doesn't seem very special to me.

It's good, but man..$70 is the going rate for this stuff now? 😮
Did the parts come with the boxes? 😜

I almost threw out an offer on that listing but went for a dual slot 1 instead!!

I think it was a pretty fair price. I know the P5A is generally considered one of the better SS7 boards, and IIRC, that revision supports the K6-3+ and 2+. If everything works and you're happy then it was a fine deal.

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For me this seems like a lit! The board is good and I especially like the K6-III non-plus (especially if it's a 2.2v variant and […]
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Rhuwyn wrote:

Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal. […]
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Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal.

Asus P5A Rev 1.04 Socket 7 ATX Motherboard - ALi M1541 A1 100 MHz
I/O Shield for Motherboard
AMD K6III 400MHz w/CPU Heatsink & Fan
384MB RAM (3X 128MB SDRAM PC133)
6 GB IDE Hard Drive
ATi Rage IIC AGP Video Card
3Com 10/100 PCI Network Card
ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive / DOS Emulation Onboard Audio

For me this seems like a lit!
The board is good and I especially like the K6-III non-plus (especially if it's a 2.2v variant and not the hotter 2.4v one 😜 ), but the rest doesn't seem very special to me.

It's good, but man..$70 is the going rate for this stuff now? 😮
Did the parts come with the boxes? 😜

Lets do the math 😁

The motherboard is worth $20
The K6-3 400 non + is also worth $20
384MB memory is worth $5
A 6GB HDD is worth at least $10 if its working as HDDs smaller than 8.4GB is getting harder to find.
The ATI Rage IIC and the network card is worth... lets say $10.

Getting everything in a bundle and thus probably tested and working together is worth the last $5, the savings when it comes to shipping makes it a even better deal. In 5-10 years a working Super Socket-7 board will be as expensive as a working late 486 board is today, get them now while they are "cheap" 😉.

Not sure where you can get this motherboard for 20 dollars. I've looked around and can't find it for any less then 50.

Rhuwyn wrote:

Not sure where you can get this motherboard for 20 dollars. I've looked around and can't find it for any less then 50.

With patience 😀

The prices on Ebay are higher most of the time but the numbers above are more in line with what you would get as a seller if you wanted things to sell fast. Perhaps the prices have spiked the last year, it has been some time since I looked for Super Socket 7 boards on Ebay.

With a video card as the Rage it depends though, there are $2 dollar ATI Rage cards and there are rather nice 8MB $15 ones. Its the same with a 3Com PCI 10/100 3Com card, the basic 3c905c without flash chip socket is not worth more than $3 but the 3C905B-Combo is worth... well not much but at least more. You will find lots of basic ATI Rage and 3Com 3c905c listed with $15 or $20 buyout but I do not think they will sell.

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Tetrium wrote:

For me this seems like a lit! The board is good and I especially like the K6-III non-plus (especially if it's a 2.2v variant and […]
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Rhuwyn wrote:

Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal. […]
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Picked up the below hardware in a single ebay auction for 70 USD. Think I got a decent deal.

Asus P5A Rev 1.04 Socket 7 ATX Motherboard - ALi M1541 A1 100 MHz
I/O Shield for Motherboard
AMD K6III 400MHz w/CPU Heatsink & Fan
384MB RAM (3X 128MB SDRAM PC133)
6 GB IDE Hard Drive
ATi Rage IIC AGP Video Card
3Com 10/100 PCI Network Card
ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive / DOS Emulation Onboard Audio

For me this seems like a lit!
The board is good and I especially like the K6-III non-plus (especially if it's a 2.2v variant and not the hotter 2.4v one 😜 ), but the rest doesn't seem very special to me.

It's good, but man..$70 is the going rate for this stuff now? 😮
Did the parts come with the boxes? 😜

Lets do the math 😁

The motherboard is worth $20
The K6-3 400 non + is also worth $20
384MB memory is worth $5
A 6GB HDD is worth at least $10 if its working as HDDs smaller than 8.4GB is getting harder to find.
The ATI Rage IIC and the network card is worth... lets say $10.

Getting everything in a bundle and thus probably tested and working together is worth the last $5, the savings when it comes to shipping makes it a even better deal. In 5-10 years a working Super Socket-7 board will be as expensive as a working late 486 board is today, get them now while they are "cheap" 😉.

Luckily I got all this stuff when it was really cheap (the only thing that was hard to find was the K6-III and of all the places I happened to find it in a desktop computer on the curb I took along as I was going to work 🤣 )
The Super 7 boards I got really cheap (like €5 untested and some even for free), maybe I should test and sell all my P5A's 😁

I do realize the stuff will go up in price as it gets older, it's why I always bought stuff in bulk when it was cheapest. Things have changed though, in the old days I got all my computer parts from the streets for free and back then nobody cared about old computers...so totally different now, really unbelievable when I think about it.