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First post, by '98 PC Builder

Posted on 2018-12-06, 19:51

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Hi,
Recently I decided to buil a retro pc with pentium II on slot 1 and nVidia rivia TNT. I was looking for a motherboar when I found a cheap double slot one.
In description of advertisement was written that the seller can't recognize the motherboard model. I tried to find it on myself but it can't.
So I decided to consult experts 😎
It's really similar to Gigabyte GA-6BXDS from this article:Build Log: Dual Slot 1 440BX System
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I hope that mystery will be solved 😀

Reply 1 of 3, by Baoran

Posted on 2018-12-06, 20:08

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No better pictures? I have one of those gigabyte motherboards, but I have never found any use for it because I don't really use any OS that could take advantage of 2 cpus for retro stuff.

Reply 2 of 3, by SW-SSG

Posted on 2018-12-06, 20:24

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That "BURNNING 24HR" or whatever label on the BIOS gives it away. It's likely the PC Chips M720.

It seems that you need a tiny daughterboard plugged into the slot just above the BIOS chip in order to use it as a dual-CPU board; otherwise, it's single CPU only.

Reply 3 of 3, by '98 PC Builder

Posted on 2018-12-07, 18:49

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Ok, thank you very much for help. I didn't realise that you'll do that so fast 😀 However, I think I will be need help with the further construction of the pc but for now it's all.

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