It's year 2001, so you're about to get a 1GHz Socket A Thunderbird most likely.

I'll think I'll give it a miss then. These PCs exist in a sort of halfway house between w98 and XP... Overkill for anything that *needs* w9x, far too slow to be an XP build. Any game that needs 1GHz will support XP.

Oh good, I've talked myself out of getting it!

I agree, it's a Socket A.

MS Works 2001 is from late 2000.
There is a mention of May at the top.

So May 2001 at which point Socket A had been around for most of a year.

Well, there are actually some Win9x compatible games that can make use even of a faster hardware, though these run on 2k/XP as well. The good thing of these VIA KT133A based boards is that they can accommodate a CPU up to 2GHz, registered SDRAM up to 3Gb in size, a universal 2x/4x AGP slot and usually an ISA slot.

Although I would probably also pass on this deal. 30 quid isn't much with a free local pick-up, but it's very likely to be generic hardware. You may ask the seller to make an inside photo of the system tower just for the peace of mind.

I decided to put the money to something else...

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https … %2F123633152324

My first ever socket 7 PC!

I would have gotten it. that serial mouse in the box is kinda nifty.

PC133 ram also lends credence to it being slot-A in my mind. If it was any later, it would scream cheap socket a.

Almoststew1990 wrote:

My first ever socket 7 PC!

What about this guy? What did you end up doing with that box (and that STB ET6000 in particular)?

I'll correct that to first ever working Socket 7 PC 😜

Sadly that board didn't work after I brushed it off with a camera lense brush. I spent all weekend trying to get it to work again but no joy, it wouldn't power on at all. I even got a new CPU for it but no joy. I kept the CPU, RAM, GPU, HDD, serial mouse, AT keyboard, even the cooler. The case was not in good shape inside and fell apart a bit too 🙁 What I'm trying to avoid saying is that I binned it 😁

That's why I still have an itch for a Socket 7 build. To be honest I forgot about that build. It'll be good to use that STB Lightspeed 128 PCI, and I have that 1.4GB IBM HDD still too. I can upgrade the 75MHz AMD CPU to 6x86-PR120+ CPU at 100MHz or the Intel 100MHz SY007 CPU I got to test that old board with.