tomcattech wrote on 2021-10-19, 03:14:Motherboard is a Tyan S2507T […]
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Motherboard is a Tyan S2507T
It's a dual processor capable board running a single Tualatin 1.4 GHz.
After playing with it a while I don't know how much of a fan I am of the Via chipset, but after messing with it (a lot) it works well.
AGP 4x and 5 PCI slots, so plenty of real estate.
If you folks could tell me whether this board is worth anything that would be awesome.
To be honest, the more I read the replies the more I want to keep it.
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Pros
Dual socket 370 (Cool but doesn't matter for retro gaming since games only use 1 CPU.)
AGP 4x
Not a terrible board, TYAN did a good job on this one.
Cons
No ISA,
No SBLINK
Not really a con per se but it's VIA, a strike against it in my book.
We have to compare it to another board like a asus P2B-DS to assign a value to it.
P2b-DS
Dual Slot 1
AGP 2.0
Asus considered better than Tyan
Intel Chipset
2 ISA
has sb-link
So its not as valuable as a P2b-DS. It's not even close. Just because its dual CPU doesn't mean much when it lack a lot of features. So you cannot price it like a P2B-DS or price it like any other board with close to similar feature set.
Like when I say dual CPU doesn't mean anything for retro gaming, that means that 2 CPU doesn't automatically make it worth more than a single CPU board. It would if it had all the features like a p2b-ds but it doesn't. So A single CPU board with the the features of a p2b-ds only 1 cpu socket, is worth more than a dual CPU board without them.
A more Fair comparison is comparing your board to an OR840. Neither have ISA, or SBLINK. However the OR840 has Rambus ram and is intel, dual slot 1 is more awesome/cool than dual socket 370, and the or840 is much more rare and semi famous. So your board wouldn't be worth as much as a Or840 even though its similar feature set.
That makes it imo a lower tier dual PIII board, and a lower tier PIII board in general even if using 1 cpu. It's value is to the person at the end of the rainbow that wants a dual tualatin windows NT or Windows 2000 Computer and isn't concerned with DOS compatibility.
Being said its a great board, and I've had hands on experience with it in the past. It's rock solid and fast with 2 CPUs. It's also probably more stable than a pdb-ds.
If you price it at no more than $120 dollars CPU and Ram included and emphasize tested guaranteed to work. it might sell eventually to someone. Also put make and offer, becasue If I wanted it I would low ball probably. I wouldn't pay that but then again I don't want it.