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Desktop motherboards for Pentium M

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First post, by laverio

Posted on 2022-06-21, 19:35

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Hello, I'm new here and I hope I'm posting this in the right forum section.
I pretty much love the Pentium M (and perhaps the Core Duo series as well), and I'm fantasizing lately about a desktop build featuring these processors.
I have done some searching here and there, but concluded little from it. I also want to point out that I am from Europe so I don't plan on buying from the US due to the shipping costs. Therefore, my question is:
Are you guys aware of any desktop motherboard that supports natively (no adapters since I think the ASUS one is hard to find and expensive) the Pentium M or Yonah CPUs? Please inform me on the ones you know about, if they have a slot for a graphics card that's a plus obviously, thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 3, by zyga64

Posted on 2022-06-21, 20:30

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Asus N4L-VM DH
https://www.asus.com/supportonly/N4L-VM%20DH/HelpDesk_CPU/

There is currently one in the polish auction site allegro.pl, but the price is not very attractive (400PLN ~ 85 EUR)

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Reply 2 of 3, by red-ray

Posted on 2022-06-21, 20:34

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I have an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS which uses the Intel 82855GME Chipset and has an AGP Version 2.0 slot

Reply 3 of 3, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-06-21, 21:37

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red-ray wrote on 2022-06-21, 20:34:

I have an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS which uses the Intel 82855GME Chipset and has an AGP Version 2.0 slot

I also have one of these, and as I mentioned on this initial post when I first bought it, I normally will look for an Ebay listing to get an idea of what something is worth but these boards are so rare that there were none for sale. On the plus side, if OP should find one, I can vouch for it being a solid motherboard. They officially only support 400 MHz FSB chips, but they work fine with the 533 ones. I bought a Pentium M 780 because it's the fastest CPU this board can use, but it didn't cost that much; upgrading to the best possible CPU isn't something I can do with most of the motherboards I have.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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