First post, by Cerberus73
Ok got handed a old PC from my brother in law. as he knows i mess about with old kit. He couldn't remember anything about it, and it was just a work machine from back in the day. Upon opening it, it was nothing special, or so I thought (probably still isn't).
A P4 based system.. Nvidia MX.. blah blah.. and a Gigabyte GA-81DX Rev 1.0 socket 478 SDRAM Intel 845 Chipset. I thought ok, its semi interesting.. not the usual 775 board etc.. I went googling.. one shows up on eBay US.. hes asking $895 dollars for it... to quote a guy I know.. "shut the front door" here the listing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255784825069
Why in the name of all that is holy. is this clown asking nearly $900 for a middle of the road, but somewhat interesting transitional board from the early 2000's? was it used in some fancy industrial application? as I know companies would and do pay insane cash for crap hardware just because it was used back in the day and it means not having to down tools or shut lines too long to swap out and dick around with obsolete code to make it play nice with existing equipment.. better a grand than and a hr of a techs time than a million bucks of lost time and expense.
The board in question is going to need a complete recap, as they are all swole like they been on the roids. so initially I thought ill stick it in the "get round to" pile. But am i missing something? Will it be worth my time to do it now? im thinking the only pluses might be its a early P4. and i believe can be used with 98SE.. it came new with ME on it.. so the case sticker states. but the SDRAM seems more expensive to get, and the AGP slot is only 4x so limits the cards that can be used.
