6. CPU

PIII 1000/133 is several times cheaper than the FSB 100 variant, more common, and it’s easier to find a unit manufactured in the year 2000, because FSB100 version was announced later. 1000/100 is worth roughly ±5% about the same as an Athlon 1000 Orion.

For Intel CPUs, the production date is encoded in digits 2, 3, and 4 of the code: the second digit indicates the production year, while the third and fourth indicate the production week. My unit comes from week 32 of 2000, which points to July. That said, I’m still not completely satisfied.

There has been a lot of discussion on forum about “paper launch” of Intel’s gigahertz-class processors, which of course doesn’t mean they couldn’t be purchased anywhere. Just like me, a user @arncht was looking for proof that the Pentium III 1 GHz, specifically the Socket 370 version, was actually available for sale in 2000.

1ghz pentium iii fcpga release date

Thanks to his research, I found a mention of a slot-based CPU being available for purchase in July on the Akiba website. The problem is that the processor shown there is SL48S, while mine is SL4BS. At one point I thought SL48S referred to boxed versions of the processor, but according to Akiba they were also sold as oem CPUs, without cooling or retail packaging.

Based on observing listings on eBay, I’ve concluded that all of SL4BS that i`ve seen were units shipped in prebuilt systems and servers — IBM, Dell, etc. To be satisfied, i need to find confirmation that the SL4BS was also sold separately. Alternatively, I might score an SL48S marked “1000G” in the future (like the one shown in the Akiba news post I’m attaching), and then sell the processor I currently have. I've already seen one offer, but I didn't have enough cashat the time : )

This is difficult, but maybe someone here knows where I could look for information confirming that the SL4BS was available at retail. I’m also curious how common it was to run 133 MHz CPUs on the BX chipset. I would probably have to dig through old forum archives. One thing is certain — 133 MHz CPUs on BX boards were commonly used in benchmarks shown in hardware reviews.

Nice build.
Go with Intel

These Netgear network products were very inexpensive and popular back in 1990's marketed for home PC computers
NOT for Workstations or Servers and Netgear had problems
sometimes driver issues or hardware issues with full duplex.
I remember the driver use to make my computers crash.
we tried using these products with servers and they would not negotiate a link speed

Try Intel NIC, or HP