I got another package today.
A bare motherboard wrapped in bubble wrap. You may have seen this exact motherboard offered on Amibay but as I'm not a member there I bought it from Ebay. I only noticed it beeing offered on Amibay when I did a search after I bought it. I feel it's for the best that I do not join Amibay anyhow...
When it comes to wrapping motherboards in bubble wrap without any ESD protection, please dont! When someone pays 85 euro (shipped) for a motherboard that someone kind of expect an ESD bag...
If one wants to build the optimal Pentium III based Y2K-system this motherboard is a good candidate as the VIA Apollo Pro 266 chipset officially launched in September year 2000. like AMDs DDR chipset (760) for the Athlon It was kind of vaporware the first months though and got replaced by the Tualatin ready Apollo Pro 266T half a year later. It was very possible to own a dual Coppermine system with an Apollo Pro 266 motherboard in year 2000 though if you were "connected" as demo systems traveled computer exhibitions from early spring and onwards. After doing a quick search the first record I found of an Apollo Pro 266 motherboard actually bought in retail was from the second half of December 2000 with reviews starting to pop up in January.
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The motherboard lives so it seems it survived the bubble wrap treatment but for once I will actually do an OS install before giving the seller positive feedback.
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The motherboard seems to work fine. I did an XP install and I'm doing some quick 3d benchmarks while I write this.
A system like this should run Windows 2000 though but the XP disc was the first one I found.
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New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.