I have a couple similar chipsetted boards and have also considered if these could be of any use to me at one time.
It's not that I need to do so (I have plenty of s370 boards laying around with AGP slots), but if I ever were to make a rig based on a 810 board, I'd probably make a low power Voodoo 2 + TNT2 M64 PCI 16MB or a Voodoo 3 PCI rig out of it matched with a very slow Coppermine CPU (say 600-ish MHz) and make it a Windows gaming rig (due to it having no ISA slots).
But I reckon you could put any nice PCI graphics card in there (say a GF2MX or so). I do remember the 810's had some PCI bug though which had something to do with the data throughput or something.

Though this idea never went beyond consideration, I see little use for such a rig for me personally unless I run out of s370 boards which do have proper AGP slots (which is unlikely to happen to me in the near future 🤣).

This board should have very low power consumption, especially with a low end Coppermine equipped and using the onboard video and no unnecessary expansion cards.
If you have some suitable task that needs to run for long hours, this would be an efficient board to do it with.
As far as gaming, I guess it could be okay with a PCI card but I'd prefer an AGP board for that.

It certainly oozes cheapness. In 2000, that was the lowest of the low end. Not even a passive cooler on the Northbridge.

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It certainly oozes cheapness. In 2000, that was the lowest of the low end. Not even a passive cooler on the Northbridge.

True that i810 was a budget chipset, though iirc many i815 boards I've seen didn't come with a chipset HS either.

Good stuff. Thank you.

If you have some suitable task that needs to run for long hours

Yeah, I originally set it aside to become a Linux Router.

Well the caps are good and I don't have another 370 so I suppose it's best purpose is a spare in case I acquire a 370 P3 with a bum board.

Otherwise back to what it's been doing - filling out the case Most Likely to go to recycling.

We have a quirk in our recycling regs: It is forbidden to bin electronics, but the recycling depots do not accept computer parts. Hence it's useful to have a cruddy case or two to fill with the dead drives etc as they accumulate.

Very glad I opened the box for the pic though. I'd been wondering where the zark my Duron cooler had gotten to. It has a Purpose again now that the A7V is going to be returned to Spitfire form.