Integraded Motherboard

[N128CD]

I saw on apex back oh about 3 eeks to 1 1/2 months ago 2 motherboards that had the cpu integraded into the board one i think was 1.3 ghz and the other 1.5 for 5 and 10 bucks if anybody knows who makes them and where i can find them let me know please.

[InfiniteNothing]

Syntax. The deal was at Tiger direct. I ordered my system. I wonder how they compare to 1.3 ghz pentium 4s / celleron. TD is out. The model is S635MP SiS635

[N128CD]

Tiger dosent have them anymore but i did find one that has them for 59 dollars bummer.

[nomoney]

Works great for something like a car-puter.

I usually upgrade my mobo and my CPU at the same time anyway (same with RAM). I probably wait longer than most to upgrade though...

[InfiniteNothing]

Originally posted by DarkFury
I guess... but still sounds like a waste of circuitry to me. :shrug:

I've been hanging on to my 233MHz Pentium 1 MMX for like 7 years. If you keep windows clean it actually runs pretty fast.
By the time I want to upgrade the proccessor, the mobo is beyond obsolete. $5 is much less intimidating than $200 for a decent range mobo/CPU. It's a secondary computer so it doesn't make sence to pay a whole lot money for it. You gotta find the sweet spot of computers because you know, in six months, your top of the line comptuer is going to about as good as the computer that cost half as much.

One should note that the proccessor runs at 800MHz :angry: Sounds way too deceptive. I mean, with AMD it's understood but these guys kept the real speed way to secretive

If you ask nicely I'll benchmark it. It's super quiet too esp with the 80GB WD. You can hardly hear it. Now I just need a quiet power supply. It's mini ATX size 13"*7"ish which would indeed make it portable.

Lastly, it comes with alot of crap on it. VGA out, a modem card, 100-T ethernet, sound, 4 USB ports, agp 4X slot, ata 100, and it takes cheap DDR ram (that's way too fast for the FSB).

Now if I can only figure out how to OC it

;)

[N128CD]

I was thinking of getting it for my computer job for backup machines when im working on somebodys.

[InfiniteNothing]

Originally posted by N128CD
I was thinking of getting it for my computer job for backup machines when im working on somebodys.

The results are highly disappointing. DF might be right about waste of circuitry. It's performing around a pentium 2 600Mhz I think. I'll get up the graphics later. A trail of lies: I have a screen capture from a referring site saying 1.3GHz (try .8Ghz) , I have a capture from Tiger saying 233MHz FSB (try 133MHz) ...my recipt even says 1.3GHz. Assuming all goes well with the rebate I'm only down 17.92 (wow, that's some shipping)