leftovers (dual slot-A question)

third-king

Im ganna be doing a processor/mobo/ram upgrade soon. So i wont be needing my current 950 mhz athlon slot-A or its ram. My current motherboard is almost dead and i have no plans on keeping it. But i also have an old 550 mhz slot-A. What i want to do is somehow use these leftover processors and ram for a 2nd computer, mainly as a browsing computer but maybe as a server hosting games for possibly lanpartys at my house.

I know that for a dual processor motherboard to work, both processors have to be of the same clock speed. Can i do something with my 550 to make it equal to the 950? or do i need to buy another 950 for all this to work?


or can i just buy a new dual processor motherboard and only use my one processor, the 950? until i have some more money to throw in another 950 in the future.

and finally i tried looking around but its pretty hard to find information on motherboards this old. Can anyone give me the names of some good dual amd athlon slot-A motherboard models?

primesuspect

There was no such thing, ever, as a dual slot a motherboard. You're confusing it with Slot 1 INTEL processors. If you put an AMD processor in that board, you may destroy one or the other, I'm not sure, but it will DEFINITELY not work.

They look the exact same (i.e. they use the same packaging) but they are pin-incompatible.


//edit: I was wrong, there was an athlon 550, but never a dual.

third-king

uh.... how can there never have been a 550 mhz athlon slot-a when i have one. im talking abou the k7s, the first gen. athlons... the product that saved amds ass. they started from 450mhz and the last one (of the slot-As, the cartridge processors) went to 1 ghz.

edit: in other words, im speaking of a dual processor motherboard for the Classic Athlongs (couldnt remember that they were called Classics for my earlier posts.)

stoopid

I don't think there are any dual slot-A motherboards. There are a number of socket A boards:

http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1233

I know of what cpu packaging you speak, it was the early K7 chips, and quickly faded away as amd went to a socket design (for the same reason Intel did). AMD didn't have any dual support early on, that came slightly later with the socket chips only (again, as far as I remember).

third-king

thanks for the info and the link "stupid", but getting that would be pointless for me as my main goal is to make something out of my k7 athlon 550 and 950 processors.

but if what your saying is true, that there were no k7 slot-a dual processor motherboards, then maybe someone out there can point me to the name of the motherboard that was the all out greatest for the k7 slot-A athlons... at least this way ill be able to get a 2+ year old motherboard for my 950 from ebay for cheap (i hope), since once again, my goal is to make use of my 550 or 950 or both since im ganna be scrapping my current board that holds my 950.

stoopid

Wasn't suggesting those boards would serve any purpose, just a link I found on google.com, a great place to find all sorts of information on the slot-a motherboards .

third-king

you make it sound like i havnt looked... if you add the word "dual" to that seach quarry you get bombarded with alot of links to generated search pages that dont help at all... which leads me to further believe your comment on the fact that there are no dual processor slot-a motherboards.

i am pretty disapointed, now i have to rethink many things.

third-king

well unfortunately it seems there never was such a thing as a dual slot a amd athlon k7 motherboard.

Sadler2010

I used to go to JustDeals.com for Asus's K7V and K7V-T but when I checked to help you out, they no longer have any, though they might be able to scrounge one up for you, send 'em an email inquiry. I got a K7V-T (T-Bird 800 and 1GB PC133 SDRAM) from them and planned to get another for a second slot A project(using a Classic 700), even though I could use my old Biostar AMD 750 chipset MoBo(blech), I want to have a PC with AGP4X and support for T-birds too, and oh yeah, PC133 also. But I highly recommend those 2 boards, also Soyo, MSI, and Gigabyte made good boards for the Slot A's, the big thing you want is a VIA KX133 chipset. Make sure it's a Slot A mobo, since some webstores listings mistakenly call Socketed Kt133 boards slot A's, though if pics are of the actual board you'll see it, just read through the whole listing if not sure. Well i'm sorry to have not cought your question while they still had them in, BTW they were going for $25 and $30USD, ironically they got more for the earlier K7V model, go figure. Hope I've helped in some way advance your search for a good mobo for your old Athy'.

Sadler2010

BTW, the AMD motherboards page is a great help in finding boards to research compatibility and availability, though the manufacturers are more up to date with what CPU's a board actually supports due to later bioses AMD doesn't account for(I think once the last Slot board was released, they quit updating that page save for major issues/changes perhaps).

Sadler2010

http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?unique=89ea8&catalog=justdeals&et=4058a5b0&basket=b%3D5Ccfe188d8008d3540589d295a90d8de188d89305de4274b6e6495f6cd8548e9e%26l%3D%26s%3DqosMfI.fcx6l2hsdcJc1MMDS1qw-

Well it is no longer listed but is searchable and you can get to the checkout so I guess they still have them. Note double listed under different price, get the 29.99 one since I see no differences in the listing. You will have to type K7V-T in search box.