Which MOBO?

jmods · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:19

Hi ya,
Got an old pc currently not doing nothing.....wanna get it up and running to use it as a test machine for software etc...Its a Palomino cpu but the current board is faulty, can anyone recommend a *** board for this cpu, not expensive as it is only gonna be a test machine in the office, cheers!

Sputnik II · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:42

Socket A motherboards are not so common now. I don't think OcUK stock them anymore but, I'd say just get one with the Nforce 2 ultra 400 chipset if you can. You'll probably get a decent board for around £40ish.

jmods · 13 Feb 2006 at 12:31

Nforce 2 Ultra 400 chipset boards will work with this chip. One thing, this chip goes with socket a mobo? and they dont produce these boards anymore? is that right? but it will work with the other boards suggested? cheers and sorry for not being clear

Sputnik II · 13 Feb 2006 at 12:55

jmods said:
Nforce 2 Ultra 400 chipset boards will work with this chip. One thing, this chip goes with socket a mobo? and they dont produce these boards anymore? is that right? but it will work with the other boards suggested? cheers and sorry for not being clear

The Palomino core is an AMD CPU which needs a socket A motherboard. Socket A is also sometimes called Socket 462. The Nforce chipsets give good performance but, they might not be easy to obtain. I have seen some ASrock socket A boards with the SIS chipsets for around the £28 mark.
The Socket A boards are/have been phased out because the Socket 754 boards and CPU's are now taking that position in the sales market.