H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-10-30, 10:55:
VivienM wrote on 2023-10-29, 22:50:I would probably suggest this approach:
1) Look at the supported CPU list for that motherboard (if there is one...), and sort fr […]
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I would probably suggest this approach:
1) Look at the supported CPU list for that motherboard (if there is one...), and sort from fastest (highest clock rate) to slowest, and
2) Look at the prices for those CPUs in your area until you find some that fits within your budget
What was the fastest 100MHz FSB PIII in slot 1? According to Wikipedia, the 1GHz. I... suspect... the 1GHz is going to be relatively pricy (slot 1 stuff generally tends to be, plus 1GHz has that psychological 1GHz thing), so... go down two notches and see what the pricing on, say, the 800 or 850 is like?
For some reason (maybe a lot wasn't made) the 800 and 850 slot1 100FSB are stupidily expensive. Probably the 1GHz/100MHz as well ..
The 1GHz 100FSB would certainly have been relatively rare because the i815 and socket 370/133 FSB came out a few months later. So most large OEM 1GHz systems were probably i815 370s.
But the 800/850... I don't know. The question is how much more money they were, and how long they were on the market.
I will note that this is starting to be around the time of the Celeron launch, etc. A couple of years earlier, you had chips like, say, the Pentium 166 that launched as high-end, then gradually fell down in price as newer higher-end options were launched. By this point, Intel doesn't intend to offer the PIII 850 as a low-priced option in 2002; in 2002, the 850 is long gone and they have a nice Willamette Celeron for you...
Also, there's the AMD factor. My recollection is that this happened to be a time when the first Athlons were very popular and much more affordable. So... probably fewer slot 1 CPUs in enthusiast systems that are more likely to be stripped down for parts, and more slot 1 CPUs in businessy/etc systems that often go straight to e-waste.
That being said, I wonder if this is just reflecting a lot of demand. The slot 1 440BX systems have always been well-regarded, maybe there's just always been a lot of demand from people continuously wanting to upgrade lower-speed slot 1s to higher speed slot 1s, both in the ~2003-4 era when you'd expect the value of these processors used to have plunged and continuing to this day.