Recommended mobo for dual 733 PIII coppermine

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Magikal

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k, I have a nice set of Pentium 3 733Mhz CopperMine processors that are actually produced from the same lot (serials are within digits of each other). I had them in a Alton/Amptron/PCchips board and they all seem to be crap. The boards do not seem to accept the Coppermine processors. To expand, they will run for 6-12 months and then the 2nd CPU quits working and the system won't boot until it is removed. Later (another 6-12 mo) the board will just quit at random. It gradually gets worse and more often until it won't work at all. This is the second board I have went through in the last two years.

Does anyone know of a good board that these processors would be good for?
 
I think there can be many reasons why those boards might fail, bad capicitors and age to name just two, but the bottom line is Pentium 3 is a dead horse. Zipzoomfly hasn't had P3 boards for some time now. NewEgg has a micro ATX DFI socket 370 for $60.00 but that is designed for Tualatin/Celeron chips. The Coppermine CPUs were an earlier design and took more power than the Tualatin. (In fact, I have a P3 Tualatin 1.2 Ghz in an ASUS motherboard with an 815E chipset as we speak, but that ASUS is a rock solid board -- but still it is old technology which is why I am doing a new build in a week). The only thing I could find after a Google search is this from Tigerdirect, but I am still not sure if it will take a Coppermine chip.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=633885&CatId=181

I suggest an intense Google search for Socket 370 boards is your best bet, but if I was you I'd lay them to rest. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
 
not to burst your bubble, but I have done much, much searching for a good board. An older Intel (the 440x I believe) seems to have good reviews but it is no longer supported. This WAS a very stable machine until recently, loading it till it crashed was hard. Not the fastest I know but it was stable.

I was thinking of getting an identical board from ECS as they seem to have fairly decent boards....really like the dual processor...it kept up w/ my P4 2Ghz processor clocked to over 2.1Ghz and with twice the RAM of my p4.
 
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