Socket 370 : most unreliable ever.

[CougTek]

I have a bunch of old socket-370 processors watching dust covers them. Why? Because all the used motherboards using s370 I cross are dead. Blown capacitors and capout BIOS on each and everyone of those.

I often see perfectly working socket 7, socket A, Slot 1, Slot A motherboards. But s370, nope. All of them are good for the recycle bin. And because of that, I have several good CPUs I could use to assemble used systems that only occupy space on my tablets.

Am I the only one with a s370-processors collection?

 

[ddrueding]

I had major Slot 1 issues a few years ago. The motherboards were failing left and right. Rumor was that the board couldn't support the weight; but based on current heatsink dimensions, I can't really believe that.

 

[LiamC]

I'd have to agree with Coug. I've got three S370 chips and no boards for them to go in. I have two other S370 chips in Slot One boards via Slotket, so my Slot One boards are still going strong.

 

[Mercutio]

I have more Socket 463s than anything else, but that's because I almost exclusively dealt with AMD chips for seven years or so.

 

[Piyono]

Let's not forget that Socket370's prime time was in the era of the capacitor fiasco, so capacitor problems are not uncommon on those boards.

Piyono

 

[CougTek]

Yeah, but socket-370 seems to have been more affected. I sometimes see working socket-A boards of that period, but working s-370 is rarer than Pope's shit.

I assembled a PII 266MHz on a 440LX board today (I REALLY had nothing to do). I wish I could also have found a nest for its younger siblings.

 

[MaxBurn]

What about using a slocket adapter on some of those slot 1 boards? I seem to remember really liking the 440BX chipset.

 

[mubs]

I still have 2 dual-cpu slot-1 machines with 4 coppermines running in slotkets.

 

[CougTek]

What about using a slocket adapter on some of those slot 1 boards? I seem to remember really liking the 440BX chipset.

That's what I've been doing today. Unfortunately, the motherboard apparently didn't support the core stepping of the PIII and PIII-derived Celery I tried on it. I'll do more experimentations tomorrow. It must be something that can be fixed with a BIOS update.