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Re: Re:+Slot+Processors (Reply to this comment)
by vicwang
"You misquoted me there. I never said the Durons were made in Slot format. What you said about the Athlons is basically what I said, and yes, Slot Athlons are still available therefore I mentioned it."
While technically true, this is still misleading. 486 processors are also still "available", just as Slot Athlons and PIII's are still available--but that doesn't make them a viable platform, or even quite honestly an option worth considering. Both are discontinued technologies which have been abandoned for quite some time now.
Which, of course, makes this review's claim that "Both Pentium 3s and Athlons are still made in Slot format as well as socket format" completely untrue. As I said in my prior comment, Slot-based Athlons were only produced for a few short months after the introduction of Socket-A, while Intel also abandoned Slot-1 in favor of Socket-370 around that same time.
Bottom line? Any way you look at it, slot-based CPU's are obsolete for anyone purchasing/building a new PC, since both Intel and AMD have abandoned the format for almost a year now. Your article does a good job at hinting at that conclusion, but stops just short. Which is really too bad, since the article is otherwise both accurate and informative in spite of that inaccuracy.
-vicwang
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Jul 10 '01
7:47 pm PDT
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Re: Slot+Processors (Reply to this comment)
by adamadi
You misquoted me there. I never said the Durons were made in Slot format.
What you said about the Athlons is basically what I said, and yes, Slot Athlons are still available therefore I mentioned it.
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May 29 '01
11:30 am PDT
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Slot Processors (Reply to this comment)
by vicwang
"Amd followed suite, and now, both the Athlons and the Durons... are produced in both Slot and Socket format."
Not true. Once the Athlons went over to the Socket-A format in mid-2000, production of Slot-A Athlons ended almost immediately. Slot-A versions of the new "Thunderbird" Athlon were produced for a while, but in extremely limited quantities, and only up to 800 mhz (compared to 1.33 ghz for the socket version). As for Durons, they are not, and have never been available in the Slot-A format.
It's pretty much the same situation with PIII's. Although Intel stuck with the slot format several months more than AMD did (for a while the 1 ghz PIII was only available in slot), their entire product line from the Celerons to the P4 is now in socket format.
Of course, that isn't to say that slot-based Athlons and PIII's aren't readily available in the resale market. But even though you can still find them, slot-based processors are pretty much a dead technology since new processors will no longer be made for those formats.
-vicwang
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May 28 '01
10:08 pm PDT
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Re: Just+one+more+point... (Reply to this comment)
by adamadi
I know about the adapters, call Slocket adapters. I have used them before and I have had mixed results with them. And they cost about $15 bucks online, but I didn't bother mentioning them because its being sold much less now.
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May 28 '01
9:00 pm PDT
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Re: Just+curious.+.+. (Reply to this comment)
by adamadi
The main reason I recommend brand names is because of my experience with a non brand name motherboard. I bought a Tekram motherboard, the one that uses the Via chipset and I had hell. Support was non existant and the messed up my RMA. I bought an Asus with the same chipset, worked fine.
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May 28 '01
8:58 pm PDT
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Just one more point... (Reply to this comment)
by grimjack2
Good article! Since you are almost the only person writing about socket & slot motherboards, you should mention that there are adapters for slots to put a socketed chip into. One local computer store has upgraded many machines using a $25 adapter.
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May 28 '01
10:47 am PDT
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Just curious. . . (Reply to this comment)
by pearman
Why are you so intent on buying a brand name motherboard? I have an ABIT myself, but I know people who have generic boards and their computers do just fine.
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May 28 '01
9:34 am PDT
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