ECS K7SOM+ DURON PRO 1800cpu USB2 snd grphics lan?

is this a good budget buy
ive never heard of a duron 1800
price around £60
i believe it includse heatsink /fan

http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7som_7a.html
no processor onboard

http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7som_7c.html
CPU On Board
Hardware Monitoring
USB 2.0
SiS740/962L chipset with integrated advanced 128-bit 2D/3D graphic engine
LPC I/O ?V ITE IT8705F
System Hardware Monitor: Integrated in ITE IT8705F
LAN ?V 10/100Mbps Faster Ethernet (optional)
Audio ?V AC'97 Codec CMI9738A
Two 184-pin 2.5V DDR SDRAM (DDR200/266)
Max. 1GB
AMI 2Mb Flash EEPROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Support ACPI revision 1.0 specification
2 PCI slots
1 CNR slot
PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
Four USB Ports and an optional LAN Connector
One EPP/ECP mode parallel port
One 16550 high-speed serial I/O port
One VGA connector
Audio ports (Mic, Audio-in, Audio-out port)
Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support four IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2,
Ultra DMA 66/100/133)
Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
ATX Power Supply Connector
IrDA header
Internal PC speaker header
Extra Mic./ Speaker header
CD ROM/DVD Audio Input header
2 Extra USB Ports
HDD LED, Reset Switch, Suspend LED, Power Switch headers
CPU and chasis Fan headers
Integrate CMOS SRAM in SiS962L
With CMOS hardware clear jumper


"fama" <> wrote in message
news:be44j7$ktm$...
> is this a good budget buy
> ive never heard of a duron 1800
> price around £60
> i believe it includse heatsink /fan
>
>

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:59:00 +0100, "fama" <>
wrote:

>is this a good budget buy
>ive never heard of a duron 1800
>price around £60
>i believe it includse heatsink /fan

One drawback is that the CPU is soldered onto the motherboard, so
there's no possibility of upgrading it at a later date. If that's a
problem, a standard (CPU-less) K7SOM+ and separate Duron 1.3GHz would
only be a few quid more.

There's no such thing as a 'Duron 1800' by the way - it's probably a
standard Morgan Duron (1GHz - 1.3GHz) with a bogus PR rating.

--
Mike