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Hi all, this one has me puzzled because it seems like it doesn't fit neatly into an existing category:
It had an AMD Duron chip in it.
It has a 'SOCKET462' which the Internet says is also known as a 'Socket A', but that came before the AMD AM socket was released.
A quarter barely fits inside the perfectly square hole.
Pics are attached; thank you in advance!

Large socket mobo

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You got 2 gold tab BGA chips. The older the motherboard. The higher quanity/quality of gold manufactuers used. Thats brought out in https://youtu.be/4cvuKakb558?si=VAHwKM2m5nULF84y. You deserve the higher rate on that motherboard.
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yep its Large socket mobo, that being said if it works sk462 boards can be sold for more then scrap if you can find a buyer.

Thanks to you for your helpful replies! I am going to send it as the category you mentioned. I am not attempting reselling of boards at this time.

I can't blame you, lot of buyers out there who buy boards like this can't get them to work and demand a refund or are flat out scammers and send back a box of rocks or something diffent. I used to sell boards like that all day long and the number of folks who buy them not knowing how to use them or are flat out scammers is nuts. I know only sell to people I know who aren't scammers and know how to use old stuff and that hardly happens anymore with how good scarp prices are.

Interesting. Similar situation. This motherboard does not have AM on socket. This board's socket has SOCKET 754 on it. I did a bit of searching on internet. Not satisfied with results. Oh. This board will go to scrap. The Bios chip has 1998 on it. Just looking for comments. Austin86. You seem to be able to input a lttle history. And. Also. Yes. What category?
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that's a msi nforce 3 board, a k8 neo ? IDK. NF3 is fun chipset and the last of the nforce chipsets to support win98, asrock made a nforce 3 chipset board with am2 or was it am3??? IDK it even had 9x support lol

Socket 754 was a very short lived socket from AMD, it came out after SK462 used by the Athlon XP and the first mainstreamed 64bit platform for desktop and the first mainstream platform to move the memory controller into the CPU, it was replaced by sk939 and was repurposed as a budget platform. You can find 754 boards in a lot of cheap OEM systems from around the time vista was new.

NF3 boards are worth selling if they work and you have a buyer, I'd be a buyer if it was not for nf3 chip set not working with sound blasters PCI dos driver. Been on the look out for a via chip set 939 board myself that and a good AGP slot1/370 or pent pro board. I would love to have a retro gaming PC again, I'm no fan of my modern PC.

I'd say it would go as a I-Series and AMD AM/FM Socket MB but the gold tab chip makes me think it should go as a higher grade. I would email Chris, it might go as a Metal Socket No I-Series MB with that gold tab BGA.

If you had any other desktop parts you wanted a little history on let me know, I been building PCs since the Pentium 3 was new and worked in IT since around 2011ish so there not much I don't know.

Might also check the pins to see how much plating is there catwhisker. If it looks like there's a decent amount on all of them then between the pins, number of ICs and the gold tab bga it might break out of the normal AMD grade.

I tried looking a bit through the forum but didn't see any similar socket (to be fair I didn't look that hard)

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