The blue smoke has escaped!

Well, it looks like I'll be building a new backup server in the near future. My old Athlon XP 2500+ system has let out the blue smoke (and made my study smell like I had a 50 a day habit) and stopped responding to network requests.

I have an old P35 (socket 775) motherboard lying around, but no processor to go in it. Looking at my normal suppliers (Ebuyer, Scan, Dabs) I'm having difficulty getting a 775 processor.

Any tips on where I might get one from. I need it to be boxed (no after-market cooler required, I'll be underclocking it) and very cheap, but not off ebay.

Any tips?

Thanks,

Andy

Why not eBay? It's the best place for ancient hardware.

How about?

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/category.asp?categoryid=244

I haven't tried them, so can only give you the link. The risk is all yours. Failing that you could get a blue smoke refill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5wjI5J-trI&feature=y...

Apologies as this does not really answer your question.

But what about buying a HP Proliant Microserver with the £100 cashback offer still on?

I've got most of the components, I just need the cpu. I want to spend as little as possible, even with the cash back, it is still too expensive.

Thanks anyway.

Andy

Have you tried Amazon?

www.cex.co.uk

They have many second hand CPUs and will deliver to you.

All second hand goods come with a 12 month warranty

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Why not eBay? It's the best place for ancient hardware.

Agreed

Course if you're adamant against eBay there's always Gumtree...

In reply to a post by camieabz:

How about?

http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/category.asp?categoryid=244

I haven't tried them, so can only give you the link. The risk is all yours. Failing that you could get a blue smoke refill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5wjI5J-trI&feature=y...

I have used PC upgrade a couple of years back for a p4 motherboard and they was very good, they even phoned me up as I ordered some memory at the same time to make sure that I know what I was ordering as the memory would not fit the board as I did not buy the memory for that board.

so good service at that time.

In reply to a post by JonasTone:

www.cex.co.uk

They have many second hand CPUs and will deliver to you.

All second hand goods come with a 12 month warranty

True, I got a 2.5inch hard drive for my ps3 from there, a pretty good price as well. but they are expensive on some things mind you.