How much did u pay for ur BP6???

naro · Post by **naro** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:33 am

hi all, i'm quite curious to know how much did u all pay for ur BP6.

i'm from Singapore, i got my BP6 2nd hand (i think 3rd or 4th hand).

i paid S$70 for Abit BP6, 2x300A Celeron processors and 64mb PC66 SD-Ram.

For Info:
US$1.00 ~ S$1.70 right now according to http://www.exchangerate.com/

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:14 am

bought mine when fc-pga had only just come out and the computer store was stocking 533 cpus as good stuff for everyday machines to sell.
pre Piii 800

cost $350 aud
and I broke it, and had to get another one ;-(

BCN · Post by **BCN** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:51 am

I had bought it in feb of 2000 when FCPGA was just showing up within few months and celeries were all the way! 600-700MHz those days were superfast and you had to be using pelts to get there.

bought it within a system on ebaytype auction.
I paid I guess like 700USD equivalence, but it included also C366, 128Mb PC100, 4Gb and 10Gb HDDs, TNT, 2xVooDoo2, SB128PCI, 32x CD-ROM, mouse, keyboard, 15" good quality monitor, full tower case, floppy, 250W PSU.

And that was my FIRST PC! can you imagine how lucky I got to get SMP for my first one?!

so I still have it, though only mobo, case, TNT and SBPCI128 left of that original...

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:54 pm

$75US for BP6, 2x500cpus, 128meg of PC66.
Purchased Fep2004.

i mistakenly put the cpus as 533s. sorry naro

Holodeck2 · Post by **Holodeck2** » Tue May 04, 2004 1:33 am

Way back in the old days
brand spanking new BP6: $135 + $30 caps n' regulator
(5) 366 Celerons: $60 each
Tec with watercooling: ~$680
3 stick of 256MB of Mushkin low latency PC 133 ram: $350 a stick

and it's still chugging along after 5 years of being constantly molested

Total running cost of computer is at about $6000

naro · Post by **naro** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:25 am

davd_bob wrote:$75US for BP6, 2x533cpus, 128meg of PC66.
Purchased Fep2004.

i guess we are one of the few 'latecomers' to the BP6 network... i oso purchased it in Feb 04, but the system was not up until Mar 04 when i finally got a casing for it..

naro · Post by **naro** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:28 am

Holodeck2 wrote:Way back in the old days
brand spanking new BP6: $135 + $30 caps n' regulator
(5) 366 Celerons: $60 each
Tec with watercooling: ~$680
3 stick of 256MB of Mushkin low latency PC 133 ram: $350 a stick

and it's still chugging along after 5 years of being constantly molested

Total running cost of computer is at about $6000

$6000!!!!!:shock:

that's a lot of money spent on a BP6...

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue May 04, 2004 11:17 pm

I got mine when it was the flagship Abit board.

It cost in the region of £80 (UK). That's approximately $140 for you US-types.

Still going strong today, so I consider it a very worthwhile investment.

Long live the Abit BP6!

Holodeck2 · Post by **Holodeck2** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:47 am

yeah, fresh off the factory floor
it's an investment that keeps sucking my wallet dry

nullshark · Post by **nullshark** » Wed May 05, 2004 2:44 am

Got mine Oct 29th, 1999 for $241 CAD ($176 USD).
The Cel 400's were $105 CAD each ($76 USD).

Posting from it now, though I've since bought and popped in two 366's for it.

(bought them both from ebay for a total of $15 CAD ($11 USD) hehe, wheee!

the_flames · Post by **the_flames** » Wed May 05, 2004 7:57 pm

I got my BP6 second hand at a computer fair for £35, this was to replace a BX133-raid that I had killed.

then I had to get myself a second Celeron 400 to run in it ( another £20 from the same failr a few weeks later)

and unlike InactiveX, I cannot be bothered to work the prices from GBP to USD

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:39 am

Cant really remember the year I got mine, I think it was back in 1999.
Got mine second hand.
I swaped my Athlon 700, Overclocking Jumper thing that pluged onto the athlon, FIC motherboard, Abit HPT370 raid card and a massive heatsink the size of a brick for 2x500 Celerons matching pair, BP6, Heatsinks fans, and an intel pro100 network card.

Thats when I caught the 2cpu bug, havent baught a single cpu system since.

fazer · Post by **fazer** » Thu May 06, 2004 9:11 pm

60$ for the board, 15$ for each 466 chip. and ram free. (thank junk day).

not that i still have it.

looiwte · Post by **looiwte** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:18 am

Hey naro, I'm in Singapore too. We can exchange BP6 resources if you like.

I've got almost the same set as yours: 2X 300A + BP6 + 64 Mb RAM for S$65=US $38.24.
I just got another BP6, board only, last month for S$15=US$8.82. Looking for some processors in the meantime. Might try an FCPGA chip with lin-lin adapter.

naro · Post by **naro** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:45 pm

looiwte wrote:Hey naro, I'm in Singapore too. We can exchange BP6 resources if you like.
I've got almost the same set as yours: 2X 300A + BP6 + 64 Mb RAM for S$65=US $38.24.
I just got another BP6, board only, last month for S$15=US$8.82. Looking for some processors in the meantime. Might try an FCPGA chip with lin-lin adapter.

heehee.. nice to know ppl here from singapore too..

anyway, i've just sold my BP6 away... now only left with my Creative SFF to play with..

brian33x51 · Post by **brian33x51** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:20 pm

I honestly dont' rememeber...

I bought my bp6 with a pair of 366 celeron's that were *supposedly* certified to run @550. I only ever got them to run stably at 539. The first card I put in that system was a guillomot banshee card.

I still have that system, now it has 768MB RAM on it, a radeon 7200 (the banshee card failed, it probably melted itself) and sadly a few capacitors that look like balloons. I hope to get a cap kit soon and hope I have the skill to not jack up the replacement.

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:16 am

Bought mine, board only, last year for 300 SEK which at the time was about USD32 or thereabouts....

iSDn · Post by **iSDn** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:51 am

I paid around 100€ for my first BP6 board. My second cost me 12€ (used), the third 30€(used) and number four and five cost me 25€(used).

dmalchir · Post by **dmalchir** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:01 am

I'm from Malaysia, above Singapore, i bought this mobo from the junk shop last year from this posting date for RM160. conversion USD1=RM3.8
and celly 433 for RM75 each 128 sdram pc100 for RM50 and most of the other stuff set me back not more than RM200.all the stuff used in my bp6 i including the bp6 is 2nd,3rd,4th,5th-100th hand parts i don't know exactly how many people

cavity · Post by **cavity** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:36 am

i got mine for $75 cdn with 2x400cpus and an ugly case.. about 3 days before i registered here

3dcandy · Post by **3dcandy** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:15 pm

Just got a BP6 today from ebay.co.uk.
£30.00 with 2 x Celeron 500's and a 128meg stick of PC-133 ram.
Just need to sort some hsf's out, and I'm in business...

Stobe · Post by **Stobe** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:02 am

I think I paid around 100 € for the BP6, and 100 € each for the 433's... but the thing has certainly paid everything back with interests. Gotta love SMP!