I live in the UK and my nearest post office needs to be driven to thus thats part of the postage cost in my book as is the materials to send the item. it may only be a 20 gram CPU but in the years I've had selling items on eBay I would simply send anything in an envelope is a no no as its prone to …

So who has a story they want to share? I asked a seller in the UK for shipping to Norway were I live. The item was a socket 7 CPU which weights 20grams without packaging. He replied that it would cost 5 GBP without any tracking. Since I have full knowledge of the Royal Mail prices I knew he was …

So, what was the main problem with getting the chipsets of the time to do a stable 50MHz? Was it a heating problem, a voltage problem, or something else entirely? It was probably a combination of many factors cmos process limitations, signal quality, heat etc but definitely for VLB based …

Its all socket 3 boards. I have bought them from ebay.. I red some wikipedia stuff.. Its it true that intel 486 processors uses the standard 33 mhz bus? And AMD used a higher 40 mhz bus?? So there wont be are intel 120mhz 486er on the market?? I thought AMD used 33mhz bus as well. Seemed that i …

Just a few pics of the machine. At home on top of my main machine: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b51/bunter6/Deskpro%202000/IMAG0440_zps6c4b6d7e.jpg During the Norton Ghost copy of it's old 3.2GB to the 80GB Barracuda atached to Adaptec AHA1200A: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b51/bunter6/ …

vmunix wrote: Absolutely, thank you!! Wow, you are a legend my friend, getting that from such a small pic 😎

I think this is more an issue created by large OEM's. I've worked for Compaq/HP for many years & it wasnt a common term here but plenty of IBM folk started here over the years and they called System Unit a CPU & they also called hard disks 'Hard Files' & motherboards 'Planar Boards'.

d1stortion wrote: DonutKing wrote: Its been tried before 😀 http://totl.net/Eunuch/Eunuch2.html I call BS. A 486SX doesn't even have a FPU, yet they claim to play Quake and HL on that thing? Yeah thats obviously a humour article, I mean a Vooodoo in an EISA slot & a freezer that does -53C!? Stills …

Looks great, it reminds me of my 1st PC, it had a very similar case & was a 386SX16 but someone had fitted it with a 36MHz crystal for a minor overclock. Time to go hunting desktop AT cases & 386 boards for a bit of memory lane fun methinks 😀

Hi Folks, I'm new to the Forum; I've posted a few times but thought I should also put up the specs of my new retro rig. I got a couple of Compaq Deskpro's for nothing as they were in a non-working state, a 4000 233MMX & a 2000 200MMX. Unfortunately the better of the 2 the 4000 is a no power up, it …

Any other creative ideas? Possibly your IDE card isnt up to the task of effectively handling/throttling the data rates that the CF cards are throwing at it, you could try sourcing a good DMA capable IDE controller like a Promise EIDE Max. In all honesty though if it were my machine I'd discard the …

Do you mean running the cpu at 120mhz? In that case you would set the jumpers for a DX4-100 and run the fsb at 40mhz, no problem at all. Is this de way, the original mented to be?? Or cant those board original be faster then 100 mhz? I run my DX4 120 at 100 with a 33mhz bus no problem So i only …

HDD controller hasn't got any pins for configuring IRQ/Port and has its own BIOS but I don't know how to access it. It has only one IDE channel so I guess it's only using one IRQ. How can I see what resources the HDD controller is using? Cheers Typically the Primary IDE channel should use IRQ 14. …

excellent case. plenty of room in there too. I have an Epox 58MVP3C motherboard. very stable. I do like the case, if only I could get the logo off it, and maybe paint it , but I might end up causing more damage than good. I'd keep the case as it is, Mesh are no longer going as real pc maker, they …