obobskivich wrote:

Quick ebay search and people want $800-$2000 (found one at $6600 even)...

What? I bought a Siemens Nixdorf Scenic C5 (P233MMX-based) in Germany for €35 not so long ago. They are cheap and plentiful in Germany.

I bought a P233MMX desktop for $100 shipped from WA (could not be further from NY) a few months ago. And an IBM 486DX2-66 for $70 shipped from NJ (could not be closer to NY). eBay still has many excellent deals.

There are so many (also on other sites) that I really have to force myself to not click BIN all the time. My house would fill up really fast and my wife would serve divorce papers.

No wife, more room for computers!

joacim wrote:

No wife, more room for computers!

+1 \0/

Indrid Cold wrote:

joacim wrote:

No wife, more room for computers!

+1 \0/

+1 also. 🤣

Married men live longer and healthier.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/har … and-mens-health

PeterLI wrote:

Married men live longer and healthier.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/har … and-mens-health

Correlation does not imply causation. 😲

True. 😀

Hello
After being lurking in the dark for a long time, ive finally got around to show some of the projects ive been up to...

get ready for some spam made in Portugal! 😀

This is my workspace/chaos garage

The screen seen here is a Hitachi CM802, Built in 1997 and my favourite screen of all times!

Another work area, this time a 19" Sony Trinitron CRT

My main rig, a Core i3, 8GB DDR3 Corsair Balistix 1600MHz, Radeon R7 260x, Samsung 840 120gb ssd, 3TB wd green, 2TB toshiba hdd, x-Fi Titanium PCIe on a old Solbi City Desk case, 😀 4G LTE Router linked to my 3Com 16 Port switch to provide the whole house with Internet !

A lot of random stuff laying around, that mobo with yellow pci slots its a Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee i've bought a few weeks ago for a project (one of dozens)

once upon a time this was a workbench, now it was overturn by stuff... i dont even bother anymore trying to clean the mess... hoping to find a new spot for my stuff

in this table there are a lot of pieces, but the tower you see there is a Pentium MMX 233 PC with a funny form factor, not full height ATX, will post the model from in a few days... its a QDI mobo, that one has Win95 i think, with a Matrox Millenium II, 2x 64 SDRAM PC100, 2x 4GB maxtor HDD, a CMi 8330 based sound card, a Apocalypse 3Dx accelerator and a Intel Pro/100s nic....
got the board from a street find PC, the rest i've gathered from years of fixing PCs for everibody

a junk salvage QDI Excellent II i440LX based mobo, with a Pentium II 333MHz cpu i had around waiting for a LX/EX board like this, and with it a Diamond Viper V550, a Intel pro/100s nic and a MF1000 3D Melody sound card (i have LOTS of intel pro/100s nics around)

my server boards, wating for a day i have actual space for a server
they are: Intel server board S3000AH with a C2d 6420 in it

Compaq Dual s370

compaq s370 board

cant remember they model numbers, but the dual socket is made by ASUS i think

Some more socket 370 stuff
QDI Advance 10T

PCChips with TNT2 onboard (have a couple of these crappy boards around)

ASUS CULS2-C board with a P3 1GHz, a Gf3 and a SB Live!5.1

A Socket 423 1.7GHz pentium IV on a brand new never used Intel desktop Board i850GB board, waiting for some Rambus to fire up... with a GF3 ti500 on it

I find very hard to get socket 423 coolers for these CPU's, i have another s423, 1.7GHz Pentium IV for this SuperMicro P6STA board, but no coolers and no RamBus
~

More P4 goodies, this is a personal favourite, ASUS P4T-E socket 478 mobo

a Aopen AX4BS SDram based i845 and a P4 2.0GHz socket 478

I have more stuff, but i'm too tired to write it all down here

look around in this link to check some of my crap 😀
http://postimg.org/gallery/1yujprzg0/

Greetings from Portugal

OK, wow... that certainly is a mess 😵

I couldn't live with that, but if you're comfortable with it, more power to you 😎

Also, I've seen worse...

Not really confortable with it, but it is alot of crap in a small space... I'm currently looking for a bigger space to move this stuff and get it on real clean... My wife hates this garage like this...

I can imagine 😁

The current state is the result of putting everything where's a a small bit of horizontal space left - I know, I've been there. Maybe start small, put the mainboards in boxes and stack them in the shelves, put your cards all in a big box (with proper protection, of course), make a tower of ATX cases in one corner, and perhaps most importantly: throw some stuff out! It's quite satisfying and the wife will certainly appreciate it 😁

It's quite a nice collection, and I think with a bit of organization certainly manageable in that space.

LoL... There are allready boxes in the shelves full of cards, there are boxes full of cables, under the tables there are towers, some with PCs inside... I've removed 1kg of capacitors of a bunch of old damaged mobos and toss them in the bin, even incomplete and damaged chassis i've tossed... And it doesn't get any better... There is alot of crap in there... But ive thrown stuff away and regreted in the past... A bunch of complete and working 386 and 486 pc and now theyre worth something and i want them...

Interesting. Looks like a lot of electronic scrap to me. Then again: I suffer from OCD so I always have a highly clean and organized environment. 🤣 Plus to me anything > Pentium 233 MMX is really just junk.

PeterLI wrote:

Interesting. Looks like a lot of electronic scrap to me. Then again: I suffer from OCD so I always have a highly clean and organized environment. 🤣 Plus to me anything > Pentium 233 MMX is really just junk.

I'm an eletronic tecnician student, so its a lot of eletronic crap indeed. But I work mainly as a computer repair guy, and I'm looking to start my own shop. mixing work and play results in my current space chaos... after getting rid of pleople laptop and computers to a work specific place, I can refurbish this place to a old computer place...

Any old computer that can do something a new computer cant do because its too new, I call it retro... 😀

Cool. I recommend getting into recycling. Computer repair as a business model is dying pretty fast. Then again: maybe not in PT as a middle income EU member state. 😀

Oh for gods sake... don't tell people to recycle these machines! There are already enough scrappers ruining perfectly good equipment as it is.

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh for gods sake... don't tell people to recycle these machines! There are already enough scrappers ruining perfectly good equipment as it is.

True story

just salvage a bunch of socket 775 ACER EG31M mobos and a few socket 478 BIOSTAR with just a few caps needing replacement from my school... some people cant afford new mobos, and this free repaired boards will get me some €€€€ and happy costumers...

NiPPonD3nZ0 wrote:

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh for gods sake... don't tell people to recycle these machines! There are already enough scrappers ruining perfectly good equipment as it is.

True story

just salvage a bunch of socket 775 ACER EG31M mobos and a few socket 478 BIOSTAR with just a few caps needing replacement from my school... some people cant afford new mobos, and this free repaired boards will get me some €€€€ and happy costumers...

I see you're having S423 boards but no RDRAM 😀
For me it's the opposite: I have RDRAM sticks (Samsung) but no board w/ CPU to put them into 🤣

I have a friend with a box full of RDRAM. He was telling me that at one point he had 1gb and 512's but after 10 years they are all gone and 256/128's are all that remain. A maxed out 4gb RDRAM p4 would be such a cool project! come to think of it I never have even seen an enthusiast 423 motherboard