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First post, by Floopy

Posted on 2017-11-05, 02:51

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How good are Micron PC? I have a tower, but I can't find much information about it. I know that someone will tell me that they found tons of info 😒 , but except a picture here and there I haven't found much.
It's a Micro millennia MAX, at least I think so. I just don't know if I should part it out or keep it. It's fairly big and it takes up a lot of space.

Reply 1 of 10, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2017-11-05, 03:04

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Pics please.

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Reply 2 of 10, by luckybob

Posted on 2017-11-05, 08:52

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They were okay. Nothing particularly special. protip: always post pics on vogons!

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 3 of 10, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-11-05, 13:26

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They made pretty okay desktops but some of their laptops for the time were quite nice. I had a Transport XKE and that was a beefy MMX machine for its time.

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Reply 4 of 10, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2017-11-05, 14:58

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Micron PC sucked....but Micron Computer Inc made some pretty badass 486 and early Pentium systems.

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Reply 5 of 10, by Floopy

Posted on 2017-11-05, 15:58

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Oops 😊 I forgot about posting a picture
I took out all the storage devices inside of the case, so that's why it looks empty.

Reply 6 of 10, by Munx

Posted on 2017-11-05, 16:30

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Wow, that looks AMAZING 😲

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Reply 7 of 10, by luckybob

Posted on 2017-11-05, 16:44

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i will admit, the chassis is pretty slick. Even if the internals are rather mundane

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 8 of 10, by Stiletto

Posted on 2017-11-05, 19:23

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My "GhettoPC" (hey, it was old in 2002, and considered weird to be using it as a daily driver!) was a custom build Pentium-II from Micron, in a full tower case.
Stiletto's GhettoPC (TM)
Originally it had a Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II for video, and stock audio. My first upgrades were a firmware upgrade for the Number Nine (mail order!), a Voodoo2, and an AWE64 gold. Later I gave it the Voodoo3 and the SBLive.

I still have it, but it's not currently in use.

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Reply 9 of 10, by Ziginox

Posted on 2017-11-05, 19:45

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Micron built decent machines back in the Pentium 2 days. Most of the motherboards from that time period were Intel-made and had decent Yamaha onboard sound.

Reply 10 of 10, by Floopy

Posted on 2017-11-07, 03:59

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I was thinking of reusing the case for something like a workstation seeing that it has 4 fans inside (not pictured) and a lot of hard drive caddies. I originally saved it from the dumpster pretty much, I noticed it had a lot of PCI cards and thought they might come in handy.

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