Not bought, but I did find a 16MB SIMM in a random box.
😮

A nice addition which brings my 486 build up to 40MB, if it passes memtest...
😜

I know that its modern but the price its hard not to brag a little. For $54.76 after tax I bought a q8200 and so far it has gotten to 3.15ghz on basically almost stock volts. So I am very happy to finally have a decent 775 cpu 😀

Tracking down some parts for my 486 rig now 😉

bastard, where did you manage to get that? I want a Q9400 or better myself!

Again, not old stuff but I got some RAM for my E6600 rig that I was given for free! ABIT AW9D-MAX motherboard that, despite being an old chipset (Intel 975X) clocks ridiculously easily and is nice and stable. 3.5GHz from 2.4 stock isn't too bad going! 🤣 I was given 1GB of Kingston DDR2-667 and bought 3 more sticks for less than £15 which I'm happy with. Slapped a 4670 in there and it's a capable little gaming rig. Nice having a gaming desktop again 😀

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bastard, where did you manage to get that? I want a Q9400 or better myself!

I got bored and Mom wanted to go to town so we went so she could get a few things. I decided that I'll go to Goodwill just to window shop and see what crap they have. Looked through everything until it came down just to their 775 cpus then I found 4 q8200 and two or three e8400 for basically the same price. I went with the q8200 and glad that I did because my e7200 @ 3.53ghz wasn't cutting it.

Seeing as I derailed this thread I might as well contribute to it. Recently I got a plain Jane white dell tower, well inside was a Pentium II mmx edition (don't know what that means), 128mb ram and an 80gb barracuda HD, it also had an ati Rage Pro Turbo, and I was wondering if that card is valuable.

It depends upon your definition of valuable. If I saw that dell system at a thrift store, I would leave it unless it was cheaper than $10. Mostly because it had a respectable size hard drive.

See, I payed the enormous price of $0 for the rig. I was wondering if the ATI card was useful.

Not particularly. I think they sell for like $2 on ebay.

Also, at the thrift store today, I got an early Pentium 4 made by gateway. I was going to pass it up for $10, but when I opened it in store, it had rimms, and 2 hard drives, and what looked, at first glance, to be a geforce 3.

I havent taken pictures yet, its still in the car. I also got this ugly piece of shit:

All it needs is one of those god-aweful TDK cd drives with the same colors.

It had this motherboard in it: MSI K7T master

2x 512mb sticks of pc133 and a pci scsi card. Sadly the board doesn't post. or even turn on. 90% chance its the bulging caps, and its an AWESOME pre-ddr board for socket A. If new caps fixes it anyway...

It look like an half-assed powermac clone. 🤣 See, I want to find a p4 HT eidtion with an 512mb nvidia geforece card and like a 100gb hd, so then I can relive the early 2000's gaming era. Yes I know steam has the old games on there also but using original hardware has something, some nostalgia.

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Hahahahahaha hooooo-leeeeeee SHIT! That's hideous! 🤣

its so ugly, its kinda awesome. Its the same bondi-blue as the apple machines. So worth the $10. The scsi card was a internal ZIP one. meaning the open hole was a freaking scsi zip drive, and i've been wanting one FOREVER. >.<

luckybob wrote:

its so ugly, its kinda awesome. Its the same bondi-blue as the apple machines. So worth the $10. The scsi card was a internal ZIP one. meaning the open hole was a freaking scsi zip drive, and i've been wanting one FOREVER. >.<

And the card? What was the graphics card and did it have an add in soundcard? I bet it had one of those SB LIVE! Cards that always came with budget 98-me-2k-xp computers.

dosquest wrote:

luckybob wrote:

its so ugly, its kinda awesome. Its the same bondi-blue as the apple machines. So worth the $10. The scsi card was a internal ZIP one. meaning the open hole was a freaking scsi zip drive, and i've been wanting one FOREVER. >.<

And the card? What was the graphics card and did it have an add in soundcard? I bet it had one of those SB LIVE! Cards that always came with budget 98-me-2k-xp computers.

oh yea. Now I have 5 of the SB live cards. They really are very good cards. never had an issue. always better than onboard. As for the video card. It looks like its a geforce 2 gts: http://www.kickassgear.com/Reviews/Gladiac.htm

Picked this up:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261070488558?ssPageNa … 984.m1438.l2649

Seller states pulled from working, but untested so...yeah. For $30 I guess it's worth the risk. It's going to be (if working) the basis for my SS7 build.

Can anyone with better eyes zoom in enough to see what kind of chip it has sitting in the socket?

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Picked this up:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261070488558?ssPageNa … 984.m1438.l2649

Seller states pulled from working, but untested so...yeah. For $30 I guess it's worth the risk. It's going to be (if working) the basis for my SS7 build.

Can anyone with better eyes zoom in enough to see what kind of chip it has sitting in the socket?

if you zoom in on the switch on the top left, and teh jumper settings, it looks like it is set for a 3.5 multi, which by the type of chip... I'd put my money on a 233 pentium mmx.

That would be awesome as that's exactly the chip I would have put in here.

boy and I thought the late 90s compaqs were fugly! this gateway tops it off!

TheMAN wrote:

boy and I thought the late 90s compaqs were fugly! this gateway tops it off!

Sadly this is not the ugliest machine that I have ever seen. Its the Disney machines that make me want to puke.

Not old old hardware but I've picked up a 4850 to replace the 4670 in that machine to give it a little extra grunt. It has a measly power supply in it though so I did what any sane person would do and wired up an Xbox 360 power supply to the graphics card 🤣