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Reply 21 of 89, by Tetrium

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ynari wrote:

Cyrix MII 300MHz, motherboard and a bit of RAM. Thinking of getting rid of this.

Do you have the real 300MHz part or the one with the 300+ rating?
I wouldn't get rid of the chip if it were a real 300MHz part, Cyrix Socket 7 chips don't get much faster than this 😁

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Plus a few thin client boxes, which I had been using as PCs, until the inbuilt graphics failed in one, and then it burnt out the S3 Virge I shoe horned in..

Ouch!

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Reply 22 of 89, by JidaiGeki

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Thanks for the suggestion, as cool as the clone was I ended up tossing it because 1.) It was free and 2.) It didn't function and the Eproms had been uncovered for a long time so it was way beyond my level of ability most likely. 😒 I really hated doing it but since I already own two Apple IIc computers and a IIgs there really was no reason to hold onto it.

I think I definitely agree with a lot of the things you have suggested except maybe the Dell XPS T500 (It has integrated Yamaha XM sound that is 100% SB16 compatible!) and the Gateway 700c because I want to set up a Windows 9x LAN like I had when I was a kid. 😜

The LGA 775 computer I'm going to hold onto as a backup linux machine for the time being and the Apple IIc extra I kind of want to keep too just cause they are tiny and they look cool as hell. 🤣 I think I'm going to keep the LC also but I'm going to junk the LC II, the machines are pretty much identical and iirc the LC is cosmetically in better condition.

Oh no! Have kind of been looking for another Apple II clone, not totally happy with mine ... would have cost a mint to post though.

Have you considered PPC Linux on the G4 Graphite? Another guy mentioned it on another forum, while I was about to let the G4 450 go, might play around with Linux on it first.

Reply 23 of 89, by PCBONEZ

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How many computers do you own?

Assembled? Oh, probably 5 or 10 + 15 or so laptops. I keep remembering complete ones in the storeroom I forgot about.
Unassembled? Somewhere between 100 and 200 depending on how you look at it.
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Reply 24 of 89, by bbhaag

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Only six. 99% of them are fairly new though.

2 x Sandy Bridge 2500k systems(the boy's gaming rigs)
Phenom II x4 965
Dell Core i5 laptop
Toshiba Turion x2 laptop
DEC 466fp (my 486-66 darling) 😀

Reply 25 of 89, by Beegle

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Jumping in...

Main PCs
- Custom Intel Core i7-2600k, 3.4ghz with 16gb of RAM
- Dell Dimension 9200, Core2 duo, 2.13ghz with 8gb of RAM, used as a file server/currency miner
- Dell XPS Desktop, Core2 quad, 2.6ghz with 8gb of RAM, will be used as a build machine/perforce server

Old PCs
- Pentium 4, 1.6ghz with 1gb RAM, currently unused. If it doesn't sell on Amibay I'll probably do a 4-in-1 retro rig like philscomputerlab.
- Pentium 2, 350mhz, currently unused. Duplicate of my main retro rig.
- Celeron 2.93ghz, currently unused. Was my grandpa's main PC and I inherited it.

Retro PCs
- Pentium 2, 333mhz (downclocked) with 64mb ram. I use it for all my retro-gaming and soundcard testing.
- Atari 1040ST, currently unused. When I move into the new home (instead of apartment) I'll give a try to composing for midi with cubase.

PCs in parts
- 486 - 33mhz CPU and motherboard, currently in pieces.
- 486 - 66mhz CPU and motherboard, currently in pieces
- Pentium 100mhz motherboard, currently lying on my desk, not in use. Backup for my retro-rig if I encounter a game that runs too fast.
- two IBM XT cases (one original, one clone) that will probably serve as hosts for the 486 motherboards.

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Reply 27 of 89, by havli

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I'm not really fan of OEM machines, so most of my retro rigs are custom builds.

OEM:
Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY 360 (2x Pentium Pro 200/256 @ 233 MHz, 1024 MB ECC EDO, SCSI HDD)
SGI 550 (2x PIII Xeon 1GHz, 768 MB RDRAM, 2x 18 GB SCSI)
Apple Powermac G4 733

Custom retro:
Pentium 233 MMX (Intel TC430HX, 64 MB EDO, Matrox Millenium II, Voodoo2 12MB, AWE32 CT3980 8MB, 30GB WD IDE HDD)
Pentium 4 1.4GHz [s423] (Abit TH7 RAID, 512 MB RDRAM, Quadro2 Pro, Voodoo2 12MB SLI, SB Live!, 80GB Samsung IDE HDD)
Athlon XP 3000+ (Epox 8K5A3+, 512 MB DDR, Voodoo5 5500 AGP, SB Live! 5.1, 2x 36GB @ 10k rpm, 18GB @ 15k rpm, all SCSI)
Core 2 Duo E6400 (AsRock 775i65G R3.0, 1024 MB DDR, Radeon 8500 LE, Audigy X-Fi, 60GB IDE HDD)
Pentium G2130 (AsRock H61M-ITX, 2GB DDR3, Radeon HD 4850, onboard audio, 160GB SATA HDD)

Active:
Xeon E5-1650 (MSI X79MA-GD45, 16 GB DDR3, GeForce GTX 760, Asus Xonar DX, 60GB SSD & 640 GB WD SATA)
Celeron G550 (Gigabyte H61M-S2PV, 4GB DDR3, WD 2TB, WD 3TB, Toshiba 3TB) -> this is my home server

Laptop:
Dell Latitude E6420 (i7 2760QM, 10 GB DDR3, Quadro 4200M, 320GB 7200 rpm HDD)
Thinkpad T20 (PIII 700, 384 MB SDR, S3 Savage IX)
Thinkpad 600 (PII 366, 224 MB SDR, 9GB HDD)
Toshiba Portégé 3110CT (PII 300, 64 MB SDR, 800x600 TFT, 6.4GB HDD) http://www.abload.de/img/16yllu.jpg http://abload.de/img/7xpb4w.jpg
Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT (P166 MMX, 32 MB EDO, CD-ROM, 800x600 TFT) http://abload.de/img/pict1456fisvu.jpg
Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT (P120, 16 MB EDO, 800x600 TFT)
Compaq unknown (P75, 72MB RAM, CD-ROM)
Compaq LTE Elite 4/50CX (486 DX2-50, 8MB RAM, 9.5'' 640x480 TFT, 340MB HDD)
Toshiba T2100 (486 DX2-50, 4MB RAM, 260MB HDD, 9,5″ STN) http://abload.de/img/pict1451bvsb7.jpg http://abload.de/img/pict1453kwsyd.jpg
ESCOM unknown (486 DX-33)

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Maybe there are some other laptops in storage, which I don't remember at the moment. 😊

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Reply 28 of 89, by ynari

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Tetrium wrote:
ynari wrote:

Cyrix MII 300MHz, motherboard and a bit of RAM. Thinking of getting rid of this.

Do you have the real 300MHz part or the one with the 300+ rating?
I wouldn't get rid of the chip if it were a real 300MHz part, Cyrix Socket 7 chips don't get much faster than this 😁

Probably 300+ - I suspect I got it at the time because it was 'fast enough'. I'll have to remove the heatsink to check. It's not that slow, but the heatsink is noisy.

As to the S3 Virge, partly my fault for sticking it in a confined space. It's not that rare, though, and its only real advantages over its Savage4 successor are the 3D acceleration in a very limited selection of games and it being easier to get Vesa accelerators working. I'm not that upset..

It could be worse, I managed to drop a GTX480 inside my case and shear off a couple of tiny resistors, stopping it from being recognised. That was a refurb card costing about 80 quid, replacement cost 50 🙁.

Reply 29 of 89, by Tetrium

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Assembled? Oh, probably 5 or 10 + 15 or so laptops. I keep remembering complete ones in the storeroom I forgot about. Unassembl […]
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How many computers do you own?

Assembled? Oh, probably 5 or 10 + 15 or so laptops. I keep remembering complete ones in the storeroom I forgot about.
Unassembled? Somewhere between 100 and 200 depending on how you look at it.
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You can post those computers in this topic 😁 How many computers could you possibly build?

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
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Reply 30 of 89, by Arctic

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Dropcik wrote:
brassicGamer wrote:

People seem to have an Apple machine or two - nice to see the Quicksilver in the list, and the G3 with Voodoo isn't something you see very often.

The g4 board and case are a mystic (or gigabit eathernet) but I used a modded quick silver g4 and oveverclocked it to 800mhz. Well, more like under clocked because its a 867mhz one.

As for the voodoo 3, I wish I can flash it back to PC because there aren't too many games that i have interest in that use 3dfx. I got the card from a powermac 9600 and I don't know if it was origionally flashed for mac, and I can't find a good flash utility and ROM.

BIOS ROM and Tools:
http://3dfxbios.cl-rahden.de/index.php?title=Main_Page

There you go! GLandHF! 😁

Reply 32 of 89, by seob

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Let's see
5 commodore c64's
1 commodore vic 20
4 commodore amiga 500's
1 commodore cdtv
1 commodore 128
1 atari 130xe
1 ti-99/4a
1 zx81
1 philips msx
3 philips msx2's

Commodore pc-1
IBM ps/2 model 30 286
Amd 80386 40dx
Laser 80486sx laptop
Pentium 133
Pentium 166
Pentium 166 mmx
Pentium 233 mmx
Pentium II 350
2 pentium IV
1 amd athlon x2

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Reply 33 of 89, by clueless1

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So impressed with everyone's collections. As it is, my wife thinks I have too many, and I've only got a handful:
-i5-4750S gaming rig I built for my son (Win10)
-Pentium E2180 OC 2.67Ghz WinXP gaming rig
-Core2Quad Q6600 Ubuntu file/Minecraft server
-Packard Bell Multimedia C110 Pentium 120(DOS retro rig)
-Dell Dimension 4100 Pentium III 933(Win98SE retro rig)
-Aspire 7736Z Pentium T4400 laptop (Mepis linux MX-14--my daily driver)
-Lenovo G780 laptop (Win10--wife's daily driver)
-Compaq CQ60 laptop (Mepis linux MX-14)
-Toshiba Qosmio laptop (Mepis linux MX-14)
-basement full of various parts 😉

Computers I *wish I still owned*:
-Apple IIe
-Packard Bell 386sx-20 (the computer I beat Ultima 7 on in college)

Consoles:
-Atari 2600
-NES
-Sega Dreamcast
-Wii

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OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
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Reply 34 of 89, by Tetrium

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So impressed with everyone's collections. As it is, my wife thinks I have too many, and I've only got a handful: -i5-4750S gami […]
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So impressed with everyone's collections. As it is, my wife thinks I have too many, and I've only got a handful:
-i5-4750S gaming rig I built for my son (Win10)
-Pentium E2180 OC 2.67Ghz WinXP gaming rig
-Core2Quad Q6600 Ubuntu file/Minecraft server
-Packard Bell Multimedia C110 Pentium 120(DOS retro rig)
-Dell Dimension 4100 Pentium III 933(Win98SE retro rig)
-Aspire 7736Z Pentium T4400 laptop (Mepis linux MX-14--my daily driver)
-Lenovo G780 laptop (Win10--wife's daily driver)
-Compaq CQ60 laptop (Mepis linux MX-14)
-Toshiba Qosmio laptop (Mepis linux MX-14)
-basement full of various parts 😉

Computers I *wish I still owned*:
-Apple IIe
-Packard Bell 386sx-20 (the computer I beat Ultima 7 on in college)

Consoles:
-Atari 2600
-NES
-Sega Dreamcast
-Wii

Tell her that your love for her doesn't go through actual foodstuff, but through virtual foodstuff, she'll love you even more! 😁
I found my Nintendo consoles in the attic yesterday (I had misplaced them), but I was looking for other stuff so I set the box apart. Still had at least one NES controller and that zapper thing in it.

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
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Reply 35 of 89, by d3vi1

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* IBM PS/1 2133-W13 (386sx@25MHz, 16MB RAM, CL-GD5410+CL-GD5434, SB32, 3C509b-TP)
* Apple Color Classic 2 (68030 33MHz, 16MB RAM)
* K6-3 (450MHz, Epox VIA MVP3, 640MB RAM, NV Quadro 4 900GL, Audigy2, 3C905b-TX)
* iMac G3 (CPU Power 750, 640MB RAM)
* Sun Blade 1500 (UltraSPARC IIIi 1593MHz, 4GB DDR 143MHz, Radeon 7000)
* PowerMac G4 Mirror Drive Doors (single 1,25 upgraded to dual 1,42GHz, 2GB RAM, 256GB SSD connected to IDE)
* K7 (Barton 2200+, Epox EP-8K3A+ with new Caps, 2GB DDR-400, Radeon HD3800 512MB, 256 GB SSD, extra SATA controller with IDE firmware)
* PowerMac G5 Quad (16GB, 256GB SSD, NVidia Quadro FX 4500 512MB)
* HP Pavillion zd8000 CTO (Prescott 630, 2GB RAM, SSD PATA 128GB, X600 256MB)
* Early 2008 MacBook Air
* iMac 2009 24"
* Mid 2009 MacBook Pro 13"
* Mac Mini 2010
* Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 15"
* Mid 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15"
* Playstation 3 Original Model (6 USB, hardware PS2)
* Nintendo Wii
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Updates: Added Powermacs, Original iMac and Color Classic 2 and removed the 2008 iMac that was sold for parts.

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Reply 36 of 89, by clueless1

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Tetrium wrote:

I found my Nintendo consoles in the attic yesterday (I had misplaced them), but I was looking for other stuff so I set the box apart. Still had at least one NES controller and that zapper thing in it.

Hah. I had a similar experience earlier this year going through my mom's attic and finding a CIB NES that I'd completely forgotten I ever owned. In fabulous condition with over a dozen games, lightgun, etc. I now recall this was during college and a friend convinced me to buy it and I just could not get into it the way I did PC games. Now, I'm really grateful that happened as my son and I both play it a lot. 😀

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
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Reply 37 of 89, by seob

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If i include consoles the list will get longer
Atari 2600 dart vader 2x
Atari 2600 jr small rainbow 2x
Atari 2600 jr long rainbow
Atari 7800
Atari jaguar
Atari lynx model 1
Atari lynx model 2
Nintendo nes 3x
Nintendo snes 3x
Nintendo 64 3x
Nintendo gamecube 2x
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo gameboy 4x
Nintendo gameboy play series red
Nintendo gameboy lite
Nintendo gameboy advance
Nintendo gameboy advance micro
Nintendo gameboy advance sp
Nintendo gameboy advance sp 101
Nintendo ds
Nintendo ds lite 2x
Sega mastersystem model 1
Sega mastersystem model 2 2x
Sega megadrive model 1
Sega megadrive model 2
Sega cd model 2
Sega saturn 2x
Sega dreamcast
Sega game gear 4x
Microsoft xbox 2x
Microsoft xbox360
Sony playstation 3x
Sony playstation psone 2x
Sony playstation 2 phat
Sony playstation 2 small
Sony playstation 3 phat
Sony psp
Colecovision 2x
Intellivision
Philips videopac g7000 5x
Philips videopac g7400
Philips cd-i 210
Philips cd-i 220
Philips cd-i 450
Philips cd-i 470
Magnavox cd-i 550
Snk neo geo pocket color
Megaduck
Supervision 3x
Commodore cd32
Amstrad gx4000
Vectrex 2x
Microvision

Reply 39 of 89, by y2k se

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My desktop and notebook are a custom-built i7-3930K (w/ 64 GB RAM) and Dell XPS 14.
My wife's desktop and notebook are a custom-built i5-3570 and Dell XPS 13.

I have two dedicated PCs for sim racing and most of the pieces to build a third:
Custom-built i5-3570K in sig
Custom-built P3 1GHz in sig
Gathering the last pieces to assemble what will become an i3-3225.

I also have a home server that is custom-built around a Xeon E3-1265L V3 running Server 2012 R2 Essentials with 24 TB of storage space.

Tualatin Celeron 1.4 + Powerleap PL-IP3/T, ASUS P2B, 512 MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4200, Voodoo2 SLI, AWE64, 32GB IDE SSD, Dell 2001FP