"Never Obsolete". That's got to rank right up there with Logmein Free "forever".

Is there such a thing as a non-Celeron eMachine? I inherited a crappy s478 MSI board from an eMachine (the logo appeared during BIOS time). Didn't have many 478 boards at the time so tried flashing the original BIOS onto it. Killed the board. Stripped it of most components and it now forms part of an art installation a friend of mine made from random junk.

Most useful eMachines board ever.

They had a few low AMD ones, I had one but the power supply took the board.

I souped up a 478 Celeron D Emachines a while back EDIT: Just wanted to add that it used a standard AGP-less Intel motherboard. 3.2 P4, 2gb of ddr400 and a 512mb pci Geforce 6200 turned it into a speed demon running XP 😊

No I don't and in fact I avoided them like the plague when they were new. Now their dotbomb-era awfulness is a guilty pleasure these days and I wish I had their iMac knockoff, though it's probably a non-upgradeable and likely not so durable 😀

I have an emachines Super Socket 7 MB that came with a K6-2+ when I got it out of a recycle bin.

I just remember back when i was younger i bought an emachines for $10 from someone at school it had a tualatin in it and i could not install any windows version except for vista (yuck) it ran like dog crap, I ended up selling it back to the guy for $40 because he was like, cool it has vista. What a dummy 🤣

Got one of their am2 era Sempron machines, case is nice shape and still runs but had to wipe the drive.

clueless1 wrote:

"Never Obsolete". That's got to rank right up there with Logmein Free "forever".

Haha!

So I got another emachines for free today and as plug it in it shoots out sparks in my face and puts the power out in my house.... lovely

Oldskoolmaniac wrote:

So I got another emachines...

Electrocuting machines?

Oldskoolmaniac wrote:

So I got another emachines for free today and as plug it in it shoots out sparks in my face and puts the power out in my house.... lovely

Emachines was an American thing, right?

Personally, I'd never try to power up any machine that somehow finds its way into my lap, I'd first take it apart and check all parts individually (especially the PSU). Often people will dump their old systems because there's 'something' wrong with it and sometimes the problem is with the hardware.

How would Emachines fare vs the cheaper/budget HPs and Compaqs?
Those OEM budget systems I'd strip for sure, the cases were usually not so practical.

I checked the board over and it looked fine, I guess i should have just hooked a different power supply to it.

I have an eMachines computer right now. I swapped the crappy dual-core Pentium processor in it for my mother's old Core 2 Duo - MUCH better processor. 4GB of memory and a freshly wiped 500GB hard drive and it now runs a natively installed copy of Windows 10 Home 64-bit. Works perfectly fine for me.

Will it play games? Nope. But I don't even try. I have a $3,000 brand new gaming PC with a GTX 980Ti in it for that purpose.

^^^Did you swap the power supply?

FFXIhealer wrote:

I have an eMachines computer right now. I swapped the crappy dual-core Pentium processor in it for my mother's old Core 2 Duo - MUCH better processor. 4GB of memory and a freshly wiped 500GB hard drive and it now runs a natively installed copy of Windows 10 Home 64-bit. Works perfectly fine for me.

See? "Never obsolete"!

I have one I got in a lot of other stuff. It was a T3304 Sempron machine with a dead PS and the case has been upgraded to an AM2 build.

Oldskoolmaniac wrote:

^^^Did you swap the power supply?

Nope.

Oldskoolmaniac wrote:

So I got another emachines for free today and as plug it in it shoots out sparks in my face and puts the power out in my house.... lovely

Bestec psu?