First post, by Amigaz
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Have just finished putting together a rambus machine originating from a Dell Dimension 8200 I dragged home from work that was destined for the recycling center.
It originally came with a 1.7ghz s478 CPU with a tiny 256k cache, 2x128mb rdram sticks, a Geforce 2MX,a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and a 60gig hdd.
I rebuild the machine with these parts:
Swapped the mobo with a Dell Dimension 8250 mobo (i850E chipset instead of plain i850) = I can use the fastest CPU a s478 rambus mobo can take..the 3.06ghz Northwood with hyperthreading
Using a 3.06ghz Northwood with HT tech
4x 256mb 1066mhz rambus memory
Radeon 9800XT
2x 300gig Seagate IDE HDD's
I've kept the Turtle Beach card since it has decent legacy support and enough for some newer games
The machine triple boots Win98SE, WinXp Pro and Xubuntu
This machine might sound boring but....HEY IT'S A DELL!! 😁
My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327