Have run a (dead) Athlon system with a missing fan blade - yep, that made a godawful racket. And I had a P4 system with one of those cases that places the PSU in front of the CPU fan, but the PSU base was solid... that fan used to hit 5K RPM under load. Just swapping the case for one with a conventional PSU placement dropped the fan speed right back down to a measly 2.8K RPM.

Right, won't be using the Arctic then!

Got this 2 Xeons today.
Not working in my MS440GX.
Cool key chains.

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Got this 2 Xeons today. Not working in my MS440GX. Cool key chains. […]
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Got this 2 Xeons today.
Not working in my MS440GX.
Cool key chains.

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You bought the wrong Xeons, most 440GX boards do not work with 133mhz fsb xeons and often top out with only 550mhz as being the fastest supported. Some of the late Slot 2 boards that were not oem did use 133fsb xeons up to 700mhz, some oem systems went up to 1ghz.

MSI K8N Master2-FAR
Chipset fan is almost dead and maybe some DDR slots are not working .... still not bad considering I bought it as non-working for parts. 😀

Funny I snagged a Dell Inspiron 8100 a couple days ago. 1ghz CPU with 1400x1050 screen. I also have an 8000 unit with the 1600x1200 screen snagged from a recycler years ago. Running Win2k on both currently. They are very heavy laptops meant for desktop replacement use, the Geforce2go video isn't bad either.

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joc wrote:

Got this 2 Xeons today. Not working in my MS440GX. Cool key chains. […]
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Got this 2 Xeons today.
Not working in my MS440GX.
Cool key chains.

IMG_20160309_220154.jpg

You bought the wrong Xeons, most 440GX boards do not work with 133mhz fsb xeons and often top out with only 550mhz as being the fastest supported. Some of the late Slot 2 boards that were not oem did use 133fsb xeons up to 700mhz, some oem systems went up to 1ghz.

I knew my board cant do any over 100FSB because of PLL IC.
Hopped they will maybe do like 6x100.
Both processors (+ some ECC SDRAM) cost me little over 1.5€ so there was no way to miss that trade. 🤣

Well, I bought a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 and the gameport ended up to be rusted. Seller said he would refund me if I send it back.

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Well I happened by a thrift store tonight and checked out their laptop section in the back.. 12 of the things stacked up there.

Most of them were totally in shambles and gutted. Hard drives removed, ram removed, back cover panels off, cracked screens.. keyboards missing keys, optical drives ripped out etc. The reason I look there though is sometimes... sometimes.. I find a gem. Tonight was that night.

It had a white sticker on it for $14.95, and tonight was 50% off (half price) on white tags so I got it for about $8 and some change out the door.

Dell Inspiron 8100 12000VT laptop. It actually is very clean (I'll get a better picture later or tomorrow). Came with two batteries even (!!!!) and as you can see in the picture, both are charging up nicely and holding a charge just fine.

Specs are in the one picture, but I'll gloss over it here:
Intel Mobile Pentium-III, full-speed 133 Mhz FSB, 512KB cache Tualatin 1.2 ghz cpu.
nVidia Geforce2 GO! AGP 4x mobile gpu in it (32 MB).
Even has a 30GB hard drive, and came with 256 MB ram, and a good install of XP on it.

As I type this it's just finishing upgrading to XP SP3. One battery is fully charged, 2nd one is at 83%.

Not sure what I'll do with it but at the very least, $8 for a portable DVD player that can run 8-10 hours off AC power. Enough to watch 2-4 movies depending on length.

No internal WiFi at the moment.. but has a little U.FL Hirose connection inside the mini-pci bay, so it has the connection for it, just need to get a card for it later, and a little jumper cable.

My first laptop was Inspiron 8100 still have it, powerful machine squashes comparable desktops in performance no other P3 system I ever tried with a GeForce2 (or better) can run Halo as good as it. Mine has the recalled 1.13Ghz P3 in it but never had overheating problems Intel recalled them for didn't seem to run any hotter than the 1Ghz I replaced with it. Stick a modular bay HDD in it and is great for dual booting still trying to find DOS drivers for the ESS Maestro they do exist just all the companies seem to be pulling older drivers I remember Win95 drivers for this when I got it but Dell claims Win9x was never supported

I basically got this for the Overload kickstarter demo but I've wanted a joystick for a while. And hey, it was ten bucks, brand new in its plastic tube, and on my way home.

Gotta love that fold-out base design. It's not the top of the range Saitek from back in the day; it's a little bit plasticky and the motion is chunky, and I would have liked two normal buttons instead of the pointless "digital throttle" (+/- on top) which acts like another axis, but it'll do just fine. Feels pretty solid too.

The NIB Esonic socket 754 board arrived today:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/141388054551?_trks … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

More available.

Seller turned the box inside out to ship, a bit annoying, but the box is still intact, so not a big deal.

Also got some other goodies, two high powered AGP cards and a nice Gigabyte socket 478 board with 875 chipset: http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-p … spx?pid=1631#ov

But I will likely use the Intel board (D875PBZ), there is just something cool about Intel boards 😀

Found and scrapped a heavily corroded CPU86 board for a Selma II marine automation system at work a few days ago, but not before rescuing the actual CPU's:

They look fine and should work, the CPU board was probably never even used, but sadly I have no means of testing them. The Selma system is quite interesting from a geek point of view by the way, basically it's a modular x86 computer, everything from CPU and RAM to bus interfaces comes on its own rack mounted boards, which makes the system very customizable and expandable. Here's what a typical installation might look like.

$999 RETRO processor for the rich 🤣

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

$999 processor for the rich 🤣

Damn, been wanting one of these for ages. Awesome, you're gonna showcase it in some videos, I hope!

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PhilsComputerLab wrote:

$999 processor for the rich 🤣

Damn, been wanting one of these for ages. Awesome, you're gonna showcase it in some videos, I hope!

You bet 🤣

Does it really benefit from the L3 Cache ?

matze79 wrote:

Does it really benefit from the L3 Cache ?

I can only speak for games, but yes it does.

matze79 wrote:

Does it really benefit from the L3 Cache ?

Yes, the Gallatin beats the Athlon 64 FX51/FX53 in most benchmarks, it's even competitive when it comes to gaming.

The P4 "Emergency Edition". Oh, Intel!

stuvize - it was the desktop 1.13 GHz Coppermines that were recalled due to various issues. The Tulatin line was bulletproof, AFAIK. 1 GHz Coppermine laptop PIIIs are dreadful as well, they run ridiculously hot - yet the desktop version, even when fitted to a laptop, is perfectly fine.