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Re: How durable are Pentium III crystals, dies? (and other CPUs with heat spreader like Athlon, Duron and etc.)

FC-PGA dies were a lot tougher (and/or had wider tolerances) than SoA dies, but core crunch was still a thing - I recall once losing a P3-700E (when those things were still worth significant money and I was a poor student :X ) due to slipping when mounting a particularly stubborn heatsink. I very …

Re: 486 sx25 PC

Networking is always a good idea, if only a DOS packet driver and mTCP tools to be able to use FTP for file sharing (tip: run the server on the old system so you can use a nice easy modern client like Filezilla on the other end) I'm old-fashioned and use wired Ethernet for that, but PicoMEM's …

Re: 486 sx25 PC

Note that unless you want to do something very niche (i.e. run stuff that needs/wants an FPU but runs well on a 486-33; even though a handful of games as far back as SimCity could use an FPU, Quake was the first 'killer app' that needed it - and no way will Quake run acceptably on a system like this …

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