Amazing job! Very cool to see a nearly doomed machine brought back to life :) Nice work on the picture tube, that would have me all kinds of nervous. Too bad about the floppy controller, hopefully you'll get around to it one day. I want to find something like that around here to restore, I would …

That is kinda slow for a K6-2, my times for a 450 and 500 were: 8m 54.413s and 8m 26.852s respectively, but I think there's an explanation... I ran a test on another machine I've been working on, a K6-2 500 running on an Asus TX4E i430TX board (512k L2 I believe), running on an overclocked bus with …

I ran it on the 4 old PCs I've been building recently and came up with the following results: http://i.imgur.com/rNB81s.png http://i.imgur.com/PCe03s.png http://i.imgur.com/Yadjos.png http://i.imgur.com/36RwDs.png Galactica - 2:21.344s - 1.0GHz Pentium III Coppermine (dual CPU but the program is …

Yep definitely XP. Funny story, the first PC that was ever "mine" was a Toshiba Satellite with some Pentium variant, I'd have to go look to see exactly what CPU, and 64MB of RAM. My grandpa gave it to me... I believe 2004ish, making me about 12 at the time. Anyways the point of my story is that it …

Hi guys, new member here, I've been using this site to help me out with my new project the past couple of weeks and figured I'd introduce myself. I'm working on building a few retro gaming PCs at the moment. I'm 19, and back when these systems were hot stuff I was pretty young, so I've gone through …