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So found something in a box, literly a box

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First post, by candle_86

Posted on 2015-04-10, 07:12

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Well someone had a box of computer looking stuff on the curb earlier, finally went through it. Mostly junk, alot of broken stuff, but one peice that works well, but I can understand the toss.

Trigem Cognac+ Motherboard HP branding
Celeron 500 was sitting in the board.

I tossed in 2 spare sticks of 128mb PC100 and it boots right up, installed Windows 98 on it just fine. Now just trying to figure out what to really do with it. Yall have any input on what to do with it. Its an 810 chipset but no AGP slot, so even late 90's gaming is not an option with it.

Reply 1 of 7, by ODwilly

Posted on 2015-04-10, 07:15

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Throw in a Voodoo Rush or a pci Voodoo 3 and a an Aurel Vortex 2!

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 2 of 7, by Logistics

Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:16

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I always look at systems like that and figure if they can't be made to hit peak video performance, in this case missing AGP, then use it for audio or rather turn it into a media-player. Otherwise, you could cleverly stuff it into the kitchen, somewhere and mount an LCD to a wall or other surface to bring up recipes while you cook/bake. Hook it up to a stereo in the garage, turn it into a console emulator and play NES/SEGA games, turn it into a Quake server or Doom/Heretic/Hexen server, get an incoming-only telephone line and run a BBS, turn it into a router/gateway far more powerful than any stand-alone unit.

Reply 3 of 7, by leileilol

Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:17

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ODwilly wrote:
Throw in a Voodoo Rush

DON'T

long live PCem

Reply 4 of 7, by candle_86

Posted on 2015-04-10, 16:36

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hmm media player isnt a bad idea

Reply 5 of 7, by Skyscraper

Posted on 2015-04-10, 16:59

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In this thread you can see what I did with a similar system I found in a dumpster.
The thread should have continued with further upgrades but I got sidetracked. I still have the system though so it will meet my Celeron 1400 and Geforce 6200 PCI sooner or later.

New_Pentium2_i440BX_dumpster_find

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 6 of 7, by candle_86

Posted on 2015-04-10, 17:33

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well considering my 440bx board isnt posting, really strange im going to use my SB live, USB card, Network card, and dual 20gb Hard Drives

Reply 7 of 7, by candle_86

Posted on 2015-04-10, 19:36

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Well Ive got snow on it after installing the 810 graphics driver, I'm gonna need a PCI video card 🤣

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