mtest001 wrote on 2025-08-28, 07:15:

When I saw that on an auction site I could not resist... It is mine now and I'll be the coolest boomer in the open-space, at least according to me.

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Hah, I have a K6-2 mug from back then!

TheIpex wrote on 2025-08-29, 01:07:

Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay. https://i. […]
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Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay.
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Hello sir, this blue one seems suspiciously FX5700-ish. Can you possibly report anything on it? Would be much appreciated here.

TheIpex wrote on 2025-08-29, 01:07:

Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay. https://i. […]
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Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay.
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Hello sir, this blue one seems suspiciously FX5700-ish. Can you possibly report anything on it? Would be much appreciated here.

Halofiber86 wrote on 2025-08-29, 23:40:

TheIpex wrote on 2025-08-29, 01:07:

Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay. https://i. […]
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Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay.
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Hello sir, this blue one seems suspiciously FX5700-ish. Can you possibly report anything on it? Would be much appreciated here.

If you click to get the larger image you'll see that the blue card is an ASUS V9570 TD 256MB, which is an FX 5700. 😀

Halofiber86 wrote on 2025-08-29, 23:40:

Hello sir, this blue one seems suspiciously FX5700-ish. Can you possibly report anything on it? Would be much appreciated here.

Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 00:25:

If you click to get the larger image you'll see that the blue card is an ASUS V9570 TD 256MB, which is an FX 5700. 😀

Certainly is, I bought it unseen and untested for peanuts. Seems to work perfectly so far, though I've only run a few benchmarks.

TheIpex wrote on 2025-08-29, 01:07:

Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay. https://i. […]
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Here are some of my acquisitions from the past few months. Thrift shops, Tip Shops, Garage Sales and of course eBay.

What's this green mat on the desk?

kolmio wrote on Yesterday, 18:03:

What's this green mat on the desk?

Just a generic cutting mat from Amazon.

MAN... you know how sometimes you get really bad sellers on ebay? Well, sometimes you get really good ones too.

I sent an offer on a lot of Athlon XP processors recently. They were being sold as-is, for scrap, but the listing had excellent pictures and showed the front and back of them. I didn't see any broken or even bent pins and the dies looked almost entirely intact. The offer was on the low side so I wouldn't lose out too bad if they all ended up being garbage... but he just took it and before I knew it I had a shipping notification. At that point it was too late to send him a message requesting that they be packed in such a way as to protect them... I try not to do that when a price has already been agreed upon, unless it's something really valuable.

I was worried that they'd just show up loose in an envelope or something, mangled beyond saving...

Today they were delivered and holy cow... he shipped them in a nice box, with the CPUs individually folded into an antistatic bag, with most of them packed pin-to-pin with another to protect the pins, and the folded up pack of processors was wrapped in bubble wrap inside the box.

I'm happy to say that they seem to all be intact except for one that wasn't real important.

There are lots of good chips here... lots of 2400+, 2600+ and 2700+ chips, and some other older ones, but the two reasons I bought the lot are right here:

Not too often I find an Athlon XP 3200+, let alone two of them! I'm really hoping at least one of them works. I have a kind of stupid idea to couple an overclocked 3200+ with a late VIA chipset board and a late AGP card to see how far I can stretch one of these systems into the modern era. At some point the lack of SSE2 becomes a total roadblock, but I'd like to test it out anyway. 😁

To be honest, I misread the one chip and thought it was a DKV4D, which would be a 2.33Ghz 333Mhz FSB model... basically the holy grail of Athlon XPs. This is certainly nothing to shake a stick at though. 😁