First post, by BSA Starfire
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Hi everyone,
1st post here on the forum, only found my way here by chance, very glad I did! Like many of you I have a penchant for saving and using old PC's, can't stand to see them destroyed when they have much useful life left to give. Over the past year I have salvaged 7 machines from scrap, all are now working perfectly and currently crunching SETI when i'm not using them for other things. Or have been passed onto friends to use.
One of my favourites is this Athlon XP 3000+ system, found outside next to the bins in the block of flats where I live.
Onto the specs!
Athlon XP 3000+ Barton.
MSI nForce 2 400 ultra motherboard.
A-bit Siluro Geforce 4 Ti 4600.
1.25 Gb DDR 400 Ram.
Pci wireless network card.
80 GB Maxtor PATA HD.
3.5" Floppy drive, under front panel.
Generic 52X silver CD writer.
Akasa 80mm Multi coloured LED Fan.
the fan on the video card had packed up and the HD was missing other than being full of dust and filthy all was good. I cleaned it all out, rebuilt, replaced the fan on GFX card and added a old drive i had hanging about, she has been runnig now since last July perfectly 😀
hope you folks like the old girl, would have been a top end piece of gaming kit 11 years ago or so!
I will document some of my other "Dinosaurs" when I get a little more time.
Best Regards,
Chris
286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME