First post, by Almoststew1990
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- Oldbie
Hi everyone,
In the past I have bought dubious PCs that have evidently just been pulled out of the attic (or worse) and are going cheap on second hand websites. Some people spend hundreds on one specific piece of hardware (and take it very seriously), I'm the opposite of that and spend pennies and I get great enjoyment from trying to gauge what sort of hardware these PCs have from the grainy pictures online and then popping them open when I get home to see what I got!
Anyway today's purchase was these two for £15.
Grim
Unhealthy
So grim
Diseases
Grim
This was an Athlon 2200+ on an ASROCK K7S8X AGPx8 1.5v with a grim cooler and grim MX440 64MB (not sure if 64 or 128bit). Not terribly exciting but the motherboard and CPU could make a good base as the caps are all in good condition. I might have a go at recording some PS2 footage with the "Life View" card. It's a Pal-I version, not sure that that means. Slightly interesting as I've had a few S478 boards recently so the Athlon made a nice change.
PC 2
Grim
Free bodily fluids
Not so bad actually
This had a QDI K7V8363A (K7E-A) with a Duron of some kind. It's got the VIA KT-133A with a universal AGP slot and an ISA slot. Might be interesting for a DOS PC?
First up was the later (top mounted) MSI case getting a clean - I'm going to bin the other case. This PC was by a OEM called ScottQ, maybe from Germany?
Nope
Cleans up nicely!
Ready to be installed when I can be arsed to dig out my decent 5V PSU
I'll probably run this as a slightly weird set up of W98SE, Athlon 2200+ with my nice cooler, 256/512MB DDR, GeForce 6600LE (lol), Live View card thing, SBLive or maybe just use the built in one.
Does anyone else get enjoyment from buying "mystery" cheap PCs like this?
