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30 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Can you link to their Amazon products page? I can't seem to find it in the US.... 😞

I use the UK site, so if you can't find it, probably not on Amazon US? Try the official site? 

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4 hours ago, TehDwonz said:

I use the UK site, so if you can't find it, probably not on Amazon US? Try the official site? 

Yeeaaaahhhh looks like EU only. Damn. Hard to get good aftermarket batteries and chargers, it's such a crap shoot here! Chargers especially, Dell chargers aren't cheap and aftermarket ones are almost always junk.

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Would love to find a cassette drive for mine but have not succeeded yet :(

 

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Yeah, unfortunately it's hard to find replacement parts for it. I was pretty stoked to discover that I was still able to buy new ink cartridges for the printer 🤩

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Just found this:

 

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No pencil marks... Is this one of those chips?

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3 hours ago, Quivz said:

Just found this:

 

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No pencil marks... Is this one of those chips?

Duron 650 with the "Spitfire" core. They sit between a Celeron and Pentium III 650 in performance. It lacks SSE though...so some things just straight up can't run on it or just run a lot slower.

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19 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Duron 650 with the "Spitfire" core. They sit between a Celeron and Pentium III 650 in performance. It lacks SSE though...so some things just straight up can't run on it or just run a lot slower.

What i was referring to was that there were AMD chips in this era that could be overclocked by drawing on it with a pencil in the right spot. I think this is one of them, but i'm not sure and there's no marks on it so no one has tried before.

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Nokia E90 Communicator from 2007 or 2008. There was another revision to fix the apparent keyboard scratches or scuffs on the inner panel. This might be the newer one due to the keypad being flatter. There was the red version, the Mocha (this one) and black. The black one was the revised one but they did it to these versions too.IMG_20201001_211544655_HDR.thumb.jpg.abbd017db204946e76f1be65f73ce6d1.jpg

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10 hours ago, Quivz said:

What i was referring to was that there were AMD chips in this era that could be overclocked by drawing on it with a pencil in the right spot. I think this is one of them, but i'm not sure and there's no marks on it so no one has tried before.

Ah...in that case I'd say yes:
https://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/tbird/

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I'd recommend a 700mhz Duron for a low end overclockers user or a 900mhz T-bird for a highend overclocker user. Happy Overclocking!

Since Spitfire is derived from Thunderbird.


My Duron 1000 might end up running a higher FSB with a lower multiplier...

 

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52 minutes ago, ONOTech said:

Oh gosh is the 5850 retro now?? My first card was the 5670 :D

Voodoo3 PCI I think was my first, then a 5900XT and then a 6800 Ultra followed by a 7800GTX and then a second for SLI then a 9800GT then a GTX 650 and onto more modern things like a GTX 960, RX580, Vega56 and now that's where I'm at. Wow I know every video card I've owned. Not counting ones I put in side rigs, bought as spare parts, or went into builds for other people.

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25 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Voodoo3 PCI I think was my first, then a 5900XT and then a 6800 Ultra followed by a 7800GTX and then a second for SLI then a 9800GT then a GTX 650 and onto more modern things like a GTX 960, RX580, Vega56 and now that's where I'm at. Wow I know every video card I've owned. Not counting ones I put in side rigs, bought as spare parts, or went into builds for other people.

I never had the 6800 Ultra, but the 6600GT, and 6800XT.

 

I still have both 6000 cards, and have a 5900XT also. I have a soft spot for the Sparkle FX cards, the boxes remind me of 3DFX tribute.


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6 hours ago, Valentyn said:

I never had the 6800 Ultra, but the 6600GT, and 6800XT.

 

I still have both 6000 cards, and have a 5900XT also. I have a soft spot for the Sparkle FX cards, the boxes remind me of 3DFX tribute.

That bottom one looked familiar, so I went digging...

 

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Maybe I can still step-up? ;)

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2 hours ago, SPARTAN VI said:

That bottom one looked familiar, so I went digging...

 

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Maybe I can still step-up? ;)

I really liked the designs of the old

cards. 
Wish I had the money back in the day for a 6800 Ultra.

 

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The memory on my 5900XT would OC up crazy good, the core clocks would OC somewhat. My 6800 Ultra (still have it) is the BFG Ultra OC one so it was pretty much already maxed out but that's Ok cause it has that awesome BFG Lifetime Warranty!

My GTX 650 fan clips broke so it's got an ugly but highly effective square fan attached to the heat sink with zip ties, fan barely has to spin to keep it cool cause that CPU just doesn't make any heat so I'm baffled as to why Nvidia needed a PCIe power connector on it, it is the MSI 'OC' model so I guess that's why but it sure doesn't seem like it's got any OC on it lol. It's a 64W TDP so it shouldn't NEED an extra connector but it won't work without it connected. Super annoying!

The 9800GT I can't remember the brand but I knocked a SMD off the back trying to trim down some of the useless plastic shroud that was keeping me from fitting it in a case, but it was WELL past it's useful life at that point.

The GTX 960 4GB is alive and well in my HTPC, it's an EVGA model with the ACX2.0 cooler that's got big quite fans on a big heat sink and barely fits in the CM Elite 130 with the 120mm AIO up front. Most of the time the card is running passive, I bought it in 2016 to give my HTPC enough horsepower to do post processing on the anime I watch to upscale the 720 to 1080 and improve the quality greatly while still having a smaller file size. It does this perfectly and accelerates a lot of other video decoding, but moving forward I'll need a 10 series or better for 4K stuff I think so I'm keeping peeled for deals on a 1650 or whatever the new Ampere bottle barrel offering is.

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Pretty old Core 2 Duo box, still runs.... Even has on board graphics....

 

Maybe I will do something with it again one day. Could just slap in an SSD and PSU (have spares) and it will boot right up. Just dump those old HD's....

 

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On 10/4/2020 at 11:06 AM, NoCarrier said:

anyone collect mice?

I have a few, but WOAH! That is definitely a few of them!

 

On 10/4/2020 at 7:03 PM, Ankerson said:

Pretty old Core 2 Duo box, still runs.... Even has on board graphics....

 

Maybe I will do something with it again one day. Could just slap in an SSD and PSU (have spares) and it will boot right up. Just dump those old HD's....

The Core 2 Duo's make good Windows XP machines. With a decent video card they're great for games of the era.

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Just now, BrianTheElectrician said:

I have a few, but WOAH! That is definitely a few of them!

 

The Core 2 Duo's make good Windows XP machines. With a decent video card they're great for games of the era.

 

It used to be my main PC back in 2007... So I know.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Ankerson said:

 

It used to be my main PC back in 2007... So I know.

 

 

Nice! Well if you decide to resurrect it we'd love to see/hear what you do with it!

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20 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Nice! Well if you decide to resurrect it we'd love to see/hear what you do with it!

 

Haven't decided yet what I may do with it, if anything really.

 

I do have a lot of computer parts around, enough to build 3 more complete systems. Without having to buy anything...

 

The Core 2 Duo is just the oldest one.

 

I also have an i5 3450S machine that I just upgraded, still have the MB, CPU, RAM etc. (Had a 8086K, MB, RAM etc already for awhile)

 

And a i7 7700k with Z270 MB, Ram etc.

 

And the 3 working, running machines I have now currently...

 

So I just don't NEED anything more....

 

I have dumped a lot of older stuff over the past 6 months, P3's, P4's, MB's, HD's etc.... 1st Gen I7 machine, MB etc... Old GPUS and so on. Even had some old Pent CPU's and MB's and a few 486 CPUs etc... And very old sound cards and stuff I got rid of.

 

Even have a few CRT Monitors left over... And a couple older LCD's..

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