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6 hours ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

was surprised that it was using just a normal Intel stock cooler... weird right ?

Thats pretty normal. Most computers will just have the stock CPU cooler. 

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1 hour ago, Ertman said:

Thats pretty normal. Most computers will just have the stock CPU cooler. 

That's not the point, but more like "surprised this current intel stock cooler design already existed almost 15 years ago". But yeah it was brand new at that time.

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6 hours ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

window 7 may work that's great news !!  also i was going to fully take it apart and put it back together to get some experience at building computers do you think that is wise ? also thanks for the comment :) !!  

I mean if it's not a computer that matters if you break it, go for it. Take it apart, clean it, reassemble it, get experience, install Windows 7, learn some stuff, why not?

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4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

That's not the point, but more like "surprised this current intel stock cooler design already existed almost 15 years ago". But yeah it was brand new at that time.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess I am just more used to seeing those in older systems than yourself.

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I got the only one I have in 2010 with... an i7-970, for which it was woefully inadequate and thus never installed 😅

Didn't get one for my later parts becasue at some point they figured out that it made no sense, but them boxing it with a 130W TDP part was pretty funny... The NH-D14 I put on it was not even overkill once a good overclock was added.

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How about another vintage handheld.  The Sega game gear, for the life of me I can't find any of the game cartridges but the unit still powers on.  More searching will be needed.

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21 hours ago, vf1000ride said:

How about another vintage handheld.  The Sega game gear, for the life of me I can't find any of the game cartridges but the unit still powers on.  More searching will be needed.

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i have never seen one of these before but i also have this weird McDonalds collectible to branded with SEGA do you think it could be this old ?... maybe worth something... idk 

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On 5/19/2020 at 6:15 AM, vf1000ride said:

How about another vintage handheld.  The Sega game gear, for the life of me I can't find any of the game cartridges but the unit still powers on.  More searching will be needed.

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Hello all. 

Sadly I lost my retro handheld years ago in a move (Gameboy Classic, Gameboy Advance and Game gear) 

I do still have these left still 👍

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If anyone is wondering how well a modern CPU compares to Pentium II, early Celeron and early to mid 2000's laptops:
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Years ago I had some stuff from the mid and late 90's. I got rid of it though. You could find stuff like that in places like Salvation Army which is like Goodwill but Salvation Army is an actual charity and not just a company. Of course you would have to buy the whole computer and scrap it for parts. I don't have any pictures cause it was years ago. 

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13 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

If anyone is wondering how well a modern CPU compares to Pentium II, early Celeron and early to mid 2000's laptops:


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Pentium III engineering sample, set at 500 MHz :D (maxi was 575 MHz on other motherboard)

 

It's in my PIII rig :

 

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Nota : Pentium III support (black), I got it from a PIII 450 dead because Pentium III engineering sample didn't have support. And the heatsink, it's an aftermarket :) and it's very good :D  

PC #1 : Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI | i7-7700 | Cryorig C7 Cu | 32GB DDR4-2400 | LSI SAS 9211-8i | 240GB NVMe M.2 PCIe PNY CS2030 | SSD&HDDs 59.5TB total | Quantum LTO5 HH SAS drive | GC-Alpine Ridge | Corsair HX750i | Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 | ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz (plugged HDMI port, shared with PC #2) | Win10
PC #2 : Gigabyte MW70-3S0 | 2x E5-2689 v4 | 2x Intel BXSTS200C | 32GB DDR4-2400 ECC Reg | MSI RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X | 2x 1TB SSD SATA Samsung 870 EVO | Corsair AX1600i | Lian Li PC-A77 | ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz (plugged DP port, shared with PC #1) | Win10
PC #3 : Mini PC Zotac 4K | Celeron N3150 | 8GB DDR3L 1600 | 250GB M.2 SATA WD Blue | Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB | Samsung Blu-ray writer USB | Genius SP-HF1800A | TV Panasonic TX-40DX600E UltraHD | Win10
PC #4 : ASUS P2B-F | PIII 500MHz | 512MB SDR 100 | Leadtek WinFast GeForce 256 SDR 32MB | 2x Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D² 8MB in SLI | Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA | 80GB HDD UATA | Fortron/Source FSP235-60GI | Zalman R1 | DELL E151FP 15" TFT 1024x768 | Win98SE

Laptop : Lenovo ThinkPad T460p | i7-6700HQ | 16GB DDR4 2133 | GeForce 940MX | 240GB SSD PNY CS900 | 14" IPS 1920x1080 | Win11

PC tablet : Fujitsu Point 1600 | PMMX 166MHz | 160MB EDO | 20GB HDD UATA | external floppy drive | 10.4" DSTN 800x600 touchscreen | AGFA SnapScan 1212u blue | Win98SE

Laptop collection #1 : IBM ThinkPad 340CSE | 486SLC2 66MHz | 12MB RAM | 360MB IDE | internal floppy drive | 10.4" DSTN 640x480 256 color | Win3.1 with MS-DOS 6.22

Laptop collection #2 : IBM ThinkPad 380E | PMMX 150MHz | 80MB EDO | NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD | 2.1GB IDE | internal floppy drive | internal CD-ROM drive | Intel PRO/100 Mobile PCMCIA | 12.1" FRSTN 800x600 16-bit color | Win98

Laptop collection #3 : Toshiba T2130CS | 486DX4 75MHz | 32MB EDO | 520MB IDE | internal floppy drive | 10.4" STN 640x480 256 color | Win3.1 with MS-DOS 6.22

And 6 others computers (Intel Compute Stick x5-Z8330, Giada Slim N10 WinXP, 2 Apple classic and 2 PC pocket WinCE)

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15 hours ago, X-System said:

2097492233_Cinebench2003-PentiumIIIES500MHzjpg.jpg.3c54d3ce5c0cbc174300ba806c4409c3.jpg

 

Pentium III engineering sample, set at 500 MHz :D (maxi was 575 MHz on other motherboard)

 

It's in my PIII rig :

 

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Nota : Pentium III support (black), I got it from a PIII 450 dead because Pentium III engineering sample didn't have support. And the heatsink, it's an aftermarket :) and it's very good :D  

I've never had anything to do with Katami. The only slot PIII I have is a Coppermine 650. TBH should have just been called the Pentium II SSE. Love the Voodoo2 (and is that an Awe64?)

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5 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

I've never had anything to do with Katami. The only slot PIII I have is a Coppermine 650. TBH should have just been called the Pentium II SSE. Love the Voodoo2 (and is that an Awe64?)

Yes, it's SB AWE64 ISA :)

 

For to know more on my PIII rig, look PC #4 in my signature :)

PC #1 : Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI | i7-7700 | Cryorig C7 Cu | 32GB DDR4-2400 | LSI SAS 9211-8i | 240GB NVMe M.2 PCIe PNY CS2030 | SSD&HDDs 59.5TB total | Quantum LTO5 HH SAS drive | GC-Alpine Ridge | Corsair HX750i | Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01 | ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz (plugged HDMI port, shared with PC #2) | Win10
PC #2 : Gigabyte MW70-3S0 | 2x E5-2689 v4 | 2x Intel BXSTS200C | 32GB DDR4-2400 ECC Reg | MSI RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X | 2x 1TB SSD SATA Samsung 870 EVO | Corsair AX1600i | Lian Li PC-A77 | ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz (plugged DP port, shared with PC #1) | Win10
PC #3 : Mini PC Zotac 4K | Celeron N3150 | 8GB DDR3L 1600 | 250GB M.2 SATA WD Blue | Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB | Samsung Blu-ray writer USB | Genius SP-HF1800A | TV Panasonic TX-40DX600E UltraHD | Win10
PC #4 : ASUS P2B-F | PIII 500MHz | 512MB SDR 100 | Leadtek WinFast GeForce 256 SDR 32MB | 2x Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D² 8MB in SLI | Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA | 80GB HDD UATA | Fortron/Source FSP235-60GI | Zalman R1 | DELL E151FP 15" TFT 1024x768 | Win98SE

Laptop : Lenovo ThinkPad T460p | i7-6700HQ | 16GB DDR4 2133 | GeForce 940MX | 240GB SSD PNY CS900 | 14" IPS 1920x1080 | Win11

PC tablet : Fujitsu Point 1600 | PMMX 166MHz | 160MB EDO | 20GB HDD UATA | external floppy drive | 10.4" DSTN 800x600 touchscreen | AGFA SnapScan 1212u blue | Win98SE

Laptop collection #1 : IBM ThinkPad 340CSE | 486SLC2 66MHz | 12MB RAM | 360MB IDE | internal floppy drive | 10.4" DSTN 640x480 256 color | Win3.1 with MS-DOS 6.22

Laptop collection #2 : IBM ThinkPad 380E | PMMX 150MHz | 80MB EDO | NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD | 2.1GB IDE | internal floppy drive | internal CD-ROM drive | Intel PRO/100 Mobile PCMCIA | 12.1" FRSTN 800x600 16-bit color | Win98

Laptop collection #3 : Toshiba T2130CS | 486DX4 75MHz | 32MB EDO | 520MB IDE | internal floppy drive | 10.4" STN 640x480 256 color | Win3.1 with MS-DOS 6.22

And 6 others computers (Intel Compute Stick x5-Z8330, Giada Slim N10 WinXP, 2 Apple classic and 2 PC pocket WinCE)

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On 4/25/2020 at 5:45 AM, tomriderx said:

Dude.. I'm 13 and have an i5 750 with an Nvidia GTS 250 and all the other bells and whistles (found on a throw out pile recently)... powers on but no ddr3 ram. Tried to run it but no post... I think it is to do with the cpu socket and the fact that it has no RAM.

 

 

I might have some DDR3 stick if you need some

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On 4/24/2020 at 11:45 PM, tomriderx said:

Dude.. I'm 13 and have an i5 750 with an Nvidia GTS 250 and all the other bells and whistles (found on a throw out pile recently)... powers on but no ddr3 ram. Tried to run it but no post... I think it is to do with the cpu socket and the fact that it has no RAM.

 

I wish I could give you some ddr3 but I recently sold mine 

 

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I have a 90's Dell CRT monitor that I use with my headless linux boxes when can't SSH in for whatever reason. The only input is a VGA cable, which is hardwired into the display.

 

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28 minutes ago, TheLudditeIT said:

Oh boy, where do I even begin...

 

 

Them floppy disks!! haha :) I would like to get one of those old heavy monitors again and build a PC into it.

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This is my Tandy TRS 80 model 1, I'm fairly certain it works but the power supply (a separate unit) is brokenIMG_20200526_142102.thumb.jpg.eece71cc579cf92ef9a0de3b1e9608cc.jpg

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12 hours ago, TheLudditeIT said:

Oh boy, where do I even begin...

 

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You begin by opening up a GoodWill shop!

 

Is it bad that I look at that and think 'those aren't that old, I could use a couple of those cases'

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18 hours ago, Bitter said:

Is it bad that I look at that and think 'those aren't that old, I could use a couple of those cases'

Why do you think I have them? half of the damn things are empty, I just can't bear to part with them because what if I need some obscure clip or screw or old plastic bit.

 

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