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Max capacity will depend on the system...

The biggest IDE HDD I saw widespread  was 500 GB tho not 2,5" obviously...

 

 

Correct, there is no cap on IDE itself in terms of raw storage, but the onboard controller only supports so much

 

 

Mice nipples are the best hahaha

Up to a point that is true. The BIOS has to support larger drives, and it has to be IDE133 (100 and 66 did not support the larger drives). He (you) are giong to be limited to the 120GB maximum (the 4 series introduced the BIOS fix for larger drives).

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the graphical issues in elementary might be the graphics card just not having enough juice, i suggest going for a more lightweight distro, especially on the graphical side of things. (maybe lubuntu, maybe go crazy and experiment with arch, with lxde)

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Don't forget about Xubuntu! :D

 

You were? That does NOT seem like something I would block someone over.

 

 

I had it on before :) Good distro, think I should upload a video on the heatsink assembly when I re-paste it?

 

the graphical issues in elementary might be the graphics card just not having enough juice, i suggest going for a more lightweight distro, especially on the graphical side of things. (maybe lubuntu, maybe go crazy and experiment with arch, with lxde)

 

It was a corruption in the install, x-window server was crashing,  it has its own graphics chip separate of integrated so I doubt that had anything to do with it

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I got a lot of pictures on my camera of old hardware, but it's kinda late right now and I'm lazy so this'll have to do.

 

On the picture: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive playing on a Iiyama Prolite E1700s from 2006. Also, you can see a Philips speaker from 2001. I have a lot more pics of the speakers and even some PC internals.

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I had it on before :) Good distro, think I should upload a video on the heatsink assembly when I re-paste it?

 

 

It was a corruption in the install, x-window server was crashing,  it has its own graphics chip separate of integrated so I doubt that had anything to do with it

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Its above your post lol thats me xD

Yeah, I saw that right after I posted. xD

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I have an old Fijitsu siemens amilo l731 that works, has such a nice keyboard, 1.5ghz celeron m (not p4 based, before that), 512 mb of ddr sodimms, a pci wifi card that doesn't work. runs XP so i'm gonna try Elementary OS as it's fairly light and I like it.

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Picked up this bad boy from the thrift shop, just €4,50 :)

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One dream, one soul, one prize, One goal, one golden glance of what should be, It's a kind of magic.

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I also had a nice thrift shop find, a complete working 'Laser Expression 512P' for 7,50€. I will take pics of it later. 

 

For the meantime: some graphical goodness (literally).

 

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AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6600GT 128MB. Sadly it has artifacts and doesn't boot into the OS. Maybe some "recapping" or the oven trick will do.

 

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Matrox Mystique (IIRC at least) from 1997. That's as old as me!

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So my old Mac G5 exploded on me today... so I took it apart, 'cause that's smart!

 

Anyways here's an imgur album of some of the parts. (Sorry for potato iPhone camera)

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Pentium 3 was da shit.

I've got a 733MHz PIII (Socket 370) in Apollo, a 500MHz PIII (Slot 1) in HELIOS, and an extra 1GHz PIII (Socket 370) that I can't use in anything. :(

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I've got a 733MHz PIII (Socket 370) in Apollo, a 500MHz PIII (Slot 1) in HELIOS, and an extra 1GHz PIII (Socket 370) that I can't use in anything. :(

Almost the same for me, with a Slot 1 Celeron 300A, Slot Celeron 333A, s370 Celeron 500MHz, and the s370 Pentium III 667MHz (OC to 700MHz). Unfortunately when my 1GHz Pentium III arrives I won't be able to overclock it, the motherboard only supports up to 1GHz (though maybe that's because 1GHz was the fastest Pentium at the time of the motherboards launch).

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Almost the same for me, with a Slot 1 Celeron 300A, Slot Celeron 333A, s370 Celeron 500MHz, and the s370 Pentium III 667MHz (OC to 700MHz). Unfortunately when my 1GHz Pentium III arrives I won't be able to overclock it, the motherboard only supports up to 1GHz (though maybe that's because 1GHz was the fastest Pentium at the time of the motherboards launch).

The Compaq board in Apollo only supports up to the 733MHz PIII unfortunately. :(

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The Compaq board in Apollo only supports up to the 733MHz PIII unfortunately. :(

That's OEM for you.

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That's OEM for you.

Other than that, the 512MB RAM limit, and the STUPID proprietary motherboard power connector, it actually seems to be a pretty good board.

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Other than that, the 512MB RAM limit, and the STUPID proprietary motherboard power connector, it actually seems to be a pretty good board.

Proprietary power connector? Really? And I can understand the 512MB RAM limit, that'd be all that the chipset supports.

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Proprietary power connector? Really? And I can understand the 512MB RAM limit, that'd be all that the chipset supports.

Yep.

 

Wanna know something funny? The WS440BX in HELIOS only "supports" up to 384MB of RAM, and yet I had close to a gig in it with no problems. I just have two matching 128MB sticks in it right now.

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Yep.

 

Wanna know something funny? The WS440BX in HELIOS only "supports" up to 384MB of RAM, and yet I had close to a gig in it with no problems. I just have two matching 128MB sticks in it right now.

pmsl, its a problem though when your limited by the amount of sockets and maximum capacity per stick, 1.5GB is the maximum amount of RAM my rig will physically fit (unless there are 1GB 168pin sticks of SDRAM in existence?).

Edit: Lmao, 1GB stick do exist, and my motherboard supports ECC RAM, so it seems I might have a 1999 rig with 3GB of RAM in the next month or so. http://www.amazon.com/Infineon-128x72-PC-133-Registered-168-Pin/dp/B002AJ5MNE

 

Heck, maybe I'll even be able to run win 7 with aero since I'm getting a DirectX 9 graphics card for it.

 

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We do not sell cosmetics. We just blind animals."

 

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pmsl, its a problem though when your limited by the amount of sockets and maximum capacity per stick, 1.5GB is the maximum amount of RAM my rig will physically fit (unless there are 1GB 168pin sticks of SDRAM in existence?).

Edit: Lmao, 1GB stick do exist, and my motherboard supports ECC RAM, so it seems I might have a 1999 rig with 3GB of RAM in the next month or so. http://www.amazon.com/Infineon-128x72-PC-133-Registered-168-Pin/dp/B002AJ5MNE

I think I was using 3 256MB sticks.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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