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Chips 386
Posts: 38
Location: Canada | Well, most of it anyway.
I've sent alot of stuff to the scrap yard in the past and boy do I feel silly about it!
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Fujitsu 186
Posts: 8
| Nice collection! Love the crts, 8800gt sli, the 386, pentium3 and athlon hardware
I remember tossing a pentium 1 system like 10 years ago and regretting that for a long time |
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Chips 386
Posts: 38
Location: Canada | varanoidas - 2016-11-04 2:56 PM
Nice collection! Love the crts, 8800gt sli, the 386, pentium3 and athlon hardware
I remember tossing a pentium 1 system like 10 years ago and regretting that for a long time
Well thankyou Sir, kind of you to say.
Sadly those are a pair of 8600GT cards that I had in SLi. That was back when I built an Athlon 3500+ (s939) system with 1gb of fancy "gold" plated OCZ 400Mhz memory. I later upgraded it to an x2 4200+ and a fancy tower and then sold it. I sold it but kept the 2 8600GT cards I can't remember what card I ended up selling it with though.
I bought a second 8600GT to create my first SLI rig to play quake4 smoother which was popular at the time but SLi kind of stuttered and I never got it to work nice, I was kinda disappointed with it really.
I do have an XFX 9800GT XXX in that collection though which as you know is basically just a die shrink of the 8800 chip. I put an aftermarket cooler on it and I really like that card. The 88/9800 series cards were in my mind the first to have some real nice power behind them.
I also like my pentium 3s :D (a little better than I like my Athlons, hehe)
I fried a 2800+ by posting it without the heatsink once... I didn't know that it didn't have any thermal shutdown.
As for the CRT monitors... I have them but they're heavy, chew power, spew more radiation and aren't flat and I don't miss using them, lol.
Edited by Robman 2016-11-05 8:13 AM
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Fujitsu 186
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| Yeah I've fried one s462 chip too way back in the day. It's hard for me to choose between Athlon and pentium 3. Even though I am an AMD fan I often go with a pentium3 because they have isa slots and pc/pci connectors more often. So better compatibility.
And even though crt monitors use more power, as far as I know the difference is small. I'd guess around 30w difference. I even use a non flat crt on my modern gaming pc and love it. For me the colors look much nicer on it
And for quake4, I remember playing it on a 1ghz pentium3 512mb ram and fx5500. On min settings and video card overclocked it was playable but just barely |
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Harris 286
Posts: 15
Location: Sunny Blackpool | One of my best buys to date has been this Xeon server I picked up on eBay...
http://imgur.com/a/foLpS
The price for this system (no hard drives but six out of 8 caddies)?
£35. + £10 postage.
Hell yeah! http://imgur.com/a/KRiGd
Edited by edneil 2016-11-05 11:47 AM
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Chips 386
Posts: 38
Location: Canada | Seems like quake4 just came and went without sticking around much.. I play q3 alot more than it anyway.... Quake3 is timeless for me, love it.
@Ed - I'd say that's a damn good score :D |
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Gallery of the Hardware I currently own.