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you still one of those???now that's funny.just regular junk collectors i see.at least collect athlon 800mhz.and p3.that way you can actually give it away.cause i sure don't know anyone who would want either the 66mhz or the com64.later guys.

Dahak

EVGA NF4 SLI READY MB
2X1GIG DDR400 IN DC MODE(128BIT)
2 7800GT'S IN SLI MODE
WD300GIG HD @ 7200RPM
X2 4400+@2.4 S-939
520WATT PSU
EXTREME 19IN.MONITOR
 
It's $10 + $12 shipping and for where I live it can go up to $50. I even found a place where there were 5 NEW 1.2G Durons on stock but shipping included it went around $100.
In the junk collector it's free and "shipping" is not as killing as @ ebay 😀
 
guys i dont know if u guys noticed that dumb kid (or trying to be dumb) about his Pentium 66, check out his Sig at the bottom stating

Motherboard: ASUS
Graphic card: Geforce 6200 TurboCache 256 mb
CPU: Pentium D 920 2.8 GHZ Dual cores
HardDisk: SamSung 250 GB 7200 RPM
OS: Windows XP Media Edition
PSU: 350W
2048 MB RAM

You think with his IQ (judging from his posts) he is able to identify all that and put it here? alone adding a little Pentium D avartar? :lol:
 
Why is this thread still alive?
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Because of this:

DIE EVIL THREAD DIE!!!!!

AH!!!!!!!!
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1 PRINT "This is the thread that never ends."
2 PRINT "It just goes on and on my friends."
3 PRINT "Someone started posting to it, not knowing what it was,"
4 PRINT "and now they'll be keeping it alive forever just because..."
5 GOTO 1

I wonder if he ever did get that computer to work.
 
My computer got a turbo button too.
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It's not worth alienating whoever you'd try to sell it to. There is nothing worth saving the best thing you could do is recycle it. Seriously it's not worth the cost of the electricity to power it. Oh and usually you don't OC a cpu at the end of it's life, you burn it in that way but go ahead if you want to see a cloud of smoke and hear a hearty bye-o-hoser as it dies.
 
You're better off smearing poo on it and selling it as modern art.
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Of all the replies to this thread, I think this one is the LOL funniest. I truly did laugh out loud, not just type LOL while grinning.

Anyway, I've just had half a bottle of wine while reading this entire thread. I highly recommend this method of reading this thread. Thanks to the guy who put a link to it in his signature. I especially enjoyed all the people who popped in with actual tech comments about overclocking the old 66 mhz chip, as well as the basic code written by Silver Pheonix. By the way, Corvetteguy, you're funny but you've got to learn to spell better.

Tomorrow is bulk garbage collection day in my neighbourhood. Here's what I threw on the pile tonight: a Pentium 200 mhz. I took out the 16 mb Voodoo Banshee video card. Do you think I can get maypep_necro's friend to give me $50 for it?

FlipprNL
 
Hi maypep_necro,
I can tell you that anything less than a 233MMX is basically useless these days.
I remember when the new Pentium 60 and 66 came out, it was circa 1994. We had 486 DX4-100s and didn't see what all the fuss was about...
The original Pentium almost has value as a collector's item (but not really, LoL). It probably uses 72-pin FP SIMM RAM - very modern for the day. Or maybe the even older stuff (ack!) Nasty, tiny old memory.
But you could run it as an old DOS box or something, or sell it to someone unfortunate... I guess.
Hey I remember we had 386-16MHz and a Pentium66 was not invented yet - so there is still a lot you can do with old PCs if you have the software!
I myself have an extensive library of ancient computer games.
And I have the very first P6 rig, a Pentium Pro 200 (@ 233MHz) to play old stuff on, 3dfx etc.
I restore old computers here.
I've got a beautiful old AMD 586-133MHz ISA rig (AMD's answer to the Pentium), I have the PPro, an AMD K6-III 450MHz system like new, and an Athlon 1000MHz TBird rig (the first to hit a gig!). But all pretty useless these days I s'pose...
Anyway, it will be hard to get that thing going - you will need old hardware knowledge (not to mention the hardware :^) I have numerous ancient soundcards, here & there I think.
Do you have a Win95 CD? LoL... I do! which is probably what's truly humorous, heheh.
But if it doesn't run nobody will buy it, so good luck to you.
Regards
 
Yes it could very well work, it's extremely likely that the Harddrive is broken though, wich you'll find hard to replace in a system that old...
Standards a few years back was... Ehm.. Rare.
 
I hope, nay, I pray, that a vastly intellectually superior alien race does not stumble first on this thread to assess our stage of technology advancement. But if they do I hope they have a little sense of humor.

or

Are you the alien scout Maypep?
 
GI but i don't sell it on ebay. My friend want it for 50$ so i wanna get it work without any damages to my monitor and to don't buy a power cord for nothing.
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Is that ths same stupid friend who bought the 2.8GHz P3 or the friend that got the 3.2GHz pc to play AOE2????

If you do by some miracle get this thing to work and your friend gives you $50 for it, is he going to play pacman on it or is he more of the pokémon kinda guy? Or is he gonna put a 16MB GPU in and run WOW on it with everything up?
 
If you all feel that this thing's getting outta hand,I'd like to offer you an chance to join my forum where things are just right.The link to my forum's in my signature.

It's about gaming,computers&technology and general stuff so I think u guys will like it there. :)
 
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