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There is a guy here that takes old computers and extracts the gold from the motherboard; he gets about a buck for each one he figured. I found a few 486/66's in our local dumpster. The local charity takes old computers but won't touch anything under a Pentium 1. Course that's California where they grow on trees. I save the fans.
 
I might have doubted 10-15 comments ago that we've been punked by you here with all that insanely stupid thread(but extremely funny too). I have no doubts now. You're a retard born with the down(would anybody please be so kind to tell me if i'm writing it correct?) syndrome living in a nuclear lab and been test object to some rude "gamma radiation on living beings" experiment. And who the hell was stupid enough to give you access to computer connected to the internet? :lol: :lol: :lol: Those are only speculations though, i don't expect you to tell your sad story here although it would be kind of amusing...
 
Whatever dude. I'm trying to be nice because you are a glutton for punishment. Trust me I can spare a power cord. I build & refurbish computers. All I'm asking is for you to donate your unused cpu cycles to science. If not, fuck you. I hope they charge you $50 for one.
 
Dont waste your time trying to overclock it. A 66 mhz? That thing belongs in a museum. No one would buy it, this isnt like a classic car or anything. Hell I had an old pentium like that sitting in the guestroom for years until we finally scrapped it.
 
You figured it out. All new CPU's are nothing but overclocked Pentium 1's with a few bells and whistles added, ask any ol timer whose been around.
 
If you are speaking of a P5 Pentium (66 MHz) then you should try one of the small Linux live CD distributions such as Slax, Austrumi, Puppy, or Sam. You probably will not have sufficient memory to run them as live CDs,and you may not even have an optical drive at all, but if you could install their code into your hard drive then your would have a real (Unix, not Microsoft) computer.
 
Why would you want to restore it? A Pentium-66 is even slower than a 233MMX. Assume it would only have 16Meg of 72pin memory. Also a 500MB hard drive is rather small for Windows-95 with Office-95, and you really want to run Win-98SE for stability. Usually the first thing to fail is the hard drive, so your old data may be gone. Will it boot from a floppy, do you get error code beeps on the internal speaker? So the question is, what is now wrong with your very old PC, and what do you want to do with it after it is fixed/restored?
The prices of PC has dropped so much that you can easily get a Celeron-2800 or a AMD Sempron-2800+ with a video monitor for $500.


Stu
 
but if we can overclocka p1 why they made a p2 and p3? why they just dont overclock?
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Because the more spped a CPU get, the more it "vibrates". to make them stable, they either tried a new design like slot CPU or more pins for the CPU.

The slot was good to absorb vibration, but wa costly to manufacture. So, creating newer socket and adding pins to the CPU cost less and basically do the same thing.

That's why today's CPU has more pins than older slower CPU.
 
The wisest thing to do is **Pull the plug !**

BTW: I am too a Canadian from Quebec and want to state that
:arrow: 'maypep_necro' is not representative of the median people of this contry or province.

Thank you.
 
A Pentium 66? Man, that brings back some memories!

I remember way back in 1994, I looked at those. A complete system retailed about $3,000. It made more sense to upgrade my 486 25mhz computer with a new motherboard and a Cyrix cpu than to shell out the money for the Pentium.
That next year, however, I did make the plunge and financed a Magnatronic Pentium 75 -- $2,250, which cost me more than $3,000 over the next three years at 18% interest.
My current computer is an Athlon 64 3000+ (soon to be an X2 3800+ ) that, by reusing a case and other parts, cost me about $850 to build.
These days I don't complain about AMD cpus costing over $200. I remember the "bad old days" when a computer cost more than a decent used car.
 
First the 7mhz XP post now this! Dude, put down the crack pipe and seek therapy! That, or share what the hell you are smoking so I can drop my IQ to your level: -200!

For the record, that machine is a paper weight. Granted, I have a working 120Mhz Pentuim 1 running Windows 95 in my house. I, however, have accepted when it finally does die, I'm removing the CD-ROM and tossing the rest of into the trash. If you want to do anything with it, give it to some kid and let him destroy it.
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if ur gonna throw it out, send it to me. I like to mess with old stuff... no fear of busting it if you got it free. :)
 
Hell I have a 1Ghz machine that I can use for anything.
Heres a problem solver take the cord from you existing machine and try it on that relic you call a computer and think is worth money.
 
Hi. I would like to know if my old computer can work again. I will tell the specs:

CPU: Pentium 66 MHZ
Hard disk: WD 500 mb
GFX card: Unknown
Sound card: None
Network card: Unknown


Does it can work again?
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Where did you get this Dinosaur!! MY GOD! I doubt seriouly if this comp would run anything well, holy cow! 500 mb hardrive, that used to be huge. Now its not even worth the materials it was made from. Sure it could work, and you might find someone to buy it, but would they want to? One, you won't likely get any software thats new to work , and Win95 is so out of date that you can't get support for it, and I think Win98 would take up 9/10 of the hard drive space.
 
I used to have fun taking apart tech we had no use for anymore in my house. I could see turning this into a fireworks display case and setting it off on the anniversary of when Windows began...
 
That might serve if you had MS DOS 3.3 & GWBASIC to load on it to fiddle with. I sometimes regret dumping an older machine, but have moved on in life. It used to run a few ham radio programs & wrote GWBASIC proggies for formulas, etc.
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I kept trying to keep my old P133 alive for stuff like that. Especially for Master of Magic. I love that game. Nostalgia is great. Then I found DOSbox. Who needs to keep alive an old PC for nostalgia when you can emulate? :)
 
Wow. I say screw it. Throw some water cooling in that baby and let er rip to a whopping 120 MHZ. I wanna hear that baby squeal like a pig!! Your hear me? A pig!!! :twisted:

Just make sure to set the jumpers right or you might underclock it.

I bet it even has a working VESA local bus slot.
 
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