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Wow if you can sell this Pentium 66mhz system for $50 my old P3 800 512meg 40gig system must be worth a fortune!! Maybe I can sell it for like $1000 and buy a new Ibook or something?? Anyone wanna buy my system, Ill sell it for $999 if your interested!

by the way, I think this thread was a joke, I hope
 
Nobody is shure... it sounds to me more like behind the nick of maypep_necro is hiding some retard that is having fun watching this thread getting bigger and bigger... :idea:
 
Overclock it? To what? 100Mhz?
Honestly I don't see any market value at all in selling it.
You'd probably get more if you scrap it and find someone to buy the metal pieces.

You can probably just go to a computer shop and they'll give you a cable to plug the PS into the wall with... Probably for free.
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OC'ed to 100mHz? man that would be pushing a 66mHZ to the limit. or too much 😀
 
Its pretty unlikely you'll get 100mhz out of a Pentium 66.

The P66 is a 5V processor, the P75 and faster are 3.3V processors. Most P66's are awfull clockers, infact so many Pentiums failed to reach 66Mhz, that intel made a 60mhz speed bin to improve yields of 'sellable' chips.

Trying to clock a P66 to 100Mhz, is going to need some serious cooling.

Also alot of P60/P66's had a bug in the floating point unit, some were RMA'ed back to intel, but alot were sold and never 'fixed'.

Of course, the system will still run Windows 98, and older applications like Microsoft office 95. It would make an ok Linux system too, could probably make a fair bit torrent server out of it too. But I wouldnt bother trying to overclock it at all.
 
...Who needs to keep alive an old PC for nostalgia when you can emulate? :)
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Yep, not to mention the space savings. Nowadays, the best place for a relic like that would be a desperate museum, or to give it to the kid of a neighbor you don't like! :wink:
 
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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Who needs F.E.A.R. or HalfLife when you can have hours of fun with Oregon Trail.
 
I still have an old 486 DX 120 with a 40 meg HD and a floppy drive.
It runs DOS 6.22 with 4DOS and windows 3.11 windows for workgroups.
Its fun to play with.
 
Who needs F.E.A.R. or HalfLife when you can have hours of fun with Oregon Trail.
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Damn skippy. Oregon Trail was a fun game. So was Adventure Contstruction Set. (Or something like that.) But honestly, with a system like that, you could step up to awesome fun like Master of Magic, Ultima Underworld, and Wolf3D with the Barney patch. 😀 😀 😀

Heck, you could quite possibly even be able to run stuff as high as Doom 1 and 2 or even Descent I on that system. 😱

(And the sad part is, I'm completely serious. :roll: I need help. Or a padded room.)
 
Yep, not to mention the space savings. Nowadays, the best place for a relic like that would be a desperate museum, or to give it to the kid of a neighbor you don't like! :wink:
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Or in the computer graveyard in my basement. I really need to clean that out...
 
I've got an old IBM 400mhz Pentium II machine in the "junk" room.
Dual processor MB, only one cpu installed.
After reading this post I got it out the other day and played around with it.
I tried to give it away once. Nobody wanted it, not even local charities.
Too slow, they said.
I wonder how much it would cost to ship it up to maypep in Canada?
At least then he'd have something new to post about.
 
I bet may_pep could solder (acid core only big guy) wire on the tabs to the socket pinholes and make this work with his Pentium 1 board.

Seriously, moderators....it's time to lock this thing up before it gets out of hand!!
 
Man, lay off guys, look, a power cord is like 20 cents around here, just grab one off a friends monitor and don't tell him :) I've used 66mhz Pentiums as basic firewalls, 500meg HD is plenty for that, just add a couple of NIC's. Don't even try to sell it though, you WILL get laughed at. Throw linux on it and play around with it, perfect learning tool! Turbo was only for xt-early at compatibility, it slowed the cpu to 8mhz so old programs and games didn't run so fast you couldn't see them.
 
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