Some "Vintage Iron" for you older PC guys

[Topcat]

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oh no! aaaah! u've poisoned me with your fastest dual p3 gaming rig! why isnt teleportation invented yet?! i would want it teleported here. much easier to ship! lol~

Shipping can be arranged. I got the case new, and still have its box & packing material.

[alindumitru46]

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Because I felt like a challenge ... an image makes more that 1000 words...

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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nice... 10mhz cpu... 80286 i guess? 1mb ram. not bad also...

[stj]

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8086 more likely.
286 would have started at 16 or 25MHz

[Compgeke]

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Plenty of 6, 8 and 10 MHz 286s. PC or XT class was usually 4.77 or 8 MHz. I've a few 10 MHz ones here.

[Topcat]

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Just an update to this relic... Many moons ago, I was given a goodie box that happened to contain an Upgradeware Slot-T Tualatin adapter. I have a couple 1.26 Tualatin-S CPU's in the junk drawer....and curiosity got the better of me....

It worked without issue. Now the problem, I need to find another one in order to run them dual.....that's easier said than done apparently....not a single one on ebay or amazon.

...but hey, how cool is this!!





Yea, I've changed a few things around on this system...I removed one of the opticals and replaced it with a bay cooler for the 15K RPM cheetah that's in it. If I can find another Upgradeware Slot-T adapter, I'll grab a pair of 1.4GHz Tualatin-S processors, as those are plentiful & cheap....and will officially have this machine maxed out. Of course this message was posted from it.

[Topcat]

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A few changes in this one.... I picked up a couple 1100/100 CPU's (SL5QW) and a couple Abit Slotket 3's (not easy to find). This creature is how running dual 1.1GHz. I never was able to keep it stable @ 133FSB, which isn't uncommon with the BX chipset. Now its maxed out. I'll snap some pics when I get a chance to install these CPU's..

[Dan81]

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Although it's in a ATX case (I used whatever I had around), here's a AMD K6-2 500MHz for you guys

[ratdude747]

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A few changes in this one.... I picked up a couple 1100/100 CPU's (SL5QW) and a couple genuine Abit Slotket 3's (not easy to find). This creature is how running dual 1.1GHz. I never was able to keep it stable @ 133FSB, which isn't uncommon with the BX chipset. Now its maxed out. I'll snap some pics when I get a chance to install these CPU's.

You should have asked me. I have 4 new in box slockets in my junk drawer. IIRC 3 are MSI and one is ASUS.

[Topcat]

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^
I've got dozens of various/random slotkets (epox, msi, asus, and some other generics)....it seems very few support coppermines. I've been through a lot of them testing this. The Abit ones are quite rare it seems. The really rare one are the upgradeware slot-t slotket, which supports coppermines & Tualatins, and it did work in the P2B-D....but finding a mate to it seemed to be impossible. The one I've got came in a goodie box a few years ago. The only other I've found for sale is some moron on amazon wanting $130....umm, no. They don't turn up on ebay, I check regularly.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Although it's in a ATX case (I used whatever I had around), here's a AMD K6-2 500MHz for you guys

Is that a rare bird? (the CPU being located at the bottom right on a K6-2-supporting motherboard)


(I only saw the CPU on the bottom right with Pentium I motherboards, for the P54s and likely P55s)

And my K6-2, rated at 450 Mhz, couldn't even OC to 500 Mhz, without crashing more than an airplane, FFS!
And also had stability issues, in a warm room, even when not OC'ing, FFS!

With that bullshit, I now wonder if I should have left it underclocked to 300 or 350 Mhz...

[grss1982]

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I wonder what happens if you install a more recent O.S. on this like Windows 7 and an SSD via a PCI SATA add-in card. Can you make it daily driver at that point?

Vintage Iron for me was a AMD K6-2 500MHz and due to financial constraints was stuck on that rig until I got a job and my first ever rig, a Sempron 2500+ and ECS N2U400-A setup.

[Dan81]

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Is that a rare bird? (the CPU being located at the bottom right on a K6-2-supporting motherboard)


(I only saw the CPU on the bottom right with Pentium I motherboards, for the P54s and likely P55s)

And my K6-2, rated at 450 Mhz, couldn't even OC to 500 Mhz, without crashing more than an airplane, FFS!
And also had stability issues, in a warm room, even when not OC'ing, FFS!

With that bullshit, I now wonder if I should have left it underclocked to 300 or 350 Mhz...

YMMV, but most MVP3 boards I've seen have it placed in the bottom right.

Then again, some have it placed differently.

[Curious.George]

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My oldest (x86) box:

Compaq Portable III (~1987)
12MHz '286
640K RAM
20MB disk
1.2MB (5") floppy
2 slot (ISA) expansion case

Currently not in use but, rather, serving as a spare parts collection for my "considerably more useful" Compaq Portable 386:
20MHz '386
2MB RAM
300MB disk (I patched the BIOS to accommodate)
1.2MB (5") floppy
2 slot (ISA) expansion case

which is visually identical (except for branding)

The 386 nominally runs DOS and primarily hosts OpusV on an NS32032 coprocessor card sitting in the expansion chassis.

[Xenon-Codex]

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Just an update to this relic... Many moons ago, I was given a goodie box that happened to contain an Upgradeware Slot-T Tualatin adapter. I have a couple 1.26 Tualatin-S CPU's in the junk drawer....and curiosity got the better of me....

It worked without issue. Now the problem, I need to find another one in order to run them dual.....that's easier said than done apparently....not a single one on ebay or amazon.

...but hey, how cool is this!!

Yea, I've changed a few things around on this system...I removed one of the opticals and replaced it with a bay cooler for the 15K RPM cheetah that's in it. If I can find another Upgradeware Slot-T adapter, I'll grab a pair of 1.4GHz Tualatin-S processors, as those are plentiful & cheap....and will officially have this machine maxed out. Of course this message was posted from it.

I have a 1400MHz PIII as my recording machine, it has Windows 2000 and Soundforge & CD-architect from the 90's. Sticker says P4, but I downgraded it 10 years ago as the older system worked better with the old programs... Two more boards in a closet as a spare parts. Update it, NEVER.

[Topcat]

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I had a little free time this morning, so I put the finishing touches on this system's internals, and installed the 2x 1.1GHz (1100/100) SL5QW CPU's. These CPU's are very difficult to find. I got one in a junk box, but it took over 6 months to find the mate to it. Hardware-wise, this one is maxed out, and nothing is overclocked.

This has been one of my favorite retro builds, for personal reasons....I had a P2B (housed in a case that I still own) when they first came out (celeron 266 @ 400 and then a 300a @ 450), but I was too poor for the P2B-D, let alone 2x real P2 CPU's. I've considered transferring this build into that original case...

[goontron]

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That thing looks like ot would be a screamer under Unix!

[Topcat]

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my oh my....again!



The P2B-D system went back into one of the best vintage cases I have.... It also got a RAID upgrade, a BRAND NEW AAA-131U2. I hated to cut the film off the retail box and open it....but its even more blasphemous to have a neat old controller like that, having never been used....I'm sure it was sad & lonely....but not now! A couple of the HDD's came from a hot dry place in the southwest, a couple were some I had on hand. This machine is orgasmic @ powerup, it sounds like a jet engine spinning up!

The final specs:

Asus P2B-D v1.06
2x Very Rare 1.1GHz 100FSB P3 FCPGA (SL5QW)
2x Abit Slotket III Adapters
1gb PC-100 CAS2 memory
3DFX Voodoo3500 GPU AGP
Sound Blaster AWE64 audio
SMC NIC
Adaptec AAA-131U2 U2 SCSI RAID
2x 36gb 15k RPM SCA HDDs in a mirror (OS)
2x 146gb 15k RPM SCA HDDs in a mirror (storage)
Plextor 40x 50-pin cdrom
Plextor 12x4x 32 CDRW
Iomega zip250
Antec 430w PSU

All the SCA HDD's are housed in icydock solid aluminum hot swap racks. These were new old stock I bought probably 15 years ago, and never used.....as SCSI was dying off back then, and I went with sata. This system is a small piece of personal history....definitely one of the finer pieces in the collection!

[TechGeek]

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It'd be awesome to have this rare beast, but I just don't have the money. Argh.

[Dan81]

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That.... really puts my Soyo SY-6BA+IV to shame.