Nice one Indy. I wasn't expecting that!

huh?

"huh?" what, GM?

How about an old Cryx machine. I just ran accross one *free* and it has 30mgs ram, 3.0 gig hard drive, no vid card. about 500 mghtz speed. Anyone using Linux recomment a version that will run on this machine? It currently has *ducks any thackers* ME on it. I plan on doing away with that anyway.

Finalday

Habaq Mot / Aspazomai Thanatos / Capere Obitus... /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Just how old IS that PC? Cyrix, 30mb RAM..... sounds like it is an old 486 mobo that had a Cyrix CPU upgrade chip installed in it.

It came preloaded with Win 98, so not too old. I did get a look at the ram and it is not PC-100. Looks like 72 pin older stuff. I may hav and extra I took out of another one a yar ago.

Finalday

Habaq Mot / Aspazomai Thanatos / Capere Obitus... /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Edited by - Finalday on 3/5/2004 4:10:14 PM

72 pin RAM. Well, maybe it was a Pentium (1) mobo? Cyrix sold a lot of upgrade chips for that one too. Slot based cpu mobos for the P2s and 3s(?) kind left Cyrix behind.

I had a Cyrix PR-200 once. Not a bad chip in its day, but it was vastly inferior to its equivalent in the Pentium series. Ah yes, 72-pin SD-RAM, the good old days! That stuff it still being used in some old servers, and is bloody expensive stuff.

The comp is at work at the moment, so I will have to wait till monday to work on it. I has an older PCI Vid card I am going to put in it too and replace the older modem too. Monitor, keyboard, and mouse is all new. If I can reformat and test run Win 98se, I may buy a 40GB hard drive to play with. I really want to learn Linux.

Finalday

Habaq Mot / Aspazomai Thanatos / Capere Obitus... /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Edited by - Finalday on 3/5/2004 5:27:50 PM

My friend has an AMD 2600+ Barton (Mobile) running at 2.5Ghz (200x12.5=2500) with a 1.675VCore, with temps under 40C while running Small FFT's in Prime 95.

His PR for it (compared to Northwood "C" about 3400+, although AMD would call it a 3600+/3800+/

The CPU can do more, he says, but he needs better ram or a "better" motherboard.

AMD.

But I've got a Dell. At 2.4GHz.

Edit: AMD is evil! It's threatning the vision of 12 million Americans, man!!
Learn more about this blight upon the human race from the official website itself:
http://www.savingvision.org/

I had a super Ego, but it was pestering me so I killed it.

Edited by - BEvilR on 3/5/2004 7:27:35 PM

for anyone interested:
i have a very old computer, 486 processor(pentium i think, not sure), 32 Mb RAM, 2.8 Gb HDD that is only recognised as 1.99 because of, Win 95 + edition, buggy but reliable, busted network card, modem, graphics card(crappy), sound card, two inoperative USB ports.
Anyone want it for a history project?

yet, surprisingly enuff, i tried running Half life on it, and at the start, by the time i got to the station, the train was PART of the platform, yet valve says the game only needs a 133! very, very weird

Hi Arania,

If it IS a 486 processor, no way it operates at anything higher than 100Mhz. Pentiums, if they had followed the numbering convention that Intel had started, would have been called "586" units.

Also, with 486es, you had to have got the DX or DX2 variety CPUs with built in floating point processing or your graphics will be cr*p. The SX units were only good for people who only sometimes did calculation based work and little or no graphics.

just a point of order, Ed. the last 486s did run at 133mhz but the first Pentiums were out then so nothing really came of them, even though the P1s first ran at 50mhz. Ah, I remember it well...

The good old days eh, Taw? Back then if you had a DX4-100, you were a wealthy man. <Attempted American humour> Today, you're probably in an American Public School! . The Yanks are always going on about the school system.