Going old skool

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quintin1986

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Hi guys, i've recently decided to go oldskool with pc's

I found an old pentium 2 pc

CPU: 466 MHz Celeron CPU with mmx support
RAM: 128 mb sdram at 133 MHz
HDD: 40 GB IDE hdd, but bumped it down to 30 GB, otherwise the pc won't detect it.
Grapchics: AGP Riva TNT 2 at 32 mb
SOUND: ISA ESS 1869
CD-ROM: Samsung CD writer
Other: Standard 1.44 mb stiffy drive

Actually had to buy the ram, and get it shipped from Capetown...

I'm currently running windows 98+ on the system.

I've also got another old pc which i let the kids play on.
Pentium D class 3 GHz dual core CPU
1 GB ddr 2 ram

I've installed windows xp on this machine.

BUT NOW, for this pc I'm looking for a 128 mb+ agp 8x graphics card
Does anyone know where i can buy one for a good price, or perhaps got one i can buy?

I'm also looking for more vintage PC'S
386, 486, Pentium 1

Or even old XT machines

If someone can help, or has got any input please reply?
I'm in the East Rand,,, Primrose.

Quintin
 
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quintin1986 said:
Hi guys, i've recently decided to go oldskool with pc's

I found an old pentium 2 pc

CPU: 466 MHz Celeron CPU with mmx support
RAM: 128 mb sdram at 133 MHz
HDD: 40 GB IDE hdd, but bumped it down to 30 GB, otherwise the pc won't detect it.
Grapchics: AGP Riva TNT 2 at 32 mb
SOUND: ISA ESS 1869
CD-ROM: Samsung CD writer
Other: Standard 1.44 mb stiffy drive

Actually had to buy the ram, and get it shipped from Capetown...

I'm currently running windows 98+ on the system.

I've also got another old pc which i let the kids play on.
Pentium D class 3 GHz dual core CPU
1 GB ddr 2 ram

I've installed windows xp on this machine.

BUT NOW, for this pc I'm looking for a 128 mb+ agp 8x graphics card
Does anyone know where i can buy one for a good price, or perhaps got one i can buy?

I'm also looking for more vintage PC'S
386, 486, Pentium 1

Or even old XT machines

If someone can help, or has got any input please reply?
I'm in the East Rand,,, Primrose.

Quintin
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I might have an old agp card somewhere. If I find it you can have it for Nada.
 
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quintin1986 said:
BUT NOW, for this pc I'm looking for a 128 mb+ agp 8x graphics card
Does anyone know where i can buy one for a good price, or perhaps got one i can buy?
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Got a Asus, board says A9600/TD R1.00, sticker says A9600SE/TD/P128M/A

Was working when removed from PC, can test it if required. PM if interested.
 
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Necropolis said:
Why torture yourself like that?
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It's fun. I had to rebuilt a DOS PC recently with networking which had to retain enough DOS memory and still be compatible for a program to start in a Win32 environment. Sigh. Was a reliving experience to go back to old DOS.

One thing I learned. DOS is not dead!
 
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No, dos is not dead...

I'm running an mp3+ player in pure dos mode on the pentium 2 and also movies .avi .mp4 etc in pure dos mode even got a web browser.
 
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I am sure I will find some 128MB 168 pin stick. They don't work on all configurations, so I keep more, there is a chance it will work on your PC.

Recently thanks to some forumnies I upped my stuff, so will also have some old HP laptop Pentium M or Core Duo ready (missing power supply, battery and hardrive). I was keeping it for myself, never used, but tested, the motherboard is working 100%.

As for the AGP graphics card, recently received from lived666 two cards: ATI Rage 128 Pro with dual fans and GeForce2 MX. I have no use for it, it could be yours. Don't know it is AGP 4 or 8 though.
 
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Speaking of old. My first computer AMD K350 is also still running, leaking caps and all xD.

For future reference you do still get AT power supplies brand new.
 
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quintin1986 said:
No, dos is not dead...

I'm running an mp3+ player in pure dos mode on the pentium 2 and also movies .avi .mp4 etc in pure dos mode even got a web browser.
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So, do you like paying too much for electricity? Go to newer tech, will reduce consumption. You'll also be able to achieve more with fewer machines.
 
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In any case, I also have an old machine. It runs my VPN.
It was bought in 2005 from Rectron, along with its processor. RAM has been upgraded, as I cannot get DDR2-533 anymore, so its running DDR2-800 modules. Cannot upgrade it past 4GByte since motherboard then gives POST error beeps.

It runs XP and several instances of Linux in VMWare player (usually just one at a time).

It is a very capable machine for what it is used for. And yes it runs an AGP card I bought in 2003.
As for power consumption, uses less than my current desktop PC.
 
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Earlier this year had to do some work on really old software. This meant setting up a DOS system that would support the old compilers that it was developed for. Since then I have modified the code to be compatible with gcc under Linux.

It was an interesting experience while it lasted.
 
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Hi guys, thanks for the replies.
Sorry I'm only replying now, but had a bit of a hectic day.

GhostSixFour, the old machine isn't my primary machine, i only got it to play around with.
My primary machine is an oldish server,
CPU: Intel xeon on LGA 775
RAM: 4.5 GB RAM
HDD: 1 TB
HDD: 500 GB
Graphics: GeForce 9300 GS
Sound: Cheap C-Media sound card.
OS: Windows 8.1

Other PC is an AMD Athlon
2.2 Dual core with 2 gb ram and 500 GB HDD.
OS: Linux Mint

I just like old pc's :)
 
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garyc, it is, once you jump back to dos from a modern windows interface, some stuff comes back to a person, and some stuff you have to learn again that you forgot.
 
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Heh, I can't blame him. I still have one of my favourite PCs, quintin1986 should quite like it:

Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz
Abit BH-6 motherboard
192 MB PC-133 and PC-166 RAM
6.4 GB + 80 GB HDDs
2x Voodoo 2000 in SLI
S3 Virge Trio64 1 MB
21" Dell 2048x1536 CRT monitor
Windows 98 SE

:D
 
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