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Berserker

Berserker

Berserker

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All this talk of SETI Classic, then I go extricate an old case and find an almost complete PC inside. Plug in power and it boots. The event log says it last had power on June 20th 2004. :eek:

This might be why it's been unused for so long...

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Katmai was released in 1999 and as shown used 250nm. Now we're just starting on 45nm. Just imagine how big/heat producing today's processors would be at 250nm :eek:

Anyway, once I'd sorted out some keyboard issues so I could use it, this revealed itself...

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Remember that? :D
 
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Ooh, retro crunching! Ah, they were t'days alreet. I miss the ol' Seti Driver/Seti Spy combo, and the sly stash-and-dump tactics to confuddle your closest rivals :(
 
I think it was only last year I sold my dual PIII/550*. I still have my dual PIII/1133 but it's not a complete PC at the moment.

*to a deaf, trans-sexual lesbian. :eek:
 
Sold? I'm surprised you got away with that. :eek:

Mind you, I hear RDRAM can go for a fair packet. Unfortunately there's only 256MB in this system.
 
That was an excellent program :)

Are you sure you lot are going back to folding after the Gauntlet? I'm sensing a lot of seti love at the moment. :)
 
The PC was turned on to check it's health before being dismantled for the last time.

I guess I could offer the parts here if anyone's really desperate. :D
 
Berserker said:
Sold? I'm surprised you got away with that. :eek:

Mind you, I hear RDRAM can go for a fair packet. Unfortunately there's only 256MB in this system.
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It was a complete SCSI-based PC rather than just the mobo & CPUs. Plus I knew that Jo and her partner were always after cheap dual CPU machines.

RDRAM seems completely unobtainable now so any that does become available is bound to command a good price.
 
:D

I ran a SETI Classic WU on my C2D@3GHz the other month, it took 45 minutes. And I could do two at once :p Shows how much things have come on.
 
those were the days... still got my old P2-350, full rig, working 24/7, with win2kpro and 384mb ram, in a SFF. Has a sata card and a 120gb hdd in it these days. still got my old 1.0 tbird athlon in bits, and the famous XP2100 pally/K7SEM combo from when i was lazyblade in daily use.

Remember the XP-M 1500 and 1600s? still got mine on a DFI Infinity REV A with BH5 @ 2.47ghz. It's air cooled these days, cant be bothered with water.

In fact the only decent pc i have these days is my Samsung R20 C2D lappy - the others perform the tasks i need them to admirably. The XP2100 still has a 15gb maxtor 536DX.

Wonder how good my old P2 would be at crunching modern DC.. Not very, I presume lol

I personally see it as a measure of computer building excellence if rigs as old as mine, which have been used mostly at full load 24/7 all their lives (particularly the P2, which spent its early years more than 100% overclocked) still work reliably and rock steady - Must be, as the skill back in those days was keeping temps as low as possible. TBH i long for the good old days when I used to take such liberties with pcs largely made on the cheap with used, cheap parts, merely for overclocking... Used to love hacking up beige warriors for more cooling, sticking as much heatsinkery on as possible, and making little electronicy bits to make em better.. I should, and probably will get back into it :D
 
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Skree said:
the famous XP2100 pally/K7SEM combo from when i was lazyblade in daily use.
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I had one of those Palomino 2100s back in the SETI days... they ran reallly hot. I ran it all summer at 67c (socket temperature, none of this fancy core temperature stuff) on the stock cooler before it finally died :D
 
My laptop is a P2 366mhz. Does everything I want it to just fine and it cost me £40. Not tried folding with it though hehe
 
Up until recently I had a Dual PPro 200Mhz running as my DC/DNS/DHCP and web server :p

Didnt crunch on it tho, if you wonder how it would have performed, check out the SuperPi result for 1M:
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Mattus said:
I had one of those Palomino 2100s back in the SETI days... they ran reallly hot. I ran it all summer at 67c (socket temperature, none of this fancy core temperature stuff) on the stock cooler before it finally died :D
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Yep - i've got a decent heatsink on mine, but it's in a really carp packard bell micro atx case with basically no fan holes - it hasn't had a side on it all the time i've had it.. ran nice like that :D - a Coolermaster CP >XP3200 heatsink, modded a bit, kept it in the mid 40s.. it shuts down after a few hours at load with the case side on.. lol

EDIT: going back a few more years... who remembers overclocking with jumpers? lol thats going back some :D
 
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