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The oldest CPU you have in regular use?
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In a laptop, my oldest is a Athlon Neo X2 L335 from 2009, and still going (wouldn't say strong - it's never been very fast!). In a desktop, it's a Core i7 920 from 2009 as well!
My parents had a first gen Core i3 running as well until about a year ago when the motherboard gave out - bought them a new Lenovo with an onsite warranty, so they wouldn't need to rely on me popping round to fix going forward!
My parents had a first gen Core i3 running as well until about a year ago when the motherboard gave out - bought them a new Lenovo with an onsite warranty, so they wouldn't need to rely on me popping round to fix going forward!
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Motorola 68000.
990X @4.8GHz - no reason to upgrade yet
And a [email protected]/4.4 here. Last PC I brought. Sometimes pays to get the best around at the given time.
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Intel Pentium M Centrino in an IBM Thinkpad T40. Only thing its not good for now is HD Video
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Pentium 4 920 Dual core, freenas server.. supermicro board with 8gb DDR2 ECC, no core 2 support.. just as a file server and actually quite fine as i get over 100mb/sec speeds over the LAN. Has a LSI card in IT mode with about 12tb storage.
Heh, I had an IBM XT 1992 - chucked out from my dad's works.IBM 5160
Used for nostalgia. To switch off, you must remember to park the Winchester.
We ended up upgrading it to VGA, adding a 3½" floppy and replacing the (broken) 20MB HDD with a 32MB SCSI model... and it still couldn't run Windows 3.0 in colour! (Turns out the VGA driver for Windows 3.0 used 286 opcodes so would just hang on an 8088).
We also had an IBM PC, a 5150 with a mono display. To this day I rue the fact that we took it to the dump - at the time it was boring and pretty rubbishy (no hard drive, two floppies, a cassette port with nothing to connect to it and a greenscreen display with minor screen burn). If only I'd realised just how historically important it was...
I did keep the BASIC compiler 1.00 disk that came with it (which amazingly still reads just fine over 30 years on from when it was made), as well as the keyboard. They serve as a reminder of what I once had!
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MC68060 @ 120Mhz
This little darling is sat in my Atari Falcon
I use it absolutely every day, and if I could, I would not bother with the PC, its only because the PC has Dawn of War, otherwise, I would quite happily ditch the PC altogether.
Ok, a bit of a complete lie there, but there is no doubt, that I utterly love my Atari machines.
Most people will remember the Atari ST Basic green vomit inducing screen..
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(8).jpg
Well, things have moved on massively from then.
Its like a PC used to have MSDOS, but now look at them.
The Atari is no different in that it is almost nothing even remotely like its first incarnation, but has moved on hugely. since then... Not as much as the PC I will be the first to admit, but certainly a lot more than most could have ever thought.
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(4).jpg
And some screen shots...
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(7).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(6).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(5).jpg
The last one showing Frozen Bubble that was taken off the RPMS in Mandrake 10
This little darling is sat in my Atari Falcon
I use it absolutely every day, and if I could, I would not bother with the PC, its only because the PC has Dawn of War, otherwise, I would quite happily ditch the PC altogether.
Ok, a bit of a complete lie there, but there is no doubt, that I utterly love my Atari machines.
Most people will remember the Atari ST Basic green vomit inducing screen..
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(8).jpg
Well, things have moved on massively from then.
Its like a PC used to have MSDOS, but now look at them.
The Atari is no different in that it is almost nothing even remotely like its first incarnation, but has moved on hugely. since then... Not as much as the PC I will be the first to admit, but certainly a lot more than most could have ever thought.
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(4).jpg
And some screen shots...
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(7).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(6).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/falcon/img(5).jpg
The last one showing Frozen Bubble that was taken off the RPMS in Mandrake 10
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I'm running an Athlon X2 5200+ in my main rig. Think I bought it in 2010. It is overclocked by 50% and unlocked to a Phenom FX5200 though (performs somewhere near a Phenom II 955 to 965 ish and cost me £30).
My sister in law is still using an Athlon XP 2500+ from a rig I built for them in about 2004. I occasionally suggest they upgrade it...
It's not exactly regular use but I did switch on my Amiga 1200 to check it was still working. Motorola 68EC020 @14mhz there, circa 1992 I think
My sister in law is still using an Athlon XP 2500+ from a rig I built for them in about 2004. I occasionally suggest they upgrade it...
It's not exactly regular use but I did switch on my Amiga 1200 to check it was still working. Motorola 68EC020 @14mhz there, circa 1992 I think
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Elonex P233MMX laptop with 48MB RAM and Windows 98SE, used for old games...
Surely that wins?
Awesome this sparked my brain to my first PC i got from my Brother after he got a new one think I was 11 or something.
Packerd Bell MMX 233MHZ 64mb RAM Windows 95/98 and it was running a version of the Voodoo graphics card - I still have it in the attic
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LOL I have a handful of them...
Orchid Righteous 3D was my first ever Voodoo Card.
I got it to play UnReal Tournament alongside my Matrox AGP Card.
Shortly after this, I got hold of a Voodoo 2 and then I hunted down a second one, eve nthough by this time, I could have simply bought a half decent single AGP card that would be better, I just wanted to do this weird SLI thingy!
Even when I did manage it, it was so unreliable and iffy under Win98, but boy I loved those days!!!!
Again, I still have all of thoise old cards... I just dont have the little SLI bridge anymore
The Voodoo 2 cards were EVILKING or something like that???
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4790k.. I'm new to this stuff
Have through the course of the last 6 months been hunting down and successfully managed to buy the following classic hardware which will bd paired with a Dimastech benchtable and custom watercooling via Fuzion v2 block which has the mounting kit for all sockets just purely for some nostalgic fun
FX-60
DFI NF4 SLI-DR (Expert's are like rocking horse)
NF7-S v2
1700+&1800+ both DLT3C JIUHB
Couple mobile bartons
Still hunting an IC7-MAX3 for P4C Northwood
Ram includes a plethora of Mushkin Redline XP4000 (Infineon Rev C), various TCCD, more Rev C From G.Skill, 1gb Muskin Level II bh-5, basically loads of sticks of the best and fastest DDR money would have bought. Going to keep the best clocking sticks of all.
Gfx card is a Geforce3 lovely looking thing. And i forget what else now! Going to put it all together in the new year should be loads fun.
FX-60
DFI NF4 SLI-DR (Expert's are like rocking horse)
NF7-S v2
1700+&1800+ both DLT3C JIUHB
Couple mobile bartons
Still hunting an IC7-MAX3 for P4C Northwood
Ram includes a plethora of Mushkin Redline XP4000 (Infineon Rev C), various TCCD, more Rev C From G.Skill, 1gb Muskin Level II bh-5, basically loads of sticks of the best and fastest DDR money would have bought. Going to keep the best clocking sticks of all.
Gfx card is a Geforce3 lovely looking thing. And i forget what else now! Going to put it all together in the new year should be loads fun.
4790k.. I'm new to this stuff
Ee by gum... There's alus one int there!
Please tell me, with those JIUHB Chips, you have simply got to give it a shot at clocking the bugger... PLEASE!!!
Here are a few pics that might get you going...
I have only put 5 there that show my best clocks with Socket A.
A Barton and XP17 on and NF7S but also an MSI Delta too!
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/xp17/xpoc(1).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/xp17/xpoc(2).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/xp17/xpoc(3).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/xp17/xpoc(4).jpg
http://www.fatrakoon.co.uk/xp17/xpoc(5).jpg
I dont want to fill in pages of pics that no one gives a monkeys about, so the links are for anyone who does.
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Amd 64 4000+ single core, only used for Nero 6 when I want to make a mix cd running XP as Nero don't play nice on Win 7