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The oldest CPU you have in regular use?

Got an old laptop with a 1400xp inside. Only used it as a radio/mp3 player for the last 10 years so i dont think it counts as regular use, but who cares :)
 
Just retired an Athlon 6000 x2 (3.1GHz version) a few weeks ago when I picked up a phenom II 955.

I also just gave away a Pentium D 920 machine which I used for trying new Linux distros. No idea of the age tho, Can't remember when I bought it.
 
FatRakoon said:
Please tell me, with those JIUHB Chips, you have simply got to give it a shot at clocking the bugger....PLEASE
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Yes that is the plan why they are all being put together. For some old skool overclocking nostalgic. Will be on custom watercooling loop. Will be fun!

Oh and nice pics, looks like we didn't understand cable management back in the eary 00's :p
 
Xplo said:
Oh and nice pics, looks like we didn't understand cable management back in the eary 00's :p
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Guilty your honour! LOL

I could say that the reason why the cables were poor, was that I had been constantly pulling them in and about to get at this or that, and that is partially true, and indeed if I was using that PC every day, I would have used cable ties etc to tidy it up a little, there is also the other admition that yeah, my other properly finished computers were not really THAT much tidier at the time either.

If it a stark contrast to how I keep PCs these days, but of course better Case design makes things a whole load easier to manage the cables better too dont they?

I mean... some cases I have had, you could not wedge a credit card between the mobo mounting board and the side of the case, never mind put some cables in there, but these days, I like to have at least half an inch gap there... More if I can to help a bit of air down there.

Times change.

I must admit that there are times when I look at some other internals and I think where the hell are their cables, and I do often get a bit envious, but then, I also look at my main PC and I realise that I have 2 GFX cards 2 DVDRWs a BRRW, 4 HDs and there is simply no way that you can hide 100% of the cables, so I dont go too hard on myself there, but when its a basic setup, I give myself a realistic fair amount of cabling that I will allow to be seen, and I try to stick to it.

Cabletidy and cable ties and insulating tape are often on the menu in many of the cases I have.

But again, on my own PCs, I dont reqally give too much of a monkeys, especially when I know that half the time, I will be swapping bits over anyway, but when I do another ones case, I spend a good hour at least getting the cables all funky, and sorted out, and I make sure that the air flow is about as good as can possibly be given what there is.
 
I think that would be a T6400 iirc I have it in my Intel Core Duo 2 laptop although it honestly doesn't get used that much now I have my Fire tablet.
 
Xplo said:
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.
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Awe wish i still had all mine, i had great 1800xp, it got to 3100 before i even had to start increasing the voltage. Them Geforce3 were nice and shiny, made a nice change from the big dull voodoo5 cards.

Hope ya do a build log when ya get things up and running :)
 
I will do a build log yes when i'm nearer a start in the new year. Really want to base around the dimastech benchtable mini (the smallest one which holds full size atx) although they are not designed for watercooling. Would only need a 120.2 radiator or hell could even get awya with a thick 120.1 but theres nowhere to mount. Would have to get a little ghetto but want it looking clean as possible. Dont want to go up a size on the benchtable. Think will just be a case of buying and then working something out/drilling when its infront of me.

Fatrakoon i've just finishing off a retro build which has a tyan tiper mpx board, dual 1800mp's, 2gb ecc, wrapped up in a thermaltake xaser V damier case. Its pretty damn awesome. And theres very little cables in sight. The cable management took hours and hours and hours! Will get some pics up when its finished over xmas
 
Still have a E6700 2.66 running with 8GB of ram in an Asus Commando for scripting and builds working. At almost 10 years old it never misses a beat
 
a pair of Xeon E5430's, around 9 years old.

A couple of years ago I was using a VIA Cyrix III though... :)
 
A 2004ish Socket A Sempron 3000+ in a very old XP PC. I use it paired up with an old GeForce 6800XT for some old games that don't work on OSes newer than XP.
 
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