I've been 'gifted' a Tiny computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Computers. circa 2001. So it's far too modern to be asking about such hardware in the Retro Gaming and Vintage Computing forum. It has an intel Celeron running at a stonking 902mHz, 368mb ram, a 160gb IDE hdd, floppy drive and two IDE dvd drives. Oh, and it all works. Apart from throwing it in the bin, what would you do with it?
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I had a very similar machine purchased in 2000. Came with a 15” TFT which was very swish back then. Upgraded the RAM and the GPU once the warranty expired and eventually put a whole new MB with a Core2Duo CPU.
If I was given one today, I’d just trash the HDDs and take the whole lot to the tip.
If I was given one today, I’d just trash the HDDs and take the whole lot to the tip.
Had a Tiny PC myself way back with a PII-450 MHz - also heavily upgraded it before it became a dead shell.
Did you get the subwoofer/speaker set that came with some of them? Those might be worth something. I'd consider breaking down the rest for 'niche' old school parts.
Otherwise, could always try selling it in the local paper for £900
Amazing some of the asking prices vs specs I've seen for PCs listed in places like that.
Am curious, how'd you get gifted that machine in this day and age?
Did you get the subwoofer/speaker set that came with some of them? Those might be worth something. I'd consider breaking down the rest for 'niche' old school parts.
Otherwise, could always try selling it in the local paper for £900
Amazing some of the asking prices vs specs I've seen for PCs listed in places like that.Am curious, how'd you get gifted that machine in this day and age?
Had a Tiny PC myself way back with a PII-450 MHz - also heavily upgraded it before it became a dead shell.
Did you get the subwoofer/speaker set that came with some of them? Those might be worth something. I'd consider breaking down the rest for 'niche' old school parts.
Otherwise, could always try selling it in the local paper for £900
Am curious, how'd you get gifted that machine in this day and age?
Sadly, I just got the PC running XP. It belonged to a colleague who bought it for a stupid amount for her sons who are now grown up. Apparently it had been in the loft for years and they were having a clear out.
I nuked the hdd and upgraded it to win 7 for ***** and giggles, but I've no real use for it other than curiosity as a UK branded PC.
The copy of Windows 7 you put on it is probably worth more than the entire PC
As you've confirmed everything is working, I'd be tempted to put it on the Bay as a collect only. I'm sure someone out there wants a PC like that for their 5 year old, with specs constrained enough they can't run anything other than the BBC Bitesize website and Mindmaze on Encarta 96
a tiny branded desktop with tft screen was my first ever pc when i was a kid(primary school age), obviously i wasnt in to the whole modding or anything back then, suppose if i was given one nowadays i would try source the old games i had and relive my childhood ha.
dos emulations are just not the same as the original thing.
dos emulations are just not the same as the original thing.
It's yours if you want it.
ha thanks for the offer, but you probably not near where i live and i havent got the space anyways. if you like retro pc games then keep it as it should be enough and better than emulators.
I believe I had a HIS Radeon X1900 XT IceQ3 Turbo 512 MB AGP once. I bought it at the time when AGP was in the dying phase, and this was rumoured to be the highest performance graphics card on AGP that ever was, or ever would be. It certainly beat the hell out of a 6800 GT I had.
Distressingly I sold it as possibly faulty, getting no where near the value it was worth. It turned out it was an extremely intermittent monitor fault that caused my problems. That beast would probably be worth something today for some hardcore AGP-era system enthusiast.
I had a GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB in the era when I first upgraded to a Pentium III 800 MHz. Surprised the FX 5200 is only 38% faster than that.
https://www.game-debate.com/gpu/ind...pare=geforce-2-mx-400-64mb-vs-geforce-fx-5200
Haha, just checked this:
https://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=34&gid2=1621&compare=Nvidia
The X1900 XT was apparently 1929% faster than the FX 5200.
Damn that was a card and a half compared with its AGP rivals.
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I have an Athlon 600 & geforce mx440 running win98 as my retro gaming PC so it's not too far off spec wise, someone might want it for that but probably only if it could take an AGP card.
Might be worth putting win98 on it and putting it up on some facebook type marketplace as a retro gaming PC for free or next to nothing to save just binning it.
Might be worth putting win98 on it and putting it up on some facebook type marketplace as a retro gaming PC for free or next to nothing to save just binning it.
There is an internal fan mount inside the front of the case, but the plastic front panel doesn't have any slots or grill for airflow at all.
the components would cook themselves.
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I’m making a sleeper pc I’d do that lol
It has no use to be honest. Too slow for even basic tasks, too bulky, power inefficient for any kind of server task even ignoring the obsolete connectors etc.
I think reusing old computer equipment is a good idea, something like a core 2 duo system with a ssd upgrade is still ok for basic web browsing and such for an elderly person or whatever, but that is just useless, you would be forcing yourself to find a use because you can not because you should.
I think reusing old computer equipment is a good idea, something like a core 2 duo system with a ssd upgrade is still ok for basic web browsing and such for an elderly person or whatever, but that is just useless, you would be forcing yourself to find a use because you can not because you should.