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Sep 14, 2003, 12:24 AM
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DriverHeaven Granddaddy
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Georgia, USA
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Here's a little fun....
My younger son had told me a couple weeks ago that he'd like to bring his computer by and have me go through it and tweak and/or recommend some things that will make it perform better. (He's had it away at college.)
This evening I happen to notice a lone, unfamiliar computer sitting on the kitchen counter. Oh, I thought, he dropped off his computer. So, I took it into the office, hooked up the necessities, pulled off the side panel, and took a gander. Hmmmm....no upgrading video on this one....there's no AGP slot.  I went ahead and started it up. Started without any problem and got to the Logon screen. User's name, Tom. Hmmmm....my son's name isn't "Tom". What's going on here? Took a look around on the hard drive. None of the programs looked anything like what my son would have needed....at least not most of them. Maybe I'd better wait till my older son gets home and see if he knows what's going on. About 30 minutes later, he did. Here's the scoop: The comuter is a PII/Celeron, 366 Mhz, 32 MB RAM. 6 GB WD HD, NIC CARD (it's on the LAN now) and uses an ATi onboard graphics card. It's one of those "PowerSpec" computers that I seem to recall MicroCenter selling some time ago. It also has a CD Writer and CD ROM drive. Windows 98SE, and just a few other little things. The bottom line: He picked it up today at a garage sale for a grand total of $6.00  That's not a typo. It's Six dollars....and no cents. He thinks he'll be able to play Wing Commander and Pirates on it without having to use a slowdown app.  |
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Sep 14, 2003, 01:30 AM
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It Never.....
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Kentucky
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You cant beat that for $6.00!!!
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Sep 14, 2003, 01:32 AM
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DriverHeaven Granddaddy
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Georgia, USA
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I just happened to have a 256 MB PC100 stick of RAM here in a drawer. I added that to the 32 already in the system and.....man, it came alive!! LOL
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Sep 14, 2003, 01:36 AM
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It Never.....
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Kentucky
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Now to overclock it j/k , LOL!
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Sep 14, 2003, 01:41 AM
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DriverHeaven Granddaddy
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Georgia, USA
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Sep 14, 2003, 02:12 AM
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DH News MOD
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makes that $6.00 even more of a bargain. |
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Sep 14, 2003, 03:00 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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PII/Celeron 366? its a Celeron alright PII were made as 350's 366 is most defiantly a Celeron.....
Yea it was a deal But not for me i have 650 Durons etc laying around gathering dust ...only system like that wouldn’t fit any of my needs Last edited by The_Neon_Cowboy; Sep 14, 2003 at 06:00 AM. |
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Sep 14, 2003, 03:17 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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A Celron 366 will easily hit 500mhz without any extra cooling.... ( well, i did with my 333mhz celron... ramped up the FBS like crazy)
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Sep 17, 2003, 12:29 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: California
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lol ppl
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Sep 17, 2003, 07:13 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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384MB of ram should also work in it.... PC133....cas 2..... a little bios update.... and a little bios tweaking..that sucker would be able to run UT2003 at a playble frame tate....
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