Very old computer working? - Page 3

Wow if you can sell this Pentium 66mhz system for $50 my old P3 800 512meg 40gig system must be worth a fortune!! Maybe I can sell it for like $1000 and buy a new Ibook or something?? Anyone wanna buy my system, Ill sell it for $999 if your interested!

by the way, I think this thread was a joke, I hope

OC'ed to 100mHz? man that would be pushing a 66mHZ to the limit. or too much

Its pretty unlikely you'll get 100mhz out of a Pentium 66.

The P66 is a 5V processor, the P75 and faster are 3.3V processors. Most P66's are awfull clockers, infact so many Pentiums failed to reach 66Mhz, that intel made a 60mhz speed bin to improve yields of 'sellable' chips.

Trying to clock a P66 to 100Mhz, is going to need some serious cooling.

Also alot of P60/P66's had a bug in the floating point unit, some were RMA'ed back to intel, but alot were sold and never 'fixed'.

Of course, the system will still run Windows 98, and older applications like Microsoft office 95. It would make an ok Linux system too, could probably make a fair bit torrent server out of it too. But I wouldnt bother trying to overclock it at all.

Yep, not to mention the space savings. Nowadays, the best place for a relic like that would be a desperate museum, or to give it to the kid of a neighbor you don't like!

Who needs F.E.A.R. or HalfLife when you can have hours of fun with Oregon Trail.

Damn skippy. Oregon Trail was a fun game. So was Adventure Contstruction Set. (Or something like that.) But honestly, with a system like that, you could step up to awesome fun like Master of Magic, Ultima Underworld, and Wolf3D with the Barney patch.

Heck, you could quite possibly even be able to run stuff as high as Doom 1 and 2 or even Descent I on that system.

(And the sad part is, I'm completely serious. I need help. Or a padded room.)

Admit it. You know you want to. You like it.

Join us. Join us. Join us.

Here. I have installed a HSF for the 100 mhz. At 66 MhZ, it don't need one.

I've got an old IBM 400mhz Pentium II machine in the "junk" room.
Dual processor MB, only one cpu installed.
After reading this post I got it out the other day and played around with it.
I tried to give it away once. Nobody wanted it, not even local charities.
Too slow, they said.
I wonder how much it would cost to ship it up to maypep in Canada?
At least then he'd have something new to post about.

I bet may_pep could solder (acid core only big guy) wire on the tabs to the socket pinholes and make this work with his Pentium 1 board.

Seriously, moderators....it's time to lock this thing up before it gets out of hand!!

I guess that's a lesson to us both.

I don't bother throwing things like that away - insurance that I will never regret tossing it.

I still have an apple IIe and IIc and Mac Classic, a TRS-80 and a comadore 64, sold my atari and intellivision (stupid me). I still PLAY the IIc, it's portable, plugs into a tv and has some fun games. This guy isn't totally out, I remember playing warcraft 2 on systems like that. And dude, if you really want a power cord I have a box of around 500, I'll send you one, seriously, heck how bout 2, and some 30 pin 1meg simms even, I got some vesa local bus ide controllers too, and a real nice 256k ati advantage video card. I also have a 40meg hd laying around somewhere (that I paid $300 for!).....Better giving them to someone then thowing them away!

heck I got a couple voodoo 2's, he can go all out with SLI!

I got an sgi 02 with a mips 10k in it, 9 gig scsi drive, and 512meg ram, can't do a darn thing with it unless you like Maya, cost about 10k also, but I'm keeping that, it looks cool.

In that case, I humbly present some of the old SPG classics.

(Unfortunately doing a search for the "Silver Phoenix Group" in the hardware section seems to further support my feeling that several of my threads have been culled in the new forumz crossover, but it still brings up a few.)

The SPG presents Bad Caps.
The SPG presents R-T-F-M.
The SPG reports on AMD being under suspicion of illegal arms dealing.
The SPG reports on the truth about vending machines.
The SPG reports on the conspiracy behind the Any Key.

Oh, yes!!

mmmwahahahaha

oh my I haven't laughed this hard in awhile thanks alot gize.

too funny. It probably has windows 3.1 or DOS.


seriously dude give it away to the poor/charity and try to take some money off your taxes. Be happy if they value it at $5. You'd be lucky to run a word processor and a internet browser at the same time and that's in turbo mode. If you try to overclock it you'll probably burn it up.

you hit the nail on the head slvr-phoenix

Come on, guys. The guy had a legitimate question. No need to be such bastards about it.

Besides, that isn't even that old. I remember paying $3,300 for a 486 25mhz with 1mb RAM and a 79mb HDD. It had both kinds of floppy drives (3.5 and 5.25).

I also remember paying $2,000 for an 8086 that also had both kinds of floppy drives (5.25 and 8 ). We put in an 8mb internal HD that cost another couple hundred.

Maypep_necro: You probably won't be able to sell it for as much as $50, but if you can get it working faster, you might be able to give it to a charity or something. You're really better off not investing much time into it.

Ok in that case you might get $5.50


put it on ebay, maybe you'll hit the jackpot.

List it for $1.00 and drum it up making it sound very good.

Example:

Comes with the greatest advance in computer history Windows95, 32 bit, color graphics, [it does have color doesn't it? ],fast mind numbing 66mhz with turbo button for extreme number crunching to 80mhz at the press of a button!

then talk about the memory... how fast it is etc. just list the positives, but keep it truthful, you don't want the stupid thing to come back.

Post pictures of it and set the auction for a week. This will tell you what it's worth. Keep your shipping and handling prices reasonable as well. You might get more than $5 this way.

dude you won't hurt your monitor or your power cord, just plug them in and see if it turns on!!!!

you list your system specs on your signature, you have another computer right? Unplug the cord from your computer and plug it into the old one, what's the problem?

maybe the power cord don't reach?

maybe the power cord don't reach?


Try one of these. Cord Extender