Very old computer working? - Page 5

Je totalement ne connais pas le français, mais moi des poissons de Babel de bidon ainsi. En fait cependant, il était plus drôle quand j'essayais de traduire en utilisant ma connaissance très limitée d'Espagnol pour figurer hors de ce que vous disiez.

= STFU

*sigh* Ive just come back from the toilet after nearly laughing myself into a puddle here.

on a semi serious note, would a P66 be socket 5? the pre runner to socket 7? if so wasnt there some overclocked cpu's about called pro's, evergreens or something like that?

I would say that the 66 could in theory be over clocked. the pc should, if not wrecked by some former owner work if you pluged it in and fired it up (and stood back, just in case) and its remotly possible that a jumper configuration on the motherboard may allow you to oc the cpu a little. thing is, necro, you really wouldnt notice the difference, nor would your 50c carrying potential buyer.

The pc would easily run win 3.1, struggle a little with win 95 and crawl with win 98.

it would run some linux distro's.


this has been the funnyest thread on pc hardware ive ever seen, thank you all so much for taking part.

especially the die evil thread die bit. omg thats funny.

And here's another for the list of hardware forums that are so funny it hurts:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7813- [...] ID=1812110

The evergreen upgrades and intel overdrives, marketing jokes mostly, though the fastest of overdrives wheren't bad if you didn't have to pay for them. I think I have one laying around here somewhere....Yes it was socket 5 but it started with socket 4 for the 60 and 66mhz originals.

From: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/cha [...] et4-c.html

Description: Socket 4 was the first socket designed for native support of the early Pentium processors, running at 60 or 66 MHz. It is the only 5 volt Pentium socket. These machines had no real upgrade path to the faster versions of the Pentium because starting with the 75 MHz version, Intel switched to 3.3 volt power. This socket does support a special Pentium OverDrive, running at 120 MHz (for the 60 MHz) or 133 MHz (for the 66).

From http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/cha [...] et5-c.html :

Description: Socket 5 is the first socket designed for the mainstream (second generation) Pentium processors. It supports low-speed Pentiums from 75 to 133 MHz. Higher-speed Pentiums such as the 166 MHz and 200 MHz, and the newer Pentiums with MMX, will not work in a Socket 5 because they have an extra pin. They must be used in a Socket 7. Pentium OverDrives to upgrade Socket 5 Pentiums exist to allow upgrades to these motherboards. Socket 5 is now obsolete, replaced by Socket 7.

Is it working?

The evergreen cpu? yes, its working my brother uses it on one of his pc's.

what does he use it for? well, internet browsing, audio streaming, dvd watching, playing worms armaggeddon, most of the things any othger pc can do. runs windows 98se as well as linux. the system runs a matrox graphix card, 128mb ram, 60gb and 2.1 gb hard drives, 10/100 lan (hence the internet access), theres a cdrw and a dvd drive- yes, it can burn cds, albeit slowly, yup, pretty good set up really.

Evergreen cpu rated at 200 Mhz

I'm not underestimating the technology. I have no doubt it could run old versions of word and things like that all be it very slowly. It will have to run an OS like win95 maybe 98 at best or an old version of Linux. I would be willing to bet that it wouldn't have enough ram to do much if any modern applications. I've got a Dell PII 233mhz, 64mb ram, 4mb video card, I bought in 1997, which was state of the art at the time paid 2,700 for which included a sweet 17 inch Sony monitor lol. I haven't used in years and can't bring myself to throw it away because it I paid so freakin much for it. Although it will run apps why bother I have 4 other computers in the house which are considerably faster.

Or smoothwall based on linux

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Oh men, this thread is hilarous, I read it all
This was posted last Feb. 08 and its almost 2months now, I think you cannot kill this thread unless maypep or the moderator decided to make a stop to this (I hope they dont). We really need a good laught once in a while(I actually bookmark this thread so that I can go back to this and have a good laugh).

Maypep_necro was the one who started this thread, necro means death, maybe thats why we cannot kill this thread because he is already dead, maypep are you a ghost?.....hooooo scaryyyy!!!!

Woah! my first computer was a... ugh windows 3.1 i think? I remember, i had no colors lol

lol i got a key thing too. uf u lock it, u cant power the power XD

I had no CD Rom drive but i added one.

Or in the computer graveyard in my basement. I really need to clean that out...

LOL. I like the idea of a desparate museum.

I wouldn't attempt to. I'd set it on fire or something to get some final enjoyment out of that beast.

What year is it from?

Yeah it seems to be settling down.

Not true on the overclocked cpu's, check out evergreen upgrades and the like.

also, amd have been selling overclocked or atleast differently clocked cpu's for years.

the bartons are in the main all the same cpu with different clock multiplyers unlocked- if thats not overclocking a cpu, i dont know what is.

if you buy a standard athlon 2000xp thtas got and FSB of 266 and change the fsb to 333 you get a perfectly good athlon 2600. no strain on the cpu, not a lot more heat, no stability issues, why? because they are basically the same cpu.

that said, if you sold an athlon 2000 as a 2600, then you could be braking a few rules, thats just plain lying, but if you said the pc was run by an athlon 2000 oced to 2600, well, no harm in that.

incidentally, your spot on with the 66 not running as a 100, ive tried.

you can make a 66 run just under 100, but unless you are only running very old low spec software, you wont notice the difference.

not if you state that its overclocked, thats legal, if you dont say its overclocked, THATS ilegal.

check your sources.

Pardon his French!

Oh, that was like an open door!!!

It will take you honestly a few months to fold even a 65-point WU. The FPU of the Pentium will help, but it is REALLY slow. He's jerking your chain.

Why not put a mips Linux distribution on it? I know that Debian runs on mips and mipsel.

I dont think it would make any difference to the would be desperate buyer if the thing was overclocked a few Mhz or not, that said, you are right, if he is going to sell it and not mention the ocing, he is braking a few rules.

I once had to explain to a young lad who came to me with his 3000 athlon that wasnt working right, that it was in fact a 26 or 2800 (cant remember which) sempron... he was not impressed with the `expert`1 that built it for him.

Damn, 5 continu posts by same user dude dont spam. And i live in Canada and i said to my friend it gunna be overclocked if it work.

omfg they made those ?

my T.V remote is faster then that

but plug it in and give it a worel

xDxD LOL!