Old Computer Club

[candle_86]

First off this is for those with old machines that need tech support or just want to remember back when a 2 year old computer could still play the latest game with good settings.

This is not brand specfic, but it is age specific. To be a member you have to have an old computer currently, or be well versed in the older tech. I also require you to have been a member for more than one month and have shown an active interest in hardware and or software to be a member.

Now definition of old is in order id say.

AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Intel Pentium 3 and older are what I call old. This also applies to parts from the time period aka Geforce2/Radeon 7000/Voodoo/Savage4 and older, as well as Windows 2000/ME and older problems or general chat.

I myself have a 486DX4 and a K6-300 IBM Aptivia I keep around for a nice game of Quake, or maybe just to enjoy Windows 3.1.


Thats about it, lets go back to the year 2000 when Computers where rugged, tough, and built to last, just like a Ford.


Members

Candle_86 K6-2 300
JrRacinFan Pentium3 700
choppy VIA C3 700
PT p3-400
WhiteLotus Athlon @ 1500
intel igent P3 1ghz
rodneyhchef Pentium Classic 166
3991vhtes P3 866
xubidoo P3 1.266'
pyite P3 450 @ 600
MtoSev P2 350

 

[Duxx]

I thought for sure FORD stood for Fix Or Repair Daily. haha j/k My step dads explorer is still chugging along!

 

[candle_86]

lol

 

[JrRacinFan]

Put me in for this, I still have an old gateway Slot 1 that I put a slocket in for a P3 933@700. It's at my sister's for the nieces.

 

[candle_86]

will do

 

[choppy]

a ford is built to last, tell me your joking..

i old via c3 700mhz on some epox mobo, not fired it up in years tho

 

[JrRacinFan]

Oh wait also, I have an old Compaq here with an AMD K6-II 400mhz. Should I overclock it?

 

[candle_86]

heck i would my K6-2 is oced also, stock is 66 x 4.5, its now at 75 x 6 @ 2.6v, so that i have a nice 450 myself with an AMD Barton HSF on it. Id say you can prolly get close to 550 with increased voltage


And nice VIA C3 there, had a 667 great for linux

 

[Namslas90]

Oh wait also, I have an old Compaq here with an AMD K6-II 400mhz. Should I overclock it?

Slap it in a "Super Socket 7" mobo first...LOL

 

[candle_86]

lol it already is, 350mhz and up K6-2 where all 100mhz Chips, all you can do from there is play with multi.

Just so you know though the world record was set with a K6-2+ at 800mhz i belive

 

[JrRacinFan]

Interesting. Thanks.

 

[Namslas90]

lol it already is, 350mhz and up K6-2 where all 100mhz Chips, all you can do from there is play with multi.

Just so you know though the world record was set with a K6-2+ at 800mhz i belive

I've seen records at 500-550 but not 800...LOL

 

[candle_86]

no problem man, though if you could read me the numbers off the ISH i can help you oc it.

Also you get better cooling removing the IHS, just take a razor blade and cut the glue around the edges and gently pry it off, do not use extreme force though.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Hmmm, interesting.

 

[candle_86]

I've seen records at 500-550 but not 800...LOL

550 was a stock AMD K6-2 and K6-2+

 

[candle_86]

to hit highspeeds like that you need about 2.8V and keep the CPU core uner 50C so phase is needed

 

[pt]

p3-400 working
p2-400 (without mobo and hdd)
k6 - 450 (no hdd)
socket 7 intel or via or something
is that enough?

 

[candle_86]

yea thats plenty lol, you only need one

 

[rodneyhchef]

I've got loads of old systems knocking about. My favouite (and oldest) though is this:

Pentium Classic @ 166MHz on an intel 82430VX motherboard
512KB cache (256KB of it in the expansion slot!)
64mb EDO ram
S3 Savage4 2D/3D card
3DFX voodoo 2 12mb 3D card
Sound Blaster AWE32

Kept it for old dos games, and it was all top of the line stuff in its day. Doesn't get used at all really now with the advent of dosbox. I've also got a K6 300 system (albeit dismantled and stored in a motherboard box) and my brother still uses a K6/2 450 system that I built in 1999. Even still runs on the original seagate 6.4GB hard drive! All use Win 98 SE. Slightly newer, I have a 600MHz P3 laptop, a 1.1GHz celeron system and a 1.2GHz thunderbird athlon. The athlon doesn't really seem that old to me though, as it runs on XP just fine.

 

[candle_86]

lol yea Thunderbirds can still keep up a bit untill we got to 2005 which was a great thing.

 

[Namslas90]

550 was a stock AMD K6-2 and K6-2+

Actually I kind of messed that up. A K-6 '2' stock was 500 , K-6 III was 550. The average OC's are around 575.

Before today never saw an 800, now I see a 971 on a K-6 II...LOL;

http://www.sysopt.com/systemdb/overclock/search.php

 

[WhiteLotus]

i got me an athlon 1.5 running on a 32 kilobyte primary cache cant remember anything else will do a Belarc on it when i can

 

[intel igent]

ford = First On Race Day

ive got a p3 1.0ghz skt370 and a p2 450mhz slot 1 or whatever...........

both sitting here needing some TLC to be operational again....

 

[candle_86]

Actually I kind of messed that up. A K-6 '2' stock was 500 , K-6 III was 550. The average OC's are around 575.

Before today never saw an 800, now I see a 971 on a K-6 II...LOL;

http://www.sysopt.com/systemdb/overclock/search.php

lol yea some folks like to go all out

also the K6-III was 450 and 475, it ran to hot at 500 and 550 and those where never release, the K6-2 went to 550, the K6-2+ to 575 and the K6-III+ to 550

 

[candle_86]

http://www.sysopt.com/systemdb/system.php/3387