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E-Bear said:
The 4x4 is just to make the stool screw higher. I can probably remove it and put back to his normal height but then it could be only a child stool or a shoes shinner stool.
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I was thinking a farmers milking stool. Too elaborate for a childs use, and shoe shine stools have storage in them for polish and brushes. Did the screw originally go down into the center post? I though the whole screw and 4X4 were added.
 
Retrorockit said:
I was thinking a farmers milking stool. Too elaborate for a childs use, and shoe shine stools have storage in them for polish and brushes. Did the screw originally go down into the center post? I though the whole screw and 4X4 were added.
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No the screw goes into the 4x4 because they drilled a hole in it but its inside the round wood usually.
 
Iron Maiden - The Trooper

Fresh meat! :D

Even if I didn't find so much stuff like in the past years, the Flea Market Gods have been kind to me! :D

1. Arctic Cooling - Slim Silent Pro TC - NOS/NIB - full package
2. Redragon VARA K551 - Outemu Blue / RED led - in full working condition - full package - already cleaned and put to work at my office. No more rubber dome for me there! :D Shhh ... don't ask about the noise though. Even if at home I have a Cherry MX Black keyboard, I really like those Blue Outemu switches. :)
3. NEC D3142 - 44MB MFM HDD - 1988 *** 31+ years old! My first MFM HDD. The funny thing is that I didn't buy 4 MFM controllers that were sold for peanuts a few weeks ago. Life works in mysterious ways. The HDD starts and stops as it should but I am unable to test it. Probably ok. Probably... Ancient tech that dies hard. Also it is complete with a factory BAD. :D
4. As expected I've been confronted with a massive shortage of japanese electrolytic capacitors so I'll have to use what I have in my box-of-parts or I'll have to scavenge some caps from other boards but this will be a last resort measure applied only in exceptional cases. Keep your fingers crossed as I need it to revive yet another slot A motherboard. Chances are 50/50 that I might be successfull ...
5. The Sk A CPUs were bought as a test. Chipped to death. How much chipping until being dead? Well, that amount of chipping will just about do it ... rest into the great silicon void beyond ...
6. ASUS K7M Rev:1.04 - My 3rd K7M. :D You can never have too many slot A motherboards! :D I still need a GFD but I don't hold my breath for finding one ... if I'll ever find one. :D Where I live those were rare as hen's teeth even back in the day ...
7. AMD Slot A 600MHz CPU - K7600MTR51B A
8. PowerColor Riva TNT2 32MB - CTNT2SG Ver1.0 - missing some bits. Probably still alive.
9. SDRAM - 32MB,128, ECC/REG
 

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Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad. :(
 
Chloe Price said:
Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad. :(
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Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again... :(
 
Grog6 said:
Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again... :(
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I have one 1GHz Athlon which is chipped pretty bad but seems to work fine.. though it's not a good overclocker, that's why bought another one (the 1GHz AXIA one which clocks easily over 1400MHz :toast: )
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My S462 CPUs, the Sempron in the center seems to have a scratch in the surface, I need to investigate that..

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Other CPUs, the Q6600 arrived DOA but well, it was like 6EUR so whatever. I need to get a 1150 board for that G3258.. AMD 6000+ & 555BE didn't make it to be pictured since they're in project builds :)

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Bungz said:
One of you guys has surely got a place for this

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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Disney Dream Desk PC at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!
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Perfect for a sleeper build. :love:
 

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That has to be the worst version of that song I've ever heard...
 
Robert B said:
Yeah. :) I'm so glad I found those puppies. :D
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I'd love to have a fast FX card, the fastest I've owned so far was FX 5600 Ultra :rockout:
 
My latest founds, it was really dry period, did not found a thing like in a year or so...


ATi Radeon x1950XTX Crossfire Edition
ATi Radeon HD3850 AGP
ASUS CUSL2-C
And some crappy EnermaX Noisetaker 375W
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And here is my collection (or at least for the most part...)



Collection
Compaq Deskpro 486/33m
IBM dual V8 machine Death Star - work in progress
AMD K7 Armored Interceptor+
Ultra 386 build and no proper AT case
Compaq PII GTO Slot 1
HP PIII GT Slot 1
Compaq AP550 Pro need PSU
AMD Opteron/ LanParty NF4 R/T Charger
Socket 7 Mob machine


462 socket
3Dfx Voodoo cards
ATi/ Radeon cards

Keyboards

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oh... a hoarder... (collection or old computer shop stock? )

Chloe Price said:
Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad. :(
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Grog6 said:
Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again... :(
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well i also have a Duron "cracked Die" edition ... still boot, it was from my first self built system back in the days, ah ... no wait ... my first self build was with a AMD K6 II, i got some other Athlon for my collection and fortunately none of them was cracked/chipped.

Chloe Price said:
I'd love to have a fast FX card, the fastest I've owned so far was FX 5600 Ultra :rockout:
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well at the time i had a FX 5900 (Leadtek Winfast A350 TDH 128mb MyViVo, i kept it ) and i still have a lone MSI FX5600 sitting in a corner (i need to check the HSF and find some pushpin or screws for it )
 
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Just wanted to say hi to everyone and thank everyone for keeping this awesome thread alive and well!!!!

Sorry its been a year since posting on the forums but it has been an insane year to say the least. I'm not going into detail but I think I'm finally on the track to normalcy once again.
 
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I overclocked my Tbird so hard, that AIDA64 thinks it's an Athlon Ryzen CPU (logo) :D

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^My Socket A collection (I got Palomino on it's way).
 
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A pretty old card (it's nearing the 10 year mark pretty soon) which still holds up today. :)

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It's a Radeon HD7870 2GB I picked up for cheap ($35) locally. Works as it should, and it seems a cheap gaming card to this day (I ain't planning no 4k gaming with this, but 1080p is just fine)
 
agent_x007 said:
...I overclocked my Tbird so hard, that AIDA64 thinks it's an Athlon Ryzen CPU (logo) :D
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I've got a Barton core XP-2500M running 400fsb, and a 13.6 multiplier.

It won't quite do 1080p mp4 files, but it was a tv pc for years. :)
 
Grog6 said:
I've got a Barton core XP-2500M running 400fsb, and a 13.6 multiplier.

It won't quite do 1080p mp4 files, but it was a tv pc for years. :)
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Damn even better clocker then mine, my best Mobile Barton gets to 2.6Ghz, and i hav one more 2.6 but is not 100% stable... Looking for to get a 2.7Ghz one, seems ur one is platinum one, as i consider the 2.6GHz golden samples and above Platinum... What voltage it needs to get there tho, mine needs like 1.875v -1.9v.... It is stable 48 hours prime 95 at 1.830v, but for some reason, movies at 1080P laggs, and some games like Crysis crashes, Most wanted also, while with the more voltage they are stable, not sure how the fk it can be 48 hours prime 95 stable at 1.830v, but not stable in other things...
I have also Mobile Barton 3000+, but is bad OC....

The CPU stepping is IQYHA right ?

Why wont run 1080P ?!?!? With x264 hardware aceleration on the Radeon GPUs u can run about all 1080P Blue ray stuff, mine runs no problem 30-40GB blue ray movies, last i watched was Avengers Infinity War 35GB....
 
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It's always been particular about that OC; it will not run any other multiplier at 400fsb. (200DDR)

It's an Nvidia chipset; a A7N8X mobo.

13.5 seems like such a weird number, lol.

I don't have any good AGP video cards anymore; the last one that was in that PC died due to the fan dying, and melting the chip off the PCB.
It was an X800GT, and was a bit too slow for MP4, so as a PC it got replaced with a Pentium D820 setup, running XPx64, and PCI-e.

Not sure about the stepping; I should dig it out and get some pix. :)
 
stinger608 said:
Just wanted to say hi to everyone and thank everyone for keeping this awesome thread alive and well!!!!

Sorry its been a year since posting on the forums but it has been an insane year to say the least. I'm not going into detail but I think I'm finally on the track to normalcy once again.
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welcome back buddy, glad to see you back and glad to hear it's going better (at last i hope it will go that way for you)
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adequate statement for the actual time ... i think ...
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well at last my first PC did teach me that ... (which is not the same as my first self built i mention a few post above )
 
I have a few socket A's. :D
I have three more of these
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Well before i got good parts long ago i used Radeon 9550, and did run in you tube 720P very well, without HW aceleration, and i think i read in some forum, a guy to said that he did run 1080P movies on his machine with Radeon 9550, but i did never try that, can imagine the 9550 can run HD as well, as Radeon cards are very strong for this, while nVIDIA card are meh all AGP nVIDIA cards sucks as far as i know..


Mr.Scott said:
I have a few socket A's. :D
I have three more of these

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With that kinda of "care" for them, they wont last much, last time i did sort CPUs with pins like that (the ones i sell, not the personal) they all got bended pins, some of them even broken, the K7 CPUs the rubebrs did falle, and Athlons got broken parts of their crystals....




BTW how much of u have this, as i rarely see this panel, or this keyboard in ebay never saw any of these anytime soon...

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I've never seen any of those, although that KB is a direct knockoff of a Model M.

Nice!

A tube amp for a computer; that's neat. :)
 
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