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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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This is the machine I'm working on now. I built it when I was in high school. When you build a computer for someone, it's a life time warranty. :p

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
1.5GB of ram
80GB IDE drive (I think that got upgraded)
Windows XP (I think that got upgraded too, I probably would have installed win2k in that era)

Talk about a blast from the past. Still runs, so I got that going. I can say I built a pretty solid machine at the time. :p Ok so it sounds like a table saw and the inside looks like it was in a wood workshop, but hey it still runs!

It got hit with a "dirty" power outage and it was not on a UPS, that's the reason for the clean install as it's been acting weird since, so it MIGHT have taken on some hardware damage but I'll find out with the reinstall.
 
louis redfoot

louis redfoot

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cool man. love seeing the dinosaurs still running.

mine is a 2007 mac pro with 4x xeons, 10g ram and 5tb storage (originally 4gb and 500gb). it's still rockin' on os x snow leopard. i mainly surf the web and screen videos, and donate unused time to seti. safari, firefox, chrome, and vlc player have all stopped updating though everything still runs for now. the roccat browser still updates.

aside from a hardware meltdown, i think everything will still work for a while. if i install windows or upgrade the os x this clunker should be good for many more years.

these days the ipad air2 gets 90% of the action and the desktop is a glorified jukebox. i plan to use both until they break, so we'll see how far this run goes.
 
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glenn1

glenn1

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sdifox said:
I still have my Athlon 700.
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That's plenty for most. Half the users out there do nothing with their machines than surf the web. My father asked me advice about buying a $800 desktop to replace an Socket 754 age system I built him and all he does with his computer is Ebay. Put an SSD in it a few years ago and evidently he thinks getting a Core i7 system is something he really needs. Offered him a spare Latitude E5400 laptop for free and he thought that wouldn't be fast enough for him.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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glenn1 said:
That's plenty for most. Half the users out there do nothing with their machines than surf the web. My father asked me advice about buying a $800 desktop to replace an Socket 754 age system I built him and all he does with his computer is Ebay. Put an SSD in it a few years ago and evidently he thinks getting a Core i7 system is something he really needs. Offered him a spare Latitude E5400 laptop for free and he thought that wouldn't be fast enough for him.
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Err no Athlon 700 is not plenty for most. Not with the shitty bloatware everywhere.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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I'd roughly consider a P4 or equivalent to be the realistic minimum for light duty modern computing.
 
bigboxes

bigboxes

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I have so many Athlons. My first CPU I bought for my first build was a 1200Mhz Thunderbird, the fastest at the time.

Athlon 1.2Ghz (Thunderbird Socket A)
Athlon XP 1600+ (Palomino 1.4Ghz o/c to 1.8Ghz Socket A)
Athlon XP 2400+ (Thoroughbred 2.0Ghz Socket A)
Athlon 64 3200+ (Winchester 2.0Ghz 939)
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo 2.2Ghz; first dual core 939)

I also have: (from pulls)

Athlon 64 3800+ (Venice 2.4Ghz 939)
Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane AM2)
Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Brisbane AM2)
 
glenn1

glenn1

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lxskllr said:
I'd roughly consider a P4 or equivalent to be the realistic minimum for light duty modern computing.
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That's like saying you can't watch television on an old cabinet style TV, sure the experience won't be as good but of course it works. Not worth arguing about when you can get a system with at least those specs for next to nothing. You can get something like a Dell E4x00 series off Craigslist for 30 or 40 bucks. If you're satisfied with a P4 desktop then people will pretty much give you those for free (sorta like the old cabinet TVs, if you're willing to haul it away....)
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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glenn1 said:
That's like saying you can't watch television on an old cabinet style TV, sure the experience won't be as good but of course it works. Not worth arguing about when you can get a system with at least those specs for next to nothing. You can get something like a Dell E4x00 series off Craigslist for 30 or 40 bucks. If you're satisfied with a P4 desktop then people will pretty much give you those for free (sorta like the old cabinet TVs, if you're willing to haul it away....)
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Well, you technically can't use an old cabinet tv. They no longer work with broadcast standards. A P4 class computer can somewhat comfortably compute everything you'd expect to find online, if not at maximum quality. Below that is a gamble. If all you do is read text, and look at pictures, a P3 might work, but that's not really standard computing.
 
louis redfoot

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lxskllr said:
Well, you technically can't use an old cabinet tv. They no longer work with broadcast standards. A P4 class computer can somewhat comfortably compute everything you'd expect to find online, if not at maximum quality. Below that is a gamble. If all you do is read text, and look at pictures, a P3 might work, but that's not really standard computing.
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p4 is like a sheepskin condom, c2d u should be safely covered
 
thebestMAX

thebestMAX

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Still have 2 Athlon builds running strong that are over 10 years old. Had many more I either sold or scrapped. Probably still a few procs on my shelves. Both are still running Windows 2000 so are limited on upgrades and drivers these days. Both are Shuttle MBs. RAM is probably the problem also.

My notes say Ive had or have:
2700+
2600+
2600+ Mobile.
1700 Tbird
1.4 Tbird
1.0 Tbird

Think the 1700 was an overclockers dream at one point.
 
foghorn67

foghorn67

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I had one of the Barton's. Forgot which one though. I had a loud cooler/fan with case fans that revved really high. Installed a fan controller on one of the front 5.25" slots. What a loud dust vacuum that was.
My last AMD was a budget HTPC, modest a quiet build. All of them have been junked.

Now I have a Intel i5 7500, and waiting on Ryzen to mature.
 
louis redfoot

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bigboxes said:
You can purchase/build an arcade cabinet for your mame box.
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a thread like that would be drool. i didn't even talk about driving games yet

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i already have the seat!

yes i'm new here. who is the hardware king of at?
 
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Mayne

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louis redfoot said:
a thread like that would be drool. i didn't even talk about driving games yet

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i already have the seat!

yes i'm new here. who is the hardware king of at?
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I'm thinking of starting a mentoring program for new users here..nothing major..just teach new users how to to post and make threads.
 
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NoTine42

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My "print server" is an old, old laptop with mobile Athlon +2700, 1.25gb RAM.
(When new, it was rare for any laptop to have a 64bit CPU)
 
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