Cool, I was given an old computer...

[SunnyD]

I thought for sure I would never see a Brick style Athlon CPU again...

A friend of my wife had a dead computer, motherboard fried supposedly... "supposedly".... An old Gateway machine, I didn't have my hopes up on what junk may be inside. We picked it up after a party this weekend and I took it home. Opened it up, and wow, lookie, an Athlon Brick! Last one I saw was when I worked for Corning some 5 years back. It just has coolness factor written on it. Too bad it didn't work...

... until I screwed the power supply back into the case, plugged everything in and turned it on. 🙂

So I now have a nice little spare machine to play with. Everything is very clear and in good shape too, which is surprising there isn't more dust built up. Anyone have any spare PC100 laying around? I don't think WinXP will run very well in 64meg... :laugh:

 

[imported_Snagle]

nice.

My college is giving away 50 computers on thursday, ranging from p3 333-500mhz and 64-256MB RAM. Im going to go early and try to get the 500mhz 256MB box 🙂

 

[Rubycon]

WTH is brick style?

You mean SLOT A? Like enclosed SECC? Ice cream bar? Even Xeon Slot Two's were more like videocasettes than bricks.

Now if you had one of those Alpha radiators mounted on there...

🙂

 

[sswingle]

Never heard them called brick style before.

 

[Pepsi90919]

it's Slot A. it's not 'brick style'. and you're not any more important for seeing one, they're very common. and they're not that old. like 5 years old isn't old.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Slot A isn't very common.

 

[mpitts]

I remember overclocking my Slot A 700Mhz Athlon to 1Ghz. I thought I was the man! 😀

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: mpitts
I remember overclocking my Slot A 700Mhz Athlon to 1Ghz. I thought I was the man! 😀

Goldfinger or SMD resistor move? If the latter then yes that was good. 🙂

 

[Tea Bag]

Wow, my first build was with a Slot A.. Memories..

 

[CombatChuk]

Slot A was to help weane Mobo companies make Athlon motherboards by using the same slot as the Pentium II/III (Slot 1). The Athlons would fit, but not be electrically compatible.

 

[PHiuR]

I have a SLOT-A 800mhz athlon...good chip...still works.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: CombatChuk
Slot A was to help weane Mobo companies make Athlon motherboards by using the same slot as the Pentium II/III (Slot 1). The Athlons would fit, but not be electrically compatible.

They were also upside down. 😉

 

[Schadenfroh]

:camera:

 

[FrustratedUser]

I always wanted a Slot-A 🙁

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
it's Slot A. it's not 'brick style'. and you're not any more important for seeing one, they're very common. and they're not that old. like 5 years old isn't old.

I know what it is. Pentium II/III cartridge Slot 1 and Athlon Slot A CPU's have often been called "bricks". Get over it and stop trying to ruin my fun.

And in computer terms, 5 minutes is old/outdated. Poo on you! 😛