Processor Donations--Anyone???........Pleez.........

[MrX]

I have a very sad Pentium 2-233 mhz system and if any one feels my pain and would like to help out a fellow tekkie and donate your old processor(anything's better than a 233) please feel ferr to PM and dontate.

btw: had to spend all my money on books no money left for processor

 

[DarkMajiq]

That sucks man... Why not try overclocking it? I have the same processor, and I'm running it at 306.6MHz, no extra cooling or anything... And the performance difference is huge

 

[giambi77]

man, sorry you are stuck with such,,,,a classic I don't have ANY hardware except for my computer heh

Wish I could help ya out!

 

[Mean MrMustard]

I have you beat. I'm running (or walking) a Pentium 1 200. But yes I know how you feel.

 

[Zephyr]

I can still recal being on my old trusty 486DX4-100MHz all the way through 5th. gen up till I got a K6-2 300.

 

[DarkMajiq]

I had a 486DX 66MHz until I got that PII

 

[MrX]

Hey, I just overclocked to my motherboard's max 300.0 mhz preformance is not too bad now. I can wait till i get some mula.

btw i had a 486DX/33mhz b4 this p2

 

[Hanky]

You had to spend all your money on books?? Do you mean NOTEbooks? Who has the money for a PIII-700 notebook shouldn't complain!

 

[DarkMajiq]

Maybe he's a college student and needs the notebook for that, and also has to buy his textbooks, which are damned expensive.

But see how much of a difference 233-300MHz makes? I couldn't go back to running at 233 anymore

 

[Bartman]

Dude.. your jokeing right?! you have a 700mhz laptop, a Cel400 and your "server" at 233... your crying like that's your primary box or something! There are are people who could really use some free hardware because they really are too poor for an upgrade. Just go ask mom for another grand or two... you'll be ok. Why would you include that in your sig when your trying to play like your poor?


Bart

 

[Hanky]

I know how expensive textbooks are as I'm also a student and because of that I couldn't buy such a good notebook as well... (but my desktop system is a tad better than his )

 

[dougjnn]

Greedy little sucker.

Has three computers, including a 700mhz notebook and a 400mhz celeron system, and he's moaning about his third one. And begging for handouts. When there are tons of people who need donated computers/parts vastly more.

Well, he's also a careless greedy little sucker. I'm sure that he forgot that his signature included the url of his system boasting page.

 

[MrX]

btw: dougjnn those sys profiles were before i moved away to college now i only got the dell. parents kept the other 2

 

[Jalapeno]

Maybe you shouldn't call them "MY Rigs" then... Anyway, goog luck to you!

 

[MrX]

Just updated!! Will make new sys profile soon. Oh yea and DarkMajiq thanks for the o/c tip 300 really does give a performance upgrade over 233.

 

[cschweda]

I'm still running on a TRS-80 Model III. Got it around 1982. No Kidding.

But when I want to play Quake III, I fire up my 1 Ghz Tbird.

The TRS-80 Model III was (and still is) a killer system. Uses those big black 5.25 inch floppies, too. They're real floppies. None of this plastic "floppy" stuff for my mofo. Lots of free software available for it.

chris

 

[Wuming]

darkmajig: how did you overclock your P2 233? are you using a jumperless mobo, or did you fiddle with the jumpers on your mobo to get it?

 

[Valvoline6]

I have 4 486 DX2 100 MHz processors you can have, you pay shipping. All you need is a multiprocessor capable motherboard and you can have 400 MHz of raw computing power.

 

[DarkMajiq]

<< darkmajig: how did you overclock your P2 233? are you using a jumperless mobo, or did you fiddle with the jumpers on your mobo to get it? >>

Well, this PII system started life as a Dell (although a lot of stuff has been changed and/or upgraded since I first got it). I still have the Dell mobo though and the same processor. Anyways, it's from the era befoe Intel started locking the multipliers on their processors. The motherboard has a convenient little &quot;Mainteneance&quot; jumper, which when set to 2-3 instead of 1-2 will allow you to boot into maintenance mode, and fiddle with all sorts of options in the BIOS (which aren't available in the normal BIOS). One of these is processor speed, 233, 266, 300, and maybe 200 and 333 too, I can't remember exactly. Basically though, this is changing the multiplier in your processor. I run it at the multiplier for 266, and use SoftFSB to boost the FSB to 76.7MHz. I used to run it at the multiplier for 233 with an 80MHz FSB, but then I found that little jumper, and started running like this. I can get it to run at 320.1MHz (multiplier for 266x80), but it isn't stable and crashes shortly after setting it. I can also run fine at just 300MHz using hte multiplier adjustment and no FSB change, but not only does the lower multiplier and higher FSB give me a few more MHz, it runs everything faster, of course.

Anyways, I probably got sidetracked there, but that's the story of how I overclocked.

P.S. Not even an extra HSF or anything. Hell, this thing doesn't even have a fan on it, although it does have a bigas heatsink.

 

[MrX]

i just changed the hte mutliplier on my intel pd440fx board from 3.5 to 4.5 for a speed of 300 mhz and btw i also have a dell system and dark majiq what dell model do u have? is it a dimension xps h233??? if so can u tell me which jumper to change to get to the maintainence mode bios. thankx

 

[puckgod]

I don't think you should really be complaining. I am a computer information systems major, and the only pc i have is an ancient 486sx 25mhz. I have 24 mb ram and 540 mb HD, and a wopping 2x cd-rom the monitor is VGA. Try and complain now.

 

[bagmanblue]

I've got a p2 350 you can have.

 

[puckgod]

I would die for a p2 350. How can I get it?

 

[bagmanblue]

email me.

 

[puckgod]

Your email address is not available. please email me with your address or post yours for me please.