What was I thinking?!

I took the BH6 out of my Mom's computer when I upgraded it,
but instead of selling it on eBay for too much money like any
sane person would do, I sailed west to reach the East.

Yeah, I bought a Tualatin Celeron 1.2 for it on eBay. And a Slot-T.
And enough more of that fast PC-133 to run XP. And then I added
a Promise TX2 ATA100 controller. So, $85 to get that old board
up to snuff. I could have had something nearly twice as fast for that
plus the proceeds of selling the old board and memory. Sure, it runs
well with the 80GB Maxtor, and it's quiet, but it could have been so
very much more.

It really looks funny with that 1992 vintage, full-length ISA
SoundBlaster 16 card that is longer than the motherboard, yet
incredibly Windows XP compatible. I guess it was fun, like some
kind of hobby. And some other hobbies are a lot more expensive.

Yes you are sick MAN. But dont let the pc industry currupt you, you
know that pc was fine with a few bit and peices. Even though it cost
more than a new pc that ran 3 times faster. You screwed the PC
industry, and all i can say thats good.


Iam going to get arround to upgrade my old Abit BE6 1.0 433 Celeron, i
think it can take a P3 933, though with the new Celerons not sure what
it can take now ?

Any ideas and have fun.



On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:59:57 -0800, "Fishface" <?>
wrote:

>I took the BH6 out of my Mom's computer when I upgraded it,
>but instead of selling it on eBay for too much money like any
>sane person would do, I sailed west to reach the East.
>
>Yeah, I bought a Tualatin Celeron 1.2 for it on eBay. And a Slot-T.
>And enough more of that fast PC-133 to run XP. And then I added
>a Promise TX2 ATA100 controller. So, $85 to get that old board
>up to snuff. I could have had something nearly twice as fast for that
>plus the proceeds of selling the old board and memory. Sure, it runs
>well with the 80GB Maxtor, and it's quiet, but it could have been so
>very much more.
>
>It really looks funny with that 1992 vintage, full-length ISA
>SoundBlaster 16 card that is longer than the motherboard, yet
>incredibly Windows XP compatible. I guess it was fun, like some
>kind of hobby. And some other hobbies are a lot more expensive.
>

"Fishface" wrote
> but it could have been so very much more.

Well as long as it is fast enough! There is also the *ECO* friendly
argument.

I just bought a few P3's and some i810e MicroATX motherboards from eBay, all
work well and have been built into basic office/web-surfing/email machines!

The expensive part for me was adding *New* optical drives, hard-disks, and
case/psus. . .

Wayne ][

And I'll bet you paid more for that PC-133 than you would've paid for
equivalent PC2100 memory.

>Yeah, I bought a Tualatin Celeron 1.2 for it on eBay. And a Slot-T.
>And enough more of that fast PC-133 to run XP. And then I added
>a Promise TX2 A


-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

Wblane wrote:
> And I'll bet you paid more for that PC-133 than you would've
> paid for equivalent PC2100 memory.

I got one 128 MB stick of Mushkin with Mosel Vitelic chips and one
128MB stick of Corsair with Infineon for $27.50, shipped. I stuck
them both in my BF6 and they run at the most aggressive timings at
140MHz. Memtest and Prime95 stable. I really hate to put them in
that board, though. I could have had a second stick of the Corsair for
$12 (didn't sell).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3857265068

Check out the ending price of this (sheesh!):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6728604631

I made a deal with my employer. My BH6 is going to work in the
shipping computer to replace the K6 200 Compaq board. In return,
I get an HS93 19" Sony LCD monitor and no Xmas bonus this year.
Not the monitor I would have picked, but I don't think any of the
bigger ones have a very fast response time. The CDROM, floppy,
and modem, get reused from the old computer. They ordered an XP
Home oem and a PCI network card, and I get paid to put it together
and set it up. Part of me wanted to argue, but I just couldn't...