nice. I got a older gateway with an AMD athlon that I intend to rebuild and install vista on. It's 800+ mhz, so it just makes it. I just need an ATX power supply, and I am in business. I might also get a new case for it, or build one, as the original is in pretty poor shape. But then again, real computer users leave the case open!!
Oh and I remember my dads old 486. He hand built that machine. It started life as a lowly 286, then got a 386mobo, and finally he got a 486 for it. It was a DX 66mhz IIRC, and the case had a turbo switch, which worked. It halfed the speed to 33 when it was off, so we left it on all the time. It ran 95, and was working up until 2002 when I killed it trying to rewire the AT power supply (those damn switches)!! He went out and got a nice HP kayak that lasted for 3 years when he got one of those rare BIOS viruses that killed it. But that thing ran very nicely with XP, and had a 550mhz P3. One of the old slot one carts!!
-digital
Oh and I remember my dads old 486. He hand built that machine. It started life as a lowly 286, then got a 386mobo, and finally he got a 486 for it. It was a DX 66mhz IIRC, and the case had a turbo switch, which worked. It halfed the speed to 33 when it was off, so we left it on all the time. It ran 95, and was working up until 2002 when I killed it trying to rewire the AT power supply (those damn switches)!! He went out and got a nice HP kayak that lasted for 3 years when he got one of those rare BIOS viruses that killed it. But that thing ran very nicely with XP, and had a 550mhz P3. One of the old slot one carts!!
-digital