heh. I just won a dual P3/600 on eBay. $21.39 shipped. Board, procs with heatsinks, 768 MB RAM, NIC, video card (nVidia Quadro2,) and sound card.
It will be a nice mid-range machine. I have one of those single-bay dual 3.5"/5.25" floppy drives that I've been itching to use, but my oldest "reasonably modern" machine only recognizes one floppy drive; and the next older machine is a 486 that I can't reasonably run Windows 2000 on.
I'm tempted to rustle up a dual Pentium Pro board to go with my Pentium II OverDrive processors, but those are spendy. (The procs are really a 333 MHz Pentium II, only with a full-speed L2 cache like the PPro instead of the half-speed cache the regular P2 had; on the PPro's Socket 8.)
This system will be good for playing old DOS games, since it has ISA slots, I can use my old SB 16 or GUS.
Sadly, the revision of board I bought doesn't support Coppermine, so 600 MHz is as fast as it will go. A same-model, newer-revision motherboard with a pair of 800 MHz procs and 1 GB of RAM (but no extra cards,) has a buy-it-now of $95. (And, oddly, an opening bid of $95. Why not make it JUST a buy-it-now?)
It will be a nice mid-range machine. I have one of those single-bay dual 3.5"/5.25" floppy drives that I've been itching to use, but my oldest "reasonably modern" machine only recognizes one floppy drive; and the next older machine is a 486 that I can't reasonably run Windows 2000 on.
I'm tempted to rustle up a dual Pentium Pro board to go with my Pentium II OverDrive processors, but those are spendy. (The procs are really a 333 MHz Pentium II, only with a full-speed L2 cache like the PPro instead of the half-speed cache the regular P2 had; on the PPro's Socket 8.)
This system will be good for playing old DOS games, since it has ISA slots, I can use my old SB 16 or GUS.
Sadly, the revision of board I bought doesn't support Coppermine, so 600 MHz is as fast as it will go. A same-model, newer-revision motherboard with a pair of 800 MHz procs and 1 GB of RAM (but no extra cards,) has a buy-it-now of $95. (And, oddly, an opening bid of $95. Why not make it JUST a buy-it-now?)