--- Jason Hayes <
hh@hayz.ws> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 15:34 -0500,
> FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> > If it's like a Socket 370 system, remember:
> Socket 7, Socket 370, and Socket
> > A all use the same heatsinks; for best
> compatibility, seek one which uses
> > only the centre ridge on the socket to clip to.
> It might be hard to find a
> > specifically-marked-as-such Socket 370 or 7 sink
> these days.
>
> True, but he only described the PC as "pretty old".
> That's a relative
> term. A socket 7 PC would be ancient - almost museum
> quality stuff IMHO.
> So pretty old could mean an early P4? Either way,
> there are some old
> soldiers sitting around in almost everyone's closet
> that have a socket A
> or a slot 1 CPU. Digging one of those out would
> still be a possibility.
>
> The amount of effort expended would depend on just
> how cheap he really
> is (cheap also being a relative term). But I
> digress. 8o)
>
it's a old socket A athlon XP 1700. Something I'd like
to upgrade anyway; partly because I have a copy of HL2
that I've never been able to play.
the biggest cpu I could put on that board is an athlon
xp 2100 which would cost about $100 or so if I could
find one for that board.
It's also got a 32 mg Geforce2 MX which sucks. Also, I
lost a hard drive earlier this year and am down to
one. I prefer to keep two in the box: one for
system(s), one for data.
It does have several other parts I can scavange.
Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
http://counter.li.org/
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