What computer *don't* the competitors have?

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Haha browsing fleabay for Pentium III's last night and I found a fully loaded add in card for your server Thid.

3 Pentium Pro's and all the VRM's installed for it

EDIT: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ALR-6X6-Tri-...648?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d30b311c0
What's funny is I can almost get 3 PIII's shipped to my door for that price

 

[Niku-Sama]

I've used one of these servers and there's a few things that stick out. Your install times are crap you probably have bad ram or bad ram settings. 2k should have installed to a SCSI drive in roughly 15 minutes standard drive in about 25.

There is a way to over clock to 366. It was a strange process but if i remember correctly it involved some thing similar to the old amd pencil trick and the gold pads on top of the processor.

You could only go so far with one configuration and multiplier before the it went out of spec for that particular cpu. The pads on top were what made up the other half and allowed a different set of multipliers to work.

I might have saved a worksheet on how to oc these. That plastic looking one is "organic" it's much newer, made around the time of p2s and early 370 stuff. It won't over clock the same way as the gold tops. I never had one of those so i never got a chance to mess with one. It might not need a mod to oc it. Could try it by it self and change the multi to 300 and see

Edit:
Wait no you won't get your pro above 233 i think there was an over drive upgrade for socket 8 that was faster hence the higher multis

Edit #2

Yep Pentium 2 over drive.

Upgrade Processors - Intel Overdrive CPU's

Bottom of the page. Still looking for that pencil trick type mod for higher multis

 

[AZBoomer]

What a great thread! Loved it!

 

[xrror]

OMFG at the 1MB PPro. I've never seen one of these in the flesh. PLEASE if you still have it scan it, get pics, document it. Also stupid uber-lols for overclocking it too. BAHAHA

EDIT: also THIS THIS THIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotket#/media/File:KL_Socket8_Slot1_Adapter.jpg

If the image breaks, YES since PPro was the GTL bus basis for Pentium 2 and later... english: you know how you randomly see that the PPro was the basis for "P6 architecture" which was Pentium 2/III???

THEY WEREN'T JOKING... while Pentium P54C (Pentium MMX) went on a Socket 7 tangent (a wonderful AMD/Cyrix kicking Intel in the sack tangent) is the progression everyone remembers... Pentium2 was just PPro with 16-bit performance "fixed" (it's complicated... must .... stop... uber-ramble)

The image linked (which made by holy &$*# Intergraph!) is a slocket to put a PPro into an early slot one board (FX i think, sadly dunno if BX accepted...).... ARGH I'm SO LOOKING - IF intel Seattle 440BX still had support <REDACTED - MIND BLOWN - Abit Board with 1MB PPro - legacy hardware PORN OVERLOAD).

But holy moly, imagine thideras's rare as holy %(#@ 1MB PPro in that slocket, on even an early FX Slot 1 board (THAT'S 2 !!! Generations newer) like... okay, argh buzzkill. I'm not sure if those gimped early chipsets supported over 66mhz FSB. But surely someone make a 75mhz (or EVEN 83mhz that SEGFAULT) anyway wow...

I gotta stop now. Yea, i get WAY too excited about old hardware stuff.

THIDERAS! PLEASE GET SCANS OF THAT PROC if you can! While everyone else here just thinks "just some dark weird chip in old-land" like... DUDE, I LIVED those years. You have a MYTHICAL BEAST. The people who DID have them (DOE, huge corps where 'sure, we'll try the cheap 'Intel option' for 5K a socket') basically when replaced scrapped/shredded/DESTROYED these.

Anyone who ends up with one within recent memory doesn't know what they are ... even you in the thread ... "this weird thing I dunno what it is"... just... PLEASSSSSEE

(sorry, I'm gonna hide now... I'm... hardware nerd. - shame)

Last edit: if NOTHING ELSE, make the 1MB proc CPU0. PLEASE!!!!

 

[Automata]

The server is currently being used as a (very sturdy) night stand, but I could probably find the time to wheel it out and take more pictures if you are interested.