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Re: [LUG] Anyone any old 166mhz motherboards that will run amd semprons?

 

Hi Sam, replied off list 

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 21:17 +0000, sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What CPU socket are you after?
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> Sam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of M.Blackmore
> Sent: 01 March 2008 21:07
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Greater London Linux User Group
> Subject: [LUG] Anyone any old 166mhz motherboards that will run amd
> semprons?
> 
> 
> Due to power supply induced death of two motherboards of the kids
> bitserthisnthat computers (due to dreadful dirty grid supply to our
> Cotswold village) I've two semprons ca "3ghz" badged cpu's, and ram and
> disks and cases and all ... and no motherboards to put them in :-(. I
> know the chips work as I stuffed them into my 133mhz athlon xp 2.6ghz
> system.
> 
> Money is tight with me disabled and out of work for good now and us on a
> very limited income due to my wife having to work part time to help
> support me <cue lachrymose violins> much of the winter 'cos I can't
> manage to look after the kids for much of each year being almost
> bedbound much of the day except for an opiated to the gills daily
> constitutional which just keeps me fit enough to keep going. All a good
> hard luck story for sure - we live off freecycle!!
> 
> So if anyone is ditching any motherboards capable of running at 166mhz
> the kids would be very pleased - the step down to 600mhz and 384mb ram
> has been a bit of a blow to them (good thing I kept some freecycled HP
> pc's in the loft!).
> 
> Linux is of course useable in browser/email under xfce 4 and ubuntu, but
> my daughter is bereft and inconsolable as nothing can now work sims2 or
> simcities societies under the Dark Side, and other favoured games are
> out too including some web based ones.
> 
> That latter bit puzzles me - why should web pages presumably using flash
> and java not function on low resource old machines under the same
> operating system and window manager as another faster system at 2ghz
> (mine). Could it be something to do with video cards with only 4mb or so
> (old matrox milleniums onboard the system board). I thought web pages
> were relatively hardware neutral apart from overall speed of rendering
> pages and how many one can have open at any time etc.
> 
> I'll pay postage natch.
> 
> 
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