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CZroe · June 11th, 2012, 07:13 AM

Very good price with 2GB of RAMBUS. Would make a great Win9X/XP dual-booting classic game compatibility system, especially with a 3Dfx Voodoo2 card or two in there (SLI). i850 chipset had an errata limiting PCI bandwidth but I don't think it would affect those cards. The one I used back then had 128MB of RAM (included with the 1.3GHz Williamette P4) and only ever upgraded to 512MB. :P My 500MHz PIII Katmai system had 128MB when I built it at the PIII launch (overkill at the time)!

I'm always sad when I see these at Goodwill because they stupidly remove, destroy, and throw away the memory first because they think it's a liability for stored data (they throw away the HDD too). Memory IS NOT storage!

If I were local, I'd be all over it because I need a good system with serial and parallel ports.

June 11th, 2012, 07:13 AM	#5
CZroe CPT Falcon Name: J.Emmett Turner Location: Newnan, GA Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '08 CP Blue EX250J, '97 unpainted EX250F, 2nd '97 unpainted EX250F (no engine), '07 black EX250F Posts: A lot.	Very good price with 2GB of RAMBUS. Would make a great Win9X/XP dual-booting classic game compatibility system, especially with a 3Dfx Voodoo2 card or two in there (SLI). i850 chipset had an errata limiting PCI bandwidth but I don't think it would affect those cards. The one I used back then had 128MB of RAM (included with the 1.3GHz Williamette P4) and only ever upgraded to 512MB. :P My 500MHz PIII Katmai system had 128MB when I built it at the PIII launch (overkill at the time)! I'm always sad when I see these at Goodwill because they stupidly remove, destroy, and throw away the memory first because they think it's a liability for stored data (they throw away the HDD too). Memory IS NOT storage! If I were local, I'd be all over it because I need a good system with serial and parallel ports. Last futzed with by CZroe; June 11th, 2012 at 09:09 AM.