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ben · 7th Sep 2017, 8:35 pm

Well, less than 24 hours after ordering that PC I now have another!
This morning whilst out looking for something entirely unrelated, I spied a PC tower next to a bottle bank. It seemed intact so I slung it in the car. At home I discovered it is an HP dx5150 (MoBo MS7050 v1.3) fitted with an AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ 2.19Ghz, has 1GB PC3200 DDR400 RAM installed and a 500GB SATA drive!

After a thorough declogging of the fans and heat sink, it powered up fine. It is an XP era machine so even though it is newer than my current clunker it is pretty ancient. Still, I will probably whack Win 7 on there with a bit more RAM and keep it as a spare, or source of spares.

7th Sep 2017, 8:35 pm	#32
ben Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain / Wirral, UK Posts: 7,498	Re: New hard drive for Pentium IV Well, less than 24 hours after ordering that PC I now have another! This morning whilst out looking for something entirely unrelated, I spied a PC tower next to a bottle bank. It seemed intact so I slung it in the car. At home I discovered it is an HP dx5150 (MoBo MS7050 v1.3) fitted with an AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ 2.19Ghz, has 1GB PC3200 DDR400 RAM installed and a 500GB SATA drive! After a thorough declogging of the fans and heat sink, it powered up fine. It is an XP era machine so even though it is newer than my current clunker it is pretty ancient. Still, I will probably whack Win 7 on there with a bit more RAM and keep it as a spare, or source of spares. __________________ Regards, Ben.