Recent content by achaycock

Final price drop, £125

Sorry for not replying sooner, the motherboard is a Biostar G31E-M7 , the PSU is a no-name affair that came with the case. I'm afraid because the system was originally built with low-power requirements in mind and no overclocking, I was content that it would be sufficient. My truly decent PSU's...

The CRT monitor is now gone. Have added a TFT monitor in it's stead.

Dropped the price :)

Not a power house, but fairly modern. Pentium Dual Core at 1.8GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 160Gb Hard drive with Windows Vista Home Basic installed complete with original disc and COA. It's got a DVD-Writer and all of the drivers have been put on a 128Mb USB key that's included. Patches applied, no gunk...

I never mentioned my most precious of computers, a Packard Bell 386SX20 that I'm hoping to get a 486SL for, an Amstrad PC1640 which I want to restore to it's former glory (and could really do with finding a 5 1/4" 1.2Mb Floppy drive for, though I did mention my Pentium which is a Compaq that...

It's a PCI-E card. Sorry, I should have clarified that in the post.

As description with 512Mb of RAM. The latest round of upgrades mean my FX-57 XP machine now has an HD3870 so this is surplus to requirements. Looking for about £20, postage will be about £3.50. Open to reasonable offers.

This is my beloved Obsidian that I bought off Gary Donovan of thedodgegarage.com fame. This is essentially a 6Mb Voodoo 1 with an extra TMU attached via a daughter-card. I've been using it very recently and hardware wise it works a treat. One thing to note however is that for some bizarre...

Hi there, I'm a PC geek with a focus on PC hardware from the early '80's to around 2002. Obviously I love the stuff that's come around since then, but I must confess to missing the old beige box era of computing, even though they're clearly better and cheaper now. I'm always messing around and I...