Why dont you re-build it like i told you?? Then sell it in the paper to some old dear for £200 Ignorance is bliss, eh?
andy from what i can see, if you put a voodoo 3 in it, put a 8gb hdd in it, replace the case and put 128mb ram in, you;ll be able to get £300 for it easy. someone was selling a p266, 64mb ram, 4gb hdd etc for like £200. advertise for 350, let them haggle down to 300 and they'll think they're getting a great deal
LoL man. If I hav sum spare cash I will. In the paper ppl sell like 120s with 16mb ram for like £400!!!
Well the board and chip together might fetch about £45 I suppose... Freddy: "Why dont you re-build it like i told you?? Then sell it in the paper to some old dear for £200 Ignorance is bliss, eh?" Personally I would think that the old dear in question would be getting a pretty good deal as long as the other bits were up to scratch! K6-2 400, 128mb ram, 4Gb hard drive, cd drive, sound card & speakers, modem, keyboard + mouse, monitor. That is a pretty good system - apart from playing games it will do anything you ask it to. It will run WinME or 2K very nicely, will browse the net as fast as a modern system, and will run any office apps that average people would want.... For our LAN parties, we have a recomended minimum spec of PII 300 with a Voodoo II and 128Mb ram, and an old K6-2 with a cheep Voodoo 3 will do a very good job of playing CS, UT & Q3. The K6-2 may be old and looked down upon, but it still makes a very capable system!
My Choice. Set it up as a server. Stick some extra ram in it and a FAT 30Gig hard drive Cross over cable connection to your other box Bobs your Uncle. You can use it for: MP3's Patches Downloads Backups Keeps you normal rig clean and less clogged with pap. The added advantage is that you will have a back up box to work on if your main one falls over. I've only just got rid of my P90 with a 20gig hard drive.
For informational purposes only: I remember a scam from back in the P*ntium days that went like this... The shady vendor sold systems as P*ntium 166 for a a decent price. But when you took delivery, there was a P*ntium 100 in the socket, and the "My Computer" icon on the desktop was renamed to "P*ntium 100." The vendor explained how there was a shortage on the 166 chips, and offered a free, in-house upgrade as soon as the 166s arrived. Most sheep bought the things, and then the tech would follow on in a week, go to the system and rename the icon from P*ntium 100 to P*ntium 166, never opening the case. Worked like a charm, I hear.
if you can find an old DIMM to go in it (it does take dimms not simms don't it ?) I'll give you a bit more.... mobo + 32meg £35 mobo + 64meg £40
The GA-5AX takes DIMMS .. pc66, pc100 and pc133. I used em all in it. I had 256 in it at one time, one pc66 and one pc133 and it worked just great !!! Had it with a k6-2/550 at the time, and then mysteriously just "got" a second board which I used in family pc. Which I recently upgraded to a BE6-2 Rev 2 and celery 466 ... so I have a spare GA-5AX waiting for a new use
i dunno wether i wanna sell my ga5-ax i cud either use it as a linux box or file server or sell it ga5-ax + 128mb pc100 for 50?
