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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. > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.3/1308 - Release Date: 03/03/2008 > 10:01 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.3/1308 - Release Date: 03/03/2008 > 10:01 > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html