Just a note: I dug one of oldest towers out of the 'inventory' last week, blew off a pound of dirt and resurected it to crunch numbers for BOINC-WorldCommunityGrid.org (I have other posts). It was the 9th 'oldie' i've put on line for this effort.
After a few burps and gurgles, XP came to life, made a dozen setting adjustments and loaded the pgms for BOINC.
It's been operating 3 days now, and it's just as fast at delivering finished work units as the 3 x 566Mhz eMachines, and another 733Mhz tower.
Old don't mean junk ! Good luck on finding your parts.
JR

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bql500

January 7, 2010 4:32:25 AM

I bought a P4 2.6Ghz/northwood/400mb fsb/512kb cache from this eBay seller a few weeks ago to replace my Celeron 2.2Ghz/400mb fsb/128kb cache.

My machine is now supercharged!

http://shop.ebay.com.au/christ1688/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=...

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JR4343

January 7, 2010 2:48:41 PM

bql500 said:

Congrats!! Now don't get whiplash trying to follow your new screen refresh rate!!! lol :sol:

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