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Mqybe I'm wrong, but didn't P4 and Athlon 64 era Solteks have black PCB with purple slots? I recall them being done that way.
 
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W10 doesn't know what to do with a 25-year-old Firepro. At least it loaded to desktop.

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Wow! Which Firepro are you using?
 
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Wow! Which Firepro are you using?

Sticker says 8MB 1K. I'll try to remember to upload pics tonight.

I'll bet there are Windows Vista drivers and they should install in 10. What's the model of that Dell? Or is that just the monitor?

Yeah, I had that thought, but couldn't be arsed yesterday. Funnily enough, the Vista progress bar showed up for a few seconds while booting. It's just a Dell monitor; don't know the model offhand.

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Mqybe I'm wrong, but didn't P4 and Athlon 64 era Solteks have black PCB with purple slots? I recall them being done that way.
Here are a few ;)
775 | 939 | 754

I don't own any of their boards unfortunately, but Soltek had some of the best color schemes for their motherboards IMO.
My favorite being this here. I usually dislike gold, but that board is just unapologetic so I have to respect it.
 
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and I checked this out at Radio Shack about 1990 or thereabouts (with no extra money). :cry:

 
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I've always wanted to try an older 775 system from 2006-2008 era, primarily to try OCing it. Recently got a P5K (vanila) + Q6600 + decent cooler bundle for just below 30 bucks and plan on getting a 8800 GTS 512MB later on for ~20 bucks. Had an OCZ DDR2 800 kit from before (troubleshooting a friends DDR2 system) that fits nicely in the yellow/gold color scheme of the motherboard.

The CPU isn't a good overclocker, 3.6GHz is a no go, 3.4GHz is unstable in stress tests so I settled for 3.2GHz with 1.475V in BIOS (~1.35-1.4V in windows), FSB400 with auto voltage.

The motherboard is screaming bloody murder, the VRM has coil whine and gets very hot. The CPU occasionally drops to x6 multiplier when stress testing (disabled C1E sleep states), presumably VRM throttle. Putting a fan on it helps, but doesn't eliminate throttling. CPU temps are fine I guess, up to 80°C in LinX.
Also, unable to change IDE to AHCI in BIOS, the SSD I'm using ain't too happy :D
Currently no case, but might get one for free from a friend
 

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I have no idea. I usually just find some good ones from ebay.
I went into CEX and bought some PS3 games. A lot of them in there don,t have the manuals in them. And asked the young girl who served me how the prices were worked out needless to say she did not know. If you're going to buy them you need the manual I don,t see why anyone would buy them without one. They are the same price with or without them. I don,t know how anyone makes any money
selling to them. the prices they give you are crap. At least if you have the manual you can sell them for me on Ebay.
 
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I went into CEX and bought some PS3 games. A lot of them in there don,t have the manuals in them. And asked the young girl who served me how the prices were worked out needless to say she did not know. If you're going to buy them you need the manual I don,t see why anyone would buy them without one. They are the same price with or without them. I don,t know how anyone makes any money
selling to them. the prices they give you are crap. At least if you have the manual you can sell them for me on Ebay.
Agreed. I don't buy games at all unless that have everything included.
 
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Agreed. I don't buy games at all unless that have everything included.
I did not look at the higher-priced ones. prices start from 50p there are very few at that price.So me it was the pound ones. I don,t want to pay much more than that. So I will only buy from them. Besides, I would only get 1p for the £1 ones and the same for the 50p ones. I said to them I would rather give them to a charity shop. I don,t know why they are so stingy on the buyback prices. :(
 
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I don,t know why they are so stingy on the buyback prices. :(
Because they're running a business with costs (rent, electricity, salaries, etc.), and even if that's a 99% margin on those games, they're still just making 99p per sale. If a sales rep makes, I don't know, £10/hour, then they'd need to sell more than ten games an hour just to cover their salary, let alone all their other costs. If they paid you 50p for that game, they'd need to sell twice as many to cover the same costs - or double prices.

So: they're stingy because they're operating in a business with near-zero margins and ever-shrinking revenue.
 
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Well, ok for 50p I might got for it. Even for a full quid I might depending on the title.
I just got 8 to start my collection off. I am picking up the PS3 from the collection point tomorrow. :)I see my local CEX has a remote for the Blu-Ray player for £5 which would be a £1.50 sell-back price and £2 exchange.
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Because they're running a business with costs (rent, electricity, salaries, etc.), and even if that's a 99% margin on those games, they're still just making 99p per sale. If a sales rep makes, I don't know, £10/hour, then they'd need to sell more than ten games an hour just to cover their salary, let alone all their other costs. If they paid you 50p for that game, they'd need to sell twice as many to cover the same costs - or double prices.

So: they're stingy because they're operating in a business with near-zero margins and ever-shrinking revenue.
Your probably a business person i should guess,If i was in there business i would give more.But than again you disagree with most of what i put on here,They don,t make much money working in the store, but that is shop work for you
Average salaries at CeX
Popular roles
Store Manager
£21,246 per year
Sales Assistant
£8.11 per hour
Assistant Manager
£8.85 per hour
Retail
Team Supervisor
£17,038 per year
Retail Sales Associate
£15,461 per year
Assistant Store Manager
£19,272 per year
Management
Supervisor
£9.25 per hour
Financial statements of C.E.X. LIMITED According to C.E.X. LIMITED latest financial report submitted on 2020-12-31, the company has a Turnover of £119M, Gross-Profit of £44M while the Cash is £10M. Compared with the previous year, the company reported a Turnover decrease of -41.23%, which is an equivalent of 48.9 The game cost him £52 for that price it should be good but no manual o_O
lucky he got given the manual for free from someone. :)
It should have come with a manual at that priceo_O
he got a very good deal there. o_O
 
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Oohhh yeah feel the flashbacks. Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D CY23. Dunno what the innards are yet, apart from the VIA PN133 chipset. SD Ram. Dvd player. The glory. It's still booting, after 15 minutes. Yeeaaahhh.
 

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So it boots, and it's a Pentium 3 1.2 Ghz in it, and 256MB SDR. The golden age. The first boot took something like 45 minutes and the Windows XP welcome screen was really messed up, and it rebooted. Then it booted quite quickly and it does indees have some photos on it I was asked to retain, and then it died. I assume of overheating. Will take apart and clean later.
 
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