Mastodawn

Thanks to a friendly retro enthusiast Tony for sending me a few bits, very much appreciated!
I'm gonna give that Socket 775 board a whirl, very nice with an AGP slot, 2x IDE, Floppy, as well as SATA. 🙏👍

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾5d ago

Going with a Celeron D to test, in case it kills the CPU, I can sacrifice a Celery! 😂

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾5d ago

We have lift off peeps! 🫡

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾5d ago

Got the P-O-S-T! Whoop!

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾5d ago

Seems to like 3.0Ghz 2MB Prescott, but I may have found a 3.2Ghz

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾5d ago

Tricky to read, but looks like one of these: https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_4/Intel-Pentium%204%20640%203.2%20GHz%20-%20JM80547PG0882MM%20-%20HH80547PG0882MM%20(BX80547PG3200F).html

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾4d ago

There we go, I found a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 Prescott 800Mhz Bus, 2MB L2 Cache and Hyperthreading. That'll do nicely! 👍

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾4d ago

Ok, so the board is dirty, it's been in a shed, I got it to post by cleaning sockets and ram slots. So the best thing to do is to give it thorough cleaning in the sink.

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾4d ago

Love it! 🫧 🪥 🧽
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David Rickard

@Gammitin it's so oddly satisfying to clean up gunk like that.

But I'm all for dents, scrapes, and natural browning or fading of plastics - that's patina and tells a story!