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As you can see, I have bought a slot1 based system.. the specs are as follows:
Pentium II 300MHz 64MB Ram 8GB Hard Disk Drive ( this drive has been formatted and is issued blank, \"no windows loaded\" ) CD Rom Fitted. Zip Drive Fitted 2 x Rear USB Ports Sound
Once I have it, I will be adding bettwe hardware and tweaking it's hardware, and I might mod the wires, add lights, spray paint the case and maybe add a few logos or something, and maybe add a case window.
The specs once this is finished will be as follows:
Pentium II 450MHz 256MB Ram 8GB+6GB Hard disks 8mb gfx card. 2 CD Rom drives. Zip Drive, Floppy Drive. 2 x Rear USB Ports, possibly another 4 usb ports on usb pci expansion. Sound, possibly a creative pci card I have.
Anyways, hopefully you are not thinking \"err.. are you stupid.. this system is old and slow!\" If you are, then I ought to tell you why I am getting it. First of all, for educational uses.. I havnt experimented much with pentium2's, so it's perfect for me to mod to heck and learn even more. Secondly I'm gonna need a system to control my remote light switching system.. in other words a web server. I'll also be using it as a gateway to my network hopefully, and for various other tasks I don't want to run on other machines, such as p2p/torrenting.
Currently I'm not sure if a total of 14GB will be enough, so I might top it up to about 26gb/28gb or more.. and I may also overclock the cpu by around 15mhz.
For those that want to learn more about computers, then it's always best to play around with older, cheaper equipment than new equipment.
I sold this system a few days ago, and am now using my pentium I as a firewall and am awaiting my pentium II server to come. (Pentium II 300Mhz, 192MB RAM, 2xTape drives, SCSI etc.. --> more details)
ATM it only has a 4GB SCSI Drive, I will be switch this and/or adding more.. I may also add more RAM and *might* overclock the cpu to 333MHz.
Last edited by kahrn on Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:15 am; edited 1 time in total
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