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Neon_WA
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 Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: kerbside collections are great |
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its a public holiday here, so decided to check out what had been put out for the kerbside rubbish collection.
i have made some nice finds over the past weeks and today was no different 
apart from the boxes of pentium II & IIIs there was some nice ones
the first pic is of a
AMD DX4-100 (marked with fan reqd also)
Pentium III mobile SL5CL (my first P3m)
233 Pentium II mobile
166 Box MMX Pentium (my lowest speed Box MMX now)
2.8GHz Pentium D 820 (its amazing what ppl throw out  )
the second pic is of a working dual athlon board (MSI K7D Master) with two AMP1900s still sitting in the sockets
and the last pics (the gods have been really kind to me) my first gold top socket 5 pentium
a lovely boxed 75 pentium PCPU3V75 SZ977
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debs3759
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WOW! They don't do kerbside collections like that around here 
Nice finds 
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jrmunro
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Excellent finds.
I wish I could find things like that outside my neighbours houses. |
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debs3759
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It just goes to show, recession hasn't hit everywhere
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Neon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| That settles it - I am moving to Aus. |
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johnorun
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:33 am Post subject: |
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You have no right to cry, Neon.
Dallas has that awesome "Sidewalk Sale" !!!  |
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Neon_WA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| debs3759 wrote: | | It just goes to show, recession hasn't hit everywhere |
| Neon wrote: | | That settles it - I am moving to Aus. |
u might of just missed the boat.. i hasnt hit here yet.. but there are signs of it reaching here in the last few weeks 
i think cos Perth is so isolated and there has been no real recycling happening i can find such good chips.
But on the other hand i wont probably find much in the way of server cpus
update: on the way home i picked up a few more cpus including a Pentium D 945 3.2MHz/4M/800 (now im really amazed at what ppl throw out )
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debs3759
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| Neon_WA wrote: | | update: on the way home i picked up a few more cpus including a Pentium D 945 3.2MHz/4M/800 (now im really amazed at what ppl throw out ) |
Is that one working?
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Neon_WA
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| debs3759 wrote: |
Is that one working? |
i havent got a board set-up that can run it atm, so its gunna have to wait till i can find that out.
The only board i have set-up only takes up to a 2M cache
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debs3759
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| Neon_WA wrote: | | debs3759 wrote: |
Is that one working? |
i havent got a board set-up that can run it atm, so its gunna have to wait till i can find that out.
The only board i have set-up only takes up to a 2M cache |
Hmm - you could always send it here for intensive testing. I wouldn't claim it is mine
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Chook
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Yeah, the kerbside collections are excellent for CPU collectors. The bulk of my collection had some from the side of the road. The latest I've found is a Core 2 Duo 2GHz and some older chips I've found are Z-80, Intel 8085 and 386-16.
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Neon_WA
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| Chook wrote: | | Yeah, the kerbside collections are excellent for CPU collectors. The bulk of my collection had some from the side of the road. The latest I've found is a Core 2 Duo 2GHz and some older chips I've found are Z-80, Intel 8085 and 386-16. |
nice finds chook
finding is more fun than buying them
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Windmiller
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| I can find P4's by the boatload, what I dont find are nice Pentiums like that SZ977!!! Very nice find!! |
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| Debs.. have you ever trawled your local council recycling site? You used to be able to take things as well as bring them.. but I don't know now since they went 'health and safety' mad... thinking if you take something and it hurts you (cuts, electrocutes, incinerates etc.) then you will sue them. I've occasionally 'swiped' a few small items when taking stuff, but don't think I could make it out with a PC. Anyway, it's not stealing... I pay my taxes! |
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debs3759
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These days, with council "recycling depots" (better known as tips) all being privatised, I don't know any tips that would let you just walk out with what you want. If it is worth even the effort of carrying out, they will sell it but not give it.
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