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Making The Barn Find Pentium Pro More Usable
In this video I upgrade the Barn Find Pentium Pro with additional parts which will hopefully make it more flexible and easier to upgrade in future. https://youtu.be/xxdjKyQRqhk
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PC Stats Display With Raspberry Pi and Aida64
A while back I made a PC stats display using a Raspberry Pi and some free software from Modbros. Conceptually I loved it as a solution, I just wished it…
This Pentium 4 PC Wasn’t Worth Saving
Sometimes a piece of junk is JUST a piece of junk. A while back I picked up a couple of PCs on the Indian classified website olx.in One of those…
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Checking out the Gotek Floppy Emulator
Floppy disks were a massive part of the computing landscape in the 80s and 90s. Back in a time before high speed internet and USB drives, if you were moving…
My AMD Ryzen 5900x / Nvidia 3080 BEAST
Yeah, I know, I have way more money than sense. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my AMD Ryzen 3900x based system, even with its cautiously optimistic Radeon 5700XT GPU.…
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Unboxing a Pentium Pro from 1996
Way back when, Intel needed a product that would bridge the gap between high-end server machines and ordinary desktops. They came up with the Pentium Pro not long after the…
Olivetti Philos 46 – Revisiting my First PC
Back in winter 1994 I remember spending one wet and windy evening sitting patiently in the aisles of PC World in Northampton as my dad spoke to a salesman with…
This Pentium Pro Machine Was Found in a Shed!
Last summer I was bored while my wife and daughter were away visiting family, so I began to look into the Retro PC scene. The problem was that where I…
My £750 PC Build
Seeing as my main gaming rig is also my video editing PC and it now sits in my workshop, I'm in need of a "basic" gaming PC for the living…
Upgrade the Toshiba Portege Z930 Ultrabook
The Portege Z930 can be picked up dirt cheap on auction sites these days. They've gotten long enough in the teeth that companies are getting rid, but they're still workable…