Two years, 8000 miles and a few hundred quid later, I’ve finally accomplished what I’d hoped I would when I first picked up this machine back in September 2020 – a Pentium Pro machine which is a balling mid-90s gaming machine. We’ve got 160MB of EDO RAM, 200MHz of Pentium Pro power, a 2GB SCSI …
There are plenty of 3D print options out there for PC cases, but most need you to print multiple parts or even use other materials like plywood or sheet steel to get a finished product. Check out this video where I explore what I believe to be a worlds first – a single piece uATX …
Back when I started my IT career in 2002 most offices were doing away with their old beige boxes and opting for more contemporary designs in gold and silver. Compaq was leading the charge in this regard, evolving their existing Deskpro EN models into the D510 line, and the SFF model in particular was extremely …
I’ve done it again! Not content with the Barn Find Pentium Pro, and the awful P4 machine that I picked up at the same time, I’ve hopped back on OLX.in and picked up ANOTHER junk PC. This time we’ve got a P III system based on the aging AT form factor. Will it work? Watch …
Back in 2003 PCs were changing. We’d suffered the horrible beige boxes of the 90s and with the invention of the iMac in 1998, companies were looking to make their machines more aesthetically pleasing. PCs weren’t just tools anymore, they were art pieces, and Shuttle wanted in on the market. They released and refined this …
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.
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 machines was my Pentium Pro PC, but the other turned out to be a much more modern Pentium 4 machine made by Asus. Unfortunately, as …
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. But, I’m a man with needs, and I needed a much faster system Surprisingly, I was able to pick up the GPU at more or …
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 original Pentium, in 1996. The idea was that its 32-bit performance would excel past what even the Pentium could achieve, and it wasn’t the only …
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 about as much focus as I’ve ever seen from someone. With hindsight it was easy to understand why, as later that evening my dad parted …
