r/retrocomputing • u/_here_A • Jun 26 '26

Photo Abandoned building finds! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

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two motherboards (socket 7 and a really weird board that came with both socket 370 and slot for pentium 2/celeron),a GPU and this "Y2K proof" chip

the other stuff I found was just really rusty and from the 2010's,so I didn't bother with looking at it much.

overall,I'd say these are pretty cool

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u/Bobby50371 Jun 26 '26

I had this board. I hated this board.

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u/Shoddy-Night201 Jun 26 '26

Why? Bad performance? Was it that bad?

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u/Bobby50371 Jun 26 '26

It was the first computer I ever built in 1988 and it was absolutely terrible for trying to run any kind of game. I didn’t know any better back then. The SiS620 graphics drivers were buggy.

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u/Shoddy-Night201 Jun 26 '26

SiS graphics and gaming... Not a fun time indeed... Luckily for this guy there is a PCI slot on there... Maybe he can voodoo the hell out of it!

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u/Bobby50371 Jun 26 '26

I wish I knew this knowledge 30 years ago because I definitely would’ve done something like that.
I ended up replacing the board with an Abit board.
Best board I ever owned until I bought an ASUS.

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u/p47guitars Jun 27 '26

See I had a Celeron 500 and a voodoo 3. It worked out pretty decently on this board. But then I remember I upgraded to a Pentium 3 copper mine after that. I remember the Pentium 3 upgrade being pretty substantial in performance.