Righty ho, my desktop computer which has served me very well for the last 4 years and a bit is up for grabs. Some components are barely a year old and the whole thing is pretty much as maxed out as it can possibly be (at time of purchase), as the specification shows:
- 2 × Intel® Pentium® III Slot-1 700MHz “Coppermine” Processor (cA2 stepping)
- Supermicro SC760A-300W(CSE-023) Full Tower
- Supermicro P6DBE Dual Slot-1 440BX Motherboard (Revision 3.0, BIOS version 3.1)
- Hercules Geforce 256 DDR DVI 32 MiB
- Mitsubishi Diamond Plus® 91 Natural Flat 19″ Monitor
- 4 × Crucial 256MiB CT32M72S4R8E PC100 ECC Registered SDR SDRAM
- IBM 120GB IC35L120AW207-0 180GXP
- InnoVision EIO Combo IEEE 1394 + USB 2.0 PCI Adapter
- Lite On SOHW-812S DVD±RW
- Yamaha CRW6416s CD-RW
- Teac CD-532E CD-ROM
- Intel® Pro 1000 MT Gigabit Ethernet PCI Network Adapter
- Adaptec 2904/AIC-7850 SCSI-2 PCI Adapter
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
- US Robotics 56k V.90 Internal ISA Faxmodem
Now I’d ideally want all this to go to one buyer to save me the hassle of eBaying this off in many small lots. Please be sensible with the offers as the memory on it’s own is still £280-ish (US$440-ish) new so use that as a guide. The computer is rock solid and works just peachily with any operating system you wish to through at it, from Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 Server) to Linux (Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo, RedHat, SuSE, et cetera) to *BSD to even BeOS, QNX, Solaris for x86, ad infinitum.
I’ll accept payments via PayPal only and you as the buyer will also have to foot the shipping. It’ll be 2 boxes, one for the monitor and the other for the computer and weight for each I guesstimate at 25kg (55 lbs.).
If you are interested, then please follow the instructions I’m about to give you carefully. Copy the following line into your clipboard:
Re: Pentium-3 700E 440BX dually please! - via LambCutlet.org
Now head to my contact form, fill in your name and E-Mail, then paste the clipboard text as the Subject. In the message you wish to send to me, will obviously be your bid in how much you are willing to offer. Failure to do the above correctly will bring Internet shame upon yourself for failing to follow basic instructions properly and likihood of me to completely ignore your bid! The closing date for this sale will be 00:00 UTC Sunday, 5th of June 2005. Happy bidding! :D
Wow, you own an SMP system! Are you rich or something?
I don’t know anyone who uses SMP for personal use…
Comment by Justin — 22:15:41 UTC on the 30th of May, 2005
Why would one have to be rich to own an SMP system? The motherboards are only a little more than their single CPU counterparts and the fact you need 2 CPUs is easily accounted for by not buying whatever top-end CPU is at the time, as the lower end ones clocked say 20% lower, will be often as much as 50% cheaper.
The ability for a computer to do useful work isn’t always best measured by their clockspeed and for users whom even vaguely multitask, will see why SMP is lovely once they’ve tried it. ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 22:27:37 UTC on the 30th of May, 2005