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ULTRA RARE VIA C3 800AMHz CPU vintage OPEN RETAIL BOX -TESTED & WORKING!
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Doing what exactly?Interesting. I still have a few c7s that are still in use today.
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typesoft ftp server.
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Pretty neat that it comes with the tin -- but it is annoying when someone requests a premium price and says it is tested/working, yet doesn't supply any pictures of the proof of life.
How much gold is in them? I have a couple of these in a bin somewhere, but I assumed it wasn't actually gold.
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Not much at all. About a 10th of a gram. By the time you extract it you'll be negative on cost. It only really makes sense to do it on a massive scale. Or you could be like those ebay sellers that just melts down all the metal into a giant chunk and say they're scrap computer gold bars and put like $150-300 on it, when it contains about $20 of gold.
You make far more money selling the actual parts.
You make far more money selling the actual parts.
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The CPU itself isn't ultra rare.. they're about $20-30. It is just the packaging that is somewhat rare, but not ultra L@@K! rare..
Hence why I hate the metal scrappers who come near processors/ram. Working stuff should just be kept in circulation until it truly dies imo.
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That's why I basically have a museum in my basement and computer room. lol
I owned one of these back in the day. This unit was running Windows XP like a champ while running really cool.
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That is also true with vintage appliances! and lighting
I really love older US made appliances particularly air conditioners! R-22 for LYFE LoL!
This is what I initially set out to do, but then I needed to use stuff so everything got put to work. I actually have a P3-500 running 98se that has an RDP client that I can use to connect to win7 machines, lol.
Yep!! Anything that works! So much stuff was built to last far better than todays e-trash that's designed to fail 5 minutes after the warranty is over and has zero serviceability.
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At some point it's simply not worth the cost in electricity to run older hardware, though, relative to their performance.
Not that it would stop me personally, my computer hasn't been shut off in probably 20 years aside from upgrades or when I leave on vacation
Everything on ebay is "rare" according to most auctions.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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This really hits home because I just paid more for an R-22 recharge than I did for my most recent GPU purchase
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Did you look into the R-22 "Drop-in" alternative refrigerants?
Such as MO99 (R-438A), RS-44b (R-453a), and R-421A
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My HVAC pro recommended R-22. I have a 26 year old HVAC. I'm lucky it's lasted this long with that being the only recent major maintenance cost.
Odds are, there won't be another recharge.
And we actually found something that is rare.
I actually have a C3 "Tomato" board that I used for torrenting back in the day, fired up recently and still worked like a charm, battery wasn't even dead.
Runs Win2kpro. Going to list it here along with some other vintage stuff when I get a free moment.
Runs Win2kpro. Going to list it here along with some other vintage stuff when I get a free moment.
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I had a VIA c3 mini board that looked just like that. Was my HTPC, it was pretty pathetic, but it could play movies and that was all that mattered
It was a reliable with impressive uptime and passive cooling, mine served me well. Just listed on board marketplace with hard drive and power supply for $100
I was on a united flight (I think it was united) and they had to reboot the seatback monitors. This was like 7-9 years ago, but the POST screen indicated it was a Via C3...