FS: Dirt cheap pc baseunits with linux

Bit of a sideline, selling some old PC's

These are HP Brio's, Celeron 366, 128Mb RAM, 4Gb HDD, LAN etc.

I'm amazed at just how quiet these are, the only fan is in the PSU and it is almost silent!

Come pre-installed with damn small linux which includes word processor, spreadsheet, email, web browser etc. yet boots within 45 seconds!

These are £25+postage

pm me if interested or email (andrew at audiofi.co.uk)

Andrew

 

I'm not sure about the BIOS in the Compaq, but the CPU should probably overclock to 450Mhz without much trouble.

 

Even better, I'll look into that, I still can't get over how quiet they are!

I also have some larger Viglens on ebay which I'm selling off to clear some space:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8746965646&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

 

Having said that, if this is a slot 1 from Malaysia, it could well go over 600MHz

Intel CPUs are great. My curent system is running a 2.8GHz p4 at 3.5GHz no problem, if my ram was faster it would do 3.8GHz.

 

Two are slot 1's, two are slot 370's

The Viglens are all slot 1's too

Perfect project for someone then, a Celeron 600Mhz near silent PC for £25!!!!

 

HP motherboards dont allow overclocking

 

btw....

BTW, if anybody needs a 1.4Ghz Celeron SLOT 1, let me know I have a few, brand spanking new, never used, for a ridiculously small fee (the retail around £90)

Aquapiranha

 

Sorry i read HP as Compaq! lol

 

I spent yesterday configuring one of the PC's with linux and it is all running perfectly, suprisingly fast considering the spec.
I have also added loads of extra programs to make it a plug and go system, see the ebay ad here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8749185852&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1

The next plan is to install FreeDOS on one of the others for anyone interested in classic games!