Hi Scrappers, Check out what I scored today
went out and done a couple of pick ups
got some interesting things
and this pc tower, I didn't think much of it
it is an old one
It's only a generic brand
But I noticed it's got a Pentium Pro in it
you just
don't find too many pcs anymore with
pentium pro CPU so yeah I'm pretty
happy with it , only thing is it's a generic
if it was a brand name like an IBM or dell
or something like that
I would of kept it, put it in my collection
I've already got a couple of IBM's and I think it's a
dell with the pentium pro cpu that i'm just keeping
i think one of them is
dualactually a j cpu so it's got two pentium pro's
but this one here, yeah
it looks in pretty good condition
so what I've been wanting is a
motherboard or or socket 8
motherboard in particular, just to
put my collection with a pentium pro inside it
so i actually did boot this up
and well it it's got a few problems
one is the bios battery is faulty is
dead so it needs a new battery and I don't
have the startup disks to boot the system
anyway so but it did work so I do know
that that you know it looks like the
motherboard works apart from the
CMOS battery and everything else should work
so yeah so what I'm going to do is
just scrap theis pc out and yeah
have a look at the Pentium Pro that I get
and around the back
I was just looking at the back it's got
three slot cards no four slot cards here
so interesting to see what the slot cards are
but as far as the graphics card and stuff
it seemed to work ok
the power supply unit works
yeah everything kind of work except the
battery so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to take out all the parts and keep
all the parts as a you know it's part of my collection
and throw this tower
Just throw the tower away.`
ok let's make a start hey
I'll just grab this cover off
looks pretty good from the inside
it's actually really really clean
just looking at the motherboard it's
it doesn't look like it's got a speck of dust on it
so this is obviously been..
you know luckily it's been in a
really good environment, dust-free and yeah
i'm really impressed with just
how clean it is inside
there's no dust at all so looks like this motherboard
is going to be perfect for my own collection
you know, spanking clean and yeah I'm pretty happy so far
first slot card
that's a nice one
so obviously it seemed that everything kind of worked
so i'm obviously going to keep all of these as parts
i'm going to put them actually back onto the motherboard
and just keep it like that
so it's going to be a bit of a delicate scrap this one
check out that one, looks like the video card
look at that, even the stickers it are really fresh
it's just in really beautiful condition...
slot card
USB ports
and the final one the little network card
anyone that's looking at building one of these old-school PC's
These cards really come important to if they work
so.. try keep absolutely everything
just taking out the power supply unit
if I can...
all right.. now I know this power supply unit works
so a little bit of dust there, not much
but certainly a good spare
power supply unit for the socket 8 motherboard
you know, I'm scrapping it out but it's it's
it's not like your normal scrap so
pretty much everything here i'm going to keep
all these are cables just want to
keep some nice original stuff
let's get the hard drive
there we go, a nice seagate
nice old hard drive.. because it all worked
I'm going to obviously keep this
alright..
There's our socket 8.. heat sinks
so it's getting exciting now
there we have it beautiful socket 8 motherboard
and yeah..
you can see how clean it is
beautiful and clean condition for its age
I mean that's shining, that's
really really spanking clean..
The SL65a motherboard
that's fantastic we got 4 ram sticks here
and obviously, the grand opening of the cpu , can't wait for that
i'll just leave the ram sticks here
because they're not really anything much
but obviously I want to keep it all in good condition
i just want to remove
the DVD player or the CD Player
a the floppy and whatever else we can get
we got a 5.25 floppy, a 3.5 floppy and a CD player
the cd i'm just going to scrap it out
don't really need these old ones
This floppy drive, i'm just going to keep it like that for now
good for spare parts if anyone's
reconditioning one of these old PC's
there we go quite a five and a quarter inch
floppy drive... beautiful
obviously we're not going to scrap any of this out
got some nice fingers there
but to me it's worth much more just as it is
to any collectors.. beautiful
that's a nice piece therel
everythings scrapped out
so was only a minute or two.
i'll put the motherboard here
yeah i was really surprised when I saw this
when I saw the pentium pro
so, we just don't find them anymore
or that much so I want to keep all this
because i want to put it all back together
just leave it with the swaplot cards
everything intact and that's going
to be how I'm gonna keep it as a collectable
and display it somehow
somehow like putting it in some sort of glass cabinet or something
what a bloody beauty.. look at you
it's a 166 MHz
wow, look at that huge socket 8
wow look at that.. that's beautiful
we're gonna clean this up a little bit
look at her, a beautiful pentium pro
Iknow it work so obviously for
Those of you that are into gold recovery
this one's not going to gold recovery
this is that straight back in my collection
But look at that
it's pretty exciting.. pulling out a cpu like this
I just wish there was a lot more these days
unfortunately you know a lot of these
went 10 or 15 years ago and there are
probably a lot of them are sitting in landfill somewhere
which is a shame
ok
there you go, stay back there
I'll put these two pieces on a little bit later
there it is, sl65a socket 8 motherboard
fantastic pentium pro
always get excited when i'm pick one
unfortunately they're just not around
but ahh.. working ram the whole thing
it's in fantastic condition
as far as a collectible is concerned, that's exactly how I want it
i'm really really really happy
beautiful, we'll just have a little tally on what we got..
So we've got our..
cpu, motherboard, the heatsink..
the floppy, five and a quarter inch floppy.. beautiful
three-and-a-half inch floppy
really nice little seagate hard drive
power supply unit that i'll just keep
for another kind of vintage repair
couple of basic slot cards
nice video card that works
as I understand, video times can get faulty quite often
this is one of the first things that
really go on these older systems so..
the fact that this one works
it's worth quite a bit but I'm still not
going to sell i'm going to keep for my
own restorations and here's another card here
really nice big one
again, keep it for restorations. so yeah..
that was pretty amazing, pretty cool
really happy with my pentium pro
I mean what a cpu, fantastic isn't it?
that just wish they kept making them like this
the real shame that they're no longer being made
magnificent, just love
Pentium Pro all the way!
alright guys well that was it that was the
pentium pro, have fun out there keep scrapping
sometimes these systems come up
good luck to you, hope you get some yourself
alright guy's, have fun, catch you next time!