Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:47 pm
I found a source for the PL-Pro/II the other day. One of Buy.com's partners apparently has some old stock available. They're $60 each.
http://www.buy.com/prod/Powerleap-PL-Pr ... 32105.html
If you get one, you must report back on how the Coppermine works. Better yet, I've always wanted to get ahold of a PL-Pro/II and a Tualatin adapter and plug a Tualatin Celeron 1400/100 into it. You'd have a 933 MHz chip running on a Socket 8 platform. I read somewhere or another that someone with an old dual PPro server had actually done this and been successful, but there were no pictures. I guess that's the Holy Grail of Socket 8.
I'm working on something almost as nuts right now myself. I've gotten ahold of an old Compaq Presario laptop that runs a Cyrix MediaGX CPU, and I've been upgrading it with modern components to see if it can be made useful (5400 RPM hard disk, maxed-out RAM, tweaked Win98se, CD-RW drive, etc.). Amazingly, and even though the benchmarks don't show it, the thing is probably three times as fast after the RAM and hard disk upgrades. And it's pleasant to use. I might have to post a report to my website when it's all done.
And if I ever have the time, maybe I'll break out the 486 stuff and assemble the ultimate 486 system...AMD 5x86-133 on a 50 MHz bus for 200 MHz. Faster than a P120. If AMD could have mass-produced the 5x86 to run stably at 200 back in the day, they'd have made a lot of money.
http://www.buy.com/prod/Powerleap-PL-Pr ... 32105.html
If you get one, you must report back on how the Coppermine works. Better yet, I've always wanted to get ahold of a PL-Pro/II and a Tualatin adapter and plug a Tualatin Celeron 1400/100 into it. You'd have a 933 MHz chip running on a Socket 8 platform. I read somewhere or another that someone with an old dual PPro server had actually done this and been successful, but there were no pictures. I guess that's the Holy Grail of Socket 8.
I'm working on something almost as nuts right now myself. I've gotten ahold of an old Compaq Presario laptop that runs a Cyrix MediaGX CPU, and I've been upgrading it with modern components to see if it can be made useful (5400 RPM hard disk, maxed-out RAM, tweaked Win98se, CD-RW drive, etc.). Amazingly, and even though the benchmarks don't show it, the thing is probably three times as fast after the RAM and hard disk upgrades. And it's pleasant to use. I might have to post a report to my website when it's all done.
And if I ever have the time, maybe I'll break out the 486 stuff and assemble the ultimate 486 system...AMD 5x86-133 on a 50 MHz bus for 200 MHz. Faster than a P120. If AMD could have mass-produced the 5x86 to run stably at 200 back in the day, they'd have made a lot of money.