Cannot Belive this.

[KronoLeginaire]

About 4 hours or so ago, I was dismateling my old Hp-Pavilion when I had come to find out its powersupply was a rust pit special/ It had two fans. Very unusual for a computer like this of little quality. Has anyone ever found a cheap computer to be more then you thought it was?

[fudge]

actually.. yep..

i found my old HP8201 to be a remarkably sturdy, and surprisingly upgradeable piece of work.. earlier this year i retired its pentium 233mmx and asus mb (just too slow..), but everything else is still tickin along good as gold.. even the integrated sound and grafix seemed to hold out in the face of most recent games (somehow it managed quake 3 without too much of a problem..)

the case was even ATX (PSU was surprisingly good too..) so replacing the mb wasn't even too much of a hassle.. neat..

compared to the off the shelf computers u buy today.. it was quite remarkable..

has anyone else found this with HP? or were these freak events? ..

[Jenni]

I was at my brother's house one night and he was about to do some work on a client's computer, and old Compaq. He was supposed to add more RAM to it. I was doing something on his computer and not really paying all that much attention to him, until he opened the case and said "WHAT THE !@##". When I turned around to look at the computer, all you could see was a big empty box with some kind of riser card along the bottom of the case. Turns out that to access the MB on this particular Compaq, you had to take off the OTHER (wrong side normally) side panel, and that in this weird system, the MB plugged into that riser card along with the other expansion cards! Is that too weird or what?

I had a huge full tower Gateway that was originally a 486 DX33, but the case wasn't proprietary at all, so I put the P166 system I had in it. That case was built like a tank, gave you to a backache to even think about moving it.