Did I get ripped off with this PC barn find ?

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I couldn't resist picking up this barn find from a "local" listing.
Not knowing what it was, I took a chance and was a bit surprised at what I found.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:24 - First boot
00:01:49 - Look inside
00:03:05 - The CPU
00:03:43 - The BIOS
00:04:30 - Boot cycle
00:05:17 - Hard drive issue
00:07:14 - Disassembling the PC
00:09:07 - The motherboard
00:10:34 - The L2 cache
00:15:08 - The CPU (again)
00:16:03 - Benchmarking
00:17:12 - Videocards and outro

RetroSpector78

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Okay... that's a new one for me: I didn't know some motherboard vendors were slapping fake sram cache back in the day. That's nuts, but if buying a board at a computer show, you'd look at that board and think it was cache equipped. I'd have been pretty angry to get home, boot it up, and find out I didn't have any L2 cache.

smakfu

Nice computer system. Nice to see you work on it. Enjoy it. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

jasmijndekkers

Haha. Okay, so I am halfway through the vid. Thought "what a neat bridge PC." Then you said PC Chips, and then Write Back. I knew what was next!!

RetroTechChris

What an interesting machine - such wildly different age parts!

stevecps

PCchips was a cuss word in the second half of the 90s. I remember refusing every third order at a certain time, when somebody asked me to assemble a PC (as a teen and some years later I made my pocket money with that) with particular CPU/RAM specs and an inadequate budget, because it meant a PCchips or a ZIDA/Tomato board, and I was just a boy, not a retailer with a warranty department to mess with those highly integrated and similarly buggy wonders of technology. So I lost customers who would be a royal pain, opting to take fewer orders but from people who were willing to pay some extra for quality (that at those times meant Gigabyte, Abit and Chaintech mostly, because Asus and consumer-grade Supermicro, Intel, or Tyan boards were sort of for VIPs with wild cash).
The irony was that at some moment I ended up with a PCchips board myself because it was a freebie that was burn-in tested and proven as working. At the first opportunity I switched to an original Intel board. But never I seen as many BSODs of Windows NT as with that abomination.

IgnatSolovey

Thanks, looking forward to the comparison video.

rodhester

0:25 Damn! 3½, yellow* 5.25 and 16X CD-ROM. Where's the barn and anything left?

*Yellow means OLDER ! Not = smoker(hrrmph!) - Dear Younglings♥

11:06 WOW! Fake cache already on socket 3!
Did wonder about that COASt slot....(2X128KB + 256KB a bit much in the day)
13:10 My Problem today with my(moms)first TULIP 486 (at least no fakes - just proprietary) 😕

dallesamllhals

Very nice Find. you gotta love those fake Cache chips on PC chips motherboards.Thanks for the Video.

georgez

Ah yes, the "faith cache" 😁 ya just gotta believe!

GarthBeagle

very similar to my old mobo, i had a cash stick though and i remember umc chipset, 4 simms, white ide connectors and similar number of expansion slots, even the bios is the same
i had 2 8mb sticks of memory and 133mhz amd cpu and i didn't know a thing about computers :]

kokodin