It's boring, isn't it?

Trying to find something related to computers to pass my time today, and I ended up disecting my computer which is already older than 10 years. I had been together with this computer since I was Standard One until 2004 when my dad bought a new one(this computer).

This old chap can be counted as a durable computer for working that long until recently, perhaps the VGA or motherboard failed. Upon opening the side cover:

Well yeah it's messy, considering that the casing is smaller than normal ATX factor(size), and dusty too since no one has ever cleaned the internal of the CPU.

Here's a gallery of very old computer hardwares that you might not have seen before if you didn't take ICT subject (The computer lab has some ancient hardware too).

These 2 sticks of SDRAM that adds up to provide a total of 160MB RAM for the computer, had a hard time by just running Windows XP..

The core of this computer, Intel Celeron (Socket 370) processor, codenamed Mendocino, which runs at 366MHz if my memory didn't fail me. I tried to remove the heatsink away from the processor but it's sticked so tightly, I suppose it's due to the thermal grease that had dried up for a long time. This processor was fit onto a processor card (or whatever it's called) first before the card is inserted into the slot at the motherboard itself.

This is the graphics card, RivaTNT 16MB AGP. Nothing much to say, but you definitely can't play any games, except Starcraft, with this.

This is the sound card in ISA.

No no, not that ISA. I mean the slot named ISA, which stands for Industry Standard Architecture. None of us will be able to see this slot in present motherboards anymore...

Don't look down on these ancient hardwares, I had spent my earlier gaming days with them. Starcraft, Worms, Red Alert, Half Life(laggy..) were the few games I had fun using this computer before I got a better computer. Now it brings back my memories, felt sad that it's broken now..haizz

Until then, ciaoz.