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Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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implements wrote: post #57
tuxie_ wrote: post #47

If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?

Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus > The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. […] The concept is one of the oldest in Western philosophy, going back to the time of 500–400 BC. It is a common theme in the field of metaphysics.

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Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by Ekaros »

tuxie_ wrote: post #47

If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?

Hmm, so if you undress your wife and then dress a younger female with same clothes and keep her as wife. Is it still the same wife? You just replaced the fleshy bits...

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by brnt »

IYasha wrote: post #51

"If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work." :-| Thank you, HN, for being usable without JS.

I have not disabled JavaScript, but imgur never loads on mobile for me.

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by mymythisisthis »

Ekaros wrote: post #70
keddad wrote: post #39

It is always quite worrying for me to see something like this. People take a piece of tech which belongs in a museum and effectively destroy it just to get a cooler PC case.

If we go that route what doesn't belong to museum? Do you store all the food packaging? Every magazine? All of the spam you receive? That might be very useful for some historian in couple centuries after all... Where to stop?

Looks like Andy Warhol already did this."Warhol, consigned 300,000 of his everyday possessions to sealed cardboard boxes" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29125003

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by stoolpigeon »

tuxie_ wrote: post #47

If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?

I felt that way until I saw what he did with the floppy drive. Best part of the build in my opinion.

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by madengr »

eitland wrote: post #38

I have an old Aptiva 486 DX2 66 Desktop model waiting for me to try to recover whatever can be recovered from the hard drive. It was our first PC style computer and we used it a lot . Fun facts: - newly booted it could run AutoCAD on the standard 4MB - of course with a giant extra 8MB it flew and was only limited by us kids knowing nothing - it had suspend/resume (!) If you hit the power button ut turned itself off a…

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Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by rejectfinite »

geoffeg wrote: post #2

It is somewhat wild to me that PC towers are still a thing. So many other tech products have had significant form factor reductions in the past ~40 years yet gaming PCs have largely remained unchanged. (I understand we've had massive increases in computing capabilities, especially around 3D graphics and the power and cooling required for them.)

Smaller case = smaller fans = louder fans

Having a mid tower case I can only hear my PC when it really ramps up.

My work laptop fan is blasting most of the time.

I would rather work on a tower/desktop PC. Usually has better CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage and much quieter.

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by tuxie_ »

implements wrote: post #57
tuxie_ wrote: post #47

If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?

Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus > The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. […] The concept is one of the oldest in Western philosophy, going back to the time of 500–400 BC. It is a common theme in the field of metaphysics.

Thanks! I knew there was a thought experiment around this concept but I couldn't remember the name. You relieved me of my lethologica ^_^

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by jncraton »

al_borland wrote: post #41
eitland wrote: post #38

I have an old Aptiva 486 DX2 66 Desktop model waiting for me to try to recover whatever can be recovered from the hard drive. It was our first PC style computer and we used it a lot . Fun facts: - newly booted it could run AutoCAD on the standard 4MB - of course with a giant extra 8MB it flew and was only limited by us kids knowing nothing - it had suspend/resume (!) If you hit the power button ut turned itself off a…

I had one of these as well. I don’t remember what happened to it, but last time I interacted with it was probably in 2005 or 2006. I was trying to get some MP3s off the thing (I couldn’t find them anywhere else). It was running Windows 95, so no USB. It just had a 28.8 modem, so no transferring it over the network. I ended up using WinRAR to split each file across multiple floppy disks, so I could join them back toge…

You can also perform transfers like this using crossover or null modem[1] serial cables if both machines have serial ports. I transferred a number of files like this back in the day.

You could even use them for some multiplayer games that would have otherwise required a proper LAN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem

Re: Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k

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Post by systems_glitch »

tuxie_ wrote: post #47

If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?

This is usually referred to as a "sleeper build," kinda like taking some beat old station wagon and cramming a high performance driveline into it, while doing nothing to the exterior.
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