The Compaq Presario 5600: the high end last of the 90s PCs you never heard of...and is hard to find
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The Compaq Presario 5600 is one of the harder to find systems being that the 5200 and 5100 that was sold along side them offered a quite compelling package making the 5600s added drive bays and more interior room for mostly a non PC educated public a hard sell. These are some of the hardest to find vintage Compaqs I have encountered! Come along with me for a tour of the 5600 and the few issues with my unit, and hopefully another one to materialize so I can have a mint 5600 tower!
I had this exact computer. I bought it at Sears!
I love this era of compaq, I used to work in a data processing department for a software company. I had 10 of the 5000 series with a P2 233 I would run scripts on and ... wait. I have a 5037 in my inventory.
Hey I love to hear that you have one in your inventory! I also love these machines its one of my most coveted units! Appreciate the comment! Do you use the 5037 at all?
@@nickdoestechstuff this is my RUclips channel:
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I don’t use it with any regularity, but it gets booted for some nostalgic gaming every few months.
Kick ass I love it followed, watched and liked! Cant wait to see more!
It looks pretty good! I'm envious - i've been working on a Presario 7482 (AMD K6-2), and the 5600 looks like a much better option in many respects: easier access to the internals, much better laid out internals, more expansion slot types...
Thanks for the video, it's great to take a look back at the options of the time! :D
THANK YOU! For the comment and watching I hope to get better with content and put out more about this unit since I really do love it. Stay tunes for that. Also yes the 7400 is a much more squat tower and its def lacking in room inside like the 7800 or this 5600! I will actually be selling my 2nd 5600 here soon since I want to not hoard them!
I had one of these. It was a K6-II at 450mhz with 96mb ram and a 20gb Quantum Bigfoot HDD and a bizarre combo DSL/POTS modem. I got it in 99 to play Everquest and had to get a discrete GPU almost immediately (Riva TNT) because the built in Rage chip was terrible.
Yes the Rage Pros where not the pinnacle of graphics cards thats for sure! I wish this one still had its bigfoot nothing sounds like they do
@@nickdoestechstuff I remember the spin up whine and then the clacking which sounded to me like a bunch of relays for some reason... but it was just a few drive heads. Also the muffled "CLUNK" of head parking sequence whenever the computer turned off. So much nostalgia. I also went looking and found the weird modem in an old cardboard box, I had forgotten it also had a coax connector for broadband internet, no mention of DOCSIS 1.0 so most likely used a proprietary protocol.
I absolutely love hearing that, I can hear this description in my head! I gotta try to find some more big foots to put in the systems to keep them original!
A few things to note here. An "ATX form" board with AT power connectors rather than ATX. AGP slot in a different place from the Intel reference design. 10Mbit Ethernet when cards were mostly 10/100Mbit in the Pentium II era. It has a later Pentium II badge without the chrome effect which goes along with it having Windows 98. The Pentium II 333 was replaced by the 350 that year. I think that could be an Adaptec Firewire controller on the board - possibly used with the optional Compaq Digital Flat Panel display??
Its for sure very much a compaqized board for sure, just at least in the right sizing for ATX for sure not a standard ATX board and does use AT PS connectors just a bit easier to find then earlier machines which where all over the place! This ones specs like it as a 100! I was happy they even came with ethernet. I am not sure on the specifics of the Pentium badge but I have no reason to believe it was swapped but who truly knows. I am sure the FW controller is an adaptec bases on the driver. The Compaq DFP port (I used to have one I stupidly sold it) does use a digital clip plug it didnt carry FW through on the display even though oddly older compaqs monitors had USB passthrough!
Thank you for all the info and notes!
Very nice ! How I can find the quick restore disc for 4800 series ! Thxs
ask and you shall receive my friend, I found them on internet archive!
Here is the link archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22QuickRestore%22+%22presario%22
@@nickdoestechstuff Thxs bro ! I love your collection !
Thank you glad you do! Happy to see another 4800 owner!
I had a presario. I wanna say 5050 or something like that. It was a Celeron 33mhz.
333?
They made a 5050 5070 and 5184 which all looked alike with speeds between 300-380Mhz IIRC they did make Celeron, Pentium 2 + 3 and K6 2 Units
*I can't believe we came from Dinosaurs like this. I am on a 14 processor over clocked to 7 7 GHz. ea. and I think it's too slow. Not after watching this.*
It is slow. I run 10 ghz but Crysis still wont run smooth.
Yes this was 100 zone of processor speeds not 1000 or multipe 1ghz+ just Mhz. They where fast in their day however now no not at all. I dont know if you've seen my Alienware in the background but its a 12 Gen i9 12900KF its got 16 cores 24 processors and it feels fast not edge of glory funny enough. I totally understand the feeling and what you mean.
Slow it down and relax.A moving camera like you're doing is nearly UN watchable.I'm not being negative just trying to help you, also, you might want to stop using the bell, that's really irritating.
Thank you for the advice, my editor adds in the bell maybe he can switch to a bit more of a pleasant noise. I need another lens and a better setup so I do not have to free hand the camera.
Well this video is unwatchable. Need to learn editing and how not to set things up on a moving table and not insert annoying sounds and not try to be funny when you're not funny.
Sorry you feel that way, I actually have an editor, however I am pretty amateur with the shooting, Im working on getting better. I enjoy the ad ons that he puts in if you dont like it dont watch free country theres lots of youtubers out there. I hope you have a better day then your having to hate the video and hope you find some one you dislike videos from less.