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I don't want to start an argument or anything but they didn't do well when they messed up. When the GN video came up Linus put a post out here on the forum making excuses and shit. Only when they started getting REAL hate and GN posted another video that covered that response then they apologized. So no I don't hope other companies start acting like LMG did.

The system that was built in my current case originally was a dual PIII server, thing was a monster. Sold/gave the board to a fellow forum member a long time ago 😛

No joke, dual Pentium III 1000 even with PC133 SDRAM feel more responsive than a 3.2GHz P4 HT using DDR333. The benefit of a shorter pipeline not stalling as easily.

Whats your definition of kids? I know an 11 year old who watches LTT. When I was 12 I started watching LTT.

The potential of early Apple Mac when it comes to upgrades, is just insane.

I dont know exactly what macintosh 2 is goes into, as every adapter is different - that said, I follow this channel, and he made a video about it:  
 

Just had a customer drop this off to my office to recycle. I have no idea if they were using it, but this thing still works. It's crazy, it has a 2400BPS modem and a 30mb HDD with a non standard connector. This thing is just to cool. 

Abit BH6 1.02 motherboard on freshly painted motherboard tray 😁

 

After my successful test spray the other day I decided to start spraying the 'unpainted' parts of my case...

 
Not the best pictures, I'm sorry.  I am however really pleased with how the painting went on them.  The paint needs a full 24 hours to cure according to the can so they'll have that before i take them out again and touch up the parts where I had the pieces clamped in mole grips to hold them..
 
Motherboard tray and Chassis next...then the insides of the three Oyster White panels...wish me luck!

The Jetway 994 - It lives! (and now my Abit VP6 can wait a while):

All within an hour of me getting home from work. Removing capacitor legs is a PITA when they snap at both sides - first repairs were done when I didn't have a temperature-controlled soldering iron or good desoldering wick. So I'd botched them badly.

Now to find a Via C3 for it. And then install my Savage4 GT.

So this is my latest project. A Pavilion A6137C that I turned into a spiritual successor to my grandma's P7-1234. Hers had an A6 3650 and 8GB of RAM with Windows 7 Home Premium, this guy has an A8 3850, HD7570 (I don't have a DVI to HDMI adapter to use the iGPU), 8GB of RAM, and Windows 7 Ultimate. The case is in stupidly good shape, I'm pretty sure the scuffs that it does have are all from when it got tossed into a shopping cart with another PC and two monitors.
 
Still has the original 320GB HDD in there too, tucked behind the 250GB 840 EVO. Kinda sad that this board doesn't support the power LED properly (it's one of the ones that flips polarity to go from blue to orange). Other than that almost everything works, I need to get a PCI FW400 card to get the front port to work. After that the only thing that won't work is the extra front 3.5mm jack.

Front plastics on my Slot 1 case came up really nice with the Flash Magic Eraser.  I also used a clean one on the plastics of my Daewoo CRT and some window cleaner on the screen of it (as suggested by @iHardware Shelden).  I cleaned the AT-PS/2 Keyboard with the same glass cleaner just squirted on a terry cloth and it's all come up a treat.  I've stripped the rest of the case completely bare. Cleaned the painted top of it with a magic eraser and have drilled out the pop rivets that hold the top panel on.  I'll clean the two side panels with an eraser too.  Next stage, in some good weather Tuesday or Wednesday, is to take the three painted parts out side.  Give them a light going over with some sand paper and applying the RAL 1013 Oyster White paint and letting them dry.  I don't usually have a lot of luck with spraying but I'm hoping they come out ok.  While those are drying I'll clean out the unpainted chassis from metal debris and dust.  I've got some matt black spray paint just sitting doing nothing at the minute and I'm tempted to spray the unpainted parts of the chassis with it.  I know it won't be 'period' anymore but I think it'll look good.  What do you guys think?

@Bitter @ChonkerFox
The AGP cards don't actually have the mosfet that gets hot - the one near the slot is fine, also thermal paste really helps (and allows for cheap mosfet heatsinks to be usable):
 

My X68000 setup. 

I now have an actively cooled Voodoo 3 3000 🙂 

Incredible gaslighting this op. "I go on a different site and they censor me. Why did you guys here censor me?" :DD

LTT has no direct control over the Reddit subforum. They are likely implementing restrictions so that new users do not come in and flood the site with arguments. 
 
The LTT Forums, on the other hand are hosted by LMG, but are run entirely by volunteers and are not officially LMG staff. We allow all criticisms, discussions and comments so long as they are civil and follow the Community Standards.

Finally got the parts I needed to throw the socket 423 board together as a system, brand new CPU cooler from cooler master. The pre-applied thermal paste was still good even for being 23 years old... I still removed it and put some new stuff on.
 

This thread makes me want to spend money I don't have 😂

Apevia ATX-AS500W Clear Power Supply 859813001847 | eBay

I'd get it myself if I hadn't splurged on other parts.

Hi all! Pretty new on this forum and thought I'd kick things off with a retro tour! 🙂
 
I posted my Teradrive last year, but y'all deserve something more meaty than just one PC ❤️
 
First is my favourite PeeCee of the bunch. My dual Pentium 233MMX.
 
With such fabulous specs as:
 
Pentium MMX 233MHz (SL293) x2
Tyan S1564D Tomcat IV (Intel 430HX) motherboard
64MB EDO DRAM
Matrox Millennium II 4MB PCI Graphics
Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI Controller
Intel Pro/1000GT PCI Gigabit NIC
Prototype Sound Blaster AWE64 Legacy (More Info)
IDE to CF adaptor + 4GB CF Card
NEC 16x SCSI CDROM
Epson Dual 3.5" + 5.25" Floppy Drive
(A normal 3.5" floppy drive, and a HDD, which are not connected)
 
Dual boots Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 SP6
 



 
My close second favourite is my Socket 370 Pentium 3 system!
 
Endowed with:
 
Intel Pentium III-S 1.4GHz (SL657)
Gigabyte GA-6OXT (Intel 815) motherboard
128MB PC100 SDR SDRAM
Leadtek GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
Creative 3D Blaster 2 (Voodoo 2) 12MB x2 (SLI)
Intel Pro/1000GT PCI Gibabit NIC
Turtle Beach Montego 2 (Aureal Vortex 2) PCI Sound Card
40GB IDE HDD
Pioneer DVD-RW
Some super nifty cold cathode neon lighting!
 
Runs Windows 98SE with Unofficial SP3
 


 
Next cab off the rank, an attempt to re-create the PC I had at the peak of my LAN phase
 
Athlon XP 2600+ CPU
Asus A7-N8X (nForce 2) motherboard
1GB PC3200 (400MHz) DDR SDRAM
AOpen GeForceFX 5600 256MB (I had a Sapphire Radeon 9800XT in the day, but hoo boy those prices!)
Onboard NIC and Sound
40GB IDE HDD
No optical (at the moment)
 


 
Something of an oddball is this AMD K6 franken-puter
 
AMD K6-2+ 500MHz CPU
MSI MS5169 Super Socket 7 motherboard
128MB PC100 SDR SDRAM
ATi RageXL 8MB PCI VGA
Canopus Pure3D (Voodoo Graphics) 6MB 3D Accelerator
Matrox M3D (NEC PowerVR PCX2) 4MB 3D Accelerator
Creative Labs AWE64 Gold ISA Sound Card
Generic Realtek RTL8139D 10/100 PCI NIC
20GB IDE HDD
 
Dual boots MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE
 


 
And rounding out complete, built PCs, my little DOS gaming slugger
 
AMD Am386 DX-40 CPU
Jetway ISA motherboard (unsure model number)
16MB (4x4MB) FPM SIMMs
XT-IDE rev3 HDD Controller
IDE-CF Adaptor with 4GB CF card
Diamond Speedstar Pro (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426) 1MB ISA VGA
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1.5
Gravis UltraSound Classic 3.4
3Com EtherLink III 3C509 ISA NIC
 
Runs MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11
 


 
After this, there's a few "OEM" PCs and non-PC computers:
 
Tandy 1000RL:
AMD 8086 @ 9.45MHz
768KB DRAM
Tandy Graphics and Sound (IBM PCjr Compatible)
20MB 8-bit IDE HDD
720KB 3.5" Floppy Drive
 
Macintosh Quadra 700:
Motorola 68040 @ 25MHz
96MB FPM DRAM
Quantum Fireball 4.3GB SCSI HDD
Asante 10Mbps NuBus NIC
 
Power Macintosh G3:
PowerPC G3 @ 233MHz
128MB PC66 SDR SDRAM
ATi 3D Rage II+ (unsure VRAM)
 
Also an Apple IIgs, nothing to report except a 1.5MB RAM upgrade! 😛
 

 
I have a Sega Teradrive Mk2, which I posted last year.
 
I have other non-PC computers too.
 
There's an iMac G4, a complete-in-box PowerBook G4 Titanium, my ZX Spectrum, and 1 more on top of that right bookcase! (Can you guess what it is?)
 

 
Of course I have the staples, like a C64 and Atari ST
 

 
Oh the Amiga?
 
Nothing too fancy!
 
Commodore Amiga A1200 (Stock CPU - Motorola 68EC020 @ 14MHz)
Blizzard 1230 MkIV - Motorola 68030 @ 50MHz with FPU
2MB Chip RAM, 128MB Fast Ram (on accelerator)
Generic 10Mbit PCMCIA NIC
 

 
I'll wrap this up with something really neat.
 
SiliconGraphics Indigo2:
MIPS R4000 CPU @ 100MHz
IP28 Backplane
GR3-XZ Graphics
256MB FPM DRAM
ZuluSCSI with 32GB SD Card
1x SCSI CD-ROM
 



 
Um, that's it. I have many consoles, but everyone knows what consoles look like haha.

Little update on the custom IDE and Floppy cables.  Out of the 8 connectors i put to the three leads I got ONE around the wrong way.  It's the motherboard end of the Floppy cable.  I just need to carefully peel it off and reattach around the other way.  I know it's this cause now both my floppy drives have a light on constantly.  The IDE cables though they work a treat.  Here's a vid of it playing some CD Audio
 

A couple of my older retro iMacs: The G3 was bought about 6 months ago for a shade under £100 and the eMac is actually a one owner, boxed example which I got for £125 (including shipping) with a bunch of useful software too. I use both of these machines rather often and the screen on the eMac is seriously amazing and has a max refresh of 139Hz at 800x600 and the lowest is 72Hz. I have a lot of other retro tech as well, I'll try and post some more here in time, and even have a Socket A machine which is used almost daily for games and the like. 😁
 
As a side-note: The eMac weighs over 20KG/roughly 50 lbs, and it has caught me out more than a few times. It's definitely a chunky little machine.

I'm gonna 'swap' them in the BIOS hopefully.  Also i could always make a new cable if i run in to issues 

Got my home made Floppy cable measured and done!  I'm not sure if it works yet but have very carefully made sure that Pin 1 on each connector matches with the brown wire in the ribbon
 
This cable will make the 5.25" Floppy Drive A:\ and the 3.5" Drive B:\ Which is what I wanted.  (I shall then 'Swap' them with the option to in the BIOS) It all loops around the back of the drives nice and keeps it out of the way of all the other stuff that's got to go in there.  
This is what it looks like fitted.  Nice, Neat and out of the way!