Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Rethilgore]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Go for it my dude.

 

AGP cards aren't too hard to find on my Craigslist listings, but finding ones better than my GeForce4 MX420 are surprisingly challenging.

Craigslist for PC parts here is just ugh... live in Sydney so everything is either junk or 400% the cost it should be in Australian Rupees lol

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Rethilgore said:

Craigslist for PC parts here is just ugh... live in Sydney so everything is either junk or 400% the cost it should be in Australian Rupees lol

Oh man, that's gotta hurt.

 

I wish the used market here in the States was better, I'd love to take $50 and build a budget build like the channels on YouTube do, but that's pretty hard. Here, you could get a CPU and memory if you're lucky for $50, depending on how old the hardware is.

[Rethilgore]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Oh man, that's gotta hurt.

 

I wish the used market here in the States was better, I'd love to take $50 and build a budget build like the channels on YouTube do, but that's pretty hard. Here, you could get a CPU and memory if you're lucky for $50, depending on how old the hardware is.

 

yeah its funny watching budget builds on youtube and then try to do that here and your looking at $1000 or more for a low end system sometimes depending where you shop. 

[flibberdipper]

11 hours ago, Rethilgore said:

There doesn't seem to be any legitimate way to activate it anymore online or over the phone (tried both). 

 

Managed to get a new factory sealed copy of XP with a genuine licence and was pretty sad to find i couldn't activate it. 

 

i resorted to ... 'less genuine' means to make this copy genuine

I'm still able to activate it over the phone just fine.  Though knowing Microshaft, it's probably because I use MSDN images and keys.

[Rethilgore]

the codes for install work fine its activating it once your in the OS thats a pain

[xriqn]

14 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I have a Windows XP code.

QW4HD DQCRG HM64M 6GJRK 8K83T

 

It may or may not work.

I just use the key I retrieved from my mum's old xp laptop (I used magicjellybean keyfinder to find the actual key rather than OEM) which also happens to be the first ever computer I used way back in 2005.

[Guest]

Just recently picked this up

cooler master atcs case with an Athlon xp of some kind, 512mb of ram, GeForce 4 ti 4600

runs windows 2k and supposedly works, it's been used daily since it was made 

 

I haven't had much time to try it out, it powers on and I don't know all the specs yet

 

came in a massive lot of early 2000's and late 90's computer stuff, I've got everything from an unopened ATI all in wonder to a DFI lanparty board in its box with the harness, ultra xconnect cables, a John Deere pc with a socket 7 system inside, a bunch of voodoos and a pair of GeForce 256's, enough ram to crush someone with, unreleased versions of operating systems and unrelseased games, beta testing documentation, original on disk copies of mods for half life 1, Linux distros that were homemade and sold privately, enough of those transparent lid hard drives to store all my porn on, itellimice, ergonomic keyboards, cathode lights, water cooling hardware, every single socket A processor ever made 

 

Its all there, I'll play with it some in a few weeks

[grss1982]

2 hours ago, campy said:

Just recently picked this up

cooler master atcs case with an Athlon xp of some kind, 512mb of ram, GeForce 4 ti 4600

runs windows 2k and supposedly works, it's been used daily since it was made 

 

I haven't had much time to try it out, it powers on and I don't know all the specs yet

 

came in a massive lot of early 2000's and late 90's computer stuff, I've got everything from an unopened ATI all in wonder to a DFI lanparty board in its box with the harness, ultra xconnect cables, a John Deere pc with a socket 7 system inside, a bunch of voodoos and a pair of GeForce 256's, enough ram to crush someone with, unreleased versions of operating systems and unrelseased games, beta testing documentation, original on disk copies of mods for half life 1, Linux distros that were homemade and sold privately, enough of those transparent lid hard drives to store all my porn on, itellimice, ergonomic keyboards, cathode lights, water cooling hardware, every single socket A processor ever made 

 

Its all there, I'll play with it some in a few weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

That Cooler Master is something that I lusted after back in the day. It was just too pricey due to it's aluminum design.

 

I believe it's called the CoolerMaster ATC-201 Mid-Tower: http://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/01q3/coolermaster/atc-201-1.html

[flibberdipper]

Upgraded from the 80GB 7200.7 to this 250GB Caviar (hoping it won't randomly say no this time) so that my Xbox will have room for the Halo 2 map pack + 25 "legally obtained" games (though it would be more if the third torrent in the set would work, shame because I have some favorites in there) that will hopefully be done downloading by next week. In total 56 games as of right now. Feels good to relive the yung lad days, especially since a few of the games I played on PS2 and obviously look a shitload better on this ol boy.

[Hailstormmmm]

showing my old gpu back from 2008 i believe it's a geforce 9400 gt

[NoCarrier]

22 hours ago, campy said:

Just recently picked this up

cooler master atcs case with an Athlon xp of some kind, 512mb of ram, GeForce 4 ti 4600

runs windows 2k and supposedly works, it's been used daily since it was made 

 

I haven't had much time to try it out, it powers on and I don't know all the specs yet

 

came in a massive lot of early 2000's and late 90's computer stuff, I've got everything from an unopened ATI all in wonder to a DFI lanparty board in its box with the harness, ultra xconnect cables, a John Deere pc with a socket 7 system inside, a bunch of voodoos and a pair of GeForce 256's, enough ram to crush someone with, unreleased versions of operating systems and unrelseased games, beta testing documentation, original on disk copies of mods for half life 1, Linux distros that were homemade and sold privately, enough of those transparent lid hard drives to store all my porn on, itellimice, ergonomic keyboards, cathode lights, water cooling hardware, every single socket A processor ever made 

 

Its all there, I'll play with it some in a few weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epic haul!  post more pics as you unpack stuff.  I've found that the process of sorting your haul is the most rewarding part of the process, it's like digging for ancient treasure.

 

[Mattias Edeslatt]

14 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

you can't fit all those graphics cards into your hard drive physically, by my perspective on what's |*orn.

 

No graphics cards fits in a hard drive... 

[Crunchy Dragon]

5 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

No graphics cards fits in a hard drive... 

Depends on what kind of hard drive and what kind of graphics card.

[flibberdipper]

6 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

No graphics cards fits in a hard drive... 

You're just not determined enough.

[Ebonsaber]

So I visited my parent's house and found my old PC stowed away.  I set it aside before as the power supply blew up and I wasn't into tinkering PC's yet.  Case was ruined by vermin, so I took it apart and tested the peripherals.  Sadly it looks like the RAM and drives were broken, so I couldn't test the GPU.

Pentium III 1 GHz on a proprietary Samsung mobo (thermal compound has stuck to the CPU/heatsink I so didn't try to remove it yet)

Inno3D Geforce 2 MX.  I think it's 64MB

And for some newer stuff(LOL).  These I know work, and will eventually build up to something my parents can play with learning how to use a PC...

Pentium 4 640 on a Foxconn G31MX mobo

Geforce 7200gs

[ApolloX75]

I have spent some time going through my old hardware and have rebuilt this old bad boy. Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton) overclocked to 2.3GHz (more to come as I source out waterblocks), Asus A7N8X, 2GB (2x1) Corsair ValueSelect DDR400, Sapphire ATi Radeon X850 XT, Western Digital 80GB, some random 700W PSU and a Deepcool Tesseract to house it all. This is all hardware from my younger days and has been sitting in various states of storage since about 2006ish, other than the case and the random PSU.

 

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I've always been confused about the blower design of that graphics card. Does it exhast air out the back or into the case? Which end is the intake? Plz tell me

It brings in air from the rear through the heatsink and blows it out the back.

[MEC-777]

11 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I've always been confused about the blower design of that graphics card. Does it exhast air out the back or into the case? Which end is the intake? Plz tell me

 

In through the center of the fan and our the vents at the back. 

[Sahl]

Looking at this thread I would love to have shown some of my old cards, like the first Voodoo graphics card... Those were the time.

[Ethan Lewis]

Intel Celeron D - 2.93Ghz

Intel Celeron D - 2.53Ghz

AMD Duron 900 - 900Mhz

 

All of these bad boys work! Lol I'll post more later

[Ethan Lewis]

54 minutes ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Celeron D. Only one core. L I E S

I booted them both on windows 7 this afternoon, only got pics of the 2.53Ghz one though

[MEC-777]

13 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

I meant that particular card, I know how a GTX 1080 blows. But thanks!

(*Nearly) All blower cards operate the same way. In through the center of the fan and out through the cooler shroud (usually out the back).  

[aezakmi]

46 minutes ago, Ethan Lewis said:

I booted them both on windows 7 this afternoon, only got pics of the 2.53Ghz one though

you have 2GB tho

 

try booting W7 with 64 or 128MB, painful

 

[Sfekke]

4 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

you have 2GB tho

 

try booting W7 with 64 or 128MB, painful

 

A true nightmare, you do that once for fun then realize it isn't and hope nobody makes you do it again

[ApolloX75]

9 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

All blower cards operate the same way. In through the center of the fan and out through the cooler shroud (usually out the back).  

The old X850 XT did not operate that way. The fan is enclosed and pulls air from the rear of the card, across the heatsink and forces it out the I/o plate.

Edited September 25, 2018 by ApolloX75
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