Show off your old and retro computer parts

[The King of the Undead]

what the heck! you are rich my friend.

[Bitter]

As if anyone actually pays those prices for those cards. If there were a dozen listed for those prices I'd call it realistic and consider selling mine, but just one of each means those are 'dream' prices and I'd never actually get that. However...if my house were to burn down....

[Bitter]

28 minutes ago, campy said:

think i could power a 95w pentium D with a 500w ultra x-connect?

it came out in 2004, it wouldve been powering the 89w tdp/104w mpd 3ghz pentium 4 and other similarly high wattage processors

but i know tdp/mpd != power load

 

tl;dr i want to power this:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_D/Intel-Pentium D 945 HH80553PG0964MN (BX80553945 - BX80553945R).html

with this:

https://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/cases/Ultra_X-Connect_1.html

 

i bought the thing new old stock and its been running without issue in a variety of PC's ranging from the socket 478 build all the way up to an asrock 4coredual with a q6600

Can it, sure. Should you? eehhhh PSU's from that time period are 70-80% efficient, have awful regulation, and lack modern protection features.

[Jessica.Fawkes]

On 5/4/2019 at 8:13 PM, campy said:

You can always find a decent deal on eBay, but the average prices of some older and rare GPUs are extremely high.

hell, I have an evga Geforce4 ti 4600, the offers I've had on that card are double most other 4600's just because it's evga 

I see you're using Mint Mobile my friend. Good choice... how good is your reception?

[Jessica.Fawkes]

15 hours ago, Bitter said:

Can it, sure. Should you? eehhhh PSU's from that time period are 70-80% efficient, have awful regulation, and lack modern protection features.

I sense fire coming...

[Bitter]

10 hours ago, Jessica.Fox said:

I sense fire coming...

Probably not but maybe instability or bad voltage droops under loads. Modern stuff is really that much better regulated. Or fire. I mean I've ran some old Dell 300W PSU at 100% before, blew some pretty hot air out the back!

[Bitter]

Or just find any of the numerous online keys available, used to have one memorized lol.

[flibberdipper]

6 hours ago, Bitter said:

Or just find any of the numerous online keys available, used to have one memorized lol.

fr though, the number of XP keys I have from ~2011 YouTube videos is absurd.

[Ienien77]

Well, i have a new motherboard for AMD Athlon  And this one (unlike the one i had) is working. But when i test it i almost fried the CPU (i forgot to reapply some thermal paste *oups* ). Also this motherboard have RAM slot that i never seen before (i didn't see that much RAM in my life so this is pretty normal).

[Jessica.Fawkes]

I'm glad AMD is bringing back the Athlon line. Time to compete with Intel Celeron/Pentium!

[Rarity]

i think this should  qualify as old, since its going in the old system ...  ... Asus 780ti matrix platinum 

[Crunchy Dragon]

47 minutes ago, Rarity said:

i think this should  qualify as old, since its going in the old system ...  ... Asus 780ti matrix platinum 

 

I still want a 780TI...

 

Currently running a 780 in my main rig, so it's almost the same.

[flibberdipper]

Figured I might as well post this here too since I'm using it and CBA to download each picture on my phone and upload them here as well. Effectively the build log for it as well for whenever the hell I manage to get money to spruce it up. https://builds.gg/flibberdipper/zenith-dual-socket-pentium-3-xp-rig-18738

[Ienien77]

18 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I still want a 780TI...

 

Currently running a 780 in my main rig, so it's almost the same.

Only a 780 ??? Wow 

[Rarity]

old CM casing ..and this is really old , an  Ati Agent Ruby (anyone still remembers her ? lol ) figure which i won from an AMD online contest some 10 years back ... 

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Rarity said:

old CM casing ..and this is really old , an  Ati Agent Ruby (anyone still remembers her ? lol ) figure which i won from an AMD online contest some 10 years back ... 

 

That's a baller case. Shame it's so dirty.

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 hours ago, Ienien77 said:

Only a 780 ??? Wow 

Still great for 1080p gaming.

[Ienien77]

11 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Still great for 1080p gaming.

wow ! but 1080p on low ?

 

[flibberdipper]

25 minutes ago, Ienien77 said:

wow ! but 1080p on low ?

 

uh

 

no

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, Mr. horse said:

OK.

With out disabling the clock It just dose not work. At some point it will realize what you did and rearm the count down. The activation system in XP is far more complex then just a few reg keys.

Just disabling the keys does not prevent XP from re looping the 30 day count down after the 30 days are up.

But with a clock loop it should keep system fooled for much longer. But the second the systems time stamp is after the 30days your screwed.

Yeah or run any updates....

 

There's much better ways. Having a broken clock causes issues if you have files with illogical time stamps.

[Rarity]

cause back in secondary school and through college , had nothing to do ..probably would look decent if i  put some work and cleaned it ...

[Bitter]

I made some 'legs' for the Koolance case top so I can stand it on the desk next to the Xeon system and easily see if there's any leaks from the radiator and pump (pump will be in a bowl just in case). It's ugly but it'll work for now. I'm taking a break and then going back at it to mount the water block to the board. I already have a Hyper 212 mounted in there and built the water block mount to reuse the Hyper 212 115x standoffs so I literally have a drop in mounting solution.

 

I suspect that the socket AM4 Hyper 212 mounting isn't that much different and I can just drill some more aluminum bars to mount the water block to a Ryzen if I decide to do that. Might just build a better loop for a Ryzen...I'm sniping a triple 140mm copper/copper fin Koolance rad with 3x fans currently. That would handily cool even a very big CPU heat load and probably a decent graphics card as well.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

Thought I would share my retro hardware.  These are certainly my pride and joy.  I do have other old stuff but I enjoy these the most.

The laptop on the left is a Compaq LTE 5400, on the right is a Compaq LTE 5280 (currently with a 5400 monitor although I'd love to find a 5000 monitor for that 640x480 goodness).  I was able to find replacement CMOS batteries and have repaired one of the main battery packs (currently in the 5400) with plans to repair several more.  The 5400 has an original 2.1 GB HDD that is still working great and the 5280 is using an IDE to CF adapter with a 4GB CF card installed.  I have plans to try and get one of these "online".  I have a few PCMCIA modems and plan to try and call up some BBS' and play old door games.  I don't have a POTS line so I will attempt to use VOIP.  Hopefully the compression doesn't ruin my experience but a real phone line just isn't very practical these days.

 

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Thought I would share my retro hardware.  These are certainly my pride and joy.  I do have other old stuff but I enjoy these the most.

The laptop on the left is a Compaq LTE 5400, on the right is a Compaq LTE 5280 (currently with a 5400 monitor although I'd love to find a 5000 monitor for that 640x480 goodness).  I was able to find replacement CMOS batteries and have repaired one of the main battery packs (currently in the 5400) with plans to repair several more.  The 5400 has an original 2.1 GB HDD that is still working great and the 5280 is using an IDE to CF adapter with a 4GB CF card installed.  I have plans to try and get one of these "online".  I have a few PCMCIA modems and plan to try and call up some BBS' and play old door games.  I don't have a POTS line so I will attempt to use VOIP.  Hopefully the compression doesn't ruin my experience but a real phone line just isn't very practical these days.

 

 

Ah, more old Compaq laptops. My pride and joy laptop is this ProSignia 165. 400MHz PII, RAGE LT Pro 4MB, 128MB RAM (upgraded from the stock 64MB onboard), 40GB Travelstar HDD (no idea what stock was), and Windows Millennium since it seriously works better than 98SE, the only downside is no real-mode DOS (at least not without diddling around a bit and getting a semi-jank workaround). Really the only problems this laptop has is some cracked plastic (expected for a 20 year old or so laptop that had a previous life in a school, even though it seems to have been a light life), the battery went flat over the summer finally, and I can't help but feel that the display's backlighting is getting weaker as it takes a bit longer to warm up than it used to (the picture actually somewhat demonstrates this as it was shortly after turning on, though it is rather exaggerated from the exposure being cranked way down because of my monitor).

 

[Corrupt_Liberty]

51 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Ah, more old Compaq laptops. 

They definitely made some nice laptops back in the day.  I wish manufacturers today would try new things.  It seems everybody out there is making the same damn computers with a different badge on them. 

 

53 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

...the only downside is no real-mode DOS 

That's why I can't wait to find a 5000 monitor for my 5280.  P120 with 640x480 VGA monitor would be the perfect setup for DOS.  It does okay with the SVGA display but the windowing does get annoying at times.  Especially with such a small monitor to begin with.