Show off your old and retro computer parts

[JR88]

21 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

the x5650 is barely pushing 10 years old at this point.. It even still outperforms many current chips .

 

From a performance standpoint , it's still incredibly usable , just like the core 2 chips before it . Retro would be 20+ years , like the pentium 3 and older

It's retro to me Lol...compared to the 7700k at 5-5.2ghz and 1100ish passes in CB...Bigggg difference not to mention DDR4 and not sata2. 

But yeah know what you mean still a good and cool chip. Clocked comes Alive muchhh Better. But only a handful of boards that can do so.

 

It don't go over 45c on that water setup..maybe the damn thing will run for another 10 years who knows...actually fine goofing off messing around maybe a few indie titles easy stuff to run. still enough Performance there. a little tougher titles yeah some frame drop but nothing major...idk I'm sure could find something a little more modern that would dog it at that clock.

[NoCarrier]

On 3/23/2018 at 10:34 AM, JR88 said:

It's retro to me Lol...compared to the 7700k at 5-5.2ghz and 1100ish passes in CB...Bigggg difference not to mention DDR4 and not sata2. 

But yeah know what you mean still a good and cool chip. Clocked comes Alive muchhh Better. But only a handful of boards that can do so.

 

It don't go over 45c on that water setup..maybe the damn thing will run for another 10 years who knows...actually fine goofing off messing around maybe a few indie titles easy stuff to run. still enough Performance there. a little tougher titles yeah some frame drop but nothing major...idk I'm sure could find something a little more modern that would dog it at that clock.

 

I guess it's all relative. IMHO if it processes data at 32bits or more, it isn't retro   Also, if it can run Microsoft's latest OS, it's not retro.

 

spent some time sorting my collection yesterday.. this is about 1/4 of the full collection

 

 

 

[NoCarrier]

recently picked up a Commodore 128.  Funny there is an entire C64 built into the hardware.  You type "GO64" to switch to C64 mode - which is all the time because the only C128 software i have is a copy of CP/M. 

 

Bonus points for guessing which game that is.

[Mattias Edeslatt]

@NoCarrier, World Games 

[NoCarrier]

44 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

@NoCarrier, World Games 

You are correct sir!

 

I first played this on the PC.  man i got killed doing the cliffdiving event so many times.

[8uhbbhu8]

4 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

 

I guess it's all relative. IMHO if it processes data at 32bits or more, it isn't retro   Also, if it can run Microsoft's latest OS, it's not retro.

 

spent some time sorting my collection yesterday.. this is about 1/4 of the full collection

 

 

 

OMG I want  

[MarbleHornets]

Not the oldest, but some classic big gaming beasts that I had to dig out of my storage. Razer blade ain't got nothing my big babies. (I for some reason got both a red and grey one..)

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, MarbleHornets said:

Not the oldest, but some classic big gaming beasts that I had to dig out of my storage. Razer blade ain't got nothing my big babies. (I for some reason got both a red and grey one..)

Ohh, I spot an Aspire One down there. 

[MarbleHornets]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Ohh, I spot an Aspire One down there. 

We don't talk about that redheaded stepchild (no offense to any gingers out there). He refuses to work so is shamed to the lowest shelf.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, MarbleHornets said:

We don't talk about that redheaded stepchild (no offense to any gingers out there). He refuses to work so is shamed to the lowest shelf.

Ha ha. I have a couple old netbooks (they're also Aspire Ones). They work, but one has a failing 1TB hard drive (that I put in) so it doesn't do too much. Windows 8.1 on an Atom is too much. 

[MarbleHornets]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Ha ha. I have a couple old netbooks (they're also Aspire Ones). They work, but one has a failing 1TB hard drive (that I put in) so it doesn't do too much. Windows 8.1 on an Atom is too much. 

I think I have 3 Aspire Ones laying around here somewhere in all varying degrees of broke, and I can defiantly understand that, Windows XP all the way on them!

[8uhbbhu8]

Just found some goodies my grandpa was about to throw out and rescued them  Complete (I think) Near mint manual/guide books for Compaq Deskpro EN series machines, near mint Windows NT Workstation manual, near mint sealed NT Workstation install disk , AutoCadLT 2000 manual, and Word Perfect 6.0 floppies. All 13  No pics right now but will get them soon  

 

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[Jchandler21]

Stuff I found cleaning the basement of our old office building. All working according to the owner.

[DarkEnergy]

Pocket PC! It's a Casio EG-800. I took these photos last night, it took about 3 hours before it even wanted to start charging. Today (the day after), it charges fine but is no longer turning on right now. 

 

[MarbleHornets]

So I thought I'd do some more digging and I found this. I thought I lost my Alienware, but this baby is about the see the sunlight again!

[flibberdipper]

Fired up the old beast today and the old molex splitter up and died, so I replaced it with a brand new one, as well as swap the 70mm fan for a 92mm Beta V to get more airflow to the RAM and northbridge since I think that's causing my instability (also took it out of the desk cabinet where it lived since I have room for it outside now that my main rig is down). Figured I might as well take a shot of the internals even tho it's a shitty lowlight pic.

 

[Urlet]

Hello!

 

Here's some of mine 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

I have the coolest laptop here. No contest.

I ironically call it the coolest because its actually quite the housefire. This is AFTER cleaning and new paste. And no its not done wrong, i thought i messed up somewhere, i did the whole process 4 times and it still idles at 72c. Though it maxes at about 85 and its shutdown temp is 95 so im technically OK.

 

[Dabombinable]

5 hours ago, campy said:

I have the coolest laptop here. No contest.

I ironically call it the coolest because its actually quite the housefire. This is AFTER cleaning and new paste. And no its not done wrong, i thought i messed up somewhere, i did the whole process 4 times and it still idles at 72c. Though it maxes at about 85 and its shutdown temp is 95 so im technically OK.

 

I kind of miss my old laptop with its P4 Ht 3.2GHz and Radeon 9000igp.  Though despite what Compaq/HP said (and the version of DirectX on 1 of the included discs) it couldn't handle any DirectX 9 game.  The iGPU would simply lock up. 
On the plus side it ran all DX 8.1 or older games just fine and has full driver support for Windows 98Se.  It also flogged the crap out of the desktop my Mum bought later-it only had a Celeron D 2.4GHz and SIS graphics.  Though it at least could handle Halo 1 and Halo CE at playable frame rates

[Froody129]

On 3/28/2018 at 4:17 AM, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Snippety snip snip snip

Bro what are you as a 15 year old doing with your rig specs? I’m not trying to be salty, I’m legitimately curious 

[MarbleHornets]

10 hours ago, campy said:

*Snip

Snip

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Looks like it goes faaast!

[8uhbbhu8]

The 13 floppies or Word Perfect version 6

 

[Parth Sarthi Singh]

i am currently using 

 

processor : AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6ghz

 

ram: 2x0.5GB ddr  unknown brand 

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gpu:  no gpu

 

motherboard : MSI MS-7142

 

hdd : Seagate ST380215A 80GB

 

 

 

this can system cannot run games like MAX PAYNE 1,GTA 3,GTA VICE CITY,CALL OF DUTY WW1

 

it runs only 2-3 games like i have played :  counter strike;condition zero ..., age of empires...,    plant vs zombies

 

but what can i do i have no money 

 

 

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

The 13 floppies or Word Perfect version 6

 

 

If only it was WordPerfect Office X3... Been trying to track that down legally and questionably on the cheap with no luck.

[JoKeR-13]

The motherboard I just picked up for my xp machine.

 

DFI LANPARTY  nF4 SLI-DR

1GB OCZ DDR 400 Dual Channel

AMD athlon 64 3000+

XP Pro

 

Will post pics of all my other stuff when I have some time. I have a Pentium @ 70mhz, Celeron 333MHz, Pentium 4 2.66GHz, Pentium 4 HT 3.0Ghz in various msi, intel and gigabyte motherboards. I also have a bunch of AMD processors and boards as well.