Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Ienien77]

I just grab this from my work (from a machine that was to old to be keeped). This is a lenovo thinkstation S20 motherboard. It has a 2 core Xeon in it which i rapidly replace with a Xeon X5690 6core to make myself a NAS. I forget to pick the Thermal sensor so i grab an other one and it worked perfectly.

[MacZack87]

I just went through my part collection and got rid of all my really old stuff, but I did keep some stuff that's not that old, but probably still old enough to be considered retro. So now the oldest parts I have are a few Intel CPUs, some RAM, a couple motherboards, and a couple GPUs. My retro collection used to be a lot bigger and use to contain some way older parts.

[sub68]

I found this system on a friends curb 

cpu amd athlon 2  x2 250 @ 3000mhz

motherboard asus m4a785-m

ram corsair xms2 4,096 mb about 4 gigs 

and it had a blueray drive 

th

 

the hdd was from one of my old intel computers (need help to take a intel to amd)

the thermaltake tr2-430w power supply that was in there was dead when I got it 

so I put a power supply that was from a lenovo prebuilt 

the wifi card is from the same lenovo prebuilt 

also planning to run two cd drives one bluray other dvd/cd

the case is a thermaltake lanbox lite doesn't have cable management

 

Edited November 18, 2019 by sub68

[birdflyer]

On 12/19/2013 at 1:25 PM, TheTechnerd said:

 Today I thought we would do something fun and different. This is a topic about showing of all your old pc parts (or old computers). Feel free to post some pics:) It will be fun:D

 

Here's some of mine:

 

 

Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

I'm still running that exact cpu! in my secondary rig!

[Euchre]

OK kids, your 'old RAM' isn't that old. Here's a 72 pin EDO SIMM, 32 megabytes. Well, this one is down to 24, as 2 of the chips have popped off from the keys and keyring pushing on them. Bonus punch down tool for ethernet connectors. I save a few dead sticks to use for this, and this is my second one - the first one, half the chips popped off and I tossed it. I figure this keychain means I won't forget where my keys are.

[SimplyChunk]

 

How's about this sweet old lady then?

 

 

I can't decide on key chain or neck chain to be honest

[Csshaz3]

I've got the specs saved somewhere but this was my first full build in '06. Dual core AMD water cooled. Ddr2 Kingston HyperX and a brand new $800 Gefore 9800 gtx lol

 

I had around $2000 in all of it and decided to build a pc rather than get my first car. Counterstrike obviously takes priority over everything.

 

Edit: this was not my 9800gtx build I believe it was actually my 7900gt card. Forgotten how far back this build went. Remember those little clip on crab led ram coolers lol

Edited November 26, 2019 by Csshaz3

[NoCarrier]

4 hours ago, Euchre said:

OK kids, your 'old RAM' isn't that old. Here's a 72 pin EDO SIMM, 32 megabytes. Well, this one is down to 24, as 2 of the chips have popped off from the keys and keyring pushing on them. Bonus punch down tool for ethernet connectors. I save a few dead sticks to use for this, and this is my second one - the first one, half the chips popped off and I tossed it. I figure this keychain means I won't forget where my keys are.

 

oh how cute.  you mean you didn't have to insert your DRAM chips one at a time onto a RAM expansion board?  and if you bent one pin the computer didn't boot?

 

[The King of the Undead]

3 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

oh how cute.  you mean you didn't have to insert your DRAM chips one at a time onto a RAM expansion board?  and if you bent one pin the computer didn't boot?

 

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[NoCarrier]

3 hours ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

 

How's about this sweet old lady then?

 

 

I can't decide on key chain or neck chain to be honest

that's an FM sound synthesis chip.

[Bitter]

You mean you didn't have to slide the beans on your abicus yourself?

[Euchre]

11 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

 

 

Finally, a worthy successor to my post...

 

11 hours ago, Bitter said:

You mean you didn't have to slide the beans on your abicus yourself?

They weren't beans, and it wasn't an abacus, but...

 

 

(No, sadly that isn't my personal 128 bytes of core memory.)

[aaradorn]

18 hours ago, Csshaz3 said:

I've got the specs saved somewhere but this was my first full build in '06. Dual core AMD water cooled. Ddr2 Kingston HyperX and a brand new $800 Gefore 9800 gtx lol

 

I had around $2000 in all of it and decided to build a pc rather than get my first car. Counterstrike obviously takes priority over everything.

 

 

The photo of your monitor fills me with nostalgia, don't know why.

[SimplyChunk]

17 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

that's an FM sound synthesis chip.

Yeah i know.  My Dad and I pulled it out the Mega Drive ourselves  

[COL.Pannik]

My first Pentium mobo. Ran a P60 overclocked to 66 MHz. My first PC compatible was an Insight 386DX-25 with 4 MB RAM, 100MB HDD, and 3.5" and 5.25" floppies. I had a ton of Intel, Cyrix, and AMD CPUs and mobos between the 386 and this Pentium board. 

[Euchre]

On 11/20/2019 at 8:11 AM, COL.Pannik said:

My first Pentium mobo. Ran a P60 overclocked to 66 MHz. My first PC compatible was an Insight 386DX-25 with 4 MB RAM, 100MB HDD, and 3.5" and 5.25" floppies. I had a ton of Intel, Cyrix, and AMD CPUs and mobos between the 386 and this Pentium board. 

So, is that an AT keyboard connector? I don't see a serial port, and I'm not sure what that silver riser is for, but I'm going to guess USB 1.0. I see you heavily populated the EDO SIMM slots, and you've got a single SDRAM DIMM slot. 4 ISA vs 3 PCI slots kind of shows how 'transitional' this board was. Oh, and I like the external cache module.

[Tom.F]

I remember way back i had Voodoo video card

[sub68]

On 11/20/2019 at 8:01 AM, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Yeah i know.  My Dad and I pulled it out the Mega Drive ourselves  

wait you dont live in the US you live in EU,UK or asia

[sub68]

I have a IBM thinkpad t23 with xp on it funny it had a 30gb hdd

512mb ram

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, sub68 said:

wait you dont live in the US you live in EU,UK or asia

Yeah the UK

[sub68]

33 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Yeah the UK

that makes sense

[moggers]

On 11/22/2019 at 11:22 PM, Euchre said:

So, is that an AT keyboard connector? I don't see a serial port, and I'm not sure what that silver riser is for, but I'm going to guess USB 1.0. I see you heavily populated the EDO SIMM slots, and you've got a single SDRAM DIMM slot. 4 ISA vs 3 PCI slots kind of shows how 'transitional' this board was. Oh, and I like the external cache module.

USB on an early pentium mainboard? Unlikely from memory. *Maybe* a PS2 port if that motherboard was slightly non standard AT layout.  As far as serial and parallel went, anything other than riser cards would have been also unlikely. 

 

 

 

 

[X-System]

34 minutes ago, moggers said:

USB on an early pentium mainboard? Unlikely from memory. *Maybe* a PS2 port if that motherboard was slightly non standard AT layout.  As far as serial and parallel went, anything other than riser cards would have been also unlikely.

It exists USB on an early Pentium mainboard.

 

And if you see this picture closer, you will see "USB" on this mainboard

 

[sub68]

I found this keyboard at my grandmas house 

compaq sk-2700

 

[BudgetGamer313]

does anyone know what the price for 486 ram is?