Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Jessica.Fawkes]

On 1/13/2020 at 12:55 PM, Bitter said:

Get more RAM for it, over 16MB Windows 95 just flys man. We had 40MB in our Acer after we upgraded it and dang it was so much smoother! There's some tweaks in Windows to make it disk cache less and use memory more, really speeds things up when it's not hitting up the disk as often.

Time to make it run on 8GB of RAM I guess...

[Lenovich]

30 minutes ago, Jessica.Fawkes said:

Time to make it run on 8GB of RAM I guess...

 do not know for sure. but seems it is impossible because of 32 bit nature of system.

[Beerzerker]

Another setup I have.

Asus A7M 266-D with a pair of XP-M 2800's in use cooled by a pair of Tt Volcano 11's.

 

[Cirga]

i had compleatly forgotten that i had ever owned this card. this would have been in my Athlon 64 3000+ system. and retired when i upgraded to an Athlon 64 x2 4200+ with pci-express. my memory told me the Athlon 64 3000+ had a radeon 9600pro all-in-wonder in it when i retired it.

[Bitter]

I'm using a Maxtor 6L300S0 hard drive as the test bench drive on my friends Ryzen 5 1600AF/B450 Tomahawk build.

https://www.newegg.com/maxtor-diamondmax-10-6l300s0-300gb/p/N82E16822144421

It's from at least 2006, maybe older? It's not terrible if you're only doing one thing at a time but it's pretty terrible if you're trying to unzip something or do more than one thing at a time.

[seagate_surfer]

12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I'm using a Maxtor 6L300S0 hard drive as the test bench drive on my friends Ryzen 5 1600AF/B450 Tomahawk build.

https://www.newegg.com/maxtor-diamondmax-10-6l300s0-300gb/p/N82E16822144421

It's from at least 2006, maybe older? It's not terrible if you're only doing one thing at a time but it's pretty terrible if you're trying to unzip something or do more than one thing at a time.

WOW! I can imagine, yes! We are in front a warrior of a thousand and one battles.

[Bitter]

17 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

WOW! I can imagine, yes! We are in front a warrior of a thousand and one battles.

Haha yeah. It was in Pentium 4 system along side a pair of Diamond Max 9 drives 120GB in RAID 0 or RAID 1 depending what year it was lol. I think I got the 300GB drive to backup the array to because an overclocked PCI bus while substantially faster was also substantially less stable! Of course all 3 drives were on the same overclocked bus and all 3 had corrupted files. Ah, young and dumb.

[seagate_surfer]

28 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Haha yeah. It was in Pentium 4 system along side a pair of Diamond Max 9 drives 120GB in RAID 0 or RAID 1 depending what year it was lol. I think I got the 300GB drive to backup the array to because an overclocked PCI bus while substantially faster was also substantially less stable! Of course all 3 drives were on the same overclocked bus and all 3 had corrupted files. Ah, young and dumb.

Ok ok, the important thing is that it is still working! Just remember that the only thing that lasts forever is the rocks, and not so much because they last millions of years and not "forever" literally , it may be unnecessary to say so but do not put important data in it...

[Bitter]

12 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

Ok ok, the important thing is that it is still working! Just remember that the only thing that lasts forever is the rocks, and not so much because they last millions of years and not "forever" literally , it may be unnecessary to say so but do not put important data in it...

Yep, just a drive for the test bench. Usually I have a spare SSD but they're all in use at the moment. I need to grab some decent cheap small ones for test bench duty again.

[seagate_surfer]

17 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yep, just a drive for the test bench. Usually I have a spare SSD but they're all in use at the moment. I need to grab some decent cheap small ones for test bench duty again.

Alright, alright! Cool! Nowadays there is so much variety to choose from that the only thing I tell people is that they buy SSD with a 5-year warranty, those are the best, although depending on the case, the best of the best may not be necessary...

[1963SS]

Finally got my modem up and running but it seems a bit slow. I remember the excitement when the 56K video cards came out. Blazing speed. first pic. It could load a single low res pic in less than a minute.

 

Then came by video cards. Radeon 6450, GeForce FX5200 (128 meg) NVidia Riva TNT2 M64, and the NVidia GEForce 2 MX400. One of the NVidia cards even had a fan, by God, and that was the hot rod. I've been around awhile. These cards all seem to be a bit "laggy" when playing 1080 video games. I don't think that one frame every 5 seconds is quite quick enough. Who else has a "Junk Drawer"?

 

The struggles were real. 

 

[minibois]

5 hours ago, 1963SS said:

Who else has a "Junk Drawer"?

My junk drawer - since I cleaned up around a month ago - now mainly features projects I am currently working on. So that means I have a couple DS systems, PSP's and GameBoy sitting a drawer with some additional cables, buttons, etc. in it.

 

[Radium_Angel]

Cleaning out stuff I don't need, yours for shipping and handling:

 

Sun Cobalt Qube. Fully functional. Version 2 (IIRC)

PM me if you want it

[Cirga]

the recipe for early 2005 greatness.

 

Athlon64x2 4200+

Asus A8N SLI deluxe

2 gigs of OCZ DDR 400 Platinum

Geforce 7900GT's in SLI

Zalman cooling on everything

 

long gone is the Cooler Master Wave Master(with a self cut side window, and filled with blue led antec 80mm case fans), that the system lived in, along with the pc power and cooling 510 watt power supply.

 

i cant recall what hard drives were in this system. i suspect i retired my pair of (surprisingly still alive at the time) IBM Desk Star 60 gxp hard drives when i build this and went to a sata drive of some sort. but i cant recall it.

[Naterr]

Out with the old, in with new PC's. Decided to keep some of the older hardware as collectibles. 

[Lenovich]

21 minutes ago, Naterr said:

Out with the old, in with new PC's. Decided to keep some of the older hardware as collectibles. 

I can game on this XD

[sub68]

8 hours ago, Naterr said:

Out with the old, in with new PC's. Decided to keep some of the older hardware as collectibles. 

 

holy crud that is a lot of ram 

[Naterr]

9 hours ago, sub68 said:

holy crud that is a lot of ram 

Some low pro ddr3, few ddr2 modules, and tons of 2 GB/4 GB ddr3 modules. 

[sub68]

26 minutes ago, Naterr said:

Some low pro ddr3, few ddr2 modules, and tons of 2 GB/4 GB ddr3 modules. 

ok not big modules but ok for 32 bit systems 

[sub68]

right now my windows 7 gaming computer is a

intel i3 2nd gen 

4gb of ram 

the motherboard is from a old lenovo prebuilt but put into a thermaltake lanbox lite 

trying to get windows 7 drivers for a gt 710 but not successful yet

the hard drive is the one from the lenovo system ( super slow i don't have money for a ssd yet)

the power supply is stock from lenovo 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

22 minutes ago, sub68 said:

trying to get windows 7 drivers for a gt 710 but not successful yet

Nvidia should still have those drivers available for download.

[sub68]

34 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Nvidia should still have those drivers available for download.

yeah I tried them but still displays as a adaptor

also I have 120-270 watt psu so I think I need to upgrade

[The King of the Undead]

11 hours ago, sub68 said:

yeah I tried them but still displays as a adaptor

also I have 120-270 watt psu so I think I need to upgrade

... stupid question but isn't that how it's supposed to work?

[sub68]

1 hour ago, will4623 said:

... stupid question but isn't that how it's supposed to work?

I think it should work as a gpu not a adaptor

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, sub68 said:

I think it should work as a gpu not a adaptor

Can you get in to nvidia control panel?