Show off your old and retro computer parts

[sub68]

6 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

I have a real soft spot for those old WD Caviar drives. Our first pc had a Caviar 11000 in it (also 1gb) and it's startup routine/sounds are forever locked away in my rose colored nostalgia box haha.

 

The ram you have there looks to be a 4mb stick, and at 70ns is likely a FPM (Fast Page Mode) module.

Yeah the ram is 4mb 

also I don’t know what is on those hard drives because it’s my friend’s 

sorry quality’s bad this was taken on my blackberry 9810

[Mardax007]

An old motherboard with 1GB of DDR ram

With an Intel idk

 

The was even dirt under the capacitors

[SimplyChunk]

7 minutes ago, Mardax007 said:

An old motherboard with 1GB of I think DDR2 ram

That's DDR not DDR2  

[X-System]

2 hours ago, Mardax007 said:

An old motherboard with 1GB of DDR ram

With an Intel idk

 

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The was even dirt under the capacitors

 

2 hours ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

That's DDR not DDR2  

 

But the manual says this motherboard supports SDRAM PC100/133 up to 512MB max.

 

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock370/815ep/cusl2-c/cusl2c-104.pdf

[SimplyChunk]

12 minutes ago, X-System said:

But the manual says this motherboard supports SDRAM PC100/133 up to 512MB max.

That's my mistake i was going by the two notches on the slot and that is SDRAM you're right

[Bitter]

That would  be a Pentium 3 class CPU, maybe a Celeron Pentium 3.

[seagate_surfer]

12 hours ago, Bitter said:

That would  be a Pentium 3 class CPU, maybe a Celeron Pentium 3.

 

18 hours ago, Mardax007 said:

An old motherboard with 1GB of DDR ram

With an Intel idk

 

The was even dirt under the capacitors

You guys brought so many memories... Thanks! 

[Bitter]

51 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

 

You guys brought so many memories... Thanks! 

North Bridge heat sink is that classic Soyo style and color that seems like everyone ripped off. Pretty sure I have a similar board to that in my basement right now and a few Pentium3/P3 Celery chips as well. No reason I'm hanging onto them, just forget to toss the stuff.

[Mitko_DSV]

On 2/27/2020 at 10:12 AM, Mardax007 said:

-shortened-

*Asus CUSL2-C picture*

Well, this is almost the same as mine which is Asus TUSL2-C (I upgraded the PC of a coleague of my mom and got his old parts - this motherboard, CPU and RAM)

Thoughts before posting, but after post was done: 'Well, was about to post only the first picture, but I found a bunch more, so it became a pretty long post...'

This is the RAM

Here's three GPU's I used with this motherboard (the one in the middle came with the motherboard). These are nVidia GeForce MX2 400 32MB, MX4 440 64MB and ATi Radeon 9550/9555 128MB (don't remember exact models anymore)

Here is it installed in a case

This time with a 40GB HDD, too

Aaand it works

Sadly it isn't very stable and sometimes doesn't even want to boot, haven't had time to troubleshoot. But I did do test it a bit.

Started by installing Windows Millennium...

And it was installed

Decided to connect it to the internet

And it went pretty well...

Worked very stable indeed So I decided to try Windows 2000. Installed it in dual-boot with Win ME.

Set-up everything and tried internet. Obviously needed a more modern browser and I found one, Pale Moon I think it was. Even tried a YouTube video (didn't have a sound card, still doesn't have one)...

Then I kind of lost interest in this PC and it sat in my closet for months. Decided to put it in a better case since I had one and now it's in storage.

Here's some more info for the CPU and motherboard (for some reason it ran more stable OC'd to 1.1GHz or 1.3GHz than when running stock 1GHz).

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, Mitko_DSV said:

Glorious.

[X-System]

I already show the picture of my 3 PC collections (IBM & Toshiba) from June 2019 in this topic :

 

 

But the informations of hardware was a bit wrong. Today, I added 3 PC collections with good informations in my signature

[Beerzerker]

Another piece I have, this one is a rare DFI LanParty Socket 939 NF3-250 AGP slot board.

 

[sub68]

Found a 80gb hard drive and now boot and nuke

[Bitter]

10 minutes ago, sub68 said:

Found a 80gb hard drive and now boot and nuke

I know I'm not supposed to quote pictures BUT DO NOT RUN A MOTHERBOARD SITTING ON A SHEET OF METAL YOU WILL SURELY NUKE SOMETHING AND IT WON'T BE WHAT YOU WANTED TO NUKE.

[sub68]

9 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I know I'm not supposed to quote pictures BUT DO NOT RUN A MOTHERBOARD SITTING ON A SHEET OF METAL YOU WILL SURELY NUKE SOMETHING AND IT WON'T BE WHAT YOU WANTED TO NUKE.

There is rubber pads under the motherboard 

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, sub68 said:

There is rubber pads under the motherboard 

Ok good, I was about to call the fire department to your house for you LOL

[sub68]

12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Ok good, I was about to call the fire department to your house for you LOL

Also there is no thermal paste

[sub68]

4 hours ago, Schnoz said:

...you can't see the thermal paste because it's under the CPU cooler.

[freeagent]

Nothing too fancy, and probably not quite old enough. But it’s what I held on to and couldn’t bring myself to sell.

 

 

[sub68]

a core 2 quad I am going to salvage 

[Zando_]

Not super retro, but this mobo is from 2009:

Dropped with the 1st gen of the Core i series (this is a Revision V1.0 so indeed a 2009 board), though I will be running... probably an X5675, which IIRC is from 2011. GPUs are much more recent (2013), but they match the theme so:

 

[Fakmykak]

[freeagent]

This one is my kids rig, it’s an x58 rig with a Xeon x5690 es. I’ve had this setup since 2009. It’s kind of a hodgepodge of parts. That PSU is ancient, but was newish when I retired it.. I needed 2x 8 pin power for my 580 MP, that one only has 2x6. The mixed ram works ok, the 970 runs at 1405 out of the box. It’s not a bad setup if I’m honest. I don’t clock it much anymore because it’s for the kids and it’s fine, and it chews power, though not so much since I retired my 580s.

[Rarity]

got this a while back ,old pre unibody 17' macbook ..design wise still looks good 

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, freeagent said:

This one is my kids rig, it’s an x58 rig with a Xeon x5690 es. I’ve had this setup since 2009. It’s kind of a hodgepodge of parts. That PSU is ancient, but was newish when I retired it.. I needed 2x 8 pin power for my 580 MP, that one only has 2x6. The mixed ram works ok, the 970 runs at 1405 out of the box. It’s not a bad setup if I’m honest. I don’t clock it much anymore because it’s for the kids and it’s fine, and it chews power, though not so much since I retired my 580s.

 

So one suggestion and one question.

Suggestion: If you use small zip ties you can attach that fan through the heat sink fins and cut a lot of noise when it's going at higher speeds. Use the head of one zip tie as an anchor and feed them through the fins and make a big kind of square loop through the fan corner holes, if that makes sense.

 

Question: I'm considering the Macho RT for my 2700x, any reason NOT to get it? I'm pretty sure it'll fit in my case. Reviews show it performing similar to a Noctua NHD15S, but how does it really do in real life day to day? I'm looking to be able to shed about 200W of power, maybe 300W if I overclock. I'm no stranger to high wattage CPU's, I have an X3470 that can OC to 4Ghz and will dump out 300W of heat into a water cooling loop. I am however not as familiar with high wattage and air cooling.