Show off your old and retro computer parts

[KablahGaming]

This is definitely not old compared to what is being posted here (google says released in 2008) and by far not retro. It was given to me just was to put it up here. Thinking of building a cheapo computer to run some old doom or age of empires just for fun. Why not?

 

 

[x-eagleeye-x]

Haven't seen Ruby in a while! Back then, ATI had cooler tech demos to show off their GPU than NVIDIA.

[Harry Blakmore 2]

On 12/19/2013 at 3:25 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:

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Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

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Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

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Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

 

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[Harry Blakmore 2]

On 5/9/2020 at 7:27 AM, Harry Blakmore 2 said:

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Can some 1 please tell what grafics card that is i would love to know

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[Cirga]

looks like it might be a Radeon 9550

 

[nerdykid11]

Im 11 years old I have a intel pentinum 4 processor and a 1994 laptop.

Laptop is AST bravo NB running on windows 3.1

 

[nerdykid11]

and 4 MB of RAM

[Bitter]

2 minutes ago, nerdykid11 said:

Im 11 years old I have a intel pentinum 4 processor and a 1994 laptop.

Laptop is AST bravo NB running on windows 3.1

 

 

Just now, nerdykid11 said:

and 4 MB of RAM

Now that's some old stuff! There's lots of fun freeware games that'll run on something that old. One Must Fall 2097 is one of my favorite old games, give it a whirl!

[nerdykid11]

I now but I don't have any charger for it I found it in one of those trailer on the road.

[NoCarrier]

Soundblaster AWE32

[Aendy]

Maybe not a Computer in the normal sense, but here is my retro tech:

[X-System]

17 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

Soundblaster AWE32

 

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It's big card.

 

I have Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA in my Pentium III rig. It's half size of AWE32

 

[Guest]

Opteron 148 + DFI LanParty UT + 7900GS (volt modded after this video) Corsair XMS memory 200+Mhz @ 2-2-2-0 / 2.85v

Phone Drone fly by. Last months comp rig pic

 

 

 

[StDragon]

21 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

Soundblaster AWE32

I had one of those! Not populated with SIMMs though (though the sockets were there). Though I did run my old Creative Labs IDE CDROM drive off it.

 

Ahh the joys DOS and messing with config.sys and autoexec.bat to make PnP (Plug and Pray) work. How I don't miss those days.

 

My old custom PC was the following (and it was high-end for the time)

 

CPU: Intel Pentium 166Mhz

RAM: 24MB of EDO

MB: BioStar w/ 430FX chipset

HDD: 1GB 3.5in IDE Conner

CDROM: 4x spin Creative Labs

Audio: Soundblaster AWE32

Video: Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM S3-968 (2MB)

Video: Diamond Monster 3D (3Dfx Voodoo)

Modem: USR Sportster 33.6k Faxmodem

Monitor: Some Korean SVGA brand that drew a silhouette behind me from all the X-Rays I received over the years. Hey I'm still alive!

 

Playing GL Quake on that thing was nirvana as was Duke Nukem 3D with VESA extensions enabled for 2D acceleration on the S3-968.

 

 

[KablahGaming]

On 5/14/2020 at 11:50 PM, Aendy said:

Maybe not a Computer in the normal sense, but here is my retro tech:

I wish I would have hung onto my Game Boy. I gave away my Nintendo 64. I was an idiot.

[sub68]

My gba and ds lite 

along with some games. I don’t know where my Pokemon red is.

[The King of the Undead]

On 5/16/2020 at 7:12 AM, KablahGaming said:

I wish I would have hung onto my Game Boy. I gave away my Nintendo 64. I was an idiot.

I have a n64. I have no games no controllers no power adapters and no video output. but I have a n64

[Marbo]

On 5/16/2020 at 1:12 PM, KablahGaming said:

I wish I would have hung onto my Game Boy. I gave away my Nintendo 64. I was an idiot.

That's how it works for most. We play with them then pass them on or chuck them out when we get something better. 

 

I'd never have thought of hanging on to my spectrum and atari 2600 back in the 80's thinking they were going to collectable. 

 

My first pc is now as rare as hens teeth, wish I'd kept it. 

[sub68]

11 minutes ago, Marbo said:

That's how it works for most. We play with them then pass them on or chuck them out when we get something better. 

 

I'd never have thought of hanging on to my spectrum and atari 2600 back in the 80's thinking they were going to collectable. 

 

My first pc is now as rare as hens teeth, wish I'd kept it. 

 

56 minutes ago, The King of the Undead said:

I have a n64. I have no games no controllers no power adapters and no video output. but I have a n64

 

On 5/16/2020 at 8:12 AM, KablahGaming said:

I wish I would have hung onto my Game Boy. I gave away my Nintendo 64. I was an idiot.

I feel so sry because my uncle has a n64 donkey Kong edition with the original box

with the cables 

also he has a GameCube 

[The King of the Undead]

16 minutes ago, sub68 said:

 

 

I feel so sry because my uncle has a n64 donkey Kong edition with the original box

with the cables 

also he has a GameCube 

I'd have the cables and games but they are freaking expensive.

[Kilrah]

I have an n64 with a 3 controllers, the cables and 10 games or so, found the lot for cheap a couple of years ago...

Also sold my game boy back in the day to replace it with a game gear. But I still have that one

[KablahGaming]

1 hour ago, The King of the Undead said:

I have a n64. I have no games no controllers no power adapters and no video output. but I have a n64

Rubbing it in there buddy!! haha

[Jam Joy ??]

i fixed a old windows XP PC about a week ago (GPU was bent and not displaying and some ram was dead) . was surprised that it was using just a normal Intel stock cooler... weird right ?

 

Edit: its from 2005 or something.

[Bitter]

54 minutes ago, Jam Joy ?? said:

i fixed a old windows XP PC about a week ago (GPU was bent and not displaying and some ram was dead) . was surprised that it was using just a normal Intel stock cooler... weird right ?

 

Edit: its from 2005 or something.

 

Not a bad socket 775 board, no VRM cooling but that wasn't as much of an issue back then. Looks like an ATI graphics card and probably what was something decent. Intel has been using a similar style cooler since socket 775 boards, so for a long time.

 

BTW that board does have drivers for Windows 7 and likely will also work with Windows 10 probably maybe. Windows 7 runs pretty OK on older hardware like that.

[Jam Joy ??]

49 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Not a bad socket 775 board, no VRM cooling but that wasn't as much of an issue back then. Looks like an ATI graphics card and probably what was something decent. Intel has been using a similar style cooler since socket 775 boards, so for a long time.

 

BTW that board does have drivers for Windows 7 and likely will also work with Windows 10 probably maybe. Windows 7 runs pretty OK on older hardware like that.

window 7 may work that's great news !!  also i was going to fully take it apart and put it back together to get some experience at building computers do you think that is wise ? also thanks for the comment  !!