Show off your old and retro computer parts

[cawilkey]

MSI 7800GTX (2005) and EVGA 8800GTS 640MB w/ ACS3 cooler (2006)!  I keep these around to remind myself how far things have come in such a short time.

 

[Kilrah]

5 minutes ago, cawilkey said:

MSI 7800GTX (2005)

Heh, have the same one, friend had it laying around and gave it to me some 10 years ago when my GPU died so I could at least have a display adapter during the few days it took to get a replacement. The fan on this thing is a loud piece of junk...

[Radium_Angel]

22 minutes ago, cawilkey said:

MSI 7800GTX

I kind of miss the days where pretty graphics covered the heatsink like that

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I kind of miss the days where pretty graphics covered the heatsink like that

maybe not

 

[The King of the Undead]

I have a compaq presario c303NR. does anyone here know where to find A manuel for old stuff?

[sub68]

23 minutes ago, The King of the Undead said:

I have a compaq presario c303NR. does anyone here know where to find A manuel for old stuff?

usually I google model than manual than find a pdf

[smaky]

On 12/21/2013 at 1:50 PM, MatthewEnderle said:

 

Meanwhile, in the quarry.................

[thatpc.]

On 8/14/2020 at 10:52 AM, cawilkey said:

MSI 7800GTX

Wow it’s older than me 

[luckybob77]

3 hours ago, ISHAJDM said:

Wow it’s older than me 

do you have your parent's permission to be on the internet?

[thatpc.]

12 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

do you have your parent's permission to be on the internet?

Yeah I always tell my dad about what’s going on in the forum and latest tech news

[X-System]

IBM Microdrive 1GB kit, I bought it for my Nikon CoolPix 5000 (bought same day too), 17 years ago

 

 

It still works, I tested today

 

[Kilrah]

Cool, had a 3GB one I bought used back in the day... it died pretty quickly unfortnately, and yes it was dead slow.

 

I took it apart and think I might still have it in a box somewhere.

[Bitter]

On 8/14/2020 at 12:39 PM, Schnoz said:

@Bitter actually sent me the BFG version of the 7800 GTX. I love that thing, and it's very useful nowadays for its DVI outputs and in retro rigs.

Oh yeah, I located the other one of the SLI pair. It's still in use in New Mexico in my step mothers desktop. To get it I have to build her a new desktop PC! I probably will anyway at some point, I've got spare stuff around and was slowly gearing up to build something AMD this time but most of my spares are DDR3 Intel stuff, easily light years ahead of the Core2Duo I'm sure she has now. Might just do another SFF system with a low profile 1650 like I built my dad, it's compact and quiet with plenty of processing power, but I might see if I can swing one of those weird mobile i7 re-soldered CPU's for her since she does some art stuff sometimes, the extra CPU power for burst use in photo editing might be handy!

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

Wow, it's hard to believe that that BFG card is still working fine! I know it uses polymer caps, but a good portion of video cards I've found from that era are mostly dead due to various issues. From what I heard, BFG was amazing.

 

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wait wrong BFG

 

[Bitter]

It's the other BFG!

[X-System]

53 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Oh nice, is that Doom? Wait, what does that mean? Sorry, I don't understand it rn.

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/BFG9000

[luckybob77]

i love the model 25.  I have 5!  is yours color?  

I put an ATI VGA stereo FX in mine with an Adaptec scsi card.

[luckybob77]

Thats awesome.  the model 25 is my favorite system in the 808x era.  Its so much more convienent to use than my 5160/5153 combo.  

[Drama Lama]

On 8/18/2020 at 9:19 PM, Hakemon said:

IBM PS/2

Is that the computer that gave the PS2 connector it’s name?

[eece_ret]

My wife made me throw it all away  

[DailyProcrastinator]

4 hours ago, eece_ret said:

My wife made me throw it all away  

 

17 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

-Snip-

[Bitter]

Yeah I got one of those in a good (ran when parked) Asus board in my basement, it'll do at least 4Ghz probably more cause I didn't know what I was doing back then so well.

[The King of the Undead]

10 hours ago, Bitter said:

Yeah I got one of those in a good (ran when parked) Asus board in my basement, it'll do at least 4Ghz probably more cause I didn't know what I was doing back then so well.

I have a 3.06 ghz pentium 4. I should put XP or something on it.

[DailyProcrastinator]

19 hours ago, Schnoz said:

I'm kinda sensitive about this because people sometimes throw away a LOT of good stuff. In fact, the 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 EE that I found (fastest one that could fit in Socket 478) was found with bent pins in an e-waste bin.

I mean move on from the wife lol. But yes I agree, the e-waste we produce as a society, especially in western countries is insane. 

[Lanrick]

This is me playing my old HP Computer! It ran Windows XP, I think.