Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Fast_N_Curious]

14 hours ago, TehDwonz said:

I never got why some manufacturers do this... decent quality black caps on almost the entire board, then they cheap out on 1-2 with the "guaranteed to fail" brown ones.

You could understand if they did the whole board, or a significant portion, but 2?

Perhaps for an end of life scenario set up by Asus that forces people to upgrade their hardware when the time comes? and force people to upgrade so they can sell their latest motherboards. Sounds a little hair brained, and I'm not sure if I even believe it myself. 

 

 

[BrianTheElectrician]

29 minutes ago, Bitter said:

REPORTED!

Didn't you get the memo, can't say that anymore. It's Primary and Secondary, always has been.

Not according to every ide drive I've ever seen it isn't . Primary and secondary controllers, yes but each controller can have a "master" and/or "slave" device. 

 

Maybe that's changed now lol but all the old devices I deal with that's how they're marked, politically correct or not.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

6 minutes ago, Starman57 said:

Yup.  Good stuff.  My system is running the 2500 at 3200 inside this with the A7N8X-E.

 

Cable management?  Who needs that.  That's what the inside of the case is for.  Better cooling on the tubes too as they're out in the open.

 

Besides, you couldn't see it anyway as the case sides are solid.

I'm still kicking myself for throwing out my old working Soltek nForce 2. It was around the time Linus was working on this video:

And I live in the Vancouver area too so could've donated it to them to have a working build. Mine too was in an Antec Sonata II as well albeit my case was a bit more beat up than the one they had.

[Starman57]

7 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I'm still kicking myself for throwing out my old working Soltek nForce 2.

I usually try not to throw things out unless I KNOW there's no use for it.

 

Yeah, the Nforce 2 (the Ultra 400) version was the go-to board of the day.  I bought two of them.  Sadly one of them died from capacitor plague.  I tried recapping it, but to no avail.  It's non posting.  I suspect when the main caps popped, it took the processor too.  I haven't the heart right now to disassemble the water cooled rig to check the processor (it too is a 2500 that does 3200).

 

One day maybe, when the water cooled rig needs a re-tubing (which will be soon - still original tubes and coolant)!

[Dabombinable]

2 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

LOL I know right? Or jumpers and manually setting fsb/multipliers, master/slave on ide devices or manual irq and DMA addresses. They have it so easy now

 

And that's good to know about the compaq board, and knowing I wasn't out to lunch on my suspicion lol

You'll have to ask around btw if you want the updated BIOS - I managed to get everything for my particular revision before Intel took it all down.

I could give you the manual/full documentation though.

 

  

I'll be adding my first Radeon dGPU (seriously dislike the MR 9000 Pro igp - single channel DDR3 333 didn't help, lets see what higher clocks+memory bandwidth will do) and top end Thoroughbred to my collection soon.
And I need to decide on which motherboard goes in here - my dual S370 or my new socket A:

Spoiler

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 hours ago, Starman57 said:

I usually try not to throw things out unless I KNOW there's no use for it.

 

Yeah, the Nforce 2 (the Ultra 400) version was the go-to board of the day.  I bought two of them.  Sadly one of them died from capacitor plague.  I tried recapping it, but to no avail.  It's non posting.  I suspect when the main caps popped, it took the processor too.  I haven't the heart right now to disassemble the water cooled rig to check the processor (it too is a 2500 that does 3200).

 

One day maybe, when the water cooled rig needs a re-tubing (which will be soon - still original tubes and coolant)!

To be fair, at the time I just had too many old systems lying around. I had no use for it. Mainly used it to mess with Vista every now and then. Had I known LTT was looking for one, I would've donated it. In terms of XP machines, I still had an old Pentium 4HT system and an Acer TravelMate 4200 lying around. Then I had my main rig, my school laptop, and a spare Phenom II X2 system in my room. So plenty of more usable machines on hand. Best to start purging them now before I end up like our good old friend @BrianTheElectrician. 

[BrianTheElectrician]

4 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

You'll have to ask around btw if you want the updated BIOS - I managed to get everything for my particular revision before Intel took it all down.

I could give you the manual/full documentation though.

 

  

I'll be adding my first Radeon dGPU (seriously dislike the MR 9000 Pro igp - single channel DDR3 333 didn't help, lets see what higher clocks+memory bandwidth will do) and top end Thoroughbred to my collection soon.
And I need to decide on which motherboard goes in here - my dual S370 or my new socket A:

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Meh, I'm not too worried about having the latest bios for it, it works fine as it is. The only thing that I can think of that I would want the latest for would be if it supported larger hard drives, but then I have lots of smaller old ones as well I can use instead, plus there are always IDE to SD adapters to boot as well. That's exciting to be getting your first Radeon as well, let us know how you like it. My pick would be the socket A for the build, but then dual s370 is pretty unique as well. both are good choices

 

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

To be fair, at the time I just had too many old systems lying around. I had no use for it. Mainly used it to mess with Vista every now and then. Had I known LTT was looking for one, I would've donated it. In terms of XP machines, I still had an old Pentium 4HT system and an Acer TravelMate 4200 lying around. Then I had my main rig, my school laptop, and a spare Phenom II X2 system in my room. So plenty of more usable machines on hand. Best to start purging them now before I end up like our good old friend @BrianTheElectrician. 

LOL Ouch! I'll have you know that while I brought computers home this weekend, I also stripped a bunch to clear space for the new bunch.   Mainly small form factor systems, and need to do a purge of my motherboards that I know I'm not going to use as well (1st/2nd gen core cpus/motherboards anyone?). Also scored a few systems in nice cases, including 3x 1000w power supplies, decent motherboards and i5 4690k's. Even scored a GTX 780, though not sure if that works yet. Time to replace the kitchen computer and the workshop system too!

 

PS: Where in Vancouver are you located? Need any parts? I might know a guy with a few extras!

[Dabombinable]

22 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Meh, I'm not too worried about having the latest bios for it, it works fine as it is. The only thing that I can think of that I would want the latest for would be if it supported larger hard drives, but then I have lots of smaller old ones as well I can use instead, plus there are always IDE to SD adapters to boot as well. That's exciting to be getting your first Radeon as well, let us know how you like it. My pick would be the socket A for the build, but then dual s370 is pretty unique as well. both are good choices

I'll be doing a direct comparison between this and the laptop's 9000 igp - in DX8.1 though since DX9 (which the laptop was marketed as being capable of - liars) has stability issues:

This will be running on a 400MHz FSB (aka @ 2.4GHz) - Sempron still beats an Athlon XP 1800+, even though its Celeron PR vs Pentium 4 PR:

I'm glad I bought a cooler that can handle an Athlon XP 3000+. It might do well with a Duron 1000 on a 200MHz FSB (actual not effective)

[RollinLower]

9 hours ago, Starman57 said:

Besides, you couldn't see it anyway as the case sides are solid.

oldschool watercooling, looks absolutely jank.

i love it!

[Jacksoncraft859]

On 12/19/2013 at 4:25 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

This is my current working MacBook Pro 

 

[XGoodGuyFitz]

dang early 2011. 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Jacksoncraft859 said:

This is my current working MacBook Pro 

Have you had any GPU issues? Those are notorious for bad GPUs. My 15" 2011 is dead because of it.

[Mope El Two]

Just some of the things I have still hanging in the office, I have to take a look at home for some more stuff.

[Starman57]

8 hours ago, RollinLower said:

oldschool watercooling, looks absolutely jank.

i love it!

Yup.  Janky it is.  Effective too.

 

Sometime along this journey through computer stuff, esthetics became important.  LEDs are another form of the sickness.  Old school was more important about flow rates in CFM, head height that the pump delivered, and of course water additives to reduce or eliminate ion migration from dissimilar metals.  Plumb that sucker up with the right stuff and profit on cooler, quieter and more effective operation.  Close that case up to hide the "details" of the install.  Out of sight, out of mind.

 

Oh, and just to be clear, don't worry, I've succumbed to the esthetic sickness as as well.  Latest rig is replete with all sorts of LEDs on fans, cases and memory.  Looks "purty",  doesn't add a scrap of better performance though.  Actually, sucks more juice from the PSU.

 

[Valentyn]

3 hours ago, Mope El Two said:

Just some of the things I have still hanging in the office, I have to take a look at home for some more stuff.

 

 

 

I love what I see!

[Fast_N_Curious]

5 hours ago, Mope El Two said:

Just some of the things I have still hanging in the office, I have to take a look at home for some more stuff.

 

 

 

This sound card definitely brings back some memories.. Such a distinctive look, thanks for sharing!

[Vincent Vanhorn]

look at all this old tech its better than the laptop i currently use

 

[Vincent Vanhorn]

[Valentyn]

What a beauty! Handcrafted from the 5500. The Voodoo5 5800 Special Edition. Has 128MB, with a switch for 64MB mode. Uses the same 3rd Rev 355-0026-320: VSA-100 chips as the Voodoo 5 6000; and improved heatsinks.

I'm currently in the process of designing, and making a prototype box for this lovely, so it can also have something to go with it.

 

[vaibhavchanana]

I saw my dad's old pc from june 2000

Pentium iii 733mhz 

and other sound card and other expansion cards

256mb RAM with 2 notches 

its an HP pavilion 8639 no information on google

photos are at link down -

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_QFYN2poqC6P0wQ3cgwcZSyus8yb8xHs?usp=sharing

[ProjectBox153]

Are you looking to get it running again? Is it broken?

[Dedayog]

7 minutes ago, vaibhavchanana said:

I saw my dad's old pc from june 2000

Pentium iii 733mhz 

and other sound card and other expansion cards

256mb RAM with 2 notches 

its an HP pavilion 8639 no information on google

photos are at link down -

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_QFYN2poqC6P0wQ3cgwcZSyus8yb8xHs?usp=sharing

What's the question?

[Spotty]

54 minutes ago, vaibhavchanana said:

I saw my dad's old pc from june 2000

Merged with the Show off your old & Retro PC thread.

You can also add images to the forums directly if you like, just drag the images in to your post. More people will likely see the photos that way than a google drive link.

[Simone_ltt]

INTEL PENTIUM 4   1.7 GHZ 
AND 
HYNIX 512 MB RAM 

[HanZie82]

I was about go dig up some old parts. But scrolling trough this topic im like yeah fuck it.
Either talk or post pictures. Ive been trough 5 pages and only saw like 30% pictures. No thanks.

 

Edit:

Ok fine, then some not to old parts...