Show off your old and retro computer parts

[DailyProcrastinator]

22 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

If you're looking for durable parts, I think I may have mentioned this to you before, but Arctic parts are surprisingly good.....

100%

 

I haven't owned a ton of their products but I have owned a few and they totally stand up. Every time I use one of their products I am left asking myself why they don't charge more money hahaha. I've used a few 120mm fans, CPU coolers, and my fav is their 80mm PWM fans!

 

And from what I have seen + read their AIO's are A++ build quality. 

[Bitter]

37 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

 

If you're looking for durable parts, I think I may have mentioned this to you before, but Arctic parts are surprisingly good. Their P-series of  fans has a 10-year warranty, and you can get a 5-pack of 120mm fans for like $30 on Amazon. The PST versions of these fans have an additional female fan connector, allowing you to daisy-chain fans. I have five P12's in my system.

 

Apparently Arctic owns their own manufacturing facilities to make this possible. 

Oh bad news, her PC did NOT have the 7800 in it, it's got a GT430. I'm not sure where the 7800 went to, maybe my dad had it...I'll ask if he does and if he'll ship it.

 

Yeah I figured Arctic or Noctua for fans for their long term durability, it's only got a single 120mm case fan. I can add an 80mm to this weird side position but it's kind of useless, supposed to be to cool the hard drives if this tells you how old the case is. I plugged in a spare PSU I had around and it came to life for a moment before I turned it off. The CPU fan and GPU fan barely can turn and kicked out a huge cloud of dust. I'm taking it to work tomorrow to blast the dust out of it so I can work on it here at home.

 

I'm thinking a Ryzen 3 3100, B450 motherboard, 16GB DDR4 3200, some 500GB M.2 SSD with DRAM,not sure what for GPU yet might get a used GTX 1050 or something, and something durable for the PSU. Basically about twice as much PC as she'll need so that in a decades time it'll still be somewhat capable. I'm surprised the Core2Duo was still puttering along, I can't wait to see which CPU it was in there.

[DuckDodgers]

When DFI ruled the OC world!

 

 

 

 

 

[DailyProcrastinator]

6 minutes ago, DuckDodgers said:

I love the slot colors!

[WhitetailAni]

On 5/25/2019 at 6:10 PM, rgb fan said:

here is a  1Gb pc2  ram card soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo old

I can top that:

72-pin SIMMs.

Don't have any 30-pin, but the motherboard that they came from I think supports them.

Total expansion anythings were:

3x VLB

3x 16-bit ISA

1x 5-pin keyboard DIN connector

It had an Am486 DX2-80.

Pictures below:

[WhitetailAni]

On 12/13/2017 at 12:19 PM, Candysandwich99 said:

A windows 98 pentium 3 computer, the install disc for windows 98, old mouse, and an IDE cd drive 

I can literally say the exact same thing.

My disc is scratched half to oblivion though, my Pentium III wasn't a prebuilt, and I don't have the box to my 98 CD.

I have three of that mouse you showed. Four, if you count the Dell one.

I also have three IDE optical drives.

One is 4x.

One is 48x and sometimes the tray doesn't work.

One is 52x or 56x.

 

And a 1GB IBM SCSI hard drive.

Top that.

Without using anything pre 32-bit.

[JaJa Boo Boo]

https://imgur.com/gallery/SV09ft7

My old Athlon 3500 that I keep glued to my wall.  It reminds me of the time, before now, when AMD beat Intel.

[sub68]

On 11/3/2020 at 7:31 PM, Eggs-n-Jakey said:

Check out this calculator/mouse I found at a thrift shop! It's bluetooth lmao I haven't tested it but the buttons have a really nice click to them lol

I like it

I am going to see if I can find one

[Dabombinable]

Due to my Duron 1000 (not installed), and recent order I went with Socket A and my FX 5700 LE. And no that isn't the PSU that had the FDD connector catch fire.

Spoiler

She will end up with my 2x 200GB Sata1 HDD in Raid 0 at some point as well.

 

Edit: I was going to do some final setting up using DVI as I need a new VGA cable...but the FX 5700LE has dead DVI. FX 5600XT with a small overclock (to make it faster than my FX 5500) it is then.

[Opencircuit74]

Found this guy a while back. It still works, surprisingly, and those two GPUs get toasty just sitting there. I can't imagine how hot this thing gets under load.

[Valentyn]

The short lived x86, Rise iDragon processor.

It's a BGA chip, on soldered onto a PGA adapter.

 

[Dabombinable]

6 hours ago, Valentyn said:

The short lived x86, Rise iDragon processor.

It's a BGA chip, on soldered onto a PGA adapter.

 

And there is probably only a single SS7 board that it can be used with, without having to hunt for an appropriate BIOS.

[DeuteriumTSM]

On 11/4/2020 at 1:41 AM, ProjectBox153 said:

Ahh, nice BTX Dell parts. Was that a Dimension?

I think it might have been actually.

[X-System]

The best motherboard for the collection is Sapphire PURE Innovation

 

I would like to have it for my collection. It's beautiful like snow.

 

[Valentyn]

The little Voodoo3 1000, that was for mostly OEM systems.

 

[sub68]

On 11/7/2020 at 8:01 PM, X-System said:

I would like to have it for my collection. It's beautiful like snow.

the back

[Dabombinable]

20 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

The little Voodoo3 1000, that was for mostly OEM systems.

Weaker than the Voodoo3 integrated into my Packard Bell's motherboard...

[Valentyn]

9 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Weaker than the Voodoo3 integrated into my Packard Bell's motherboard...

Yes. Won't stop me having one of each

[broccoli27]

[broccoli27]

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, broccoli27 said:

I've got 2GB of those in 1066mhz, 5-5-5 timings, AT 2.1 VOLTS! Crazy.

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

3 hours ago, broccoli27 said:

-snip-

is that all

/s

I have way too much ddr2. Like 20gb in total. If you give me a older system, I can troubleshoot the FUCK out of it. (I also have some ecc ddr2, a C2Q, and C2D, some ATI FireGL v3250 256mb pcie, and a hd3650). All I can't check is a bad mobo, I dont have a spare lga775 one.

[made zos ion]

when I was on youtube I found this video, I cant watch it, its to graphic for any retro tech collector

Whatever you do, dont do this to your PC. Every PC should be treated with love and care. also the reason why im mad is because the way he handles it.

[WhitetailAni]

AT power supply.

Yes, AT.

Enjoy

 

P.S.

Flipping that comically large switch is so much fun...

 

 

[sub68]

5 hours ago, made zos ion said:

when I was on youtube I found this video, I cant watch it, its to graphic for any retro tech collector

Whatever you do, dont do this to your PC. Every PC should be treated with love and care. also the reason why im mad is because the way he handles it.

Rip those components

And I hope they where dead