Show off your old and retro computer parts

[brentdahamster]

2 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Did you install Windows 2000 on it? Win2K would not have shipped on a Core 2 Duo machine, especially not an Inspiron. 

It barely ran XP so installed Win 2000

[brentdahamster]

3 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I bet Vista was too crappy

Yay, It would always lock up

[brentdahamster]

2 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

I'm one of those odd people who liked Windows Vista. It's still in use on a couple of my systems. 

I liked Windows Vista Graphically but anything else its a notta. Windows Vista helped Windows 7 came what it was and I like it for that.

[ProjectBox153]

8 minutes ago, BrentonOof said:

It barely ran XP so installed Win 2000

XP should run beautifully on a Core 2 Duo. Are you sure that it was a C2D?

[Mitko_DSV]

17 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

*picture of PC*

Does the floppy drive work? How have you connected it? I've wanted to put a floppy drive in my PC for a few years now, but my motherboard does not have a floppy controller. I have the drive, though. It's even black like my case.

[da na]

On 11/13/2020 at 4:19 PM, Valentyn said:

It had potential.

The V4 4500 AGP, even had x4GP support, clearly Napalm, and then Rampage were going to get there.
They just never had that chance sadly.

 

 

that's insane

[WhitetailAni]

6 hours ago, Mitko_DSV said:

Does the floppy drive work? How have you connected it? I've wanted to put a floppy drive in my PC for a few years now, but my motherboard does not have a floppy controller. I have the drive, though. It's even black like my case.

All 4 drives work, though the 250MB Zip drive thinks it's a 100MB Zip drive.

The floppy drive is connected via this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-44MB-3-5-Floppy-Drive-Connector-34-PIN-34P-to-USB-Cable-Adapter-PCB-Board/153417986362?epid=9020180466&hash=item23b86cb13a:g:z-4AAOSwQg9b0m-t
NOTE:
It won't work instantly right away.

Mine was stuck on read-only, but I set up a script to tell it to format the disk a bunch and then it started working.
Zip drive and upper optical drive are connected via IDE, and Blu-Ray drive is connected via SATA, to this:
https://www.newegg.com/p/1B4-00SN-00024?Item=9SIA62V9SK3537
It won't give you full SATA speed (it's PCIe 2.0 x1, so 500 MB/s total) but it will give you full IDE speed.

A whole 133 MB/s!

[Mitko_DSV]

@ragnarok0273Thanks. Didn't know there were such boards (floppy to USB). I'll keep the note in mind if/when I buy one (have to find a way to buy one in Bulgaria).

I have a SATA DVD RW drive in my PC so no problem with that. And you saying it's just PCIe 2.0 x1 and 500MB/s not being full SATA speed.... well... my PC has only PCIe 2.0 and SATA 2... I guess my hardware is getting old, I mean I bought this PC in May 2012, almost 9 years old now, a few more years and it'll be suitable for this thread.

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Mitko_DSV said:

@ragnarok0273Thanks. Didn't know there were such boards (floppy to USB). I'll keep the note in mind if/when I buy one (have to find a way to buy one in Bulgaria).

I have a SATA DVD RW drive in my PC so no problem with that. And you saying it's just PCIe 2.0 x1 and 500MB/s not being full SATA speed.... well... my PC has only PCIe 2.0 and SATA 2... I guess my hardware is getting old, I mean I bought this PC in May 2012, almost 9 years old now, a few more years and it'll be suitable for this thread.

The hardware I have is split across three years - 2010, 2017, and 2020.

My dad originally built this in 2010 with a Phenom X3 paired with an Asus board with Core Unlocker, plus said IDE optical drive.
He then upgraded it in late 2017 with a Ryzen 5 1600X and an Asus ROG B350-F Gaming. As it had no IDE port, the optical drive was not plugged in, but remained in the case.

He then gave it to me, and during cleaning, I removed the CPU cooler incorrectly and bent some pins on the 1600X.

I then got a 3600 in August, which I put in, then I got the PCIe IDE/SATA card in October, and put the Zip drive in as well.

In December, I put in the floppy drive, converter board, and Blu-Ray drive.
Next part is an ASRock X570 Steel Legend.

[gergy008]

19 hours ago, OGKRG said:

Here is my 10 year old system. Enjoy! 

 

*snip*

 

Is it weird I actually remember Linus unboxing that motherboard?

[Valentyn]

This little Quantum3D Raven arrived a while back, no heatsink and a dirty heart. She’s now been cleansed and clad with a new heatsink. Happy days!

 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Valentyn said:

This little Quantum3D Raven arrived a while back, no heatsink and a dirty heart. She’s now been cleansed and clad with a new heatsink. Happy days!

PCI bracket?

[Valentyn]

10 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

PCI bracket?

 

Also missing, got the entire little thing for next to nothing. It still works thankfully.

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Valentyn said:

 

Also missing, got the entire little thing for next to nothing. It still works thankfully.

Not a bad tradeoff.

[Bitter]

 

This channel has some really fascinating old computer tech on it.

[da na]

That's so cool! I will say, would be more epic if the 2, 4, and 9 were in different places...

[Guest]

Found a pic of my i7 965 Extreme system that's actually built.

Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Motherboard

3x 2GB DDR3 1600 Triple Channel Memory

2x Unknown Geforce Something Something

OCZ Z-Drive M84 OCZSSDPCIE-ZDM84256G PCI-E 256GB

XCLIO Windtunnel Fully Black Case (that was not black on the inside so the name is a lie)

 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Den-Fi said:

Found a pic of my i7 965 Extreme system that's actually built.

Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Motherboard

3x 2GB DDR3 1600 Triple Channel Memory

2x Unknown Geforce Something Something

OCZ Z-Drive M84 OCZSSDPCIE-ZDM84256G PCI-E 256GB

XCLIO Windtunnel Fully Black Case (that was not black on the inside so the name is a lie)

You didn't connect the SLI fingers...

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

You didn't connect the SLI fingers...

Ok.

[8tg]

I bought a Thinkpad G40 from someone who doesnt really know what they have. They showed it booting into XP and saying it made a lot of noise and thats all that matters on that regard. Sniped it and got the rest of the stuff i needed, new keyboard entirely because it was missing keys in the picture, 32gb IDE SSD to replace the aging 4200rpm hard drive, a new battery, a 3ghz Pentium 4 engineering sample and 1gb of ram.

If you've never seen these machines before, these are laptops with desktop socket 478 in them, which take full on pentium 4's. Not mobile, not downclocked, 68-89 watt pentium 4's. It does this with a massive two fan heatsink, and actually stays fairly quiet.

 

Gonna get it up and running with either a fresh install of XP on the SSD or 32bit lubuntu 12.04, for the linux equivalent of basically windows 7. So i can still browse the web on it without too much hassle. XP can do that as well with new moon but theres way more compatibility issues with trying to do much of anything else.

 

Then im gonna daily the laptop until i cant take it anymore.

[AndreiArgeanu]

On 1/6/2021 at 11:54 PM, lotus10101 said:

Duuude you have a Lightscribe, wouldn't have any blank cd_r you would part with would you? I can't find them anymore 

Lightscribe cd-r are still available, at least in the UK, not at reasonable prices, but definitely available.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, 8tg said:

I bought a Thinkpad G40 from someone who doesnt really know what they have. They showed it booting into XP and saying it made a lot of noise and thats all that matters on that regard. Sniped it and got the rest of the stuff i needed, new keyboard entirely because it was missing keys in the picture, 32gb IDE SSD to replace the aging 4200rpm hard drive, a new battery, a 3ghz Pentium 4 engineering sample and 1gb of ram.

 

If you've never seen these machines before, these are laptops with desktop socket 478 in them, which take full on pentium 4's. Not mobile, not downclocked, 68-89 watt pentium 4's. It does this with a massive two fan heatsink, and actually stays fairly quiet.

 

Gonna get it up and running with either a fresh install of XP on the SSD or 32bit lubuntu 12.04, for the linux equivalent of basically windows 7. So i can still browse the web on it without too much hassle. XP can do that as well with new moon but theres way more compatibility issues with trying to do much of anything else.

 

Then im gonna daily the laptop until i cant take it anymore.

Laptops where so awesome back then. Could swap desktop and mobile chips in most cases the Cpu would work in either or.  Socket 754 AMD was just like s478. Basically a desktop board jammed into a laptop XD. Those where the days. 

 

You won't find an adequate browser to work on XP these days I don't think. Last time I tried recently, anything online didn't seem to work. Browsers like Blue Moon I think it was. One issue is that modern browsers don't work on XP. The other is the operating system and cpu to have the instruction set resources to run modern browsers. At least, that's what I had gathered and quickly gave up after trying 3 different browsers, 1 of which wouldn't even install.

[8tg]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Laptops where so awesome back then. Could swap desktop and mobile chips in most cases the Cpu would work in either or.  Socket 754 AMD was just like s478. Basically a desktop board jammed into a laptop XD. Those where the days. 

 

You won't find an adequate browser to work on XP these days I don't think. Last time I tried recently, anything online didn't seem to work. Browsers like Blue Moon I think it was. One issue is that modern browsers don't work on XP. The other is the operating system and cpu to have the instruction set resources to run modern browsers. At least, that's what I had gathered and quickly gave up after trying 3 different browsers, 1 of which wouldn't even install.

It was more of the other way around briefly, Socket 478 was desktop oriented and there were these rare few laptops that used it, but later a smaller version of the socket was re-used for mobile core duos called socket M

Socket 479 was kinda cool because it originated as a platform for Pentium 3's and Pentium M's but everyone decided that socket 478 was stupid and high clock speed housefires were also stupid, so companies started making s479 motherboards for desktop use.

Its like if today everyone got fed up with intel and amd releasing 65 watt processors so mobo manufacturers put out mobile motherboards for desktop use because everyone just wanted less heat and noise.

 

As for a browser, New Moon. Its pale moon meant for XP and Vista. Alternatively firefox 48 or chrome 49. Ive used windows XP as a primary OS for a while on and off, its going to be the hardware holding me back more than the OS.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, 8tg said:

It was more of the other way around briefly, Socket 478 was desktop oriented and there were these rare few laptops that used it, but later a smaller version of the socket was re-used for mobile core duos called socket M

Socket 479 was kinda cool because it originated as a platform for Pentium 3's and Pentium M's but everyone decided that socket 478 was stupid and high clock speed housefires were also stupid, so companies started making s479 motherboards for desktop use.

Its like if today everyone got fed up with intel and amd releasing 65 watt processors so mobo manufacturers put out mobile motherboards for desktop use because everyone just wanted less heat and noise.

 

As for a browser, New Moon. Its pale moon meant for XP and Vista. Alternatively firefox 48 or chrome 49. Ive used windows XP as a primary OS for a while on and off, its going to be the hardware holding me back more than the OS.

Couldn't get a browser to work, but then my XP install is light, so it may be missing a service needed lol. No worries, I bench with XP more so that use it for a daily, but that would be retro cool as F in my book.

 

The Asus CT-479 you could "adapt" 478 cpus to 479 motherboards  

Some (probably most boards) would just need a little modification and Cpu identification injected to the bios. 

Other than that, my only point was all the modding that was accomplished on these older parts.  

[8tg]

this ram is worth about 20 times more than ddr4 on a gb/$ standpoint

 

thats my casual flex for parts so rare that any price goes