Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

6 hours 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.

I believe that 18.04 is the last 32bit release for Xubuntu or Lubuntu which would be my choice on something older like that. 12.04 is super super old.

[da na]

This is my Radeon HD 4870 x2, to finish off my retro/Windows Vista gaming system. 13 inches, and 4.5 pound beast.

[8tg]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I believe that 18.04 is the last 32bit release for Xubuntu or Lubuntu which would be my choice on something older like that. 12.04 is super super old.

18.04 is too resource intensive

these systems top out at 1gb of ram

12.04 will still run a moderately modern web browser and is still compatible with a lot of other software id use

 

[Bitter]

Xubuntu 20.04 runs smoothly on an Atom 2 core 1.6ghz with 2GB ram.

 

But yeah, it's gotten fatter.

[Kilrah]

I have recently installed 18.04 on an old centrino and it runs well, but it has 2GB RAM. RAM is basically the limit to using old machines for recent things nowadays since a browser will easily use 500MB-1GB...

[Bitter]

X and L Ubuntu are a bit lighter and I think there's even more stripped ones that are still user friendly.

[eddiemcgarrigle]

I think I need to take a trip to the loft and dig out my old ZX Spectrum 48k and Commodore 500 with the additional 4mb expansion card that cost £150 (just the expansion card).

[DK2006]

I’ve got a stick of 512 MB DDR laptop RAM lying around somewhere, and I have an original set of test and install disks for the first version of Ubuntu. I’ve also got a Pentium 4 lying around in a box but IDK if that’s retro enough.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, DK2006 said:

I’ve got a stick of 512 MB DDR laptop RAM lying around somewhere, and I have an original set of test and install disks for the first version of Ubuntu. I’ve also got a Pentium 4 lying around in a box but IDK if that’s retro enough.

Pentium 4 counts.

Is it PGA or LGA?
Also, I have a 128MB SDR SODIMM stick.

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[DK2006]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Pentium 4 counts.

Is it PGA or LGA?
Also, I have a 128MB SDR SODIMM stick.

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It’s LGA. Also that ram is seriously retro.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, DK2006 said:

It’s LGA. Also that ram is seriously retro.

Once Zoom class is done I'll grab my 72-pin SIMMs.

[DK2006]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Once Zoom class is done I'll grab my 72-pin SIMMs.

Wow

[PhoenixFire22588]

Here's the old:

My most recently upgraded parts

Core i7 920

ASUS p6t6 revolution 

12gb ddr3 ripjaws

GTX 770 FE

 

Soon to come: the retro (have to disassemble for proper pics)

[WhitetailAni]

Here ya go:
72-pin SIMMs (I have 6 but 2 are used - they are 4MB modules. I have no idea the capacity of these 4.):

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And my prize possession - an Am486 DX2-80.

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I keep the 486 in a Socket 3 motherboard at all times to preserve its pins.

[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, PhoenixFire22588 said:

Here's the old:

My most recently upgraded parts

Core i7 920

ASUS p6t6 revolution 

12gb ddr3 ripjaws

GTX 770 FE

 

Soon to come: the retro (have to disassemble for proper pics)

Nvidia used that cooler for awhile.
700-series all the way to 1000-series.

[PhoenixFire22588]

2 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Nvidia used that cooler for awhile.
700-series all the way to 1000-series.

Keplar was good architecture 

[PhoenixFire22588]

BEHOLD! 

my stuff...

The Retro:

left to right...

2x1gb ddr2 (ProMOS?)

2.2ghz Celeron

GeForce GT220

[PhoenixFire22588]

and the rest....

1gb Radeon Sapphire Silent!

3.4ghz core i3

2x4gb ddr3 (Patriot)

[RageTester]

Not taking anything apart, my old stuff still works just fine

[BrianTheElectrician]

How about some 30 pin Simms?

 

Also put a Pentium 3 system together a couple days ago. P3 600E in a Gigabyte GA-6BXE motherboard, 256mb PC100 SD-Ram with a 15gb wd caviar hdd and 30gb maxtor hdd. Used a ATI Radeon 8500LE video card, and running Windows 98SE now.

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

How about some 30 pin Simms?

 

Also put a Pentium 3 system together a couple days ago. P3 600E in a Gigabyte GA-6BXE motherboard, 256mb PC100 SD-Ram with a 15gb wd caviar hdd and 30gb maxtor hdd. Used a ATI Radeon 8500LE video card, and running Windows 98SE now

Nice!

Dual optical drives looks cool too
 

[sub68]

@BrianTheElectrician is that a WD800

[BrianTheElectrician]

2 minutes ago, sub68 said:

@BrianTheElectrician is that a WD800

 

LOL why yes it is. Also have a couple wd400 drives too, and an old caviar 31200. Smallest wd drive I have I think is just over 400mb but I'd have to dig that out.

[sub68]

1 minute ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

old caviar 31200

wow I found one of those in my friends house

5 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Smallest wd drive I have I think is just over 400mb but I'd have to dig that out.

holy shoot I have 20gb hdd from a ibm thinkpad

5 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Also have a couple wd400 drives too

cool

[Bitter]

I've got a nearly  matched pair of the WD800's sitting behind me.