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In image 20, that's a nVidia GeForce 7800GS, with a whopping 256MB of GDDR3 RAM, it's not much use for modern games, but for older titles like Half Life it'd be just fine, just don't expect amazing performance in games newer than about 2004.

Most of those pictures are all kinds of bad though, some higher quality photo's that show any stickers or branding would go a long way to help, but most of the RAM in those systems look to be DDR2, there's a nice set of Kingston HyperX DDR2 modules in image 11, which if you have an older system would be a nice kit to drop in. The Crucial RAM looks to be their DDR2 value line, most likely the RAM speed is 667MHz so it isn't exactly screaming fast, even for DDR2 and unless it's high capacity RAM, I wouldn't bother wasting your time with it.

The CPU cooler in image 5 is a ThermalTake unit, not sure what it is though, but it's most likely LGA775 compatible only, and because of its age it's fan is most likely going to fail relatively soon, so I wouldn't waste your time on it.

The case in image 2 might be useful if you like the aesthetic, otherwise you're better served with a newer case that's better built.

However the Black ThermalTake case with the fan controller in image 21 looks pretty sweet and would definitely be worth keeping if you like the look of it, I couldn't name the case, as I've never seen it before, but it looks nice imo, although I am in no way a fan of TT, their stuff is usually severly lacking in the build quality area.

The Black card in image 6 is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality soundcard by the looks of it, they're still pretty good even compared to today, however the drivers for Creative's soundcards are pretty bad, but if you want to use it, go ahead, it's still a damn good soundcard.

The motherboard in image 11 is an Intel D865GBF mobo, it only supports a Pentium 4 or a Celeron D CPU, and neither of those are worth having, if you're thinking of reusing that mobo, just remember that Pentium 4 series CPU's were incredibly slow, hot and power hungry, and isn't worth keeping for playing modern games or even doing anything more demanding than basic office work, and while they support Windows Vista and up and work fairly ok, I wouldn't bother running Windows, I'd just put a lightweight Linux distro on it and run them that way.

The blue coloured GPU is a BFG branded GPU, and is either a nVidia 6xxx, 7xxx or 8xxx GPU, it might be worth keeping if you have a system with AGP, otherwise, it's an interesting keepsake to have on hand.

Most of the Hard Drives are PATA/IDE drives, and unless your Uncle had files that are important to your family, I would probably retire them as they reached the end of their useful lifespan about 5 years ago.

The DVD drives look like they could be reused if you have a need for them, but that's your call, a new DVD drive is only about $20, so it's not exactly a great value item that's worth keeping.
 

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My uncle passed a few years back, and I've recently stumbled upon his two gaming rigs. Can you help identify any of the parts inside? Some of the photos are shit, but I've taken a bunch. I know some of the sticks are Crucial, but I'm not sure what. That CPU cooler looks kinda cool, and I'm not sure what graphics cards the two computers have. Anything worth to nick, and put into my own rig?

 

The first, black machine had a weird two fan blue cooling thing on the side.

 

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Also, theres a third, watercooled computer I've yet to crack open. If I'm able to get permission I will disassemble all three, and lay them out. The dust.. it's killing me.

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The parts should have model numbers and such on them somewhere, or at least the brands.

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Thermal Take CPU cooler, old ass GPU, it has a molex connector...

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you have a bfg edition gpu.... I hate you

 

also that fan controler on page 21.. holly bnall I want it xD

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Damn, that's a bfg card which means that's an old rig. Basically, not much in there would be of use. With a card that old it's most likely running DDR2, the sound card is only going to be less powerful than most built in cards on motherboards nowadays, and the harddrives =/= sata, so their quite a bit slower, and bulkier, along with less cap than most today as well. 

 

If you wanted to frankenstein it into a server computer, or a low-end gaming rig it could work, but unless you're running all super super low-end stuff in your machine, there's not gonna really be anything useful. yYou might get some use from the fan controller, but that's about it.

 

 

 

you have a bfg edition gpu.... I hate you

 

also that fan controler on page 21.. holly bnall I want it xD

 

 

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Don't think that other than the fan controller there's anything there that's compatible with modern hardware.

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wow, I see a Chieftech dragon case in there (the blue one). I have the same case but in black, buried amidst other old hardware. was a popular gaming case around the time of the 8800 GTX era.

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So from what I've got the useful bit from these two machines are the fan controllers, and possibly audio card. Is that blue side cooler thingy of any use, and is that CPU cooler better than a stock intel cooler? I'll be sure to post pictures of the watercooled system the next chance I get. I'm guessing it'll have the best parts of all three.

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In image 20, that's a nVidia GeForce 7800GS, with a whopping 256MB of GDDR3 RAM, it's not much use for modern games, but for older titles like Half Life it'd be just fine, just don't expect amazing performance in games newer than about 2004.

Most of those pictures are all kinds of bad though, some higher quality photo's that show any stickers or branding would go a long way to help, but most of the RAM in those systems look to be DDR2, there's a nice set of Kingston HyperX DDR2 modules in image 11, which if you have an older system would be a nice kit to drop in. The Crucial RAM looks to be their DDR2 value line, most likely the RAM speed is 667MHz so it isn't exactly screaming fast, even for DDR2 and unless it's high capacity RAM, I wouldn't bother wasting your time with it.

The CPU cooler in image 5 is a ThermalTake unit, not sure what it is though, but it's most likely LGA775 compatible only, and because of its age it's fan is most likely going to fail relatively soon, so I wouldn't waste your time on it.

The case in image 2 might be useful if you like the aesthetic, otherwise you're better served with a newer case that's better built.

However the Black ThermalTake case with the fan controller in image 21 looks pretty sweet and would definitely be worth keeping if you like the look of it, I couldn't name the case, as I've never seen it before, but it looks nice imo, although I am in no way a fan of TT, their stuff is usually severly lacking in the build quality area.

The Black card in image 6 is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality soundcard by the looks of it, they're still pretty good even compared to today, however the drivers for Creative's soundcards are pretty bad, but if you want to use it, go ahead, it's still a damn good soundcard.

The motherboard in image 11 is an Intel D865GBF mobo, it only supports a Pentium 4 or a Celeron D CPU, and neither of those are worth having, if you're thinking of reusing that mobo, just remember that Pentium 4 series CPU's were incredibly slow, hot and power hungry, and isn't worth keeping for playing modern games or even doing anything more demanding than basic office work, and while they support Windows Vista and up and work fairly ok, I wouldn't bother running Windows, I'd just put a lightweight Linux distro on it and run them that way.

The blue coloured GPU is a BFG branded GPU, and is either a nVidia 6xxx, 7xxx or 8xxx GPU, it might be worth keeping if you have a system with AGP, otherwise, it's an interesting keepsake to have on hand.

Most of the Hard Drives are PATA/IDE drives, and unless your Uncle had files that are important to your family, I would probably retire them as they reached the end of their useful lifespan about 5 years ago.

The DVD drives look like they could be reused if you have a need for them, but that's your call, a new DVD drive is only about $20, so it's not exactly a great value item that's worth keeping.
 

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Aha! I got it! That's a fan mounting bracket from a ThermalTake Xaser, that case isn't a Chieftec Dragon, nvm, I got mixed up with which case was what, the blue one is a Chieftec Dragon, so there you go, the black case is a ThermalTake Xaser, and that blue part is the fan mount for that case.
I don't know which version it is exactly, there's 5 gens of that case I think, It's a TT Xaser III, and back in the day it was considered fairly decent, but not any more :)

In any case, (pun intended) it's crap from the reviews I've just looked at, so it's not really worth keeping, the fan controller might be worth keeping though if it still works :)

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PSU is actually good brand also but I bet its missing power connectors for PCIe just because of the age. Also, no 80Plus rating because of age so goes along the lines of most other stuff.

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