My First Custom Watercooled PC - Post pics of your old, outdated gaming rig (gotta be at least 5 years old)

[Vassili62]

Sadly I dont have any pictures of it. But my first computer build was the following:

I386
256MB of ram. Yes SDRam.
20GB IDE 5400 RPM hard drive.
I even was awesome enough to have a 5.25" Floppy for it.

Ah, those were the days!

[Modzy]

My first water cooled beast.
 

AMD XP 3200 Barton
Abit AN7 Motherbard
2x256mb Geil Golden Dragon PC3200
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
40GB OS + 160GB Storage
Antec Super Lanboy Case
Thermaltake Big Water kit + Tt GPU block.

*Edit, added photos of my old sexy modded MSI CD burner with an in-car lighting kit modded to show it off.

**Edit, I am a huge fan of silver cases, so i held onto that case for far too long. And it is still being used today as our ghetto steam box in our entertainment room. Photo taken today with an AMD A10 6600, GTX 460 in it.



 

[warmmilk]

Built this almost 5 years ago...

i7 930

AMD 5770 (later crossfire, only played GTA 4, didn't make a difference and was stupid loud)

Later switched to Silverstone Raven case

[GodIsAnAstronaut]

My first water cooled beast.

 

AMD XP 3200 Barton

Abit AN7 Motherbard

2x256mb Geil Golden Dragon PC3200

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

40GB OS + 160GB Storage

Antec Super Lanboy Case

Thermaltake Big Water kit + Tt GPU block.

*Edit, added photos of my old sexy modded MSI CD burner with an in-car lighting kit modded to show it off.

**Edit, I am a huge fan of silver cases, so i held onto that case for far too long. And it is still being used today as our ghetto steam box in our entertainment room. Photo taken today with an AMD A10 6600, GTX 460 in it.

 

Why did you put that apple sticker on there... Shame.

[ekka]

One of my old rigs from about 7 years ago. 

 

Some sort of MSI motherboard

AMD Sempron 2800+

1GB of memory

Powercolor Radeon X800 Pro

2 x IDE 80GB 7200rpm spanned

7 x SATA drives from 120GB - 200GB

2 x 4 port sata raid controllers

700w Thermaltake PSU

Thermaltake Kandalf case with 3 x hdd expansion cages

ASUS DVDWriter

 

Dude,

Where is your PSU mounted??

 

I've seen inside one of these in the flesh and I'm super confused.

[o0odellero0o]

Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig

 

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

Old but Gold.

[João Severino]

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Is that a monstrous fan on the side panel? What size?

[JoshM]

One of my old rigs from about 7 years ago. 

 

Some sort of MSI motherboard

AMD Sempron 2800+

1GB of memory

Powercolor Radeon X800 Pro

2 x IDE 80GB 7200rpm spanned

7 x SATA drives from 120GB - 200GB

2 x 4 port sata raid controllers

700w Thermaltake PSU

Thermaltake Kandalf case with 3 x hdd expansion cages

ASUS DVDWriter

 

 

Dat cable management...

[Raj8396]

Not very awesome but old, it was my main pc until a month ago when it died and now i only have my laptop.

 

Specs:

Pentium D 820 

Geforce 9500GT 1gb ddr2

3gb ddr2 ram 

intel dg31pr motherboard

80GB samsung hDD

Some getto noname nowattage psu

That twisted sata cable is a Linustechtip 

 

[Liam-McShane]

Dude,

Where is your PSU mounted??

 

I've seen inside one of these in the flesh and I'm super confused.

I was about to ask the same, i looked at it for 5 minutes and i just can't find it

[zeros]

Guys you are missing the point here: first custom WATERCOOLED PC.

Mine is here:

 

(note: no picture posted. Have not yet made a water-cooled system.)

[Le Reaper]

Amd Athlon xp 1800+ @ 2.2ghz oc
Thermalright SP97 cooler
Asus Geforce fx 5200 AGP 128mb
1gb (2x512mb)Kingston DDR400 Ram
1x 30gb (i think) hdd, and 1x 18gb hd
Ecs KT600 mobo
300w Enlight psu
Enlight EN-7200AX case
Pioneer CD/DVD burner
Windows xp sp3

[Chatzev]

Okay, so it's not much of a build log since I only have one picture, but this is my old rig. Thought I'd post this just for the Lolz. Let's see your old rig

 

 

Specs:

 

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (later upgraded to Opteron 165)

A8N32-SLI Deluxe

2x 1GB generic Samsung DDR400 RAM (going for capacity, not speed)

BFG GeForce 7900GT x2

2x Maxtor Diamondmax 9 120GB RAID0 for boot. Can't remember what the other one is

Antec P160 with black paint job

OCZ Powerstream 520W (single rail... mmmm) with UV green sleeving

Dual optical drives (one CD-RW, one DVD-ROM) for disc-to-disc burning goodness

UV green painted Silenx cooling fans

 

Liquid Cooling Specs:

 

Swiftech APOGEE CPU block

HW Labs Black Ice Pro II

Swiftech MCW60 x2 w/ random aluminum sinks cut out to fit on my cards

MCP350 pump

Generic tubing from the hardware store

T-line for filling and bleeding

Well, your "current" build is getting kind of old.... When will you post a picture of that in this thread?

[chriswills]

core 2 duo e4500 

asrock g31m-gs

passively cooled nvidia 9500gt- used to run so hot i taped a small fan to the heatsink 

maxtor 250gb drive 

2gb ddr2 generic ram 

generic 450w psu

generic dvd drive

casecom ma-1188 micro-atx case 

 

now being used as a NAS using Nas4Free

 

 

 

 

 

 

[legopc]

this was my first build  

[warmmilk]

Is that a monstrous fan on the side panel? What size?

 

lol, yes...  I think it was 400mm but don't quote me on that... it was stupid...

[João Severino]

lol, yes...  I think it was 400mm but don't quote me on that... it was stupid...

That photo caught my eye because of the giant fan on it's side

[Jan.B]

i was planning on doing a retro build with the following stuff: AMD Athlon 64 4600+, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, 2x7900GTX, 2x1Gb DDR333 Kingston value ram, WD80 120GB 7200rpm IDE HDD,..but as it turns out..both gpu's show artifacts..yeah..

[Modzy]

Can a mod please remove all the non-watercooled rig photos people are spamming here. Some of you need to learn to read the thread.

My mistake thanks, Capt
 

[Captain3xtreme]

Can a mod please remove all the non-watercooled rig photos people are spamming here. Some of you need to learn to read the thread.

 

 

The title doesn't say only water cooled rigs. It says old outdated gaming rigs.

[dOug]

My first build - 2003 vintage - AMD Athlon 1700 based system (I think).  Home made case window (yes...flames), homemade fan/light switches.  I'd do thing differently today.

 

 

[Modzy]

Fair enough, title seems bit misleading then, Sorry my mistake.
In that case, Enjoy these oldie's. I have a large cork board hanging on my office wall with a ton of old parts I've bought over the years on it, these included.



My first PC was given to me by my dad from his work. I used it for basically music & Duke Nukem 1, 2 & 3D, Wacky Wheels(the original mario kart)

AMD Am486 DX4-100
IBM Motherboard/Case (unknown model numbers)
32Mb EDO IBM Ram
Creative Sound Blaster VIBER 16 4MB onboard ram, CT2940






But my first self bought/build PC is as follows.

Intel P3 1Ghz
512mb SD IBM SDRam 133Mhz
Gigabyte GA-6WMMC7 MicroATX Mobo
2x Magic 3D II's in SLI (2x Voodoo 2 12mb)
2x 30Gb IBM AT Fireball Plus AS Quantum's
Sound Blaster Live! (not pictured as i sold it)

[ekka]

I was about to ask the same, i looked at it for 5 minutes and i just can't find it

I'm glad I wasn't imagining it.

[Nicktrance]

Funny to see how different the style is, back then it was all about bright colours, UV reactive everything, LEDs everywhere and glossy plastic, very extravagant. Now it's all about elegance, clean cable management and tubing with individually sleeved cables and matching colour schemes, naked steel interior is considered unacceptable. I guess that's a testament to how the PC industry is maturing.

[Viepert]

Mt very first build i did was about 7/8 years ago.

From what i can remember it had :

Thermaltake Armor

Enermax psu

AMD Athlon X2 4200+

Asus 7800GTX

2x74Gb WD Raptors

Samsung 19"

Z-Board

 

"Custom" things i did were the hole in the side for the Thermaltake Ruby Orb cooler. And a Zalman cooler for the 7800GTX.