Show off your old and retro computer parts

[king_thenorth]

21 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

 

1366 was old intel HEDT no?

Yes. It was the first in the Core^tm line of cpu's. My system originally had a i7-920 quad core eith thread cpu, but I got the i7-990x of ebay for like $30 about 6 years ago. Motherboards for this chip though are hard to find since the Xeon chips were overclockable and cheap as they left the enterprise space so that is still the Dell motherboard.

Just now, Kilrah said:

Yup

Mine isn't but very well could. Totally still holds up. 

I used it as my main gaming rig with a 980 ti till 2020. Now it just serves as the plex server for my house.

[Dabombinable]

3 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

I was. 100% CPU, few seconds to open Explorer (not HDD related)

Granted this was a Vista dev build, post reset but still probably not the best optimized. 

In that case it'll be similar to when I ran Windows 10 beta on my old laptop with Core Duo T2600, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM 100GB HDD and Quadro NVS110M. Horrendous.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

On 7/16/2022 at 6:58 PM, Kilrah said:

Yup

Mine isn't but very well could. Totally still holds up. Would use 3x the power of my server though, so not a great use for it...

I'm still using an old HP Dual Socket 1366 server (2x X5675) and it doesn't do too bad power wise.  It averages about 200 watts.  Running Plex it is almost always at idle.  I'd hate to see power usage if it was acually working hard though.

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

I'm still using an old HP Dual Socket 1366 server (2x X5675) and it doesn't do too bad power wise.  It averages about 200 watts.  Running Plex it is almost always at idle.  I'd hate to see power usage if it was acually working hard though.

I am so thankful my current server doesn't use much power. 4690K with super low voltage at 3.8GHz = about 20 watt idle. Even when I finally am able to redo everything I'll have two machines (one with some form of modern i3 probably and then an OptiPlex with a Haswell i5) and I'll still hopefully end up idling right around 40-50.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

11 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

I am so thankful my current server doesn't use much power. 4690K with super low voltage at 3.8GHz = about 20 watt idle. Even when I finally am able to redo everything I'll have two machines (one with some form of modern i3 probably and then an OptiPlex with a Haswell i5) and I'll still hopefully end up idling right around 40-50.

Power usage that low would be nice.  I'd have to spend quite a bit of money to replace my server though.  Probably still cheaper to just pay the power bill for now.  Luckily I still have fairly decent power rates. 

[Kilrah]

29 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

It averages about 200 watts. 

Yeah my server idles at about 30W and will go up to 100 or so at full load, 200W average would be insane, that's as much as my main PC

[Corrupt_Liberty]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yeah my server idles at about 30W and will go up to 100 or so at full load, 200W would be insane, that's as much as my main PC

Well she is a bit girthy...

 

 

[da na]

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yeah my server idles at about 30W and will go up to 100 or so at full load, 200W would be insane, that's as much as my main PC

Your server goes up to 100w? That's what my laptop draws!

[da na]

HD 4550 512mb, arrived today. Cost a whole $9, good upgrade from my 9400GT in my XP/7 SFF system. 

(Full specs: Pentium 4 HT 661, HD 4550, 4x1gb DDR2 667, Sound Blaster Audigy SE, HGST 80gb HDD for Win7, original to this machine Samsung 80gb HDD for WinXP)

 

[da na]

Love when an eBay seller knows what they're talking about...

[da na]

Picked up this massive monitor for $30 today. It's a 1920x1200 LCD with DVI and VGA in. It's quite sharp, and can get ridiculously bright - its 40% brightness is the 100% brightness on my other 2 large monitors (LED backlit). It's quite good looking, especially for a 14 year old CCFL.

Replaced my dying, flickery 1366x768 monitor, this Dell is technically the highest resolution monitor I own but my main 1920x1080 one is 144hz and more color accurate so I'm keeping that as my main for CAD. Not sure of the precise size measurement but it's wider than the 21" on the right and about as wide as the curved 24" in the center (but of course being curved, unless you take the curve into account it's not really 24") so I'd call this monitor 23" or so. Its colors look decent to the eye, although the CCFL backlight adds a little bias to it on the red/yellow side as it's going a little pink from age, calibration just by eye gets it back to looking great. Here it is with all my others.

Spoiler

 

I had to use this other case, bottom left, as a monitor stand for my 5:4 monitor temporarily - it and the monitor this Dell replaced used to fit nicely on my workstation, but alas, no longer...

Also, the one it replaced in case anyone is interested. I disassembled it to take the speakers out before recycling it, as the rest was quite past its prime but the speakers were very good for their size.

Spoiler

It's got a very thick panel. And for an idea of its age, on the left side of the display, that is a DivX compatible optical drive.

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Picked up this massive monitor for $30 today. It's a 1920x1200 LCD with DVI and VGA in. It's quite sharp, and can get ridiculously bright - its 40% brightness is the 100% brightness on my other 2 large monitors (LED backlit). It's quite good looking, especially for a 14 year old CCFL.

Replaced my dying, flickery 1366x768 monitor, this Dell is technically the highest resolution monitor I own but my main 1920x1080 one is 144hz and more color accurate so I'm keeping that as my main for CAD. Not sure of the precise size measurement but it's wider than the 21" on the right and about as wide as the curved 24" in the center (but of course being curved, unless you take the curve into account it's not really 24") so I'd call this monitor 23" or so. Its colors look decent to the eye, although the CCFL backlight adds a little bias to it on the red/yellow side as it's going a little pink from age, calibration just by eye gets it back to looking great. Here it is with all my others.

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I had to use this other case, bottom left, as a monitor stand for my 5:4 monitor temporarily - it and the monitor this Dell replaced used to fit nicely on my workstation, but alas, no longer...

Also, the one it replaced in case anyone is interested. I disassembled it to take the speakers out before recycling it, as the rest was quite past its prime but the speakers were very good for their size.

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It's got a very thick panel. And for an idea of its age, on the left side of the display, that is a DivX compatible optical drive.

That Dell is very similar to the one i picked up from the charity shop a couple of months ago.  I ended up selling it to my uncle for what i paid.  It was quite the upgrade from his much older fujitsu one (Which i also sold him way back)

[da na]

Got a nice surprise from this Sony 52x CD-ROM drive I pulled out of a recycled system. Uses gears, no belts in sight so this'll last forever. Swapped this one into my XP/7 system in place of a 48x DVD reader that had trouble opening. I have another near identical one of these drives, they're quite well built, and, as a bonus, have buttons/headphones on the front plus analogue and digital audio outs around back. Pretty much the ultimate drive, can't go wrong with one of these.

 

 

 

 

[da na]

My interesting DDR2 collection. 

On top, some Kingston modules. Average performers, they're just very very short. They don't come up beyond the socket clips, great for tall CPU coolers. I also have some DDR3 server memory like this.

Below, some Avexir memory with pretty decent timings.

Below that, these Adata modules that can take a serious overclock, they'll run up to 2.1v as they say on the label. Only 1gb each, unlike the 2 previous kits but wow they are fast, capable of 5-5-5-12 timings . 

Finally, my personal favorite, the OCZ Platinum Edition. 4-5-4-15 so a little faster in some cases than the Adata. Not as solid of an overclocker but quite fast RAM, and the best looking of all. 

Funny enough, the OCZ and Adata RAM came from retired school computers. I've traced the PC the OCZs were in back to the teacher who currently has a PC with a GTX 1070 and i9-6900k under his desk, though, so seems par for the course. 

[Kilrah]

I had 2x2GB of those OCZ sticks in my 2007 PC, they've got the look for sure

[da na]

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

I had 2x2GB of those OCZ sticks in my 2007 PC, they've got the look for sure

The gold ones are especially nice... or the Reaper ones with the ridiculous heatsinks.

[Kilrah]

Yup. Had silver ones as well "unfortunately".

 

 

Also it seems I just found the round IDE cable I was looking for, unfortunately it seems I haven't had it for 12 years

I think it actually came with the mobo I still have but apparently put it in there when selling that PC  

Also regret including that combo floppy/card reader, these are way cool but pretty much unobtainium nowadays

 

[da na]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yup. Had silver ones as well "unfortunately".

 

 

Also it seems I just found the round IDE cable I was looking for, unfortunately it seems I haven't had it for 12 years

I think it actually came with the mobo I still have but apparently put it in there when selling that PC  

Also regret including that combo floppy/card reader, these are way cool but pretty much unobtainium nowadays

 

Ooh, nice case! Also, are those Barracuda drives I see...

That has to be a Zalman cooler, right? My LGA775 system has a rather similar one, like if you cut that in half and painted it silver.

[Kilrah]

Looks like ASUS cooler and WD Caviars. These must be the 2 500GB ones since I still have one of the 320GB ones, that's what I used to install XP on the i7-970 the other day.

The 2nd one probably either has died or is still in an unexpected place somwewhere...

Case was peak side fan/blue LED era

 

 

 

 

[Dabombinable]

5 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Got a nice surprise from this Sony 52x CD-ROM drive I pulled out of a recycled system. Uses gears, no belts in sight so this'll last forever. Swapped this one into my XP/7 system in place of a 48x DVD reader that had trouble opening. I have another near identical one of these drives, they're quite well built, and, as a bonus, have buttons/headphones on the front plus analogue and digital audio outs around back. Pretty much the ultimate drive, can't go wrong with one of these.

 

 

 

 

Just as good as my Liteon CDRW drives (52 and 48x respectively), and my 1997 CD-ROM (peak speed when tested is 12.1x, 8x was the tested rating).

Shame both of my flip front Diamond drives electrically failed. I only had to provide power to them to play CD. Play/pause, stop/eject, previous/next track.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Just as good as my Liteon CDRW drives (52 and 48x respectively), and my 1997 CD-ROM (peak speed when tested is 12.1x, 8x was the tested rating).

Shame both of my flip front Diamond drives electrically failed. I only had to provide power to them to play CD. Play/pause, stop/eject, previous/next track.

Same with this Sony, it just needs MOLEX then it'll play through the headphone jack (or your soundcard's analogue CD in for a better DAC with less interference...)

Wish I had a flip front drive for no reason other than to sit there pressing the button lots of times and watching it flip up and down. The eMac was the ultimate flip front drive, with the whole panel with the Apple logo flipping down... that extra force probably caused a few premature drive failures lol

[Dabombinable]

3 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

My interesting DDR2 collection. 

On top, some Kingston modules. Average performers, they're just very very short. They don't come up beyond the socket clips, great for tall CPU coolers. I also have some DDR3 server memory like this.

Below, some Avexir memory with pretty decent timings.

Below that, these Adata modules that can take a serious overclock, they'll run up to 2.1v as they say on the label. Only 1gb each, unlike the 2 previous kits but wow they are fast, capable of 5-5-5-12 timings . 

Finally, my personal favorite, the OCZ Platinum Edition. 4-5-4-15 so a little faster in some cases than the Adata. Not as solid of an overclocker but quite fast RAM, and the best looking of all. 

Funny enough, the OCZ and Adata RAM came from retired school computers. I've traced the PC the OCZs were in back to the teacher who currently has a PC with a GTX 1070 and i9-6900k under his desk, though, so seems par for the course. 

First year of highschool a friend of mine gave me a sealed set of 2x 1GB Team DDR2 800 4-4-4-12.

Funnily enough - at the time none of the school computers were compatible. All DDR1 Pentium 4, Celeron D and Pentium D.

[SimplyChunk]

4 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Finally, my personal favorite, the OCZ Platinum Edition.

I had those too.  can't remember the timings but they were platinum i know that for sure.

 

4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

I had 2x2GB of those OCZ sticks in my 2007 PC, they've got the look for sure

Mine were in my Athlon X2 5200+ system

 

Rocking these bad boys in my Presler Pentium D system

(still gots the peelies XD )

 

(Can also happily report that was able to get CAD drawings off 5.25" disks and anything that was bought for the project with step dad's money is now mine to play with)

[DANK_AS_gay]

10 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Rocking these bad boys in my Presler Pentium D system

(still gots the peelies XD )

 

"SLI ready"

What is that supposed to mean? I thought all RAM was SLI ready? Is that just marketing fluff? Or at one point did SLI require decent RAM?

[SimplyChunk]

25 minutes ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

"SLI ready"

What is that supposed to mean? I thought all RAM was SLI ready? Is that just marketing fluff? Or at one point did SLI require decent RAM?

probably just a way for nVidia to extract money from Memory companies.  SLI was huge though when it was around you could get SLI everything at one point.  RAM, Motherboards, PSUs..nVidia sold that SLI certification like it was going out of fashion (which it did funnily enough lol)