Show off your old and retro computer parts

[flibberdipper]

5 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Man I want to get one of those so bad for no reason whatsoever.

[da na]

31 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

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)

It basically means it's overclockable. The "SLI certification" has nothing to do with actual SLI, they likely just used the SLI branding because gamers already knew those three letters to mean high performance PCs. 

[da na]

BIOS update time! Did you guys hear about these fancy new dual core CPUs? Two CPUs in one! 

 

(Buying an Athlon 64 6000+ as a massive upgrade from my 3200+, twice the cores at 1ghz higher clock. Downloaded the BIOS update tools from Gigabyte's website as this is preferable to updating it from a flash drive, and I love how inconvenient these programs' edges are.) Plus, with the updated BIOS, I can overclock this CPU! Even just the 3200+ benefits hugely from a FSB increase - 200mhz OC running stable. 

[Bitter]

I think we ALL have OCZ Platinum! I've got some DDR3 1333 7-7-7 @1.65 volts 2x2GB.

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

Man I want to get one of those so bad for no reason whatsoever.

I have one of those floppy drives. It is as awesome as you think it is.

[da na]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I have one of those floppy drives. It is as awesome as you think it is.

I want one. Even if just to have a working flopper... 

[flibberdipper]

26 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I think we ALL have OCZ Platinum! I've got some DDR3 1333 7-7-7 @1.65 volts 2x2GB.

I have one of those floppy drives. It is as awesome as you think it is.

Just recently I got one of those dealios used in older OptiPlexes that allows you to have a slimline ODD and a 3.5" device in one 5.25" slot and it really made me sad that you can't buy 4K-friendly BluRay drives that are of the lappy form factor. Would have been super dope to have it so that I could have one of those and either a card reader or hotswap bay in a sort of "dedicated ripping/remuxing machine" when the time comes.

[Bitter]

Does anyone make an internal USB to FDD adapter? I'll totally put the combo drive in something. I think the HP I have can do 3.5 drives, I'll check later.

[drakon543]

i should take more pics of some of the old stuff i scrap when im collecting free computer stuff.  recently scrapped a gigabyte mb only ide connections 2gb ram max.  dont remember what processor was in it.  had a large sound blaster card in it.  one i recently got i scored another dual temp probe case display.  still has its floppy drive and numbers on the cpu came up as a single core 1.6ghz sempron.  

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Does anyone make an internal USB to FDD adapter? I'll totally put the combo drive in something. I think the HP I have can do 3.5 drives, I'll check later.

eBay is the way to go for that. You probably won't be able to find one with an internal header so you'll have to get thrifty, though.

[JackOattack]

Yes, I did remove all 62 gigs of fully buffered ddr2 ram 

 

and yes I do have 6 of these 1u servers for some reason. If someone needs/might need any of the parts from these, or the other pictures. I will give them away if you pay shipping, as they are currently just taking up space in my shop.

[Kilrah]

9 hours 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?

Marketing fluff pretty much, but also introduced what eventually became XMP. Last WAN show had some talk about it, apparently the compatibility was pretty bad...

[SimplyChunk]

6 hours ago, Bitter said:

Does anyone make an internal USB to FDD adapter? I'll totally put the combo drive in something. I think the HP I have can do 3.5 drives, I'll check later.

 

5 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

eBay is the way to go for that. You probably won't be able to find one with an internal header so you'll have to get thrifty, though.

Internal to type A female - USB floppy adapter.  That won't be too hard or expensive

[SimplyChunk]

@JackOattack 

 

Love those old Creative Front Panels

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, JackOattack said:

Yes, I did remove all 62 gigs of fully buffered ddr2 ram 

 

and yes I do have 6 of these 1u servers for some reason. If someone needs/might need any of the parts from these, or the other pictures. I will give them away if you pay shipping, as they are currently just taking up space in my shop.

 

 

 

The caps on that Asus board are really rotten. Its blown a similar amount to my Asus P2L97.

[JackOattack]

6 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

@JackOattack 

Love those old Creative Front Panels

ikr, it’s got so much space in there for more stuff!

[da na]

7 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

@JackOattack 

 

Love those old Creative Front Panels

Wish I had one of those! (Mainly wish Creative had used normal front panel headers on literally everything until 2012, as well...)

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Wish I had one of those! (Mainly wish Creative had used normal front panel headers on literally everything until 2012, as well...)

If you spot the postage you can have my Fatal1ty card and front panel.  I bought them cheap and untested but I'm sure a man of your calibre could get them going again. It's PCI the card not pcie

 

 

 

[Bitter]

https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/laa-4gb-memory-patches-released-for-doom-3-half-life-2-resident-evil-5-and-more/

I think this can go here.

[Benedictus]

I actually have a Toshiba Satellite 1710 CDS laptop with a 600MHz CPU and 96MB RAM

I got it from my grandma with Windows ME and after some tweaking settled on windows XP

About two years ago I even daily drove it during the summer and wrote e-mails to my friend using Thunderbird 17

[da na]

Anyone want? Escalade 7500-4 IDE RAID controller. PCI-X but works on regular PCI.

I don't need this many drives in one system, I only have 8 IDE drives overall so I can't really use this. Although, it does work (and so does RAID). 

[8tg]

hmmmm

gyruss

im really bad at gyruss

I still have to fix this monitors power switch, at some point I’ll stop jamming a piece of paper in there and just bridge it with an inline switch 

[da na]

6 minutes ago, 8tg said:

hmmmm

gyruss

im really bad at gyruss

I still have to fix this monitors power switch, at some point I’ll stop jamming a piece of paper in there and just bridge it with an inline switch 

64c? One of the 64c-like versions for the German and Japanese markets? 

[8tg]

14 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

64c? One of the 64c-like versions for the German and Japanese markets? 

Yes, a later C64c, though this one is US/NA domestic.

[da na]

After some deliberation I bought an Athlon 64 x2 6000+, ADX revision. ADX and ADA revisions are 125w, 3ghz, 1mb L2 per core. ADV revisions are 89w, 3.1ghz, but only 512mb per core (and a little harder to find). The ADV is also 65nm opposed to 90. ADX/A have a 15x multiplier and ADV 15.5x, so theoretically I could consume a few more watts and match its clockspeed (at the expense of my stock cooler and 15 yr old power supply). I'll do Cinebench tests myself but this CPU should absolutely destroy my 3.6ghz Pentium 4 HT machine, which is technically single core... (that system also only takes 666mhz RAM with terrible timings, but my Athlon system takes 800mhz with incredibly tight timings so that'll be an improvement too.)

[Beerzerker]

An old battlestation setup dating way back from WW "IdunnonorhaveaclueSomethingoranother".



There were casualties of course but the objective was met, mission accomplished.