Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

Also have a 640x480 digital camera that may work I'll throw in for free.

And the free P3 Tulatin.

[Dabombinable]

S3 drivers at their finest:

Its slower in 3DMark 2000 than the Oxygen VX1 BTW.

[Dabombinable]

5 hours ago, Bitter said:

Free, pay shipping. No idea if it works.

That is one unusual motherboard - if it works, it'd help make an excellent DOS machine. S3 had fantastic 2D quality and performance.

[abit-sean]

Found a home for my unused tech. New coffee table.

[Fast_N_Curious]

On 8/26/2022 at 4:51 PM, Beerzerker said:

I do but I don't - Could be the X, LA, E or standard "Deluxe" version.
Also, look where the name of the board is and see what version it is - Will either be a 1.04 or 2.0 version.

Deluxe version now needs caps before restoration of my Athlon XP 3000+

[ApolloX75]

Both my old A7V266 and my slightly newer A7N8X-X have developed capacitor issues a couple weeks ago after many years of faithful tinkering (I bought the A7V266 brand new back in 2000). I was understandably sad. 

 

Then I went for training in Ottawa two weeks ago, and halfway through the week I find a random Facebook marketplace ad for a pair of A7V8X boards. For $5 each. I picked them up on my way home.

 

Spoiler

They are literally brand new in the box. The kid I bought them from (had to be like 16 or 17) found them in his dad's closet and didn't know if they were any good. They worked perfectly, first try.

 

Best $10 I've ever spent.

[Fast_N_Curious]

10 minutes ago, ApolloX75 said:

Both my old A7V266 and my slightly newer A7N8X-X have developed capacitor issues a couple weeks ago after many years of faithful tinkering (I bought the A7V266 brand new back in 2000). I was understandably sad. 

 

Then I went for training in Ottawa two weeks ago, and halfway through the week I find a random Facebook marketplace ad for a pair of A7V8X boards. For $5 each. I picked them up on my way home.

 

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They are literally brand new in the box. The kid I bought them from (had to be like 16 or 17) found them in his dad's closet and didn't know if they were any good. They worked perfectly, first try.

 

Best $10 I've ever spent.

You lucky dog you!

[Bitter]

Re-capping really isn't hard, I've done it.

[ApolloX75]

6 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Re-capping really isn't hard, I've done it.

I have caps coming but they're a month or more out. I'll have those boards running again, don't you worry.

[Corrupt_Liberty]

On 8/23/2022 at 5:06 AM, Bitter said:

Oh no. Maybe try a 9800GT or GTX?

9800 GTX+ arrived.

 

And it's working great!  Don't mind the windows 7 install, it's just for testing.  I imagine getting XP up and running properly will take more time than I was willing to spend for possibly bad hardware. 

[Dabombinable]

56 minutes ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

9800 GTX+ arrived.

 

And it's working great!  Don't mind the windows 7 install, it's just for testing.  I imagine getting XP up and running properly will take more time than I was willing to spend for possibly bad hardware. 

That should run cooler than any of the dead cards ever did.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

9800 GTX+ arrived.

The cooler looks backwards (compared to my Gainward 8800 GTX) but the sticker is not????

[Corrupt_Liberty]

13 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

The cooler looks backwards (compared to my Gainward 8800 GTX) but the sticker is not????

Apparently it was a thing.  I would have preferred the other style but there were two listed with this cooler that were relatively cheap.  We'll see how well it works blowing against my intake radiator. 

[Dabombinable]

12 hours ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Apparently it was a thing.  I would have preferred the other style but there were two listed with this cooler that were relatively cheap.  We'll see how well it works blowing against my intake radiator. 

It didn't hit me at first because its such a stupid decision - WTF were they thinking.

[Vincent Vanhorn]

[Vincent Vanhorn]

yeah thats my current rig lol

[da na]

I bought every HGST drive ever made. I'm not kidding. This is every major revision of a 3.5" SATA chassis. Deskstars on top, high end on bottom.

 

Spoiler

The high end drives (1x IDE deskstar and 3x Ultrastar) all have three screws on the head, and internally have 6 screws around the spindle clamp. The deskstars only have 1 or 2 on the head, and a conical spindle clamp with a single central screw. The Deskstars and the first two high end drives all use the same exact chassis on the inside. The earlier high end drives have big metal shielding on the bottom but that is lost with the first Ultrastar with the mirrored finish part (2010), and persists on the design through 2014. These chasses were slightly deeper and could fit another platter. 

[Corrupt_Liberty]

4 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

It didn't hit me at first because its such a stupid decision - WTF were they thinking.

I'm not sure.  It was fairly common at the time though.  I've seen identical coolers from BFG and EVGA.  The temps aren't terrible either so hopefully not all bad. 

[Bitter]

On 8/27/2022 at 12:36 PM, Bitter said:

Free, pay shipping. No idea if it works.

I don't have an AT PSU to test the board and K6, but I think it was a pull from an OEM system hence the onboard S3 video card. The L3 cache card is kind of interesting...

The Pentium 3 pictured in the plastic box by the top of the board is the Tulatin I'd been looking for in my basement, was only off by about 10 miles. I think it's a 1ghz example of one but I'd need to install it in a board to find out. I'll get them when I go back to my storage again in a couple weeks. Seriously, free to a good home people, none of the caps on the board look bad.

[da na]

An hour and a half ago, I pushed my keyboard aside to crack open my newly acquired laptop (won't boot from any source, seeing if cables are connected and clearing CMOS). 

I bit off more than I could chew...

All I found out is that it's got an i5 500 series that turbos to 3ghz, and it is about as cursed as a computer can get. 

[Bitter]

Jarritos ❤

So what's up with the laptop?

[da na]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Jarritos ❤

So what's up with the laptop?

Honestly no clue what the root cause is. Reboots out of installers from USB or CD, doesn't boot from a drive with an OS already installed. SSD, USBs, and ODD are detected properly in BIOS though.

[Bitter]

46 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Honestly no clue what the root cause is. Reboots out of installers from USB or CD, doesn't boot from a drive with an OS already installed. SSD, USBs, and ODD are detected properly in BIOS though.

Windows bootloader and GRUB2 same issue?

[Dabombinable]

The only pristine video cards that I can buy are all low end models/disasters. Welcome 128bit SiS 315 SDR SiS 315 (Apollo 3D Thrill 315) and Radeon VE.

Pretty much the worst example of the 315 possible - my particular card is AGP 2x only and being SDR it has barely more memory bandwidth than my Vanta, or SiS 305. It'd fit right in with the one shown in the VGA museum - it's just as bad:
VGA Legacy MKIII - SiS 315E (vgamuseum.info)
It'll be slower than the TNT2 Pro due to the memory bandwidth. And driver allowing barely faster than the TNT2 M64 - and only because of the core clock and maybe the T&L engine.

Yeah the VE should outright crush the 315E. The non-kneecapped 315 however traded blows in the single review I found (RIP Kyro II - you competed poorly).

[schteve_666]

I have a few old computer bits laying around. 1st is my old Samsung NC 10 from 2009 she still works just needs a battery.

 

Next is a 40 gig HDD I tryed putting in a PC years ago but the mobo didn't support anything over 6 gig. 

 

And finally is a HP media centre I had to recover the data of for a friend as it was their Nan's and the psu died just before she did 

 

I do have some old core 2 duos and 128mb ram sticks around too but I'll have to find them.