Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

That's going to render SO many triangles per second.

[SimplyChunk]

Also got the motherboard tray in..

 

and the cutaway IO plate does fill the gaps  

 

[SimplyChunk]

Just now, Bitter said:

That's going to render SO many triangles per second.

Hopefully mate.. Hopefully  

[Dabombinable]

Two generations of Intel P6, and two of Via/Cyrix CIII:

 

Edit: Can confirm, setting the CPU multiplier via software works perfectly (and that memory performance even at 133MHz is far worse than with my PII 350 @ 233MHz) - theoretically I can run either at 3x on a 66MHz bus, giving me 200MHZ. Or better compatibility with the 3 DOS games I have that do not like CPU faster than 233MHz.
Main benefit though is the low power consumption compared to any of my other Socket 370 or Slot 1 CPU. Something that my SiS 315 also has an advantage in when compared to a (slower) Radeon VE or any of NVidia's TNT2 variants.

[BrianTheElectrician]

Well, I dug out a system recently that I haven't had the pleasure of messing with in a long time...  A Dell Dimension 4100. I apparently installed a 40gb hard disk and Windows 2000 pro the last time I had it out which I don't remember how long ago that was (Definitely before we moved, over a year ago). Otherwise, it's a 1Ghz Pentium 3 with 512mb of ram, a Geforce 2 MX 32mb graphics card and a Sound Blaster Live for sound. It's amazing how fast Win2k runs on it, and I've been busy the last couple evenings slowly installing more games on it. I think I'm gonna have to see if I can track down an IDE Zip drive to install in it as well... if I can find one for a reasonable price anyway. For the moment I at least have an external one I can use if I get the itch to

 

It makes me want to finally use my old gateway socket A motherboard and Athlon 1100 and finally build myself a Thunderbird machine.

[zVERON PLAYz]

well i have a gt 210

 

[SimplyChunk]

Ok...slight problem with my custom made floppy cable I think...

 

Jokes aside..THIS was the scariest event I've had involving a PC.  The PSU was literally bellowing smoke.

 

However..

[SimplyChunk]

The painting is at least done and with another PSU (minus the two floppy drives.)  He does still work

 

Introducing Frog

[Skyesgaming]

17 minutes ago, ChonkerFox said:

Introducing Frog

Please make sure he doesn't hop around the garden anymore

[Dabombinable]

@ChonkerFox
At least it wasn't a Thermaltake PSU's floppy cable doing the same with the case closed up. Still amazed that the only repair the FDD needs is a new power connector (heat made the pins brittle and they snapped with the now lacking plastic support)

[SimplyChunk]

24 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

@ChonkerFox
At least it wasn't a Thermaltake PSU's floppy cable doing the same with the case closed up. Still amazed that the only repair the FDD needs is a new power connector (heat made the pins brittle and they snapped with the now lacking plastic support)

fucking crazy.  it's defo the 3.5" that has done it though.  I'm guessing (despite my step dad's advice that it's not) that it's something I've gotten wrong in the ribbon cable somewhere.  I'm going to have the drive apart and put another I have in the computer and eliminate two things at once by buying a standard floppy cable.  No problems with the IDE cables though.  I'm not using them though I've err lost a bit of confidence in them XD.  To say the least.  I've put an old Lite-On out of a HP prebuilt in the computer now without connecting the the two floppies up and it seems to be doing alright

[luckybob77]

@ChonkerFox

 

I remember doing that with my brand new Audigy x-fi card.  you 100% plugged that little 4-pin cable in wrong.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, luckybob77 said:

@ChonkerFox

 

I remember doing that with my brand new Audigy x-fi card.  you 100% plugged that little 4-pin cable in wrong.

you might be on to something there.  it defo originated from the 3.5" and it was tight trying to see it.  Thanks

 

That's exactly what I've done isn't it.  plugged the power in one pin over and put 12v to ground.  That's such a relief

[Bitter]

I made an adapter for a slimline DVD drive once, had but of poo brain and put red to +12. It happens.

[8tg]

Posted elsewhere but I’ll also post here, sue me

MSI K7D Master, dual socket 462 board with two Athlon xp 1500+’s, currently 1gb of ddr 233

Gonna do 4gb of ecc ddr 233 in the future to max out the board and maybe get an ATI FireGL 9700 X1 to utilize the agp pro slot and stay era to 2002

 

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, 8tg said:

Posted elsewhere but I’ll also post here, sue me

 

MSI K7D Master, dual socket 462 board with two Athlon xp 1500+’s, currently 1gb of ddr 233

Gonna do 4gb of ecc ddr 233 in the future to max out the board and maybe get an ATI FireGL 9700 X1 to utilize the agp pro slot and stay era to 2002

 

[luckybob77]

oh, man.  I used a K7D master for quite a while with a voodoo5.  It started to blue-screen and it needs to be recapped.  One of my countless projects.  At the time, it was not common to put heatsinks on the voltage regulators.  This was one of the first, and it was a great thing too, as this board was rock solid.

 

 

[8tg]

29 minutes ago, luckybob77 said:

oh, man.  I used a K7D master for quite a while with a voodoo5.  It started to blue-screen and it needs to be recapped.  One of my countless projects.  At the time, it was not common to put heatsinks on the voltage regulators.  This was one of the first, and it was a great thing too, as this board was rock solid.

 

 

That combo is one of my potential plans for it, but getting one of the top end modern voodoos is like $1500

https://www.zxc64.com/vsa100_based/0_62910_strange_god_pci_256mb_matte_black_voodoo_5_6000_alike/
Which would be such a massively cool pc, but the order of magnitude in price difference over the GeForce4 ti 4600 or even way more than a firegl 9700, that’s kinda keeping me away from buying into super high end voodoos 

[Bitter]

Nostalgia aside, there's way better cards for the money than old Voodoo that are era appropriate. Iirc they can only do 16 but color and have some other weird funky architectural hiccups. Definitely better options but not nearly as high on the cool clout factor. Are you building a retro PC or a nostalgia box?

[WhitetailAni]

I'm curious, will anyone here be going to VCFMW?

[rainbrodash666]

Picked this up a bit ago and starting to get it ready to be revived to be used in a crysis crushing 2007/8 build. Hopefully I can use the original pcb so I can use my backup 3870x2 for quad crossfire instead of spare parts. 

[da na]

I found some 1980s twin axial network cabling today, now I finally know what plugged into some old network cards of mine. I am not sure what protocol ran through this twinax cable, would love to find that out if anyone has a clue. 

This is how the network is connected to a computer or terminated. This T-connector would go between two twinax cables, and the 11-pin cable connects to the network card.

Last year I found a 486 containing an ISA card with a mystery 11-pin port; now I know what this card was.

At one point there were at least two computers connected to this network, as I found two cards, one significantly cleaner. I hope to find another T connector and some more cable so I can hopefully get these two cards to talk.

[Bitter]

Mmmm token ring. You'll probably need some terminators or an actual literal ring of cable lol.

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

Mmmm token ring.

That's what it's called.  Some of the computers at my college was connected via this method back in 98-99

[Bitter]

15 minutes ago, ChonkerFox said:

That's what it's called.  Some of the computers at my college was connected via this method back in 98-99

That was well into the era of Ethernet. School...go figure.