Show off your old and retro computer parts

[TheDutchGinger]

12 minutes ago, 8tg said:

The GPU and lack of an ssd would be a problem. Otherwise it’ll run I presume you imply the 2016 doom. You’ll need a better GPU for that.

Doom 3 will run fine as is. 

Ye the hard drive keeps maxxing out and slowing the whole system, but not planning on getting anything recent for some time.

[da na]

19 minutes ago, TheDutchGinger said:

Ye the hard drive keeps maxxing out and slowing the whole system, but not planning on getting anything recent for some time.

Great system for early to mid- 2000s games. 

[Kilrah]

These 1st gen HEDT systems are great, so many expansion slots, and can run everything from XP to 11 flawlessly

[Bitter]

45 minutes ago, 8tg said:

The GPU and lack of an ssd would be a problem. Otherwise it’ll run I presume you imply the 2016 doom. You’ll need a better GPU for that.

Doom 3 will run fine as is. 

Which DOOM lol. DOOM yes, DOOM 2 yes, DOOM 3 maybe at lower details and resolution, DOOM 2016 and up definitely not with out a graphics card.

[TheDutchGinger]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Which DOOM lol. DOOM yes, DOOM 2 yes, DOOM 3 maybe at lower details and resolution, DOOM 2016 and up definitely not with out a graphics card.

Oops ye mainly ment 2016 DOOM as my laptop can barely run it on medium/low settings so hoped the pc would be able to take it's place for gaming

[TheDutchGinger]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

I want to try something but need to wait until a new page starts cause... yeah that loading 

We have arrived on the next page 

[Kilrah]

2 minutes ago, TheDutchGinger said:

We have arrived on the next page 

Yeah... I can login but not post

 

[TheDutchGinger]

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yeah... I can login but not post

 

Is the button hidden under a line of text on there somewhere? Because i see the site looks all squeezed together.

[Kilrah]

The button is there, it's the text field I can't find.

[da na]

39 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

The button is there, it's the text field I can't find.

Tried to post from the Latitude ON module in my Latitude Z - it has a 300-something-mhz TI OMAP 3430 ARM processor. Sadly the Firefox version was too outdated and (in addition to the CPU taking almost 10 minutes to load the site) I couldn't post.

[Kilrah]

Here it's a P266MMX and loading times were pretty reasonable, but.. yeah, browser issues. Besides not showing the post field I get a modal "security protocol not supported" popup I have to dismss about every image it tries to load, so that's a couple dozen even on a new page...

[da na]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Here it's a P266MMX and loading times were pretty reasonable, but.. yeah, browser issues.

Funny how much faster a Pentium MMX is than an ARM mobile phone chip running a poorly optimized Linux version with not nearly enough RAM. 

 

It takes almost a full minute to load google.com.

[Bitter]

How about Firefox reader mode where it drops graphical elements?

[WhitetailAni]

I recently got my very old NEC MultiSpin CDR-500 working... ish. Long story short SCSI is difficult to properly configure when you can't find a manual.

Spoiler

 

 

 

Problem is, it spits out the caddy whenever I put it in and I don't know why. Any thoughts?

It is properly detected by Windows 2000

[Kilrah]

Probably something stuck/slipping belt/misaligned so the "tray in" detection doesn't get triggered

[TheDutchGinger]

Kind off annoying but the motherboard of my windows xp computer decided to die on me and the spare one i have won't work either.

[da na]

Now that's a size difference I didn't expect. 

Netbook with an Intel Atom chip and an Nvidia ION chipset.

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, da na said:

Now that's a size difference I didn't expect. 

Netbook with an Intel Atom chip and an Nvidia ION chipset.

Yeah that Nvidia Ion never really did it for me. I have one of an itx board and like....it doesn't do much better than the atom alone?

[da na]

11 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yeah that Nvidia Ion never really did it for me. I have one of an itx board and like....it doesn't do much better than the atom alone?

I'm personally a fan just for the absurdity of putting a 9400 GT in a 11" laptop - albeit a crappy system-memory-shared, iGPU version of the 9400GT, but the same die nonetheless.

It performs a little worse than the 9300 GS in my Pavilion DV3000, due to the 9300 having 512MB of its own discrete memory while the ION has to steal 256MB of single-channel DDR3 while jumping through the hoop of the chipset's memory controller.

 

My other laptop with an Atom N270 equally sucks at everything though. You could stick a 9800 GX2 on that single-core, 1.6GHZ, 533MHZ FSB processor and it would be just as horrible. I'll agree that the Nvidia chip makes little difference on this particular CPU.

[Bitter]

18 minutes ago, da na said:

I'm personally a fan just for the absurdity of putting a 9400 GT in a 11" laptop - albeit a crappy system-memory-shared, iGPU version of the 9400GT, but the same die nonetheless.

It performs a little worse than the 9300 GS in my Pavilion DV3000, due to the 9300 having 512MB of its own discrete memory while the ION has to steal 256MB of single-channel DDR3 while jumping through the hoop of the chipset's memory controller.

 

My other laptop with an Atom N270 equally sucks at everything though. You could stick a 9800 GX2 on that single-core, 1.6GHZ, 533MHZ FSB processor and it would be just as horrible. I'll agree that the Nvidia chip makes little difference on this particular CPU.

I believe my board is a D525 or close to it. 2 core and 1.8ghz. Supposed to overclock but I could never get anything out of it which I was much disappointed by, I heard that they were decent at like 2.2-2.4ghz.

[BudgetBacon]

Not much of a part but this Dell Dimension I have I am currently in the process of retro-modding. Putting a reasonably priced lower end spec gaming build inside of it. Keen eyed will be able to tell there's something amiss as is as the optical drives have been replaced with mesh filter material. I will say all the guts have been ripped out and are probably going on Ebay to recoup some of the cost. First time case-modding so it's not the best but I giggle when I see it knowing what's going inside.

[BudgetBacon]

Neat old XP computer. $10US at a garage sale with a monitor and a few old games. Never get her running all the way but was booted into XP after an SSD upgrade and tinkered around... until it broke. I'll get around to restoring the OS someday but today is not that day. Fun toy though.

[luckybob77]

That Abit IC7-G motherboard is special.  2nd only to the Asus P4C800E-DLX.  Top of the line for socket 478.

[Bitter]

9 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

That Abit IC7-G motherboard is special.  2nd only to the Asus P4C800E-DLX.  Top of the line for socket 478.

Someone here got one they need to get around to recapping the PC power stages on. I wish I had checked it before giving it to them, I would have capped it myself.

[abit-sean]

13 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

That Abit IC7-G motherboard is special.  2nd only to the Asus P4C800E-DLX.  Top of the line for socket 478.

The IC7-MAX3 was the most best of the IC7 series. Very popular, we were still selling refurbed boards up to 2008.