Show off your old and retro computer parts

[8uhbbhu8]

On 11/3/2018 at 7:34 PM, Kyle2418 said:

Came out of a Dell optiplex gx260. I am wondering what the pins are coming off the top left corner of the motherboard? Does anyone know.

ah yes old Deell mobos  

Those pins on the top left are for an expansion module for more pci slots. My dell Dimension 4000 mobo has the extension. 

[Ross Siggers]

3 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

OHHH YEEAHHHHH ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Do NOT sell that. That is too freakin' awesome.

As cool as it is, it's also utterly useless to me 

 

Buy it from me then, bitch

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, LOOK OVER HERE said:

Behold my laptop, the Dell E6540 that's thinner, pretty cheap, quad-core, and has an AMD 8790M in it.

It runs hot AF though.

3bad the E6xxx's are 15" laptops. I'm all about that smallboi 13" life, which is why I'm pissed that if I were to get an Alienware 13 (aka the only competent and not-shit 13" laptop with chops) spec'd with a GTX 1060 and W10 Pro it would cost me north of 2,200 American Pesos after I upgraded the RAM and storage "manually."

[RollinLower]

19 hours ago, Pasi123 said:

Here is some old mobile devices etc. that I have

was there anything ever cooler than flipping out a full qwerty keyboard from your phone? that stuff was great!

i wish blackbarry didn;t suck as much as it does or i definitely would still be using a physical board on my phones!

[immaguy1234]

On 12/19/2013 at 3:25 PM, TheTechnerd said:

 Today I thought we would do something fun and different. This is a topic about showing of all your old pc parts (or old computers). Feel free to post some pics:) It will be fun:D

 

Here's some of mine:

 

 

Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

 

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I still got both of those in my old system, paired with a foxconn blackops mobo. my core 2 duo is OCed to 3.7 GHZ tho

[Jarvis200q1]

 

[SmokeyTheBlair]

I wish I hadn't moved so often in my life.  I would still have my wall of 8086's and 8088's, with 20 and 40mb hard drives, all using original dimm connected Model M keyboards.  I ran a BBS off one of them.  

 

This is something I'd love to see a segment on.  Pre-internet social media.  BBSs were huge at one time.  I could give you quite the history lesson.

 

Linus thinks HE is old?  That baby boy got nuttin on me! 

[Lego Man]

I didn't have a lot of money so I got two 9600 GT graphics cards in sli for about $30 US. The gaming experience was...interesting.

[MEC-777]

Cherry ML4100 with ML switches. Picked it up today in a random bunch of other keyboards for $15. Like the way it feels, but need to get used to the spacing of the keys, lol. It's a bit like the reds on my K70 but with a bit of feedback on engagement and require a bit more force. 

 

It's an older model though, has the DIN connector with ps2 adapter. So tiny next to the K70.

 

 

[bcredeur97]

18 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

Cherry ML4100 with ML switches. Picked it up today in a random bunch of other keyboards for $15. Like the way it feels, but need to get used to the spacing of the keys, lol. It's a bit like the reds on my K70 but with a bit of feedback on engagement and require a bit more force. 

 

It's an older model though, has the DIN connector with ps2 adapter. So tiny next to the K70.

pretty cool, but short backspace keys are a crime

[Radium_Angel]

14 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

pretty cool, but short backspace keys are a crime

You've never used a dumb terminal before, have you?

[RollinLower]

On 11/16/2018 at 1:24 AM, MEC-777 said:

Cherry ML4100 with ML switches. Picked it up today in a random bunch of other keyboards for $15. Like the way it feels, but need to get used to the spacing of the keys, lol. It's a bit like the reds on my K70 but with a bit of feedback on engagement and require a bit more force. 

 

It's an older model though, has the DIN connector with ps2 adapter. So tiny next to the K70.

i had one of those aswell, tough right now it;s just a bag of switches. i liked the way they feel, tough the board looks kinda dull imo, it could do with a little more wood in it's life

[Nystemy]

Not the oldest motherboard I have, but surely one of the more odd.

This is a Tyan Tiger Dual socket motherboard. It sports two AMD opteron CPUs, each one single core, don't remember how fast they run, but not too fast...
It is roughly comparable to a Raspberry Pi.

Except it has 2GB of RAM, so yay I guess?

It also consumes far more energy and is more useful as a space heater rather then as a computer....

And considering that it is a server motherboard, it might not be too great for gaming either. Especially since all the RAM is going to one processor, so the other one needs to ask for permission to use it per say.

[RollinLower]

7 minutes ago, Nystemy said:

Not the oldest motherboard I have, but surely one of the more odd.

This is a Tyan Tiger Dual socket motherboard. It sports two AMD opteron CPUs, each one single core, don't remember how fast they run, but not too fast...
It is roughly comparable to a Raspberry Pi.

Except it has 2GB of RAM, so yay I guess?

It also consumes far more energy and is more useful as a space heater rather then as a computer....

And considering that it is a server motherboard, it might not be too great for gaming either. Especially since all the RAM is going to one processor, so the other one needs to ask for permission to use it per say.

 

who cares about practicality on these boards? look at the thing, it's beautiful and i need it! 

[Nystemy]

8 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

who cares about practicality on these boards? look at the thing, it's beautiful and i need it! 

Well, it does have some practicality, like being a space heater.

Though, it is far behind in performance compared to my other dual CPU systems, though they are in a league of their own per say....
And probably a bit too modern for being retro.


And they do have rather noisy fans in comparison, though noise isn't too unexpected per say since it does sound a bit like a quad copter on steroids taking off...

[_Hustler_One_]

On 11/16/2018 at 4:54 AM, Schnoz said:

Those screen tears 

[_Hustler_One_]

This was my father's system before I upgraded it, it runs Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 on a mATX ECS G41T-M12 v.1.0 motherboard with dual chanel DDR3 2x1Gb RAM. He got it from his office. The warranty stickers are still there untouched on the motherboard, was expired since 2013.

 

 

Still runs strong and steady, hope it will be last much longer after I gave it a new case with better airflow, CPU cooler and thermal paste, add a GTX 750 Ti GPU, and SSD.

Respect your elder!

[iHardware Shelden]

7 hours ago, Nystemy said:

Not the oldest motherboard I have, but surely one of the more odd.

This is a Tyan Tiger Dual socket motherboard. It sports two AMD opteron CPUs, each one single core, don't remember how fast they run, but not too fast...
It is roughly comparable to a Raspberry Pi.

Except it has 2GB of RAM, so yay I guess?

It also consumes far more energy and is more useful as a space heater rather then as a computer....

And considering that it is a server motherboard, it might not be too great for gaming either. Especially since all the RAM is going to one processor, so the other one needs to ask for permission to use it per say.

 

Run Cinebench 2003 on that and post it in the cinebench threat! I want to see it compared to my dual socket 370 system  

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 hours ago, Nystemy said:

Not the oldest motherboard I have, but surely one of the more odd.

This is a Tyan Tiger Dual socket motherboard. It sports two AMD opteron CPUs, each one single core, don't remember how fast they run, but not too fast...
It is roughly comparable to a Raspberry Pi.

Except it has 2GB of RAM, so yay I guess?

It also consumes far more energy and is more useful as a space heater rather then as a computer....

And considering that it is a server motherboard, it might not be too great for gaming either. Especially since all the RAM is going to one processor, so the other one needs to ask for permission to use it per say.

Sounds about on-par with my Athlon MP system.

 

It's got an Asus dual socket board, two Athlon MP 2000+ CPUs, and a whole 2GB of ECC memory. Luckily, there is an AGP slot present on the board so GPU upgrading from my current one isn't going to be too big of a problem, provided I can find a good AGP card. I don't think my RAM only goes to one CPU, though.

 

The kind of motherboard usually has no bearing on performance. That comes down to the memory and processors(central and graphical).

[Tog Driver]

Does a floppy drive from 2004 or so count as old or retro? probably not, but here it is. . .

Spoiler

 

[flibberdipper]

Lugged my dad's old monitor out of the basement for DOS reasons and it still works. 1280x1024, 1024x768. and 800x600 all at 85Hz. 

[_Hustler_One_]

4 hours ago, SpicyTater said:

I would clean out all that dust man, unless you misspoke and meant "give" instead of "gave".

Correct. I cleaned them all before I put them into the new case. The upgrade is completed. Now they're pristine like a new..

[Pasi123]

My Pentium III system.

 

Specs:

Intel Pentium 3 866MHz

Asus CUSL2-C motherboard

512MB of RAM

3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP

 

(sorry for bad pictures, my room is too dark for my phone. My phone camera also hates CRT monitors)

 

And two Core2 Duo PC's from 2007

 

Desktop specs:

Asus P5B motherboard

Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz

2gb DDR2 667MHz

32gb SSD and 80gb HDD

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 (I'm going to upgrade it to some period correct GeForce 8800 series card)

Windows XP Professional

19" VA 5:4 1280x1024 HP LP1965 monitor

 

Laptop specs:

Fujitsu LifeBook T4215

Intel Core2 Duo T7200 @ 2.0GHz

2gb DDR2

80gb HDD

Intel integrated graphics

Windows Vista Home Premium

12.1" 4:3 1024x768 with pen input

 

And that phone on the desk is a Nokia N93i, it was one of the best smartphones from 2007.

 

[Nystemy]

39 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

*when a freakin' raspberry pi has more cores and less cooling* Seriously though, that thing is sexy!

*gets down on one knee*

Can I marry you, servers? 

 

HOLY CRAP.

A SIX. BLADED. FAN.

MIND. BLOWN.

 

Anyways, got specs?

Well, the system that these fans goes to uses 10 of them, each one drawing a whopping 160 watts... (So that is a decent computer in and off itself...)
Though, they can cool 16 blade servers, each one able to have two CPUs, with whatever socket the motherboard in the servers support.
But these systems I have are rather boring quad core CPUs, running at around 2-2.5 GHz. With typically 6 GB of RAM per CPU. In this case spread onto three ram channels on the 1366 sockets that the blades use.

But as long as one doesn't go above the max TDP of the blade, one can practically stuff in all the performance one wants, downside being that it is freaking expensive, takes 14 U of rack space, sounds like a literal jet plane taking off, wants a proper cooling setup in the room (mostly for one's own budget...), and it then also consumes the better part of 15 KW. So three phase power is a requirement. And then its price to performance ratio is horrid if one only has a handful of blades, due to the enclosure housing them being large, heavy and expensive. Then it kinda requires a dual power supply setup to be "happy", this though not being off the shelf ATX power supplies, but rather hot swappable, system specific power supplies that in themselves costs more then one at times wants to part with.

And after setting everything up, one still doesn't have a comfortable way of hooking up a screen to it... Not to mention that networking is a real drag. I don't know why, but not all blades comes with integrated networking connections on the board, so one needs to buy a separate daughterboard for it, while other blades have dual Gigabit Ethernet as a standard... And yes, the on board networking and the one being a daughterboard doesn't use the same pass-through to the networking blades on the back of the system. So suddenly one needs a slew of different networking related blades as well... At least FC pass-through is dead simple.

So blade systems are interesting to work with at times.

[SmokeyTheBlair]

Dunno if anyone has helped yet, but what I am almost positive you have there is a Pentium 233mmx processor, or possibly a 200.  The numbers represented their speed in mhz. It works with a socket 7 board which were the most common processor and board of its era in the mid to late 90s.  This was back when a 10gb hd was lot, everyone had floppy disks and CD roms, and an awesome system had 512mb of ram.

 

Pretty sure my wall clock has more processing power.  (Old Samsung Intensity is my clock..android 3 I believe)

 

Thanks for posting this!!  I'd love to see more.  Really takes me back to when I was the go-to guy for all pc problems.  I used to have a knack for these.  I could diagnose these machines literally by their boot speed and when the drive made a sound.  I wish I had kept up better.