Show off your old and retro computer parts

[flibberdipper]

16 hours ago, silentdragon95 said:

HSpecs:

Intel Pentium III Coppermine 1000MHz

Motherboard is capped at 768MB SDRAM, it originally only came with 128MB and was upgraded several times

Nvidia GeForce-4 TI 4200 by Creative, rather basic version /w 64MB VRAM

Creative SoundBlaster CT4810

100Mbit Ethernet card

20GB HDD which seemed huge to me at the time, lol

 

The GPU was upgraded by me, it originally came with some Nvidia Quadro which unfortunately bricked itself after a year or so. Interestingly, the Quadro did run games just fine, I remember playing Age of Empires 2 and Starcraft but also shareware versions of some monster truck and motocross game that came bundled on a Windows CD I think.

 

OS-wise I originally had Windows 98SE on it, later upgraded to Windows ME, then XP and I did get Windows 7 running on there once just for fun. It was even borderline-usable.

 

 

How in the hell did you get Spotify running on that? My XP rig is superior in every aspect other than RAM (maybe graphics as well?) and the Spotify installer just shits bricks, usually just crashing out with an error at some point.

[silentdragon95]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

How in the hell did you get Spotify running on that? My XP rig is superior in every aspect other than RAM (maybe graphics as well?) and the Spotify installer just shits bricks, usually just crashing out with an error at some point. 

You do have XP SP 3 installed and you're using the XP version of Spotify, right? If yes then I have no idea why it's not working for you. Keep in mind that I did this a little while ago though so maybe something has changed since then. Spotify still works fine in a XP VM though, just tried.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, silentdragon95 said:

You do have XP SP 3 installed and you're using the XP version of Spotify, right? If yes then I have no idea why it's not working for you. Keep in mind that I did this a little while ago though so maybe something has changed since then. Spotify still works fine in a XP VM though, just tried.

Yes to both. Hell just for the fun of it I tried an installer from around 2011 and it still told me to shove it.

[silentdragon95]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

Yes to both. Hell just for the fun of it I tried an installer from around 2011 and it still told me to shove it.

That is really weird then because you'd think that at least the installer from 2011 would work. I normally would assume a missing CPU instruction set or RAM issues, but if it's the system from your signature... Well given that it's ECC RAM that's pretty unlikely and your Pentiums should be even newer than mine so yeah

 

Maybe it just really hates dual socket systems for some weird reason?

[flibberdipper]

28 minutes ago, silentdragon95 said:

That is really weird then because you'd think that at least the installer from 2011 would work. I normally would assume a missing CPU instruction set or RAM issues, but if it's the system from your signature... Well given that it's ECC RAM that's pretty unlikely and your Pentiums should be even newer than mine so yeah

 

Maybe it just really hates dual socket systems for some weird reason?

I honestly wouldn't doubt it. Spotify certainly is an... Interesting piece of shit software.

[silentdragon95]

42 minutes ago, campy said:

A lot of people don't know generational gpu comparisons and presume old = bad, it would be nice to show off that telsa C2070 playing GTA V...

If the driver support is there some old cards are certainly far from rubbish. My old leafblower Radeon HD 4890 could still rival modern budget GPUs despite being almost 10 years old if only the drivers would have been updated. As it stands now, there are community drivers (Catalyst UnifL) that do increase performance by a lot but they aren't always stable unfortunately. In case you weren't already familiar with these, they might be interesting if you do decide to show off some of your old GPUs. Here's a nice video on another Radeon HD 4890 incidentally with those drivers.

[trilobite3]

my old dos pc

[trilobite3]

6 minutes ago, quakeguy81 said:

486 tower.  I don't see a lot of those.  Can we get some inside pics?

and it will post 

[iLostMyXbox21]

The oldest computer part (other then ram) I have is a Pentium G3260T

[trilobite3]

I still have the original keyboard 

[trilobite3]

here is more of my legacy hardware

[trilobite3]

my old cosmos 1000 case 

[8uhbbhu8]

22 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Pre-dating most forms of computers, but still plenty attractive.

 

 

toooooooooooooooooooooooobs

O M G      I LOVE Tube stuff!!!!!

[Radium_Angel]

7 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

I honestly wouldn't doubt it. Spotify certainly is an... Interesting piece of shit software.

I have a far from old Dual CPU Xeon system, and Dead Space will crash instantly trying to run on it, something about not liking more than 4 cores..

Shame too, I wanted to try it out...(steam sale)

[trilobite3]

here is the inside

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, trilobite3 said:

here is the inside

Oh wow, that's older than I thought.

 

Haven't seen PCI-X in a while outside of one system I own.

[trilobite3]

 here is the build before my current only slightly legacy 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, trilobite3 said:

only slightly legacy

Given how bad the AM3 platform is, I'd call that just plain old obsolete personally.

 

Most of the Haswell/Devil's Canyon Core i5s were better options than the FX 8xxx chips.

[trilobite3]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Given how bad the AM3 platform is, I'd call that just plain old obsolete personally.

 

Most of the Haswell/Devil's Canyon Core i5s were better options than the FX 8xxx chips.

well with my budget constrants at the time I had little choice I still have similar budget constraints

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

I've seen PCI-X plenty of times in older Dell Powerledge/HP proliant servers spanning from the socket 604 day to LGA 771 days that only had PCI-X in them. Some LGA 1366 boards even have a couple of PCI-X slots on them.

 

The cool thing about PCI-X is a PCI-X card could function in a PCI slot if it was properly keyed at the lower speed and a PCI card could be installed in a PCI-X slot.

 

PCI-X was really a stop-gap for high end servers that needed more bandwidth because PCIe didn't exist yet. Same with APG, just a stopgap for PCIe at the time.

 

What I don't understand is why didn't board makers just use PCI-X instead of AGP. They both had the same bandwidth but PCI-X could be used for everything and not just video cards.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think AGP may have come before PCI-X and established itself as the standard for GPUs.

The only system I have with PCI-X is my Asus A7M266-D housing my Athlon MPs, that's got some PCI, PCI-X, and an AGP 8x slot.

 

I'd have to do some looking to confirm that AGP came first, but that seems to make sense to me.

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

Yeah looks like AGP came out two years earlier than PCI-X.

 

I think matrox might have had a GPU on PCI-X but AMD and Nvidia never made anything for the slot.

That would make sense. I haven't heard of or seen that many PCI-X based GPUs.

[trilobite3]

I bought the thing in 2012 and all I have ever used it for was a lan party

[trilobite3]

I was still in computer information class at that time 

[trilobite3]

Just now, quakeguy81 said:

You should totally do a sleeper PC with that HP Pavilion case especially with that floppy drive in it.  

that would be fun I may do it

[trilobite3]

I wish I still had my 2000 era server it too would have ben a cool sleeper but unfortunately I trashed it after it got damaged from a leak in my shed I still have the hot swap scsi drives from it I was thinking of selling them on ebay