Show off your old and retro computer parts

[it_dont_work]

39 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

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

 

They did, I used to use them in my old recording studio in the late 90's, they freed up board slots for running dual monitors and multiple protools cards. 

[trilobite3]

well I just had a ether stupid or brilliant idea take apart a vcr and put a full pc in it as a sleeper build

[buzzinkeegs]

still works

[buzzinkeegs]

devils #

[buzzinkeegs]

12 hours ago, Schnoz said:

A 2 GB dimm was a lot back then. If you had two of those, you would max out the memory capacity of a 32-bit system.

yes i remember i still have the laptop motherboard this came out of in the loft packed up somewhere and a whole bacement of old parts to troll through just dont get the time these days im guna dig out my old zx+2 next and post it when i get chance and the c16

[BrianTheElectrician]

Dragged this machine down to setup Windows on, as I actually haven't touched it since I brought it home. Still had an old install of 98 on it. Gonna install 95C I think.

 

It's a Hewitt Rand tower with a K6 266mhz, 128mb Ram, 2Gb HDD and I think a S3 graphics card of some sort. Still have to dive into it deeper yet but it works!

The top Disc drive doesn't want to open though, so will have to replace that. Good thing that I have lots of spares haha!

[DeadnightWarrior]

Meet some old Intel classics:

- Pentium D 945 "Presler" SL9QB, 3.4Ghz, Socket 775

- Pentium 4 "Willamette" SL5TK, 1.7Ghz, Socket 478

- Pentium 3 "Coppermine" SL4CB, 866Mhz, Socket 370

- Celeron "Tualatin" SL5ZJ, 1.3Ghz, Socket 370
and of course the almighty:
- Pentium II "Klamath" SL28K, 233Mhz, Slot1 !

 

I should also have some old PC100 SDRAM, a GeForce 6200, maybe a Riva128 and a full AMD Duron system with integrated S3 Savage graphics... Will see if I can find them!

[VIVO-US]

On 1/15/2019 at 12:33 PM, campy said:

I ordered a couple of ECS video cards because i didnt even know ECS made video cards. Guess they did, mainly Geforce 8 series and a couple of random bits from fermi and they were all over the place. They didnt make every card for every gen, but theres like, a gtx 660 and a gts 250 randomly thrown in there by ECS.

 

What i saw was this:

 

Which is their 8800gt.

Which is literally cooled by an arctic acellero s1 passive cooler with two fans glued to it.

Truly a thing of beauty.

From my understanding, basically all of the modern dual-fan graphics card coolers made today are based off the Accelero S1 there (the twin fans were a clip-on accessory they also offered), and I think the reference blower-design coolers used by Nvidia and AMD are also based off of an earlier Arctic Cooling design.  I've had the original Accelero Twin Turbo mounted to an 8800GT for close to 10 years now, and not only has it kept the card cool, but it's also barely made a sound doing it!

[MepsiPax]

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. This is my old computer from 10+ years ago "starting up"

How far we've come. lol

[Krazy_Kanuk]

On 12/19/2013 at 7:16 PM, DarkEnergy said:

I have an old copper-full motherboard. Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Motherboard is an ASUS TX97,  from the mid to late 90's the CPU would have been a Socket  5 or 7 series. so it would have been a AMD K5 75/90 mhz (586 class) to an Intel P5SC Pentium Class MMX 233 mhz  


I do BAD THINGS to my old Hardware.. I have not owned a desktop computer in a lot of years.  
This is how I delete old Hardware. As a Gun Owner, I tend to blow them up, or put really big holes in them.. 

 

 

[UncleJarvis]

Here's a trip into the wayback machine. Is 4 MB plenty for your gaming needs?

[Guest]

Oldest pc?

Duron 600Mhz

Abit AN-7

2x 128mb ram.

40GB ATA HDD

FX5200 128mb

"modecom" 400W psu that smells

Really old Gigabyte-branded case. 

WIN XP

[Radium_Angel]

I don't have it any more, but once I was given a dead PC, and the CPU was a Pentium III slotted with the words "engineering sample" stamped on it.

[CaptainHammer]

On 12/21/2013 at 7:50 AM, MatthewEnderle said:

An old Intel DIP Processor and two AMD DIP Processors too.

 

And my dual 7970's and my h100i

Ouch, I am still running the 7850, I know, crappy, but just dont game on it any more, and it pushes what I need it to do lol

[Radium_Angel]

I have one of these I'm trying to decide what to do with

 

A Sun Cobalt Qube 2

 

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

Just curious, what exactly is that? 

A very old micro webserver. Obsoleted long ago, but a cool piece of Sun history. I was considering making it part of my network, having it as an Intranet, but since my web-coding skills suck, I really haven't done anything to/with it.

 

[CaptainHammer]

11 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

A very old micro webserver. Obsoleted long ago, but a cool piece of Sun history. I was considering making it part of my network, having it as an Intranet, but since my web-coding skills suck, I really haven't done anything to/with it.

  

"This video brought to you by SkillShare/Lynda"  

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, CaptainHammer said:

"This video brought to you by SkillShare/Lynda"

?

[CaptainHammer]

11 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

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sorry, just quoting one of LTT sponsors.  you can take online courses in damn near everything you could want from those sites.
https://www.skillshare.com/
https://lynda.com
https://www.udemy.com/

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, CaptainHammer said:

sorry, just quoting one of LTT sponsors.  you can take online courses in damn near everything you could want from those sites.
https://www.skillshare.com/
https://lynda.com
https://www.udemy.com/

Ah. Yeah not my thing (coding that is. Not any more, I used to be a mainframe programmer.) really. No patience for coding these days.

[CaptainHammer]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Ah. Yeah not my thing (coding that is. Not any more, I used to be a mainframe programmer.) really. No patience for coding these days.

Gotcha, really, its not to much to tackle.  you can find fully built out CSS and just tweak it to what you want it to look like, if you wanted to get that gem up and running.   

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, CaptainHammer said:

Gotcha, really, its not to much to tackle.  you can find fully built out CSS and just tweak it to what you want it to look like, if you wanted to get that gem up and running.   

Tell you what...how about I send it to you and you do it for me? I'll even pay you

BTW, it's not x86 hardware if that makes a difference....

[CaptainHammer]

45 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Tell you what...how about I send it to you and you do it for me? I'll even pay you

BTW, it's not x86 hardware if that makes a difference....

LOL im no expert either lol 

[Guest]

[iLostMyXbox21]

1 minute ago, King Poet said:

-snip-

My god, is that an RTX 2080ti?

 

 

 

/s