Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

ATI drivers are why I started using Nvidia and have used Nvidia until this year when I got a 580 8GB. Took me almost 20 years to get over those drivers...

[P5yco]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

ATI drivers are why I started using Nvidia and have used Nvidia until this year when I got a 580 8GB. Took me almost 20 years to get over those drivers...

Same. Battled on with Radeon after the race fury and eventually went team green and haven't looked back. 

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, P5yco said:

Same. Battled on with Radeon after the race fury and eventually went team green and haven't looked back. 

ATI Rage XL and then a while later a ATI/AMD something I figured I'd try out cheap used and drivers both time just slayed me. My RX580 has been solid but I don't care for how their control software works. Why must I manually re-apply my undervolt profile AFTER EVERY BOOT!?

[Bitter]

The 6800 is a good deal faster than the 6600, if you can find a 7 series AGP go for that.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-7950-gt-512mb-shootout-(review),2.html

7800 GS and higher in AGP, it performs similar to a 6800 Ultra but is a little less power hungry and sometimes comes up cheaply on eBay, more often than the 6800 Ultra because less 6800 U's were made than 7800 GS. However finding AGP versions above the 7800 GS is tough.

[X-System]

53 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Should I get a 6600 GT or 6800 GT for my Pentium 4 EE retro rig? The 6600 GT is cheaper, but the 6800 GT looks pretty cool.

Or get the fastest AGP graphics card => Radeon HD 3850 AGP

 

 

EDIT : Oh, it's not cheap (mini $100 used) 

Edited August 18, 2019 by X-System

[flibberdipper]

8 minutes ago, X-System said:

Or get the fastest AGP graphics card => Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Man how I would love to get one of those for my current XP rig. I did get a 3650 for it, but it ended up being DOA so that was a painful refund.

[X-System]

2 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Man how I would love to get one of those for my current XP rig. I did get a 3650 for it, but it ended up being DOA so that was a painful refund.

I have a PowerColor HD 3850 AGP (top of the picture)

 

[The Smokin Deist]

On 8/17/2019 at 3:24 AM, Bitter said:

CGI Starfury on an Amiga is the correct use of an Amiga. Points for you!

Yup, I was a big fan of B5 too. My last Amiga was an A4000 but I never owned a Video Toaster for either the 2000 or 4000.

[The Smokin Deist]

11 hours ago, P5yco said:

I'll start with my Sinclair spectrum. Which I still have out for retro gaming moments. 

Spectrum! lol I never actually played with those but I do have a fair amount of experience with its bitter rival, the Commodore 64--later I picked up a C128.

[The Smokin Deist]

I mentioned this when I showed off the pic of my Amiga 2000. I still have the Kodak Photo CD where the pic came from. I transferred the picture when the optical drive in my old laptop still worked. I cannot remember what I had to use but the disc uses a weird picture format and I had to break out some Google-fu to find something that would allow me to load and export the pic into something easier to deal with. I also have pictures of the USS Missouri when it was at the Port of Astoria (Oregon) before it was towed to its permanent spot in Hawaii. It was an impressive ship but at the same time, it was a bit smaller than I thought it would be. I'll have to see if I brought any of those over or if I'll have to find a computer with a working optical drive and pull the files off of it--or make an ISO.


 

[X-System]

Who remember ELSA GeForce2 Ultra graphic card? She was sold with ELSA 3D Revelator glasses

 

I never have it. It was very expensive (and I was young)... I found an old review. The price of this graphic card was $549 in 2000. With the inflation, it would cost $818 in 2019

[Boot Virtual]

On 12/20/2013 at 5:16 AM, DarkEnergy said:

I have an old copper-full motherboard. Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.An old Hard Drive I had found in a large metal server next to the trash.

 

Part 2 edit on 1/7/18 because this topic seems popular. 

I've got a couple other things not in the pictures, didn't want to drag them out of storage. 

 

 

 

 

 

Verry vintage collection :))) I like it and I dream for having this collection.

[awaisafzal0]

On 12/20/2013 at 2:25 AM, 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

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

i am stil using core to duo 

[Bitter]

Yep, shop PC I built is a C2D lol. Rebuilding to a i3-4150 Haswell system with 8GB of RAM cause 4 is a little skimpy these days.

[awaisafzal0]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Yep, shop PC I built is a C2D lol. Rebuilding to a i3-4150 Haswell system with 8GB of RAM cause 4 is a little skimpy these days.

it cost approximately 120 dollars here to have i5 3rd gen with 4 gb ram thats 3 months rent

[Bitter]

1 minute ago, awaisafzal0 said:

it cost approximately 120 dollars here to have i5 3rd gen with 4 gb ram thats 3 months rent

That's a little cheaper than here but 3 months of rent would be more like $1500 around here!

[awaisafzal0]

Just now, Bitter said:

That's a little cheaper than here but 3 months of rent would be more like $1500 around here!

it will be mine 2.5 years rent

[Aksuperb]

 Beat this IDE- Seagate ST3243A 

It is so old that it only has 241mb of storage 

And believe me when I say it was EXPENSIVE then....Rs 3500 was a FAT price at that time 

[The Smokin Deist]

@Aksuberb I remember playing with 40 and 20 MB drives in the past--they were even SCSI drives. Anyone remember terminator jumpers for SCSI devices as well as having to set SCSI IDs?

[Radium_Angel]

18 hours ago, The Smokin Deist said:

Anyone remember terminator jumpers for SCSI devices as well as having to set SCSI IDs?

What do you mean "remember"? I still use SCSI! 

[X-System]

3 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

What do you mean "remember"? I still use SCSI! 

What SCSI device you use ?

 

Before, I used four 36GB Hitachi Ultrastar 15,000 RPM SCSI SCA-80 hard disk drive in RAID-0, connected on Adaptec SCSI Card 29320A-R PCI-X 133 MHz, in my old rig dual Xeon Prestonia LV 1.6 @ 2.61 GHz (+63,1%). It was a beast (+160 MB/s seq) It was 13 years ago.

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 12/19/2013 at 10:16 PM, DarkEnergy said:

Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.

Looks to be a Pentium MMX going by the lettering.

[Radium_Angel]

2 hours ago, X-System said:

What SCSI device you use ?

A few 10k Seagate LVD 68pin units on a 29160 Adaptec. It's for a retro box I tinker with from time to time.

[tincanalley]

I'm currently restoring this machine.  It has had 3 lives so far.  It started out as a Zeos 486 33 ISA, then to a Zeos 486 DX100 ISA/VLB and then to a Supermicro socket 7 Overdrive Pentium 200MHz w/MXX ISA/PCI.  It is the last one that is being restored.  The previous boards are in storage and this build allows me to play many games up to around the Quake era.
1.44 floppy, 1.2 floppy, Kenwood TrueX 72, 2GB SCSI Barracuda Drive (x2), Pentium Overdrive 200MHz, 64MB EDO 60ns ram, Hayes ISA smart modem, Sound Blaster Awe64 ISA PNP, Matrox Millennium PCI, Intel 10/100 Ethernet PCI and Adaptec 2940w SCSI adapter.  It is still running on the original Lite-On 300w AT power supply from 1992.

I have lots of other old equipment.  I'll have to scrounge up some pics of those.  Have an IBM PS/2 50Z w/MicroMaster 386 board, etc.  Fun stuff.  Also tons of adapters I've kept over the years.

 

[iHardware Shelden]

22 hours ago, X-System said:

What SCSI device you use ?

 

Before, I used four 36GB Hitachi Ultrastar 15,000 RPM SCSI SCA-80 hard disk drive in RAID-0, connected on Adaptec SCSI Card 29320A-R PCI-X 133 MHz, in my old rig dual Xeon Prestonia LV 1.6 @ 2.61 GHz (+63,1%). It was a beast (+160 MB/s seq) It was 13 years ago.

 

 

Would love to see pictures of that system, should keep the banner in your signature