Show off your old and retro computer parts

[X-System]

6 hours ago, vukos said:

How about a fully functional IBM 5150 with Amdek 310A amber monochrome monitor? Behold the original PC in all its glory, running MS-DOS with 640 kb of memory:

640kb of memory, it reminds me :

 

[mormoloc1986]

i love colors, always looking for biostar mbs, my actual computer is an am2+ biostar navy mb with orange slots, stuck 2 orange geil memory sticks in it. 

still, my favorite motherboard of all times was a biostar 754 socket, green pcb with green slots, oh boy, the memories behind that one...

[mr mans]

5 hours ago, Lenovich said:

Sir, this A+ retro PC. Show to us more, please.

Here you go:

 

 

Some native IRC chat

 

 

Check out how long those memory expansion cards are

[Lenovich]

45 minutes ago, vukos said:

Check out how long those memory expansion cards are

Nice! Thank you.

[luckybob77]

I'm happy I still have one of those monitors in the box.    No NIB, but still.

[sub68]

planning on this nas from a amd x2 250 

asus m4a785-m 

2 1tb hdd 

a hp 120 watt psu

4gb of corsair xmas ram

case is a lenovo prebuilt h420

[cesh me inside b0z]

 

On 2/3/2020 at 4:14 PM, cesh me inside b0z said:

Core 2 Duo 3.4ghz . WenjuFeng cooler . ASUS P5G41C-M LX . Crucial 1066mhz 3GB DDR2 . Gainward Golden Sample HD 4850 . Coolermaster Elite 430 . Seagate 160GB IDE 7200RPM . BeQuiet System Power 9 400w 80+ Bronze

 

Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS + drive bay

 

Windows XP SP3

 

 

(old pictures without ASUS board & Sound card)

 

 

Video of this setup in action playing No one lives forever (game came today through mail)

Disc drive is so loud lol.

 

[Realpm7]

I have some old ddr2 sodims and a 320GB 3.5 HDD 120GB 2.5 HDD

[Beerzerker]

This is a pic of the three LanParty variants for Socket A.

From left to right is the DFI LanParty KT400A, LanParty NF2 Ultra A and the LanParty NF2 Ultra B.

 

Sometimes it's difficult to tell them apart if not famliar with each, the pic shows these differences and it's not hard to tell which is which once you know the differences.

Look closely and you'll see them.

 

I've seen Ultra A's being described as Ultra B's on Ebay several times and that's not accurate, plus the Ultra B is the board that's known as the top board for that socket once modded. Ultra A's are good but will not run nearly as well as an Ultra B is capable of.

An Ultra B itself will not set records in stock form but no other runs like an Ultra B once it's modified.

All three boards shown are unmodified (Stock) making the Ultra B I have one of the very last in stock form you'll ever see.

 

No, I have no plans to mod it either - It's a show piece like the other two.

 

 

 

[Djcoldcrown]

Phenom 2 i had salvaged from a school computer

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Djcoldcrown said:

Phenom 2 i had salvaged from a school computer

Is that an HD 5450 in the background?

[Djcoldcrown]

4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Is that an HD 5450 in the background?

@Crunchy Dragon no that is a nvidia geforce 310 512mb from pegatron

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Djcoldcrown said:

@Crunchy Dragon no that is a nvidia geforce 310 512mb from pegatron

Oh dang

[Djcoldcrown]

5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Oh dang

@Crunchy Dragon funny thing is that im going to use this in my first pc build tomorrw with a amd A8 6500

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Djcoldcrown said:

@Crunchy Dragon funny thing is that im going to use this in my first pc build tomorrw with a amd A8 6500

That definitely wouldn't be my first choice, the A8's integrated GPU is probably better than the Nvidia card anyway.

[GDRRiley]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That definitely wouldn't be my first choice, the A8's integrated GPU is probably better than the Nvidia card anyway.

oh god both are so bad I'm sorry @Djcoldcrown

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

oh god both are so bad I'm sorry @Djcoldcrown

HD 8570D isn't too bad, that was the same iGPU that shipped in my A6-5400K from what I recall. I'd choose that over a 256MB GT 310 any day though, purely because you can allocate more VRAM.

[Beerzerker]

@DjcoldcrownB95 quad core - Nice!

https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/phenom_ii_x4_b95/

[wuxmedia]

Hi This is my first post here not sure if it fits retro kit (the case is ) but is also a build...

This is a google album with a retro fit of a fairly retro system. It's my 2nd build ever, last one was in the athlon 2600 days -- so go easy !

https://photos.app.goo.gl/izcNajbWbiBTHQES7

Attached is a teaser image. The pics aren't all that good actually

kit list is:

Asus geforce dual 1060

ASUS P7P55D SOCKET 1156 

i5 750

Crucial DDR3 12G 

Corsair 550W PSU

A kingston 60G SSD.

corsair aio cooler 2x120mm rad.

 

For me it wasn't about getting a balling rig, as much as repurposing the case. This is way better over the i3 and asus turks graphics card I got for free.

I have a newer CPU (i7 something) in the post.

 

PS - It's running Ubuntu and minecraft so it's actually overkill for this used case use case

 

It was also a way to get my Daughter into computer building rather than just playing. She helped with a bunch of the smaller tasks (memory, putting in the standoffs - taping up the huge cuts I made in the case. I wanted to add a big acrylic sheet to the side to give an inside view. I'm not so sure now as I actually like the monolithic look of this case. and the only rgb is on the corsair. 

If the new CPU doesn't need much cooling I might sell the AiO on and just get a conventional nice noctua or something. I couldn't get this i5 to get any hotter than 41C with a stress test. So i'm not sure if the water cooling is overkill. It's the most expensive bit of the build. I was going to get a custom water cooling kit dead cheap (linus' banggood water cooling video) but I didn't fancy all the fiddling about.

 

[Awesome84]

On 12/19/2013 at 4:29 PM, TheDoubleYGamer said:

Just because you're 12, doesn't mean you can't have old computer parts. I have some Core 2 Duo, and a Nvidia 8800 GTS or something like that.

I have an old Amd e350 cpu with a Radeon HD 6320 gpu.

[The King of the Undead]

32 minutes ago, Awesome84 said:

I have an old Amd e350 cpu with a Radeon HD 6320 gpu.

I have several pentiums a phenom 2 a 1950 pro and a 5770. I have several sticks of ddr400 and ddr2 ram. at 14. If this is a contest I win.

[Bitter]

32 minutes ago, will4623 said:

I have several pentiums a phenom 2 a 1950 pro and a 5770. I have several sticks of ddr400 and ddr2 ram. at 14. If this is a contest I win.

Yeah yeah we all gotold stuff lol. It's not a contest.

[nelska]

I had the original neon green cybiko that had communication text between two cybikos within 200 feet. Used them in school with a friend circa 2001 right before 911..  Was texting in class a half a decade before everyone else. lol.

[Jessica.Fawkes]

On 1/20/2020 at 1:10 PM, Lenovich said:

 do not know for sure. but seems it is impossible because of 32 bit nature of system.

I tried it in a VM and it handled 8GB just fine.

[Drew Taylor]

I'm sure a few will know what this is, but most prob won't. This is the first computer I ever got to play with. I was 5 or 6 years old when my mom brought it home. It's came with 80kb of ram! And the data drives used a cassette. Very cool little computer. This has been the one computer I really wanted to complete my collection (as if I could ever call it complete.)