Show off your old and retro computer parts

[FinOxy]

On 1/19/2021 at 1:20 PM, Ben17 said:

some random old graphics cards and ddr2 ram I have lol

Looks like what I just tore down
my dads old PC 

[Ben17]

1 hour ago, FinOxy said:

Looks like what I just tore down
my dads old PC 

lol 

Some of that hardware is nearly 8 or 9 years old now 

[Mr. Celeron]

A 2004 Intel Celeron M, from a Compaq laptop.

[Davo05]

Finally got the laptop of my dreams, a Dell XPS m2010. From 2007... It is in surprisingly good condition.

[flibberdipper]

Just a pair of Pentium 3's casually rolling by.

[luckybob77]

That poor, lonely stick of ram.  It needs 3 friends,  don't you think?

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, luckybob77 said:

That poor, lonely stick of ram.  It needs 3 friends,  don't you think?

I have 2 sticks in my system that takes it, but I'm not putting any more in because I can't.

The system only supports a max of 2GB.

[flibberdipper]

13 minutes ago, luckybob77 said:

That poor, lonely stick of ram.  It needs 3 friends,  don't you think?

Stop tempting meeeeeeee. I'd love to whack a 4GB kit in it, but especially with my current situation I can't really justify that, especially when it'll ultimately be replaced by (ideally) a Phenom II platform in a new Enthoo Pro. The twins are great, but they are a bit of a holdback.

[Aleks2211]

[Vishera]

On 1/22/2021 at 1:54 PM, Davo05 said:

Finally got the laptop of my dreams, a Dell XPS m2010. From 2007... It is in surprisingly good condition.

-snip-

Wow!,It has a normal keyboard!

Is it mechanical?

[Vishera]

On 1/28/2021 at 12:02 PM, Aleks2211 said:

The cursed GT 210,worst GPU of the last decade.

[flibberdipper]

4 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Wow!,It has a normal keyboard!

Is it mechanical?

I very highly doubt it. I feel almost 96.9% confident in saying it's just a standard Dell membrane keyboard of the time slightly modified to shove into a laptop. Granted, they're fairly decent membrane keyboards, but still not mech.

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 1/20/2021 at 8:03 AM, UsefulPineapple said:

IBM Model 5155

Ooooo that is a beautiful machine! Does it still work?

[UsefulPineapple]

2 hours ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Ooooo that is a beautiful machine! Does it still work?

It turns on but displays a bunch of random garbage. I’ve been trying to look into how to fix it but I haven’t had a lot of time because of school and stuff.

[Skunch]

On 1/26/2021 at 4:09 PM, flibberdipper said:

Just a pair of Pentium 3's casually rolling by.

<snip>

That is a sexy work station! Please max out the ram, for great justice!

What do you use it for?

[flibberdipper]

9 minutes ago, Skunch said:

That is a sexy work station! Please max out the ram, for great justice!

What do you use it for?

Largely just games that'll run halfway decent on it, though I do occasionally end up listening to music on it or firing up Excel or Word on it even though my main PC exists. One of the rarer things I end up doing is "recording" MIDIs with the Yamaha software synth using Audacity. The product of that can be found down below.

ninja2-2.mp3 496209934_MonkeyIslandMainTheme.mp3

[vf1000ride]

Well, back in March of last year I had replied to another member about the old DFI Lanparty board. 

I don't have that board anymore but when searching an old hard drive that I was getting ready to scrap I found a picture of the system from 2007.  Man do I wish I could remember all the specs on that thing. 

 

[vf1000ride]

Crazy thing Is I still have that case.  No name on it though.

[FakeFBI]

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

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

i have ram from 1994

[Benny-fields]

Nothing terribly interesting. Just thought I'd shat some photos of an early 2000's PC I recently fixed for my aunt. 

[Spotty]

3 minutes ago, Benny-fields said:

Nothing terribly interesting. Just thought I'd shat some photos of an early 2000's PC I recently fixed for my aunt. 

> Merged with the Show off your old and retro computer parts thread.

I'm sure someone here will find them interesting. Also I hope that bottom picture is the 'before' pic of before you cleaned that heatsink.

[Benny-fields]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

> Merged with the Show off your old and retro computer parts thread.

I'm sure someone here will find them interesting. Also I hope that bottom picture is the 'before' pic of before you cleaned that heatsink.

Thanks. I'm still learning how this forum is laid out. I wasn't sure where to post this. 

 

And yes, that was as soon as I opened the case, lol. That's what 15+years of neglect looks like. 

[Spotty]

8 minutes ago, Benny-fields said:

Thanks. I'm still learning how this forum is laid out. I wasn't sure where to post this. 

 

And yes, that was as soon as I opened the case, lol. That's what 15+years of neglect looks like. 

It's all good, welcome!

 

It doesn't look that bad for 15+ years. I've seen a lot worse in a lot less time. Your Aunt still uses the PC? What does she use it for? I'm surprised it's still going and still usable. Eventually will replace the monitor and need a HDMI port or replace a HDD or something and it'll be easier just to replace the PC.

 

That 120W PSU with 24W on 12V is cute though!

[freefoo]

Playing along with a Dec Alphastation which I saved from the scrapyard.

[CommanderAlex]

So the AMD Athlon that I have...I don't know exactly where it came from. The Intel Pentium i200 is from a box of old computer components that my dad got from his job and I pulled it out. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 was from my first PC, a Compaq Presario SR(something). Decided to save it.

 

Now for the RAM, the two Samsung modules with the aluminum heatsinks I think came from the same box as the Pentium did. The 2x 512MB sticks I believe are also from my first PC, and that last 1GB stick, it came from somewhere!!