Show off your old and retro computer parts

[KaiserG3]

Fixed my fathers old PC and found his old Pc hardware stash.

 

A 8800 GTX, a Sound blaster live and a promise fasttrak100 raid controller. There was more but I didn't think it was that intresting.

[sub68]

On 3/22/2021 at 11:24 AM, BillyGoat1776 said:

A co-worker unearthed this fossil at a local state college

Wait

I live here

[Bitter]

I kind of miss blower cards exhausting out the back of the case.

[WhitetailAni]

6 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I kind of miss blower cards exhausting out the back of the case.

Blower coolers were nice.

I prefer them over other styles, since my case is designed for blower cards.

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Blower coolers were nice.

I prefer them over other styles, since my case is designed for blower cards.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001565744067.html

I really wanted one of these but couldn't justify the price when my ITX cube is only running an i5 4590 and I don't actually know how loud or how well it cools. I suppose I could swap my ITX HTPC from the Elite 130 to the Core V1 case JUST to use this cooler on the mobile i7 that's overclocked but that seems like a colossal amount of work and money for no reason other than to save 1/2 cu.ft of floor space next to the TV.

[bockske]

My secondary gaming rig with an I7-7700k@5Ghz(delidded) and a radeon r9 390 and 32Gb of 2666Mhz ram

What do you think, rebuild it last Year

still waiting on the Ncore waterblock

[Kilrah]

58 minutes ago, bockske said:

What do you think

That 2 and a half years old isn't "old or retro"...

[bockske]

Is 2,5 years not old in pc land

Gpu is 6years old

[WhitetailAni]

2 hours ago, bockske said:

Is 2,5 years not old in pc land

In the context of this thread, not really...

This would be better suited for this thread:

 

2 hours ago, bockske said:

Gpu is 6years old

IMO, once an architecture/series is not supported by the latest graphics drivers for a company (so Fermi for NVidia, no idea for AMD) it counts as retro. For CPUs, Nehalem/Prescott for Intel, and Athlon XP for AMD.

 

My GPUs are 8 years old. But I don't think they qualify as "retro" since NVidia still supports them in their drivers.

[bockske]

3 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

In the context of this thread, not really...

This would be better suited for this thread:

 

IMO, once an architecture/series is not supported by the latest graphics drivers for a company (so Fermi for NVidia, no idea for AMD) it counts as retro. For CPUs, Nehalem/Prescott for Intel, and Athlon XP for AMD.

 

My GPUs are 8 years old. But I don't think they qualify as "retro" since NVidia still supports them in their drivers.

Ok thanks will post it there

[Bitter]

32 bit only is old, 20 pin ATX is old, AT is retro, 16 bit is ancient.

[X-System]

5 hours ago, Bitter said:

32 bit only is old, 20 pin ATX is old, AT is retro, 16 bit is ancient.

64-bit CPUs MIPS R4000 (from 1991), DEC Alpha (from 1992) and SUN UltraSPARC (from 1995), aren't they old enough? 

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, X-System said:

64-bit CPUs MIPS R4000 (from 1991), DEC Alpha (from 1992) and SUN UltraSPARC (from 1995), aren't they old enough? 

If someone has one of those at home that they're using/still works I'd love to see it.

[dean_5234]

Old Gateway laptop from around 2006. Running Vista Home. Still works to this day

 

[BulletSponge]

A 6 series 6800 gpu from nvidia

[8tg]

Plugged in headphones and this actually sounds pretty decent

im gonna have to start buying more music on CD, because I have individual albums larger than this machines entire hard drive 

 

Yes, the keyboard is as good as it looks like it is 

[BrianTheElectrician]

3 hours ago, 8tg said:

Plugged in headphones and this actually sounds pretty decent

im gonna have to start buying more music on CD, because I have individual albums larger than this machines entire hard drive 

 

Yes, the keyboard is as good as it looks like it is 

I love how the micron looks, looks like a nice screen too! I need to find one of these to go with my Millennia lol.

 

The keyboards on the old laptops feel so much nicer to type on than pretty much any new one I've used. They actually have feel and travel.

[sub68]

On 3/26/2021 at 7:20 PM, Kilrah said:

That 2 and a half years old isn't "old or retro"...

Would a 10 year old pc count?

[Bitter]

9 hours ago, sub68 said:

Would a 10 year old pc count?

You mean like a 1st gen Intel i series?

[sub68]

3 minutes ago, Bitter said:

You mean like a 1st gen Intel i series?

2 gen i

[Kilrah]

For me it's where it wouldn't be practical to use other than for playing around anymore... maybe 15 years or so, around first gen Core (32bit).

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, sub68 said:

2 gen i

Nah, that's newer than my daily use laptop lol.

[sub68]

28 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Nah, that's newer than my daily use laptop lol.

ok

wah

its a i5 2400 desktop with 10gb of ram

[flibberdipper]

6 minutes ago, sub68 said:

ok

wah

its a i5 2400 desktop with 10gb of ram

To be fair that' still newer than my laptop.

 

Granted it's only newer by one generation since my laptop has an i5 580M, but still. Fancy dual core go Q6600 performance noises.

[sub68]

Just now, flibberdipper said:

To be fair that' still newer than my laptop.

 

Granted it's only newer by one generation since my laptop has an i5 580M, but still. Fancy dual core go Q6600 performance noises.

ok fair....