Show off your old and retro computer parts

[WhitetailAni]

Good news and bad news!
Good news is that @BrianTheElectrician's little gift box arrived.

Thank you SO much for that.

Bad news is that my power supply has developed some problems.

1. It doesn't work if I screw it into the case. It's fine just loose inside, touching the metal, but no screws allowed.

2. It's not strong enough if I plug in my optical drive and 2 hard drives.

 

Guess I need a new power supply.

[Kilrah]

I still have my i7-970 from 2010 getting occasional use, even gaming. Doesn't even feel slow at all, unlike my 2019 laptop...

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

10gb of ram

Luxury!

[BrianTheElectrician]

3 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Good news and bad news!
Good news is that @BrianTheElectrician's little gift box arrived.

Thank you SO much for that.

Bad news is that my power supply has developed some problems.

1. It doesn't work if I screw it into the case. It's fine just loose inside, touching the metal, but no screws allowed.

2. It's not strong enough if I plug in my optical drive and 2 hard drives.

 

Guess I need a new power supply.

Sweet glad it showed up in time for you to play with some of it on your break! Sucks about the psu though, at least atx psus are reasonable or at least they are for the wattage you need for a retro rig (thunderbird athlons excluded )

 

Your running a slot 1 p3 if memory serves?

 

Had I known I would have sent you one too lol

[WhitetailAni]

7 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Sweet glad it showed up in time for you to play with some of it on your break! Sucks about the psu though, at least atx psus are reasonable or at least they are for the wattage you need for a retro rig (thunderbird athlons excluded )

@Bitter lives nearbyish, and I think we were going to meet up sometime this week as he had a PSU.

7 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Your running a slot 1 p3 if memory serves?

Yep.

7 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Had I known I would have sent you one too lol

I didn't know until today and I tried to boot up the system.

[BrianTheElectrician]

24 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

@Bitter lives nearbyish, and I think we were going to meet up sometime this week as he had a PSU.

Yep.

I didn't know until today and I tried to boot up the system.

All good and I figured it was after you got the package as you mentioned 2 drives as well. I'd suspect the issue with your supply is cracked solder joints and perhaps mounting it is torqing something. Otherwise I'd say a bad cap but yeah if your close to Bitter and he has a supply for you then that'd be the way to go.

 

Hope to see some pics when you've got it up and running!

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, BrianTheElectrician said:

Hope to see some pics when you've got it up and running!

I shall not disappoint.

 

On a sort of side note, I opened the package in the office while my dad was working, and he saw me take out the 5.25" floppy drive and laughed, asked "do you even have any disks" and laughed even harder when I grabbed the disks I had for it.

[Bitter]

@FakeKGB I still have that 500W unit that used to OC my P4 and run like 5 HDD's and a 6800 Ultra OC. Clear it with your parentals/have one come with and we can meet somewhere maybe this weekend or next weekend and you can just have it.

 

@BrianTheElectrician I didn't forget I just forgot. I have the correct box, I have found a large enough static bag, I overslept on Saturday to get it to the post office.

[flibberdipper]

Not a part, but rather something I did with them. I just spent absolutely forever installing Vista on my XP rig using a spare HDD I had just for the hell of it. I don't feel like trying to do anything with it (god forbid I try using Firefox, that's painful enough on XP with its lower RAM usage), but just dickin around in the OS it's actually shockingly fast.

 

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 3/29/2021 at 4:08 PM, FakeKGB said:

I shall not disappoint.

 

On a sort of side note, I opened the package in the office while my dad was working, and he saw me take out the 5.25" floppy drive and laughed, asked "do you even have any disks" and laughed even harder when I grabbed the disks I had for it.

LOL that's awesome. I tested that it works with 360k disks which was fine but I actually don't have any 1.2mb disks so wasn't able to verify that those work.

 

On 3/29/2021 at 4:22 PM, Bitter said:

@FakeKGB I still have that 500W unit that used to OC my P4 and run like 5 HDD's and a 6800 Ultra OC. Clear it with your parentals/have one come with and we can meet somewhere maybe this weekend or next weekend and you can just have it.

 

@BrianTheElectrician I didn't forget I just forgot. I have the correct box, I have found a large enough static bag, I overslept on Saturday to get it to the post office.

Haha no worries as I've said I'm in no rush. I do have a slot A system together now that I'll have to post a few pics of later, and it'll be nice to have an extra processor for it. I may run some benchmarks and see what the difference is, and would be neat to see the steps between as well which hopefully I can simulate by simply lowering the multiplier. I don't remember 100 percent if they're locked on the athlon classics or not.

[X-System]

On 3/30/2021 at 1:54 AM, flibberdipper said:

Not a part, but rather something I did with them. I just spent absolutely forever installing Vista on my XP rig using a spare HDD I had just for the hell of it. I don't feel like trying to do anything with it (god forbid I try using Firefox, that's painful enough on XP with its lower RAM usage), but just dickin around in the OS it's actually shockingly fast.

 

-snip-

The specs of your P3TDDE motherboard. It supports up to 4GB RAM. Try to find 4x 512MB or 1GB SDRAM PC133 sticks

[flibberdipper]

49 minutes ago, X-System said:

The specs of your P3TDDE motherboard. It supports up to 4GB RAM. Try to find 4x 512MB or 1GB SDRAM PC133 sticks

I've had an eBay listing of 1GB 133 ECC sticks bookmarked for like two years. As much as I love this system though, I really can't completely justify having that much RAM with Pentium III's, especially with how a lot of programs don't really give a hoot that there's two individual CPUs at their disposal. Hell as I type this I'm waiting on my mom to get back to me on buying a 2400 Pro for my old OptiPlex to basically replace the current XP rig with. Northwood HT P4 and 2GB of RAM is a step in the right direction.

[Bitter]

This is a PC we use regularly at work. It does one thing. It runs Vista. It's never been connected to the internet. It has an 80GB hard drive which has 4k in bad sectors. Gonna try to clone it to a 120GB SSD and keep the original drive around for safe keeping. I don't trust spinning platters in a machine that rolls around the shop floor and gets bumped into while running. They should have speccd it with a laptop hard drive or something. 

[sub68]

Old laptops from my school

 

[s3riouscat]

Here's something different. A 3dfx quilted interior Leather Jacket.

[Kilrah]

So this is where Jensen got his jackets from along with the rest of the purchase...

[abit-sean]

I few of my ABIT goodies left over from the good old days.

 

Abit IP35 with Intel Q6700

Abit IP35 Pro with intel Q9300, GTX 480, 8GB RAM and ABIT uGuru panel

Abit KN9S (can't remember the CPU)

All still in working order.

[s3riouscat]

Oh man Abit... I still have my BH6 and IC7-Max3 with the original boxes. I miss Abit and Foxconn MBs.

[Kilrah]

That CMOS clear button cover is awesome

[BrianTheElectrician]

Yeah ABIT made great boards back in the day. I have an LX6 in a p2 system and have a few BH6 boards and love them. Always been very stable and easy to configure. I don't think I've had the pleasure of messing with anything of theirs newer than that though.

[abit-sean]

15 minutes ago, s3riouscat said:

Oh man Abit... I still have my BH6 and IC7-Max3 with the original boxes. I miss Abit and Foxconn MBs.

The IC7 Max3 was one of the most popular motherboards Abit ever produced. Even in 2008 I was still reburbishing them for customers.

[s3riouscat]

4 minutes ago, abit-sean said:

The IC7 Max3 was one of the most popular motherboards Abit ever produced. Even in 2008 I was still reburbishing them for customers.

That's surprising. That motherboard was really expensive for the market at the time. I think it was close to $300CAD when the ASUS P4C800 Deluxe was closer to $200ish? 

[abit-sean]

39 minutes ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Yeah ABIT made great boards back in the day. I have an LX6 in a p2 system and have a few BH6 boards and love them. Always been very stable and easy to configure. I don't think I've had the pleasure of messing with anything of theirs newer than that though.

The ABIT boards were much higher standard than the ones that were produced under USI for Universal abit.

[Bitter]

15 hours ago, abit-sean said:

I few of my ABIT goodies left over from the good old days.

 

Abit IP35 with Intel Q6700

Abit IP35 Pro with intel Q9300, GTX 480, 8GB RAM and ABIT uGuru panel

Abit KN9S (can't remember the CPU)

All still in working order.

I still have my IN9-32X Max WIFI, never used the WIFI card lol. It was a SOLID board that did exactly what Abit said it would do, 1600mhz FSB to run my E8400 at 4Ghz. I'm sure it still works, after not being used for a while it gave me a hard time about the BIOS battery even after changing it with a new one (checked the volts in the battery myself). It just would not keep BIOS settings anymore, it was stuck on the battery being dead and I had to press F1 to enter setup each time and each time it was reset to defaults. Well eventually I stumbled on the fix and got it working, I think I had to manually something or other to get the BIOS to reset the low battery warning and keep settings again. Weird. I never could get it an iota past 4Ghz and it had a weird 'hole' between 1333 and 1600 where for a range of speeds it would just not post. Knowing more now than I did then I could probably coax it up past 4Ghz if I went back at it but I'm shy on cases and Windows 7 drivers were a pain for it. I really enjoyed my years with that system though. I wish Abit were still around, I'd be buying them instead of Asus for sure!

[Valentyn]

Some more 3dfx Goodies.