Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

https://www.amazon.com/TrinityWorks-Intel-Voltage-Converter-Adapter/dp/B004IJ681O/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

You're correct! It's a voltage adapter.

[WhitetailAni]

4 minutes ago, Bitter said:

https://www.amazon.com/TrinityWorks-Intel-Voltage-Converter-Adapter/dp/B004IJ681O/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

You're correct! It's a voltage adapter.

Cool, so it allows you to put your CPU in a motherboard and it will convert to 3.3V regardless of if it's 5V or 3.3V?

That's quite handy.

[da na]

On 5/16/2021 at 9:11 PM, Radium_Angel said:

I've used a few of those PSUs in older Shuttle XPC boxes. They suck, but there really isn't any alternative to them. They weight nothing, and 350watt is pure fantasy. 

Older Shuttle XPCs can be pure hell to work on but are cool cases. Used to have a white one from mid 2000s, ITX, and had a big clear shell around the whole thing.

[X-System]

21 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Uh, still use a 2012 HDD...

I still use a 2010 SSD in my old ThinkPad (120GB OCZ Vertex 2) and it works fine

[da na]

1 hour ago, X-System said:

I still use a 2010 SSD in my old ThinkPad (120GB OCZ Vertex 2) and it works fine

Pog, I have the 60gb variant of the Vertex that I use to dual boot Ubuntu. 

[Kilrah]

While we're talking of OCZ I still have a Revodrive bought in 2010 as my first SSD, 2x 60GB in RAID0 on a board, although I believe it was starting to fail:

 

[Radium_Angel]

5 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Older Shuttle XPCs can be pure hell to work on but are cool cases. Used to have a white one from mid 2000s, ITX, and had a big clear shell around the whole thing.

I sold tons of them back in the XP C2D era days. Walk in to an office, give one gratis to the front office secretary, and watch the phone calls roll in...

[X-System]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

While we're talking of OCZ I still have a Revodrive bought in 2010 as my first SSD, 2x 60GB in RAID0 on a board, although I believe it was starting to fail:

 

-snip-

I go on YouTube to see OCZ Revodrive test. Surprised, I found an old LTT video about OCZ Revodrive

 

 

[Kilrah]

Yeah that was the baller X2 version, basically the same as mine but the mezzanine connector is populated and a 2nd pair of drives fitted, that was fast but cost a fortune too

My 120GB one was already $350, the X2 was more than double lol

[sub68]

On 5/18/2021 at 12:03 PM, X-System said:

I still use a 2010 SSD in my old ThinkPad (120GB OCZ Vertex 2) and it works fine

*checks sig*

Thinkpad T61p I have heard this before.

Quote

There are, last time I checked, about 80 laptops deployed throughout the ISS. Most of them are Lenovo T61P laptops, but there are still a few old Lenovo A31p Thinkpads floating around.

https://gizmodo.com/how-astronauts-use-laptops-on-the-international-space-s-1654962539

Yep, thats what I thought

[GDRRiley]

On 5/18/2021 at 10:35 AM, Kilrah said:

While we're talking of OCZ I still have a Revodrive bought in 2010 as my first SSD, 2x 60GB in RAID0 on a board, although I believe it was starting to fail:

craftcomputers just did this video
all the old cache drives. Man I wish more drives were SLC and MLC not TLC and QLC

 

[X-System]

34 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

craftcomputers just did this video
all the old cache drives. Man I wish more drives were SLC and MLC not TLC and QLC

 

His method of speaking reminds me John Carmack at Quakecon

[WhitetailAni]

My PCI Socket 3 board has arrived at its destination!
I hope the person who bought it is happy.

 

I'm planning to take the money from this sale + the money from my Socket 3 5V to 3.45V adapter and buy a GTX 690 with it, but I'm having trouble finding one for sub-$150.
I did find this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/72869420737378?_trkparms=aid%GTX690

But "For parts or not working" deters me.

Any thoughts on what the problem could be?

I don't have access to a heat gun or a spare oven.

[Frinkly_MB]

On 12/19/2013 at 4:25 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

Got a pentium 4

[da na]

P4 pog

[Tonyx]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

Nice! Would you mind posting images?

That's my P4 630, the cpu of my first PC back in 2005, motherboard died in 2012, i trowh away the PC but i keep as memories the CPU

 

[da na]

11 minutes ago, Tonyx said:

That's my P4 630, the cpu of my first PC back in 2005, motherboard died in 2012, i trowh away the PC but i keep as memories the CPU

 

 

I have the exact same one!

[Rex Hite]

[Rex Hite]

This is a Dual Opteron 4 core WinXP machine built on an ASUS K8N-DRE motherboard I use as a scan server and general purpose workstation.

It has a NVIDIA Geforce 8400GS PCI video card. I'm dusting it out and so I thought I'd show it off.

 

 

 

[Rex Hite]

Another Dual CPU, 4 core Opteron workstation gets a dust cleaning. It's a Windows 10 machine built on a Tyan Thunder S992 motherboard This one has PCIe, PCI, and PCI-X slots.

 

 

[pupo_cro]

I made some progress in regard of "nvidia" case. I manage to find locally Coolermaster nvidia themed case. Its not in great shape, but after some TLC, it will suffice.

 

PSU is not period correct, but I dont want to burn other components with old and bad PSU. I have somewhere in stash WD Raptor hard drive, and that should be all.

 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Everyone said a CRT was god mode for PC gaming but... I dunno guys, I dunno...

 

 

Before you ask; This is actually a Lenovo M93P Tiny upgraded with an i7 4750HQ, using an HDMI to component video adapter, to drive the CRT on my retro PC desk, and I use it for media consumption.  It can playback 4K HEVC even.  ...Not that the display is exactly 4K but still.

[Bitter]

You're probably getting a bit of lag from the digital to analog converter there. Also, that's a TV? I'm surprised the heatsink can keep up with the 47W CPU, and I'm surprised the BIOS can too. When I was messing with mine before I gave it to my friend I couldn't unlock past 45W with XTU I thought. Also the sellers of those CPU's usually disclaim that they work in Gigabyte or any OEM computer so I'm surprised to see it running in that Lenovo!

[CerealExperimentsLain]

47 minutes ago, Bitter said:

You're probably getting a bit of lag from the digital to analog converter there. Also, that's a TV? I'm surprised the heatsink can keep up with the 47W CPU, and I'm surprised the BIOS can too. When I was messing with mine before I gave it to my friend I couldn't unlock past 45W with XTU I thought. Also the sellers of those CPU's usually disclaim that they work in Gigabyte or any OEM computer so I'm surprised to see it running in that Lenovo!

Yes, that's the joke, it's just a TV and it's not a gaming setup, a least not with a PC plugged into it.

Actually, the M93P Tiny can use an i7 4790T stock and that's a 45w CPU so 47w is no big deal.  What's 3 watts?  It's also far more performative since it's a modified mobile CPU, including Iris Pro graphics and the 128mb of L4 cache unique to those.  It's probably the best CPU you can fit in there.

The system works flawlessly though it does cap the CP at 45W.  Seen this in the intel ETU, but if you carefully undervolt it you can get some more performance out of it as it'll do more work within that 45w budget as you inch down the volts.  It's a hard limit by the hardware, I dropped in a full fat desktop i5 4590 as a test and it ran fine... But it was current limited to 45w so it underperformed a great deal.

[Mark Kaine]

Found in the attic a spare room 

 

 

Cdrom, and right one is not a floppy drive, its a MOD drive!

 

even has a fan

 

 

One of those well known 3 in 1 disc players, apparently cant decide if it's Panasonic, Pioneer or Toshiba…

 

 

Is this SCSI? Ithink i need those cables, but maybe I need more? I remember it was kinda connected in a loop kinda thing (to an Akai S3200)?

I still love those! MOD is my fav medium for a reason (looks cool and is super durable)

 

Authentic box…

 

But, I also have a question , what do these numbers mean?

Both units are set to "5". Why?