Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

I'm posting from the Pentium 4 again, but this time without bulging caps! Seems like it's all working, need to stress test. Oddity, but had this before, it keeps complaining about the time/date being incorrect but they're correctly set. Has a new CMOS battery so I'm not sure what's going on there.

 

Ok, just had to complain, now it reboots without bitchin about the clock thing. Running Prime95 currently, seems to be OK so far. Can't figure out how to see CPU temps in software on Linux for hardware this old, not even sure I saw temps in software in Windows either...

[Bitter]

Tried to run glmark2 on the Geforce3, but I don't have OpenGL high enough, it's only 1.2. Runs the gears benchmark just fine though!

[Kanna]

This pretty good condition GeForce  8800 GTX

[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, Kanna said:

This pretty good condition GeForce  8800 GTX

nut juice is flowing, please cease

[Kanna]

4 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

nut juice is flowing, please cease

Oh no was it that good

[da na]

8 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Oh no was it that good

It was that good. Can confirm. 

[Kanna]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

It was that good. Can confirm. 

Imma temporarily put it in a PC

[WhitetailAni]

I now qualify for a give-things-away thread over on TPU, so I'm giving away my brand-new copy of Acronis True Image 10 Home.

Spoiler

But I'm never gonna give this up.

Spoiler

 

[Bitter]

25 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

I now qualify for a give-things-away thread over on TPU, so I'm giving away my brand-new copy of Acronis True Image 10 Home.

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But I'm never gonna give this up.

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I hope it doesn't let you down, run around, or desert you.

[Demo_Boi]

I have a functioning i5 2500 APU, but that aint ancient yet. 

The thing is, its my daily driver.....

[sub68]

23 minutes ago, Demo_Boi said:

I have a functioning i5 2500 APU, but that aint ancient yet. 

The thing is, its my daily driver.....

That thing is still very good.

 

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, Demo_Boi said:

I have a functioning i5 2500 APU, but that aint ancient yet. 

The thing is, its my daily driver.....

i've been looking at the 2500 for a build of mine.  I got the ITX board and RAM for it.  Just waiting to find a chip at the right price

[Demo_Boi]

17 hours ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

i've been looking at the 2500 for a build of mine.  I got the ITX board and RAM for it.  Just waiting to find a chip at the right price

Would you sir, perhaps, be willing to negotiate?

 

[Adrian Mcnie]

i have a intel centrino duo im trying to find rn

 

[Adrian Mcnie]

a very old chip running at 1.50 ghz

[da na]

On 7/22/2021 at 12:54 PM, Bitter said:

I hope it doesn't let you down, run around, or desert you.

Ah, you wouldn't get this from any other guy.

[SimplyChunk]

8 hours ago, Demo_Boi said:

Would you sir, perhaps, be willing to negotiate?

 

It's a kind offer.  However I feel if you're not in the UK the postage and import costs would render any negotiations moot

[SimplyChunk]

5 hours ago, Adrian Mcnie said:

i have a intel centrino duo im trying to find rn

 

Which one?

 

Scratch that i've just seen the pics

[that one new pc builder]

THIS. i dont enven know what gpu it is lol

[luckybob77]

the dual DVI and no external power says its a MSI 8600 GT, but the heatsink matches the MSI 8500 GT https://www.quietpc.com/msi-nx8500gt-td256ez

[WhitetailAni]

@Bitter I'm 98% sure it's a motherboard/capacitor failure problem. I test booted the Compaq system unchanged and it booted fine into Lubuntu. After that, I shut it down, swapped in the Prescott CPU, booted it up, and... nothing. After doing some Googling HP's website says that it doesn't support any 800 MHz CPUs, and while the Intel 845G chipset does it seems that Compaq didn't add them to the BIOS support list or something because OEM want you to buy more upgrade yea money!!!

 

I then put the Northwood P4 in my P4C800-E and booted it up, with speaker so it can jabber at me. It yells "SYSTEM FAILED CPU TEST" before I turn the speaker off, which to me indicates that it's a motherboard fault since it failed a confirmed working CPU.

So now I'm going to save up and buy some capacitors and practice my soldering skills.

 

 

Side note, what's the password to the Lubuntu account?

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, FakeKGB said:

@Bitter I'm 98% sure it's a motherboard/capacitor failure problem. I test booted the Compaq system unchanged and it booted fine into Lubuntu. After that, I shut it down, swapped in the Prescott CPU, booted it up, and... nothing. After doing some Googling HP's website says that it doesn't support any 800 MHz CPUs, and while the Intel 845G chipset does it seems that Compaq didn't add them to the BIOS support list or something because OEM want you to buy more upgrade yea money!!!

 

I then put the Northwood P4 in my P4C800-E and booted it up, with speaker so it can jabber at me. It yells "SYSTEM FAILED CPU TEST" before I turn the speaker off, which to me indicates that it's a motherboard fault since it failed a confirmed working CPU.

So now I'm going to save up and buy some capacitors and practice my soldering skills.

 

 

Side note, what's the password to the Lubuntu account?

I totally forgot to tell you the password! I'll message it!

 

Yeah, sounds like caps. D'OH on me assuming chipset support meant the board would support it!

 

 

 

Also if you remove the board, the 4 screws around the CPU cooler have to come out too. It screws to the case through the cooler bracket.

[WhitetailAni]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

Also if you remove the board, the 4 screws around the CPU cooler have to come out too. It screws to the case through the cooler bracket.

I'm leaving the Compaq together for testing IDE/floppy things since it's not too hard to get cables in and out, but I did take the HDD/floppy/optical/GPU for other things.

The GeForce 3 Ti 500 went in place of my Radeon 9250 in Y2K. It's not a huge upgrade (halves the VRAM), but it doubles the TMUs and memory bus along with a 50 MHz bump to the RAM clock, along with passive RAM cooling and active GPU cooling, something the Radeon 9250 lacks (passive GPU cooler, no RAM cooling).

 

The optical drive also went in Y2K in place of a random 4X IDE CD-ROM drive. It does work.

 

The floppy drive is going on my main PC in place of my current black 3.5" drive that doesn't work correctly (if I attempt to interact with it at all it freezes File Explorer for 30+ seconds and then fails what I asked it to do). It also comes with a 3.5" to 5.25" bay adapter integrated into the drive, so I can move my 5.25" to 3.5" + USB 3.0 ports on the front to where my Zip drive goes.

 

The HDD with Lubuntu is going into P4HT for dual-boot because why the heck not. I'm keeping the username and password that you set.

[Bitter]

I thought that was a regular Geforce3, not a Tie 500.

[that one new pc builder]

On 7/30/2021 at 6:42 AM, luckybob77 said:

the dual DVI and no external power says its a MSI 8600 GT, but the heatsink matches the MSI 8500 GT https://www.quietpc.com/msi-nx8500gt-td256ez

yeah but this one is larger than the one in the link so..  but what if its MSI 8600 GT but with MSI 8500 GT's passive cooler? welp theres only one way to find out. LETS PUT IT ON MY GAMING PC!