Show off your old and retro computer parts

[da na]

Whoops, edited my first post. Realized I had put "HD 8570" which is a quite different card...

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

I almost bought a 3gb 580 a while back. I know that EVGA made some but are they super rare or something? 

Yeah they're pretty rare in the grand scheme of things. From what I can figure, EVGA made the most by far but I know there was also an ASUS MARS variant.

[da na]

Another interesting thing.

My card seems to be a pre production sample because of the VRM sensors... but the date on the card is a month and a half after the 5870's launch.

My guess is it belonged to a board partner that wanted to beef up the VRMs on their card (Asus, Gigabyte and MSI among others made great versions of this card with better power delivery, and those cards launched months after the retail one so... that's my best guess)

[atxcyclist]

Is this stuff considered old yet?

 

This is a “spare” workstation, or one for someone that’s a temporary hire, at my office.

 

• AMD FX-8350
• MSI 990FXA-GD80
• 2x4gb and 2x2gb DDR3 1600
• XFX 7870 Ghost 2gb
• 128gb Silicon Power SSD
• Antec Nine Hundred case
• Thermaltake 850w PSU

 

it had some old Phenom II in there when we got it from an older employee that retired, and I stuck the FX and the SSD in there to make it useful again. 
 

 

[Bitter]

Given hardware shortage, that's a mid-tier gaming rig now LOL

[atxcyclist]

36 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Given hardware shortage, that's a mid-tier gaming rig now LOL

 

40 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

That's a very pretty setup! However, I think it'd go better in the "Show off your Battle-Stations" thread--AMD only recently stopped releasing drivers for the HD 7000 series, and it's still very good for office work and light gaming.

It’s actually a bit of a shame it just sits there, I know the HD 7870 is roughly equivalent to a GTX 760, so someone could certainly use all this stuff to game on with older titles.

[Bitter]

If it can play Fortnite it doesn't belong here. /s

[atxcyclist]

I found a few 3.5” diskettes that I believe have photos from an old Sony Mavica camera, so out comes the only system I have with a diskette drive.

 

Indeed, the one with photos on it had pictures of pigeons taken in 2006.

[hypercubed]

GT 610 with homemade power supply

[da na]

56 minutes ago, hypercubed said:

GT 610 with homemade power supply

 

Nice!

But why? 

[hypercubed]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Nice!

But why? 

I got it from a friend. I didn't have an actual power supply I could use and I was just messing around seeing what I could do with it

[Sudarstark]

My Dell Inspiron 15 3521 from 2012

[Radium_Angel]

Recently retired these from active use at work.

Note: That's not 5.25" either...

[da na]

MSI PCI WiFi card. Date code is ‘96.

 

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

MSI PCI WiFi card. Date code is ‘96.

 

Cannot be 802.11G, that standard didn't exist until 2003.

802.11 dates to 1997 so a late 1996 built card could be possible, but why they would say 11g on it...that didn't exist then. I think you're reading the date code wrong? Maybe they recycled the PCB so some screen printing for the PCB version and date carried forward?

[da na]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Cannot be 802.11G, that standard didn't exist until 2003.

802.11 dates to 1997 so a late 1996 built card could be possible, but why they would say 11g on it...that didn't exist then. I think you're reading the date code wrong? Maybe they recycled the PCB so some screen printing for the PCB version and date carried forward?

Date code is a sticker, probably reading wrong…

[BondiBlue]

2 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

MSI PCI WiFi card. Date code is ‘96.

That date code is from 2006. That card simply didn't exist in 1996. 

[X-System]

18 hours ago, Bitter said:

Cannot be 802.11G, that standard didn't exist until 2003.

802.11 dates to 1997 so a late 1996 built card could be possible, but why they would say 11g on it...that didn't exist then. I think you're reading the date code wrong? Maybe they recycled the PCB so some screen printing for the PCB version and date carried forward?

I do a research and found. It's last 2006.

 

https://manualmachine.com/msi/msipc60g/1341004-user-manual/

 

EDIT : Oh, I hadn't see there is a next page. So, I hadn't see 3 last posts...

Edited October 21, 2021 by X-System

[Corrupt_Liberty]

Well it took some doing but the Imsai 8080 now works with my TeleVideo terminal.  I even have it connected to a BBS through telnet!

 

Was even able to hack into the school's computer and change my girlfriend's biology grade. 

 

Now if only I can find the number to that game developer so I can try their new game...

[Kool4_Life]

I have a 8megibyte ibm ram stick laying around somewhere 

[Dr_badwolf]

On 10/20/2021 at 11:23 AM, Radium_Angel said:

Recently retired these from active use at work.

Note: That's not 5.25" either...

This is how i played wolfenstine. XD

[da na]

Found in the school light booth in the auditorium. What do you know it’s the same think center as I have, but this one has a Core 2 vPro, whatever that is?

I turned the monitor on and it appeared to be logged in to another laptop with Remote Desktop. Are those cpus just optimized for virtualization?

[BondiBlue]

5 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Found in the school light booth in the auditorium. What do you know it’s the same think center as I have, but this one has a Core 2 vPro, whatever that is?

 

I turned the monitor on and it appeared to be logged in to another laptop with Remote Desktop. Are those cpus just optimized for virtualization?

vPro is basically just business security features. It's just a standard Core 2 Duo CPU with a system that supports vPro. 

[da na]

Little tiny netbook with the original sleeve. CD for size comparison.

It’s got a rotating allegedly touch display

A door on the bottom for memory upgrades. The SODIMM is about 1/8 the total area of the back of the laptop

My vivobook 14 charger does not fit but it is a standard Asus charger (they’ve used the same size for a while) so I’ll go digging for one in the bin of laptop chargers in the tech room later. Hopefully it works fine and was just thrown out because it respectfully sucks. It was left out in a very humid building for at least 2 weeks so… not so sure about that though. 

[XGoodGuyFitz]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

*snip*

Jeez that is super small.