Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

32 minutes ago, XLer8or said:

A good cross gen Bench you can use today is HL2's Lost Cost. Will work in XP and AGP to todays generation of GFX cards.

 

Edit: A good target would be 70+ FPS, 125FPS best. 300+ is tooo much.  The good ones can be old.

 

Oh I think I have that installed. I should pause mining and see how badly my Vega56 obliterates it LOL.

[XLer8or]

26 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Oh I think I have that installed. I should pause mining and see how badly my Vega56 obliterates it LOL.

can you turn down mining a little yet?  125FPS is ok. Just dont admit.

 

Edit.  With this bench you can do/set/config/opt for other distro platforms like Origin or Epic ect....   Indy/older games run good @ 125fps.

 

Edit 2: even i3s and AMD equiv.

[XLer8or]

Back on topic.... some DDR (1) memory.

 

[Bitter]

9 hours ago, XLer8or said:

can you turn down mining a little yet?  125FPS is ok. Just dont admit.

 

Edit.  With this bench you can do/set/config/opt for other distro platforms like Origin or Epic ect....   Indy/older games run good @ 125fps.

 

Edit 2: even i3s and AMD equiv.

Just for laughs, 1440P, everything maxed, don't even know what power state the Vega got into but I don't think it ramped up full power. 298 FPS for Lost Coast benchmark, I wish it gave me more than just the avg FPS cause I thought I felt some dips.  Ran it at 1080P and same 298 FPS avg so I think that's a game engine cap, also at 1080P the Vega never ran above 70W or 1260Mhz, full tilt is more like 250+W and 1500+Mhz. That was fun. Wonder what my GTX 960 4GB does? I remember my 6800 Ultra OC struggling at 1600x1200 with this game back in the day, but I had some lighting and high res texture mods running too. Looked amazingly good!

[luckybob77]

@ShrimpBrime

 

OMG...  I know those fans...  I can *HEAR* that picture...

[Guest]

1 hour ago, luckybob77 said:

@ShrimpBrime

 

OMG...  I know those fans...  I can *HEAR* that picture...

Haha yeah it screams!!

I have the fan set to full max duty cycle at 43c. And it's holding the cpu 1.65v 44c. Lol. But if I increase it, then the cpu temp increases. Low 40c is a great running temp on air with that much voltage. 

 

[atxcyclist]

No retro parts I own, but I did find that I had a system build wishlist saved on Newegg from late 2011:

 

• Gigabyte GA-880GA-UDH3
• AMD Phenom II X2 555
• Diamond HD 5570
• G.SKILL Ripjaws 4x4gb 1333 DDR3
• Antec EarthWatts 500w 80 Bronze PSU
• WD Blue 320gb
• LG BluRay burner
• Some cheap HEC case

 

Not a single part in stock anymore, haha. Also not a very well balanced system, 16gb of ram would have been stupid overkill on a 2 core machine with a 1gb DDR3 video card.

[jre84]

im 36(good for me) but i remember my old mac my dad gave me and guys man o man are you spoiled...I remember playing vette one of the first truly 3d games and sirs it was bad like really bad now look at gta v simply amazing....you can literrally go around and have fun doing whatever you want and not even play the story for like 100s of hours..games have come a long way since 1985 but not so much since half life 2..

[Purcariu86]

 

[da na]

2 minutes ago, Purcariu86 said:

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Those CF Microdrives are fantastic...

What speed does yours top out at (if you have a working one)? Mine does about 3mb/sec sequential over USB 2.0 but is an earlier IBM 1gb model.

[Purcariu86]

not sure ....y  think are all the  same...find in  mp3 sony..

[da na]

5 minutes ago, Purcariu86 said:

not sure ....y  think are all the  same...find in  mp3 sony..

Used mine in a Sony camera till I sold it, now I use the drive to store small files, Mines not too reliable, sometimes it won’t spin up or the head doesn’t seem properly.

[da na]

Loading drivers from ZIP disk…

Laptop won’t recognize usb mass storage without drivers so I can’t load the drivers from usb so I’ll transfer the 10 drivers, about 100 total mb, from a usb drive to the Zip disk on another pc then load them from there.

School it department had a boxed drive with the original software as well!

Oh and the fan on this laptop wasn’t working earlier but I guess just me moving it around while walking with it for a few minutes un seized the motor. All good now!

[da na]

So apparently one of the it guys had a near mint similar Presario, all original, that we tried to extract drivers from… it’s a great machine in great condition!

[HQuan]

I have Intel Pentium 4 (some pin almost bent but still useable)

512MB DDR2 600MHz (no brand) x2

NVIDIA GT 1030

Commodore 64, with RAM extender.

 

(Much more, can't list out)

[da na]

3 minutes ago, HQuan said:

NVIDIA GT 1030

Wow that must make my GeForce 6800 a fossil if that's retro...

[WhitetailAni]

So my former F drive turned out to be a WD Caviar SE16 250GB.

Spoiler

It sort of works but also sort of doesn't so I'm gonna put it in the closet and maybe occasionally use it as a big "flash drive" for moving things >32GB.

 

EDIT:

The thing is surprisingly light and apparently single-platter.

It's also only SATA II, and... PMR?

It looked like it had been a Windows boot drive but the Windows bits had been ripped out, so I asked my dad and he said "Yep that sounds familiar. I'm pretty sure when I got the SSD I just did a fresh install of Windows, transferred the license, then got rid of all the Windows parts and used it as file storage."

 

EDIT #2:
It still lists 0 bad sectors - just some files no longer exist and is "Good" in CrystalDiskInfo.

[da na]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

So my former F drive turned out to be a WD Caviar SE16 250GB.

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It sort of works but also sort of doesn't so I'm gonna put it in the closet and maybe occasionally use it as a big "flash drive" for moving things >32GB.

I've got so many drives that are like that... or for storing huge files that I need but use 1 time a year... or backup of my 2tb offline YouTube video library. Ones I get from the recycling in the IT room could be fine, could have 2000 bad sectors or could just be 100% dead.

[HQuan]

5 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Wow that must make my GeForce 6800 a fossil if that's retro...

I still using it in my old computer right now, pretty high graphics, but can't reach 20 fps in FurMark.

[Radium_Angel]

13 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Those CF Microdrives are fantastic...

Yup, still use them (I have 3) in my Nikon D1x and Nikon D2x cameras. 

[BrianTheElectrician]

Well... I traded a 486 motherboard for a thing tonight...

 

 

Traded a couple soundcards for a good condition Compaq Presario 1685 too, fully working just a couple scuffs here and there.

[BondiBlue]

On 11/30/2021 at 9:36 PM, FakeKGB said:

So my former F drive turned out to be a WD Caviar SE16 250GB.

Those aren't too bad. I have a few that I've pulled from various systems over the years. Two of them are identical - they shipped in identical computers ordered at the same time in ~2008. One experienced a controller failure, but otherwise works fine. The other drive is the boot drive in my NAS since I don't trust it for much else. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 11/30/2021 at 8:34 PM, Mel0nMan said:

Wow that must make my GeForce 6800 a fossil if that's retro...

A 1030 might not be retro by age, but it’s sure as hell retro by performance. 

[Guest]

Default is 10x200mhz 1:1 200mhz memory and HT 800mhz. 

 

Old school gogo juice. Only 45% overclocked.

 

[luckybob77]

@BrianTheElectrician

 

Ahh, the original Voodoo card.

The progenitor of ALL consumer 3d accelerated video cards.

 

What games did you have planned?