Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Kilrah]

Screams "artist well in the apple ecosystem with a ton of external drives", who else needs that many firewire ports?

 

Careful with that G4, seems one of the mobo USB ports is broken, make sure there's no short

[luckybob77]

Wow, I didn't see that!  Good eye!  No wonder they made you a moderator.  Guess that explains the usb add on card.

 

^.^

[Bitter]

Or the onboard FireWire ate it...they liked to die a lot I recall.

[luckybob77]

The G5 is upgraded, 8gb ram, additional 1tb had.  There was no personal data, but there was a full registered copy of Adobe creative suite.

 

The G4 had more under its hood than what I expected.   Memory was upgraded to 2gb, up from 64mb.  However, the processor upgrade was a very pleasant surprise. Can you imagine getting a processor upgrade that was 3x the speed of your old one? (500 => 1400)

[da na]

30 minutes ago, luckybob77 said:

The G5 is upgraded, 8gb ram, additional 1tb had.  There was no personal data, but there was a full registered copy of Adobe creative suite.

 

The G4 had more under its hood than what I expected.   Memory was upgraded to 2gb, up from 64mb.  However, the processor upgrade was a very pleasant surprise. Can you imagine getting a processor upgrade that was 3x the speed of your old one? (500 => 1400)

Great find! Also yeah the Adobe software plus firewire ports and upgraded CPU... def a video editor or something like that

[X-System]

On 2/8/2022 at 9:14 PM, Mel0nMan said:

There are many p4 series. The originals didn’t clock that high. This is the 6x1 series. 5x0 was intels first 64 bit, 6x0 was first hyperthreaded, 6x1 was the same as 6x0 but 65nm instead of 90 iirc

No, it was Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06GHz, FSB533, 130nm for first hyperthreaded of Pentium 4 series.

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

Can you imagine getting a processor upgrade that was 3x the speed of your old one?

 

[da na]

43 minutes ago, X-System said:

No, it was Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06GHz, FSB533, 130nm for first hyperthreaded of Pentium 4 series.

(first 64 bit hyperthreaded AFAIK)

[Bitter]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/293696120894

 

A PCI phone line card. UUUUHHHHGGGGHHHHGGGHGHGHG.

[Gyana]

XFX 7700HD series from 2015....

[da na]

Just now, Gyana said:

XFX 7700HD series from 2015....

 

Love the shroud designs on those. XFX HD 7970 Ghost is my favorite looking card ever

[reflex99]

New 3xxx series GPU just leaked. What you think I can get for this? 

 

for real tho i miss the decals we used to get. Need to dig up my pair of GeForce 7950GX2's (QUAD SLI!!!!) for this thread. They have cool anthropomorphic tigers on them.

[richy0407]

I have this, and i have little idea what it is through

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, reflex99 said:

New 3xxx series GPU just leaked. What you think I can get for this? 

 

for real tho i miss the decals we used to get. Need to dig up my pair of GeForce 7950GX2's (QUAD SLI!!!!) for this thread. They have cool anthropomorphic tigers on them.

[BondiBlue]

10 minutes ago, richy0407 said:

I have this, and i have little idea what it is through

That's an old Macintosh SE from the late 80s. Looks like yours is in working condition, and it has an Apple keyboard, mouse and printer to go along with it. Those are pretty nice systems for collectors of older Macs. I have one in my collection that is in mint condition, and I use it with an external SCSI hard drive. I get it out from time to time to do some writing. 

[Bitter]

Ok it's not actually old, has an i5 750 in it.

It's power cycling rapidlyI think it's a dead PSU possibly, it's like as soon as the board tries to post it's just NOPE and resets. I'll dig into it later at home tomorrow. It's valentine's day and I have more important things to attend to at home this evening.

 

My friend needs it running tho, gotta babysit her mother with it so she quits buying stuff off the tv and eating all day.

 

i5 750, 4 or 8gb ram, MSI H55M board, uhhh some video card, and some hard drive and DVD drive, with I think Win10 maybe Win7 I can't remember now. It doesn't need to be great, it just needs to work.

[da na]

20 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Ok it's not actually old, has an i5 750 in it.

It's power cycling rapidlyI think it's a dead PSU possibly, it's like as soon as the board tries to post it's just NOPE and resets. I'll dig into it later at home tomorrow. It's valentine's day and I have more important things to attend to at home this evening.

 

My friend needs it running tho, gotta babysit her mother with it so she quits buying stuff off the tv and eating all day.

 

i5 750, 4 or 8gb ram, MSI H55M board, uhhh some video card, and some hard drive and DVD drive, with I think Win10 maybe Win7 I can't remember now. It doesn't need to be great, it just needs to work.

Probably psu issue or dead cap near the 20/24 pin

[Bitter]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Probably psu issue or dead cap near the 20/24 pin

Yep. I think I have a spare mATX 4th gen board maybe but I'm down on cheap hardware right now. Pretty sure I have an i3 that'll do fine for the 4th gen board. I'll try a PSU first, I don't want it to be the board because I hate pricing my old used hardware for people. Might just buy a used working combo from ebay if it is a board but I think she wants it sooner than later.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yep. I think I have a spare mATX 4th gen board maybe but I'm down on cheap hardware right now. Pretty sure I have an i3 that'll do fine for the 4th gen board. I'll try a PSU first, I don't want it to be the board because I hate pricing my old used hardware for people. Might just buy a used working combo from ebay if it is a board but I think she wants it sooner than later.

Also, I thought they retired that design in the early 00s, since that was built for Pentiums. Wouldn't think that case has near enough airflow for an i5, plus all the Core 2 Dells I've seen are the later boxy, vented front designs, not the curvy closed off. Seems strange they'd go back to that case, wonder if the board was previously replaced. Is it ATX or BTX, is the board on the left or right side? Looks like the left panel easily comes off.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

Also, I thought they retired that design in the early 00s, since that was built for Pentiums. Wouldn't think that case has near enough airflow for an i5, plus all the Core 2 Dells I've seen are the later boxy, vented front designs, not the curvy closed off. Seems strange they'd go back to that case, wonder if the board was previously replaced. Is it ATX or BTX, is the board on the left or right side? Looks like the left panel easily comes off.

Oh yeah no, I built this in this case lol! It does just fine, used the same case at work for an i3 4150 build. It's what I had on hand for free!

 

With the PSU and rear case fan plenty of air moves through the case. I use the larger possible 115x cooler too, this one an OEM HP or Dell cooler with a back plate. Good mount pressure, high power fan, lots of fun area. I validate thermals with Prime95 just to make sure it all works correctly. Plus, the cases back then we're heavy steel that stand up to a beating and fully galvanized!

[da na]

They aren't made like they used to be...

Spoiler

Not shielded. I'd be worried about getting it close to my monitor (if it'd even clip to this chunky boy). 

I've seen some AIOs with hard drives close to the top, imagine what this speaker could do... 

I'll search around for a pair of retro shielded speakers. If they're beige I can just assume they'll be fine, seem old enough. 

In better news, maxed out my P4 system at 4gb this morning. I'll never use 4gb on XP, barely use over 1. Feels great to turn off pagefile though...

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

Yep. I think I have a spare mATX 4th gen board maybe but I'm down on cheap hardware right now. Pretty sure I have an i3 that'll do fine for the 4th gen board. I'll try a PSU first, I don't want it to be the board because I hate pricing my old used hardware for people. Might just buy a used working combo from ebay if it is a board but I think she wants it sooner than later.

Where you based?  I got a first gen iTX board that'll go in there.  Gigabyte H55N-USB3.  It works a treat.  I was using it with an i7-860 and a GT210 as a main while all my real stuff was away

[SimplyChunk]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

They aren't made like they used to be...

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Not shielded. I'd be worried about getting it close to my monitor (if it'd even clip to this chunky boy). 

I've seen some AIOs with hard drives close to the top, imagine what this could do... 

I'll search around for a pair of retro shielded speakers. If they're beige I can just assume they'll be fine, seem old enough. 

i gotta remember not to get any speakers near my CRT.  Forgot they even did that to them lol

[da na]

3 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

i gotta remember not to get any speakers near my CRT.  Forgot they even did that to them lol

I don't often use the degauss button, but when I do, I remember why it exists 

[SimplyChunk]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

I don't often use the degauss button, but when I do, I remember why it exists 

Well that's the thing. My CRT is a TV...it doesn't have one XD