Show off your old and retro computer parts

[DANK_AS_gay]

4 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Ran fine on the Quadro k620, basically a GTX 650 2gb but $35 and low profile (my go to card for recommending for budget gaming)

I always say r9 290. 4GB of VRAM, so you aren't missing out on anything, and they go for $150 in auctions. I'd rather spend the extra $120 for way more performance. $30 is easier to justify though....

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I feel this could be considered old. Let's talk about how Socket 2011 was so big it had to use 2 retention clips.

Here's a Socket 2011 CPU next to an LGA 775 CPU. Pretty massive. I'd be interested to delid one of these, packing 8c16t onto one chip was pretty impressive for its age

Pin density on these is pretty insane, about the same you'd get on a modern CPU AFAIK (looked at my friend's 11th gen i7) but that's a much smaller IHS and chip of course. Where this 775 CPU has one pin, the other one has 2-3. 

[Bitter]

Is a GTX 650 old enough to talk about here now? I got a 1GB card and it keep ramping the fan to 100% seemingly for no reason. Computer is idling doing nothing and suddenly fan 100%. Hwinfo and afterburner say it's at 40%, no speed feedback just a two wire fan. I'm not sure what's going on with it it but if I stop it with a finger for a few seconds it'll go back to it's slow 40% like it should be. It's not the original fan, that broke a blade and this is a slim 92mm 3 wire fan soldered to the original wire connector from the old fan.

 

Thoughts? It's just a card I use for spare and testing but gosh it's annoying and replacements for cheap cards aren't cheap right now.

[IkeaGnome]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

I feel this could be considered old. Let's talk about how Socket 2011 was so big it had to use 2 retention clips.

They're not old enough for here, but story time anyways. I didn't really get into computers until 2016ish. My recent dual socket build is my first experience with 2011. Even compared to LGA 1700 it's large. 

Spoiler

 

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Pin density on these is pretty insane, about the same you'd get on a modern CPU AFAIK (looked at my friend's 11th gen i7) but that's a much smaller IHS and chip of course. Where this 775 CPU has one pin, the other one has 2-3. 

Intel sockets get their names from their pin counts.  So a 2011 Socket has 2011 pins and so on and so forth.  The new 1700 socket has 1700 pins

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

Intel sockets get their names from their pin counts.  So a 2011 Socket has 2011 pins and so on and so forth.  The new 1700 socket has 1700 pins

Whole slew of tech centered insults just opened up to me now. You're a few pins short of LGA 1156 aren't ya bud? Oh boy this one's a few bits short of a byte. This guy must be running on PCIe x1.

[frozensun]

This is my 2nd PC I got as a kid...believe it or not 2 days ago I tried to turn it ON and still works.

I'm a hardware enthusiast since 1995 and probably had like dozen of PCs.

I still from my experience can say that 15-20 years ago components were better quality and durable not to mention that all my PCs even after 15-20 y still work.

This one was purchased was back in 1998.

Enjoy in pics and vid guys...

part I

part II

 

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The holy grail of the Core 2 Quads. This one is pretty clean, probably not brand new though

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12 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

The holy grail of the Core 2 Quads. This one is pretty clean, probably not brand new though

Oh my. What'd that cost you? Like a whole $30?

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2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Oh my. What'd that cost you? Like a whole $30?

$20 is around the pricepoint of a q9550, this one was around $40. There were some less good condition ones for a bit cheaper 

[Bitter]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

$20 is around the pricepoint of a q9550, this one was around $40. There were some less good condition ones for a bit cheaper 

I need to replace that GTX 650 with that money but one of those would be fun to OC to heck in my Abit Nvidia board but ultimately it would go back to collecting dust in the basement lol. I'm trying to snipe on a cheap GTX 760 2GB blower card as a 650 replacement, slightly better driver support and a little more competent graphics card in general for stress testing a system. Otherwise I don't know what to bother with replacing the 650 with, I'm pretty sure there's something going wrong with the fan controller on it.

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3 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I need to replace that GTX 650 with that money but one of those would be fun to OC to heck in my Abit Nvidia board but ultimately it would go back to collecting dust in the basement lol. I'm trying to snipe on a cheap GTX 760 2GB blower card as a 650 replacement, slightly better driver support and a little more competent graphics card in general for stress testing a system. Otherwise I don't know what to bother with replacing the 650 with, I'm pretty sure there's something going wrong with the fan controller on it.

Pretty sure the 670 and 760 are almost the same card, a 670 is my go to testing card since it puts a good amount of load on the bus and PSU. Pretty cheap. 

[Bitter]

8 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Pretty sure the 670 and 760 are almost the same card, a 670 is my go to testing card since it puts a good amount of load on the bus and PSU. Pretty cheap. 

I'm sure they are, and seem close in price, but one has a little better driver support than the other. The 760 has a bit better core and memory clocks though, a revision of the GK104. And unlike my GTX 650 it's supported by Kepler Bios Tweaker. Why my 650 isn't supported I'll never know, it's Kepler! Prices between the 670 and 760 are close, so why not get the 760.

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@Mel0nMan

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165372534222

680 Lightning, looks pretty clean.

Complete with retro @LinusTech

 

 

 

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41 minutes ago, Bitter said:

@Mel0nMan

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165372534222

680 Lightning, looks pretty clean.

Complete with retro @LinusTech

 

 

 

Thanks!
Although I'd rather get a 780 TI lightni-

Oh wait. 

 

Edit: Also, that Q9650 does a 10% OC fine, needs a bit more power for 20% and gets too hot for the stock cooler but probably would work otherwise

[SimplyChunk]

7 hours ago, frozensun said:

 

Now THAT'S my kind of Windows background  

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27 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Now THAT'S my kind of Windows background  

"90s wank bank"

-LGR

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Just picked up an Ultra RARE as F*** PPU2 from a buddy at TechPowerUpForums. 

 

Testing phases commencing on platform 1366 soon! 

 

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5 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Just picked up an Ultra RARE as F*** PPU2 from a buddy at TechPowerUpForums. 

 

Testing phases commencing on platform 1366 soon! 

 

No way!

What even is that? From PPU, PhysX card?

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Just now, Mel0nMan said:

No way!

What even is that? From PPU, PhysX card?

Exactly, but version 2. Right when Nvidia purchased Ageia, this production was halted. 

 

That is in fact an engineering board.

[Bitter]

15 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Just picked up an Ultra RARE as F*** PPU2 from a buddy at TechPowerUpForums. 

 

Testing phases commencing on platform 1366 soon! 

 

A what?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

A what?

PPU stands for Physics Processing Unit. 

 

The hardware that was processing hardware physx (which NVidia purchased around 2008) first developed by Ageia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageia

 

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14 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Exactly, but version 2. Right when Nvidia purchased Ageia, this production was halted. 

 

That is in fact an engineering board.

Explains the banks of DIPs. Any clue what those change?

[Bitter]

Oh neat, I remember when that stuff came out. By the time I upgraded my graphics card it was already just baked into the card lol.

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2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Oh neat, I remember when that stuff came out. By the time I upgraded my graphics card it was already just baked into the card lol.

on the market for a few solid months