Show off your old and retro computer parts

[ApolloX75]

5 hours ago, Bitter said:

That's the opposite of classy. Hopefully they don't tear it up like that Pokemon game.

It is on the move as of this afternoon. Customs fees that eBay did not handle, apparently. 

 

Frustrating none the less.

[ApolloX75]

Holy crap what a run of bad luck.

 

The Classified board shipped missing a stick of RAM, so I only have five of the six and they're matched triplets so kind of a bad thing. No response from the seller after initial contact. Also physical damage to the socket that was never mentioned, several bent pins, one folded underneath another that I couldn't see with my quick lookover causing a dead short. Fried the BIOS chip too, may or may not be related. Took several hours of combing with fine tweezers and the worlds tiniest flat screwdriver to fix the pins. They shipped the board with the CPU OUT OF THE SOCKET and no shield. So it either happened there or they never checked it when they listed it.

 

The 975 EE came in and is faulty, burnt-out and missing IC's on the bottom, one whole memory channel doesn't respond.

 

And to top it off a little 5.25 single bay reservoir I ordered came in wrong and I've seen nothing of the supposed replacement shipped to me.

 

I've been using eBay for... I don't know, 15 years? I've never had a run of bad luck like this, in fact I don't think I've ever had a bad experience with it and I use it quite a bit.

 

The Sabertooth X58 combo I ordered from a shop in Vancouver, though? Works mint. Nice and clean, the i7 960 works, all six sticks of RAM, everything came assembled so no chances of something poking the socket.

 

That's 1 in 4 though, that's shit luck. I'll post some pictures when/if I get the Classy board fixed up.

[8tg]

 

 

Playing 20kbps MP3’s off of a floppy disk album

[8tg]

There’s something deeply satisfying about playing vaporwave CDs on windows 98

 

 

[Berinejo]

Just a retail copy of windows XP that my family had laying around 

[ApolloX75]

I have some swag leftover from the Windows 7 launch party event. I'll see if I can find it.

[Bitter]

On 2/10/2023 at 10:46 PM, ApolloX75 said:

Holy crap what a run of bad luck.

 

The Classified board shipped missing a stick of RAM, so I only have five of the six and they're matched triplets so kind of a bad thing. No response from the seller after initial contact. Also physical damage to the socket that was never mentioned, several bent pins, one folded underneath another that I couldn't see with my quick lookover causing a dead short. Fried the BIOS chip too, may or may not be related. Took several hours of combing with fine tweezers and the worlds tiniest flat screwdriver to fix the pins. They shipped the board with the CPU OUT OF THE SOCKET and no shield. So it either happened there or they never checked it when they listed it.

 

The 975 EE came in and is faulty, burnt-out and missing IC's on the bottom, one whole memory channel doesn't respond.

 

And to top it off a little 5.25 single bay reservoir I ordered came in wrong and I've seen nothing of the supposed replacement shipped to me.

 

I've been using eBay for... I don't know, 15 years? I've never had a run of bad luck like this, in fact I don't think I've ever had a bad experience with it and I use it quite a bit.

 

The Sabertooth X58 combo I ordered from a shop in Vancouver, though? Works mint. Nice and clean, the i7 960 works, all six sticks of RAM, everything came assembled so no chances of something poking the socket.

 

That's 1 in 4 though, that's shit luck. I'll post some pictures when/if I get the Classy board fixed up.

Dude. That's terrible! About 5yrs ago I scored a KILLER deal on a 1366 i7 board, CPU, 12GB RAM. Super excited, one of the 6 core ones, good board for overclocking, good ram, good condition. Box came and inside was some AMD FX board with no CPU or RAM. Seller had shipped me the wrong thing, guy who got my i7 instead ghosted I guess, seller wanted the wrong item back before I could get a refund. I got my like $70 back but come on, where you gonna get that for $70 even now!? I was so pissed and just like broken feeling. I can't imagine how you're doing. I was going to chuck it in my old Koolance rig and have some old school cool water cooling again. Alas, was not to be.

[ApolloX75]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Dude. That's terrible! About 5yrs ago I scored a KILLER deal on a 1366 i7 board, CPU, 12GB RAM. Super excited, one of the 6 core ones, good board for overclocking, good ram, good condition. Box came and inside was some AMD FX board with no CPU or RAM. Seller had shipped me the wrong thing, guy who got my i7 instead ghosted I guess, seller wanted the wrong item back before I could get a refund. I got my like $70 back but come on, where you gonna get that for $70 even now!? I was so pissed and just like broken feeling. I can't imagine how you're doing. I was going to chuck it in my old Koolance rig and have some old school cool water cooling again. Alas, was not to be.

Not gonna lie it completely destroyed my week, I feel cursed. I've had issues with hardware all last week and it's just put me in a foul state of mind.

 

I've got a replacement 975 coming from the one seller and the EVGA seller found the missing stick of RAM, he also apologized for the damage to the socket but he's just a reseller and has no idea what he's looking at. FML. My bios chip shipped at least and should be here Friday so we'll see if the board is done for or not this weekend I guess.

 

Worst thing that happens is I'm making a trip to Ottawa next weekend to pick up another Classified board I found for roughly the same price. But I'm still out like $250 after shipping and duty with the cost of the board. Ugh.

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, ApolloX75 said:

Not gonna lie it completely destroyed my week, I feel cursed. I've had issues with hardware all last week and it's just put me in a foul state of mind.

 

I've got a replacement 975 coming from the one seller and the EVGA seller found the missing stick of RAM, he also apologized for the damage to the socket but he's just a reseller and has no idea what he's looking at. FML. My bios chip shipped at least and should be here Friday so we'll see if the board is done for or not this weekend I guess.

 

Worst thing that happens is I'm making a trip to Ottawa next weekend to pick up another Classified board I found for roughly the same price. But I'm still out like $250 after shipping and duty with the cost of the board. Ugh.

That's super shit. Can you at least make a nice wall art out of it?

[ApolloX75]

46 minutes ago, Bitter said:

That's super shit. Can you at least make a nice wall art out of it?

Definitely! If it's not fixable I'm gonna slot that burnt out 975 in it and mount it on something cool as a curiosity piece.

[mdk777]

On 2/12/2023 at 1:57 AM, 8tg said:

 

 

Playing 20kbps MP3’s off of a floppy disk album

Yeah, I had the MICRON XKE of the same vintage.

So what 24 years old.

 

It was a beast to carry and actually is the MOST I ever paid for a laptop.

ALL in with memory upgrades it was close to $4000

 

That is $4000 in 1998 DOLLARS so more like $8000 in today's dollars.

 

You don't let investments like that go lightly.

 

I used it for close to 10 years. IDK, maybe more as a secondary home desktop replacement.

It looks a little rougher than yours as I traveled extensively in industrial sales.

 

I still have it I'm pretty sure, and last I tried it would boot.

 

However it is in a box somewhere in a garage in a different state. 

 

BUT YEAH, brings back memories. 

[Moto Fox]

All this DDR3 is dead so my plan is to make a “robot” using these as the “bones” and joining with 3D printed joints….I’ll call him DDR3. I’ve been collecting bad ram for a year now.

[DeadnightWarrior]

This is my retroPC I built a couple of years ago: building, testing, scrapping, rebuilding and making mistakes on this project actually helped me through those painful times between lockdowns and quarantines.
 

So, 5 mainboards, 6 CPUs, 4 graphics cards, 3 sound cards, 2 hard drives, 2 SSDs and a plethora of optical drives and floppy disks later, this is what I came up with:
 

- CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6550 "Conroe"
- MB: Asus P5PE-VM
- RAM: 2x1Gb Kingston DDR-400
- GPU: Sparkle GeForce 6600 256Mb
- SSD: Crucial BX500 120Gb (with SATA to IDE converter)*
- SOUND: Creative SoundBlaster Live! SB0100
- ODD: LG IDE DVD burner
- OTHER: Floppy / card reader combo drive
- CPU COOLER: Itek Icy-100
- CASE: Tacens AC4
- PSU: Tacens APSI500

- OS. dual booting Windows 98SE + Windows XP
 

(*= the ssd was too unstable and in the end I had to use a good old 80Gb IDE hard drive... )

One thing's for sure: it's been a long ride and trying to cable manage this thing was a NIGHTMARE!
Still, I'm proud of what I've done so far

[OhYou_]

My thinkpad x301.

It is not like many x301.

Inside my x301 is a LCD converter chip and a hand soldered cable to adapt it to the x301.

This pairs to a 14in 1080p IPS display.

The laptop display bezel was hand sanded and carved out with various tools to fit the 14in 16:9 display in place of the 13.3in 16:10 display. (the tape was later removed)

The laptop is also Librebooted and runs uwuntu.

I use it nearly every day, I recently took it with me to Japan as my only laptop. 
I love my x301

 

Here is a picture of it next to a near new thinkpad T14.

[8tg]

My Athlon 5350 is now 8 years old.

This specific cpu I used for so much random shit. This taught me Autodesk Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, Solidworks and more. All at a terribly slow speed.

Hours and hours of Minecraft, SecondLife, Roblox, Cities Skylines, GTA V, Hotline Miami, CSGO, TF2 and anything else that would even vaguely run on it.

Today it gets repasted for the first time in 8 years.

Also this so far has the best retained value of any old platform as even used 5350’s are over original msrp and the boards are over original msrp.

[da na]

XPS M1710 arrived today! 2.16ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2, GeForce 7000 series GPU. Love the lighting.

It'll need a good cleaning but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. Managed to get it for only around $60.

[da na]

Opened it up to do cleaning. Had some marks of spilled liquid (cleaned before picture) but luckily none got on board. Thankful the GPU aluminum plate is so large, it caught all the splatter.

annoyingly I’ll have to take off the whole top frame and screen just to repaste the CPU and video card, which is much needed - quickly hits 90c after just 2 seconds of furmark. The keyboard is also too far gone in my opinion, might just get a new old stock one, the current keyboard is utterly repulsive.

This laptop does not use MXM, instead the GPU is in a “socket” similar to what the screen cable plugs into. This allows the card to be mounted above the board instead of on the same level like MXM would be. 

[SimplyChunk]

13 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

 

your trackpad is  

 

/j

[Aremis]

Anyone who thinks this is a slow computer is  dumb mofo aight

 

Retro my arse, but I know theres someone on here that'll spit sprite cranberry all over the wall

 

[SimplyChunk]

30 minutes ago, Aremis said:

Anyone who thinks this is a slow computer is  dumb mofo aight

 

Retro my arse, but I know theres someone on here that'll spit sprite cranberry all over the wall

G5 case yeah?

[Aremis]

6 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

G5 case yeah?

??????

 

No thats a mac pro 3,1

[da na]

5 minutes ago, Aremis said:

??????

 

No thats a mac pro 3,1

so, soon after the G5.

[Aremis]

6 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

so, soon after the G5.

Yeah but arguably slower in a really lot of ways.  Ass at video in comparison.  You can make a G5 quad edit 4K video like b u t t e r

[flibberdipper]

My recent acquisitions. A Sabertooth X58 with an i7 950 and 6GB of XMS3, a Biostar N68 board with a Phenom II X4 810, 8GB of Patriot Sector 5 RAM, a MINT HD5750 (it still had the stickers on the heatsink and fan), and my favorites: A pair of 16GB iPad Minis running iOS 9.3.5, with the nicer one getting jailbroken and dualbooting iOS 6.1.3. I am absolutely in love with it since I can FINALLY play a game I haven't been able to touch since 2013 when I still had a school-issued iPad 2. Incredibly, the battery in both of them seem to be in really good shape, I've got 4 (maybe 5) hours of SOT with the nicer one and it's still at 44%.

[da na]

More XPS details. Tore it down for cleaning it today since it was utterly disgusting.

Oddly the GPU does not use MXM, it uses this connector. This allows the GPU to be positioned above the board, as seen in photo 1. It's also probably faster than MXM 1.0, carrying a full 16 lanes of PCIe 1.1. HWiNFO and GPU-Z identify it as PCI-E, not MXM.

In addition, it plugs directly into the display. This facilitates astoundingly low response times.