Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Bitter]

A TV tuner on a GPU, haven't seen that in a minute.

[8tg]

More testing to be done as more parts arrive

modern Psu showed up, it makes me laugh because it’s pcie 5.0 compliant with that new nvidia power connector and all and I’m plugging it into hardware that’s 15-20+ years old

in this case it’s the jetway gtdual, with a socket 939 Athlon of some variety installed

I’m waiting for a Heatsink to show up for socket 939 as well as a few other bits I need to actually go further with this, like a proper cheap monitor rather than a Dell one with only analog inputs, because some cards I want to test have only digital outputs 

 

[8tg]

Back from work we continue, still with no Heatsink so we continue in 30 second intervals

one of the 512mb XMS pro dimms is dead, shame, but I can mix the 1gb ones and the 512mb ones for 3gb total in 4 slots and just put the dead one with another 512mb dimm in the unused two slots for socket 754

though it shows up as 2.5gb so it might just be entirely fucked, idk, I’m not too worried about it because I own these kits mostly for looks

I am plugging this into a big ass tv because I wanted to use the gtx 1080 alongside my Athlon 64, gets the job done

the 925x board does post, I’m not sure what the issue was last time I tried this, I was doing some fuckshit so it doesn’t surprise me it didn’t work, but it’s still holding on and doing weird stuff

again no Heatsink because I enjoy burning my fingers, this weird mf posts with 6gb of ddr2

Multiple different mixtures of 6gb total ddr2, not even year appropriate like 533mhz ecc 512mb dimms, no

The blue and red ones are 1gb each, 800mhz ddr2, and it just doesn’t seem to care

it only uses the 4gb and only at 533mhz but it knows 6gb is there

interesting

 

besides the point, this isn’t the stuff I’m using, I intend to stay with that msi memorylover so I can have 8 dimms in my system for the lulz 

[Bitter]

Do you not have literally any heatsink you can just set on it?

[8tg]

37 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Do you not have literally any heatsink you can just set on it?

I ordered a 939 Heatsink but I’m impatient, and I don’t want to take the zalman cooler I just got off the msi memorylover because I am lazy

 

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, 8tg said:

I ordered a 939 Heatsink but I’m impatient, and I don’t want to take the zalman cooler I just got off the msi memorylover because I am lazy

 

I guess I'm weird, I have like a box of heat sinks that are unused stock coolers or just towers without hardware, a dab of paste and let gravity hold the wheel

[8tg]

40 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I guess I'm weird, I have like a box of heat sinks that are unused stock coolers or just towers without hardware, a dab of paste and let gravity hold the wheel

I get rid of all that stuff any time I’m not doing some sort of project like this. Takes up too much space and I’d rather just spend $20 later buying another one than have it sit around for 6 months to a year.

only stuff I really keep for any time is core components, motherboards, CPUs (but even then not all of them), ram and gpus.

the few old psus I have are more collectors items than anything. I got the Segotep one just to put a 3070ti on a board with a Q8200 without decimating my psus from 2004

[Bitter]

11 minutes ago, 8tg said:

I get rid of all that stuff any time I’m not doing some sort of project like this. Takes up too much space and I’d rather just spend $20 later buying another one than have it sit around for 6 months to a year.

only stuff I really keep for any time is core components, motherboards, CPUs (but even then not all of them), ram and gpus.

the few old psus I have are more collectors items than anything. I got the Segotep one just to put a 3070ti on a board with a Q8200 without decimating my psus from 2004

I may have a problem.

[flibberdipper]

17 hours ago, 8tg said:

What in the hell is this goofy motherfucker?

[da na]

9 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

What in the hell is this goofy motherfucker?

2 sockets but only 6 RAM slots?

 

...are you intended to use both sockets simultaneously like a QPI deal or is it like a 386/486 board where you could use either?

[Beerzerker]

Looks like an older Socket 754 MSI board to me - Definitely a Socket 754 based setup.
I saw it's BIOS screen in a previous pic.
 

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, da na said:

2 sockets but only 6 RAM slots?

 

...are you intended to use both sockets simultaneously like a QPI deal or is it like a 386/486 board where you could use either?

I didn't even notice that it was dual-socket, now I'm somehow even more confused lmao

[BondiBlue]

3 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

I didn't even notice that it was dual-socket, now I'm somehow even more confused lmao

It's a dual socket board, but the two sockets are different. One is Socket 939 and the other is Socket 754. The set of two DIMM slots goes with S754, the other four DIMM slots go with S939. 

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

It's a dual socket board, but the two sockets are different. One is Socket 939 and the other is Socket 754. The set of two DIMM slots goes with S754, the other four DIMM slots go with S939. 

This isn't getting better.

WHAT?!?

[BondiBlue]

Just now, Bitter said:

This isn't getting better.

WHAT?!?

The board that @8tg showed earlier isn't the only one either. ASRock was known for some of these boards as well:

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/mainboard/asrock-k8-combo-z-uli-m1689.html

https://www.ocinside.de/review/mainboard_asrock_939sli32_esata2/4/

 

 

 

 

[BondiBlue]

Oh, and there was also the ASRock P4 Combo, which had two sockets for Pentium 4 CPUs. One was S478 and the other was LGA 775. They couldn't be used at the same time, but it was a similar concept to the above AMD boards. Just look at the location of the DIMM slots!

 

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asrock/p4combo/g1.htm

 

[Bitter]

Man, "combo" meant it took DDR2 or DDR3 back when I first saw that word used on a motherboard. Weird stuff!

[da na]

7 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Man, "combo" meant it took DDR2 or DDR3 back when I first saw that word used on a motherboard. Weird stuff!

I have a Combo board that takes SDR or DDR. 

That board also blew one of my Athlon XPs. RIP.

[flibberdipper]

41 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

da fuc

[BondiBlue]

10 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

It's ASRock, do I need to say more?

[8tg]

8 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

What in the hell is this goofy motherfucker?

Jetway GTDual, socket 754 and 939 swappable on the same board

939 has 4 ddr1 slots, 754 has 2 ddr1 slots

 

the other fucky one is the gigabyte 925x board I have which is a normal lga 775 board that happens to have 6 slots for ecc or non ecc ddr2

 

[Dabombinable]

15 minutes ago, 8tg said:

the other fucky one is the gigabyte 925x board I have which is a normal lga 775 board that happens to have 6 slots for ecc or non ecc ddr2

 

Quote

To populate all 6 slots, 4 of the DDR2 DIMMs need to be single-sided

Gigabyte 8ANXP-D: Features and Layout - Intel 925X Roundup: Creative Engineering 101 (anandtech.com)

 

And they had a version that was heavily stripped down:

GA-8I925X-G (rev. 2.x) Overview | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

 

Seems a bit overkill...but does save on the add-in cards.

As for your Jetway board - they really did love to have 2 different CPU sockets (and slots) on their motherboards.

[8tg]

24 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

To populate all 6 slots, 4 of the DDR2 DIMMs need to be single-sided

it’ll post with whatever combination of ddr2 you put on it, but only use 4gb

in other old parts I’m just powering on for fun to make sure they still work, this soltek socket 478 board and pixelview Fx 5900xt

very pretty because it’s sparkly white

and my holy grail gpu, I wanted one of these for years and it’s the favorite item in my collection

if I had to choose one card, it’s this one, not a lot of these out there and definitely not a lot of working ones

cards doing fine

boards doing fine

though it really doesn’t like my ide to cf adapter so I might just go Oldschool on this and go ide hard drive and ide cd drive instead of bothering with adapters

not like I intend to have anything important on here where a potentially dying 20 year old hard drive will matter 

[8tg]

 

very nice, same pc as above, q8200 + titan

annoying issue, i downloaded the most current version of mypal, which will bluescreen the pc when i close it

 

[Iguana]

Hi,
Does someone collect vintage CPUs ?