Show off your old and retro computer parts

[ninong_mery_christmas]

IDK if this is cool or lit lol

[Kilrah]

[Dabombinable]

Luckily, I value this Celeron 433 less than my Celeron 500. Got everything ready for testing the Slotket - luckily amongst the parts my aunt gave me 7-8 years ago was a stock S370 Celeron cooler:

[Dabombinable]

And it works:

Edit: Also swapped to my 200W PSU to see if that fixed my "freezing while trying to use the TNT" issue, and now I can play UT on it. 145W really is only enough for its OG Packard Bell with; PIII 650, Integrated Audio+Voodoo3 2000, 1x 20GB 5400RPM HDD and 2x ODD.

[Retro_R]

y'all know i had to flex... had to do it to them.

[DOOOLY]

Logitech G9x was my favorite mouse Battlefield 2 era.

[iHardware Shelden]

Finally get to move this Core 2 Extreme system into an era correct case, though I do enjoy it in here

[da na]

1 hour ago, iHardware Shelden said:

Finally get to move this Core 2 Extreme system into an era correct case, though I do enjoy it in here

Hah, my Q9650/SLI Quadro FX 4800 is in a similar anachronistic case. Almost like a retro sleeper build, funnily enough. The case originally held an MSI K7 board with an Athlon XP CPU, sticker is still on.

I love how those EVGA... something? Could be 8800-GTX 480 really. But anyway I love how those look like Radeon HD cards from the side

[iHardware Shelden]

6 minutes ago, da na said:

Hah, my Q9650/SLI Quadro FX 4800 is in a similar anachronistic case. Almost like a retro sleeper build, funnily enough. The case originally held an MSI K7 board with an Athlon XP CPU, sticker is still on.

I love how those EVGA... something? Could be 8800-GTX 480 really. But anyway I love how those look like Radeon HD cards from the side

I last minute decided to do a build log over in the build log section of the forum on this computer, funny enough the new case I just found out use to have an Athlon X2 system in it. Not quite an XP but a little newer  Oh and the GPU is an EVGA GTX 260 actually, it does look sweet from the side. It is a heavy card!

 

 

[da na]

2 minutes ago, iHardware Shelden said:

I last minute decided to do a build log over in the build log section of the forum on this computer, funny enough the new case I just found out use to have an Athlon X2 system in it. Not quite an XP but a little newer  Oh and the GPU is an EVGA GTX 260 actually, it does look sweet from the side. It is a heavy card!

 

 

Awesome. Two of those in SLI would be great, can speak from experience. (Quadro FX 4800 is literally GTX 260 with 1.5GB VRAM)

[iHardware Shelden]

Just now, da na said:

Awesome. Two of those in SLI would be great, can speak from experience. (Quadro FX 4800 is literally GTX 260 with 1.5GB VRAM)

Oh sweet! Yeah I should pick another one up for this build actually... don't tempt me! 

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 minutes ago, da na said:

an Athlon XP CPU

I've not played around with those, but I do have a pair of Athlon MPs -- same chip as an Athlon XP that supports multiple sockets. Fun stuff.

[Beerzerker]

I have one of those exact cards here and it works great (For what it is).

[iHardware Shelden]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've not played around with those, but I do have a pair of Athlon MPs -- same chip as an Athlon XP that supports multiple sockets. Fun stuff.

Love the Athlon XP, I really wish I kept mine I pulled from an old gateway. Think I played with it for a bit with some random AGP cards and I have no idea what I did with it after that. Was rock solid!

 

 

I think this was also an Athlon XP board I had, man I wish I kept this stuff  

[da na]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've not played around with those, but I do have a pair of Athlon MPs -- same chip as an Athlon XP that supports multiple sockets. Fun stuff.

Neato, never played around with one either, sadly. All the ones I have released the magic smoke

[Beerzerker]

45 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've not played around with those, but I do have a pair of Athlon MPs -- same chip as an Athlon XP that supports multiple sockets. Fun stuff.

Yes, the Athlon MP's do support multiple socket function and aside from that, they are the same exact chip as a standard XP chip.
XP-M (Mobile) chips also support this function by default since it's enabled on those from the factory.

The difference is a bridge on the chip has to be enabled for it to do so, you can take a standard XP chip and make it MP capable as well if you know how to do that - And I do.

And speaking of such setups, here's mine with a pair of XP-M 2800's in use with a pair of Tt Volcano 11's doing the cooling duties.
https://hwbot.org/submission/2174614_bones_wprime___32m_athlon_xp_m_2800_(barton)_31sec_219ms

[da na]

No more whiny fan! Upgraded the cooler on my GeForce 6800 today and the difference is incredible.

Copper coldplate, two heatpipes, and two-slot finstack keep this card running in the mid 40s under load.

The fan also blows nice cold air over the power delivery and memory modules, instead of blowing exhaust onto them like the stock cooler.

Connected to a fan header set to AMD™ K8™ Cool and Quiet™ Technology™, the fan is completely inaudible when sitting a few feet away. Huge difference from the stock fan, high 70s under load and earsplitting whine. 

Bad news though, it takes up four slots. It uses tall screws on the back of the card to hold the cooler on, blocking the PCIe slot above, and the thick heatsink blocks two PCI slots below the GPU. You could squeeze in a card in the last PCI slot but that would really choke out the fan. I am willing to trade my sound card for this cooler though.

[da na]

Meet my "New" optical drive, the Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200.

This is a slightly modified (and very long) Hewlett-Packard IDE drive enclosed in a plastic case. It reads and writes CD-R and RW disks at 4x, and can also play audio CDs through the front headphone jack or passthrough in the rear. Connects to the computer via USB (and soundcard Line In through the 3.5mm jack if desired). 

I picked this up with the intention of harvesting its IDE drive, but I love it as an external device so I think I will keep it that way. Although very large and not particularly fast by today's standards, it is nice and quiet, works with every OS I have tried, and burns disks flawlessly. 

[ApolloX75]

10 minutes ago, da na said:

Meet my "New" optical drive, the Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200.

 

This is a slightly modified (and very long) Hewlett-Packard IDE drive enclosed in a plastic case. It reads and writes CD-R and RW disks at 4x, and can also play audio CDs through the front headphone jack or passthrough in the rear. Connects to the computer via USB (and soundcard Line In through the 3.5mm jack if desired). 

I remember when I bought my Creative 6x4x24 CD-Writer fondly. I also remember, quite a bit less fondly, how LONG it actually took to write a CD at 4x, let alone 6x....

 

Good grief that felt like months per disc.

[da na]

4 minutes ago, ApolloX75 said:

I remember when I bought my Creative 6x4x24 CD-Writer fondly. I also remember, quite a bit less fondly, how LONG it actually took to write a CD at 4x, let alone 6x....

 

Good grief that felt like months per disc.

I've been writing CDs at around 8.9x, the speed my new pack of CD-RWs write in my workstation's internal optical drive. They have been taking maybe 6-8 minutes per disk depending on ISO size so yeah probably 15 min at 4x.

[Bitter]

Ah yes and the terror of watching the buffer to see if you could keep it full because you realize too late the drive you're burning to is slaved to the drive you're reading from and that ATA-33 is just barely able to keep up with overhead.

[King Candy]

ActionPc.3000 Epson is the oldest computer I think I have.M ight have something older but its so old I couldnt even hook up a drive to it to install 95 cause it uses older cables.so its kind of stuck with Windows 3.1

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, King Candy said:

ActionPc.3000

Think i've found the spec sheet for it here:

 

You wouldn't want Windows 95 on that anyways.  Just keep it on DOS 6.22

[King Candy]

thanks for ths info, It came with windows 3.1 I believe, maybe they updated it.Its kind of useless but a piece of computer history but it works.I go to the computer dump once a week bins and have picked up some old hardware

[King Candy]

lol I decided to fire up it it had a cryix dx2 66mhz possessor....oooofff and it is running windows 3.1 in black and white. I wonder if I could get Doom to run on this thing.