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I think I was using 3 256MB sticks.

I've only got 2x128MB sticks (PC133), 1 very small 32MB stick (PC100, and 1 32MB stick (PC66) that is covered in chips and looks like the 1GB sticks (with out the ECC of course) available. But at least Lubuntu runs on it with 144MB to spare.

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Does this count? Gateway Performance 1300, built in July 2001.


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1.6GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RDRAM (yes, it has Rambus RAM), 32MB unbranded nVIDIA Riva TNT2, 20GB something RPM IDE mech drive.
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Does this count? Gateway Performance 1300, built in July 2001.

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1.6GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RDRAM (yes, it has Rambus RAM), 32MB unbranded nVIDIA Riva TNT2, 20GB something RPM IDE mech drive.

Well considering its one of the early Pentium 4s, which were kind of a failure....

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Well considering its one of the early Pentium 4s, which were kind of a failure....

Yeah. Apparently it didn't affect the original owners of the machine though, the last updates I saw applied to its old OS (Windows XP, I downgraded it to Windows 98 for retro gaming but it has no sound so that failed) were from October 2008.

 

Ya know, when Core 2s were the hottest things on the Intel block.

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Picked up this bad boy from the thrift shop, just €4,50 :)

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question is, does it even work. If you can't see the screen very well, its on it way out, if it does work at all. Those are notorious for having fail prone caps. I have two of them, and they both don't work.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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question is, does it even work. If you can't see the screen very well, its on it way out, if it does work at all. Those are notorious for having fail prone caps. I have two of them, and they both don't work.

i dont know if it works since i have no games for it, but im familiar with the capacitor problem 

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ah! I was looking for this thread, I'm ravaging through my old hardware parts to throw them away and took a few pics :D

 

Here's the radeon 9600 I've used up to december 2014 in my main rig, yesterday I was setting it up for my father to use (with linux mint) but it died (bios beeps and when it boots lasts until you play a youtube video). Rip in pepperonis, I had to use an older radeon 9200 :D

 

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and here we can see an old IBM mechanical keyboard, I've cleaned it with soap and alcol, it was filthy, bought it in a trash store for 2€ I wonder if it does work, it has a strange connector ethernet like not ps2 nor usb, I'll probably open a thread about it:

 

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and here we can see an old IBM mechanical keyboard, I've cleaned it with soap and alcol, it was filthy, bought it in a trash store for 2€ I wonder if it does work, it has a strange connector ethernet like not ps2 nor usb, I'll probably open a thread about it:

 

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That's a model M for a terminal, you can't use it with a regular PC.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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That's a model M for a terminal, you can't use it with a regular PC.

 

Perfect, I'll trash it xD

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Perfect, I'll trash it xD

you can probably get an adapter

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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I have tons of old tech parts but I have two items that are dear to my heart,It's not exactly old tech, but I have officially retired two of my HD7950's, this is their new permanent homes.

 

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I have tons of old tech parts but I have two items that are dear to my heart,It's not exactly old tech, but I have officially retired two of my HD7950's, this is their new permanent homes.

 

 

Ew, a non-dual-DVI DD.

 

Why'd you retire the Vapor-X? I can see retiring the DD, but not the precious...

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Ew, a non-dual-DVI DD.

 

Why'd you retire the Vapor-X? I can see retiring the DD, but not the precious...

 

LOL, actually, the DD overclocks like a beast, ( loud as hell ) but I have gotten it stable at 1275 on the core clock and 1725 on the memory clock. I love the beasty look of the vapor-X though, it never overclocked very well but the shear look of it is sweet :D .

 

Really the only reason they got retired was that I bought dual EVGA 970 FTW+'s and don't have any real use for them anymore, but can't seam to part with them.

My Sig Rig: "X79 (3970X) -Midas"http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wsjGt6"  "Midas" Build Log - https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/59768-build-log-in-progress-code-name-midas/


"The Riddler" Custom Watercooled H440 Build Log ( in collaboration with my wife @ _TechPuppet_ ) - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/149652-green-h440-special-edition-the-riddler-almost-there/


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LOL, actually, the DD overclocks like a beast, ( loud as hell ) but I have gotten it stable at 1275 on the core clock and 1725 on the memory clock. I love the beasty look of the vapor-X though, it never overclocked very well but the shear look of it is sweet :D .

 

Really the only reason they got retired was that I bought dual EVGA 970 FTW+'s and don't have any real use for them anymore, but can't seam to part with them.

Mine can't do 1100MHz at a 15% power limit. It crashed after a while at 1000MHz with a 7.5% power limit (averaged out between two different sets of runs).

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Today I tore apart one of my my old pcs, it didn't work anymore so I disassembled it and I'm getting ready to throw it away. Here are a few pics, plus there are more in the gallery:

 

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Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/OiZEL

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Today I tore apart one of my my old pcs, it didn't work anymore so I disassembled it and I'm getting ready to throw it away. Here are a few pics, plus there are more in the gallery:

Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/OiZEL

You're throwing that beautiful AMD CPU away? :(

 

EDIT: And the graphics card, floppy drive, and optical drive?!?

 

EDIT2: I can't even do this anymore. You made me sad with that album since you're gonna throw that away.

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Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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You're throwing that beautiful AMD CPU away? :(

 

EDIT: And the graphics card, floppy drive, and optical drive?!?

 

Kept the cpu (but it was unstable), the floppy, the psu. The mobo was gone and kept setting wrong bios values, about the optical drives: the writers are busted, I used to burn a lot of cds (I even found the recepit 110€ from 2004 :D) and they worn out, one of them was a common cd-rom which was useless, plus I already have 4 more optical drives, 2 that I'm currently using and that work perfectly fine :)

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I have like three computers from a long time ago (2002). Anyway. one has a really old nvidia quadro.

My GTX 970 carries me to global.

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I just fixed up a friends computer. An athlon 64 x2 6000 (3ghz), 2gb of DDR2 and a geforce 7300gt at a whopping 400mhz!

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I kinda broke my old pc parts... (Smashing them was fun :D)

My Main PC:

CPU: i5 3570k CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T4 Motherboard: Asus p8z77-v pro  RAM: Crucial Balistic 2x4gb  GPU: Two PNY GTX 680's in SLI Case: Some rando Antec one  PSU: Thermaltake 1000w  Display: HP Elite Display 321i 23''  Storage: Samsung 840 Evo 128gb, Seagate Barracuda 1tb

 

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I got a Commodore 1541 floppy drive for my C64.

 

now i need to fix it :P

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My current i7 930 with an Intel '01 Pentium 4 in the back

 

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Same as before with some HyperX DDR3 in the back

 

 

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An AMD Athlon II with the Pentium 4 for comparison

 

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All those pins  ^_^

 

 

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Super Talent 512MB DDR - 400 

 

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Ha!  :lol:

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LOL, actually, the DD overclocks like a beast, ( loud as hell ) but I have gotten it stable at 1275 on the core clock and 1725 on the memory clock. I love the beasty look of the vapor-X though, it never overclocked very well but the shear look of it is sweet :D .

Really the only reason they got retired was that I bought dual EVGA 970 FTW+'s and don't have any real use for them anymore, but can't seam to part with them.

I think you should send them to spwath.

I need to upgrade my HD 7850 1gb.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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