Show off your old and retro computer parts

[iHardware Shelden]

48 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

I'm not that worried about it, I have much more expensive and important fish to fry and unfortunately I'm on a frozen fish stick budget.

If you ever change your mind let me know, just cover shipping and I'm good!

I got some Phenom x4 and x3 CPUs I used in them before. I will always be a Core 2 fanboy but unlocking cores on the Phenom II series is still the coolest thing ever!

[Optimouse Prime]

I had some of my old hardware from days gone by and decided to mount clean it up, disassemble it and then glue it down in a Frame

 

Consists of:

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

* Crucial DDR3 1600mhz

* Nvidia 8800 GTS

 

[Erioch]

5 minutes ago, Optimouse Prime said:

I had some of my old hardware from days gone by and decided to mount clean it up, disassemble it and then glue it down in a Frame

 

Consists of:

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

* Crucial DDR3 1600mhz

* Nvidia 8800 GTS

 

That is super cool!

[iHardware Shelden]

14 minutes ago, Optimouse Prime said:

I had some of my old hardware from days gone by and decided to mount clean it up, disassemble it and then glue it down in a Frame

 

Consists of:

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

* Crucial DDR3 1600mhz

* Nvidia 8800 GTS

 

I'll trade you that Pentium 4 for that Q9550, just don't look too close  

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, iHardware Shelden said:

The system that was built in my current case originally was a dual PIII server, thing was a monster. Sold/gave the board to a fellow forum member a long time ago

 

hmmmmmmm that looks awfully familiar, can't quite put my finger on why though

 

Someday I really need to make a build with it again, even if I don't use it very often.

[iHardware Shelden]

3 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

hmmmmmmm that looks awfully familiar, can't quite put my finger on why though

 

Someday I really need to make a build with it again, even if I don't use it very often.

She is probably worth some good money now, it is wild how desirable that setup is!

[da na]

Put a Tesla P4 server GPU (an underclocked low profile GTX 1080) into a Pentium 4 HT SFF system. 

 

Remarkably, it functions.

 

 

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, iHardware Shelden said:

She is probably worth some good money now, it is wild how desirable that setup is!

Just like my GTX 480 ES, they will stay with me until the day I die.

[roxsonixx]

2 hours ago, Optimouse Prime said:

I had some of my old hardware from days gone by and decided to mount clean it up, disassemble it and then glue it down in a Frame

 

Consists of:

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

* Crucial DDR3 1600mhz

* Nvidia 8800 GTS

 

That's a really cool idea.

[luckybob77]

15 hours ago, iHardware Shelden said:

She is probably worth some good money now, it is wild how desirable that setup is!

oh if i showed you children my garage, it would break you....

 

 

[iHardware Shelden]

1 hour ago, luckybob77 said:

oh if i showed you children my garage, it would break you....

 

 

Pictures or it didn't happen!

 

Thats my problem I've got too much stuff that I've been selling and getting rid of especially since prices have gone up on a lot of it. Good time to thin out, some I forgot I even had

[luckybob77]

https://www.youtube.com/@fatguywitholdcomputers9351/videos

 

let me know if you want to see something specific

[joebroke]

My TI-99, I have a few carts for it, which is pretty nice for its era.  I thoroughly cleaned up the PCB, recapped it, and repaired a bodge that had come loose.  Out of my older stuff, this is one of my favorites.  I had a TRS-80 when I was a kid but to me, the TI-99 was better.  Since then I've completely forgotten how to use MS Basic.

[luckybob77]

the ti-99/4a was my first computer.  ^.^

[SimplyChunk]

Not sure if any of you saw my SU this morning but following on from that particular NPC interruption..Here's what's happened since

Pics of the damage:

 

I've managed to drill out the pop rivets on the badly damaged corner.  Here's how bent the brace part was:

 

Managed to straighten that part with my vice and peen the Chassis parts flat again between two hammers.  (good job my Dad was a panel beater eh?)

Anyways, here's what it looks like now I've straightened it.

 

I think with a coat of paint she'll live.  The 'friend' of the Resident that done this is still getting a bill though..

 

[Skyesgaming]

1 minute ago, ChonkerFox said:

Not sure if any of you saw my SU this morning but following on from that particular NPC interruption..Here's what's happened since

Pics of the damage:

 

I've managed to drill out the pop rivets on the badly damaged corner.  Here's how bent the brace part was:

 

Managed to straighten that part with my vice and peen the Chassis parts flat again between two hammers.  (good job my Dad was a panel beater eh?)

Anyways, here's what it looks like now I've straightened it.

 

I think with a coat of paint she'll live.  The 'friend' of the Resident that done this is still getting a bill though..

 

I'm so glad that you managed to get it fix. Such a huge relief xx

[SimplyChunk]

First Coat by an Idiot and a Rattle Can...

 

I don't think it's too far off.  Ignoring the yellowing of course

[Bitter]

Rattle can is HARD to get smooth gloss out of. I've had better luck with thinned enamel brushed or foam rolled on. It's really hard over a large area with spray paint because you're dealing with wind and droppping pressure as you spray, and nozzle angle and distance are the KEY to an evenly laid coat of paint. With wind you just can't over a big area.

[flibberdipper]

So I think I posted about it here a good month ago, but that 360 Arcade I got really is a bastard child. It's an Opus board that makes no sense.

 

It has the glue around the chips (like an Opus/Falcon)
It uses the Zephyr heatsinks (it's supposed to have ones like the Falcon)
It uses the Xenon power supply (again, supposed to be Falcon)
It has the paper warranty sticker up front (but never had the service date sticker out back?)
And the DVD drive is from ~2008 or whatever it was which is likely when it got serviced

 

That would certainly explain why it runs almost exactly like my Falcon Elite does as far as noise goes... Because it is, in effect, a Falcon.

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

So I think I posted about it here a good month ago, but that 360 Arcade I got really is a bastard child. It's an Opus board that makes no sense.

 

It has the glue around the chips (like an Opus/Falcon)
It uses the Zephyr heatsinks (it's supposed to have ones like the Falcon)
It uses the Xenon power supply (again, supposed to be Falcon)
It has the paper warranty sticker up front (but never had the service date sticker out back?)
And the DVD drive is from ~2008 or whatever it was which is likely when it got serviced

 

That would certainly explain why it runs almost exactly like my Falcon Elite does as far as noise goes... Because it is, in effect, a Falcon.

Is it a lite-on drive?

[BrianTheElectrician]

On 8/23/2023 at 5:37 AM, ChonkerFox said:

Abit BH6 1.02 motherboard on freshly painted motherboard tray

Ah yes, the Abit BH6. I have a couple of them and they're fantastic boards. The soft menu in the BIOS for the processor FSB and Multiplier is great to have. They seem to be very stable boards too, at least with my experience with them.

[flibberdipper]

14 hours ago, ChonkerFox said:

Is it a lite-on drive?

Yup. DVD laser in it is dead just like the one that was in my Falcon Elite so at some point I imagine I'll try to replace that. Amazingly the belt is holding up just fine but I'll do that whenever I replace the laser since I have extra belts kicking around here somewhere.

[SimplyChunk]

Just now, flibberdipper said:

Yup. DVD laser in it is dead just like the one that was in my Falcon Elite so at some point I imagine I'll try to replace that. Amazingly the belt is holding up just fine but I'll do that whenever I replace the laser since I have extra belts kicking around here somewhere.

I had the Lite-on version back in the day.  If you fix the laser they're quite easy to flash.  I think my friend still has my 0800 drive and the com link tool to do it.  Obviously I'd only be offering you these tools to preserve the technique of do it though (thank you mods, thank you mods, thank you mods.)

[flibberdipper]

50 minutes ago, ChonkerFox said:

I had the Lite-on version back in the day.  If you fix the laser they're quite easy to flash.  I think my friend still has my 0800 drive and the com link tool to do it.  Obviously I'd only be offering you these tools to preserve the technique of do it though (thank you mods, thank you mods, thank you mods.)

Even if that is the case I'm not sure I'll be wanting to mod this one. In a lot of ways I'd almost rather just mod a console with HDMI since at least those are more convenient.

[Rkiver]

 

The things I have found while clearing out old school IT rooms..