Show off your old and retro computer parts

[luckybob77]

That is something they do in Nascar.  I think they are called restrictor plates.

[Vode]

Pristine

[Scrubs]

Just gave away my gt 310 graphics card and now run gt 730 in my backup computer. 

[WhitetailAni]

I rescued a 990FX board with a stuck on cooler thanks to my new dremel, and I have built probably the dumbest system I have ever created.

Spoiler

- Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3

- Phenom II X4 955 (125W TDP edition)

- 24GB of RAM

- 2x GTX 650 Ti BOOST

- A probably 10 year old cooler master power supply

- The Thermaltake SpinQ

It POSTs at 4.4 GHz (CPU is rated for 3.2), unsure if it's stable. Currently has no storage so no OS

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, WhitetailAni said:

GA-990FX-UD3

Those 990FX boards were lovely when they came out.  My bulldozer chip lived in a 990FXA UD7. 

 

I still got a phenom 1100T system that has a UD5 board too

[luckybob77]

All those 16x slots makes me MOIST.

 

I never liked how limited the consumer chips felt.  You basically have just enough for a gpu, nvme disk, and ethernet/sound.

 

You have to get into Xeon/Threadripper/etc to get motherboards that have chest hair.

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, luckybob77 said:

All those 16x slots makes me MOIST.

 

I never liked how limited the consumer chips felt.  You basically have just enough for a gpu, nvme disk, and ethernet/sound.

 

You have to get into Xeon/Threadripper/etc to get motherboards that have chest hair.

they weren't all wired for 16x but at least you could comfortably fit a 16x card in there and run it at 8x or 4x

 

edit:

And an old school PCI to boot  

[da na]

10 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

they weren't all wired for 16x but at least you could comfortably fit a 16x card in there and run it at 8x or 4x

 

edit:

And an old school PCI to boot  

My workstation has a couple slots that run at 4x unless a 2nd CPU is inserted, then they run at full 16x. Pretty neat concept that consumer boards could absolutely implement, dynamically allocating lanes based on what card is in what slot.

[flibberdipper]

29 minutes ago, da na said:

My workstation has a couple slots that run at 4x unless a 2nd CPU is inserted, then they run at full 16x. Pretty neat concept that consumer boards could absolutely implement, dynamically allocating lanes based on what card is in what slot.

I'm pretty sure they do. If I'm not mistaken with boards that have Gen4 M.2 slots, they dynamically allocate lanes depending on if it's a Gen3 drive and just generally how many lanes you're using in general.

[Kilrah]

4 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

I'm pretty sure they do. If I'm not mistaken with boards that have Gen4 M.2 slots, they dynamically allocate lanes depending on if it's a Gen3 drive and just generally how many lanes you're using in general.

Consumer boards often have one or 2 slots that can have rearranging, but far less than they could do... Mine has a PCIe5 NVMe slot and if you populate that the main 16x slot is downgraded to x8, but everything else is hardwired. Higher end chipsets provide enough lanes to just wire everything up and save on the muxes.

[SimplyChunk]

8 hours ago, da na said:

My workstation has a couple slots that run at 4x unless a 2nd CPU is inserted, then they run at full 16x. Pretty neat concept that consumer boards could absolutely implement, dynamically allocating lanes based on what card is in what slot.

 

8 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

I'm pretty sure they do. If I'm not mistaken with boards that have Gen4 M.2 slots, they dynamically allocate lanes depending on if it's a Gen3 drive and just generally how many lanes you're using in general.

 

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Consumer boards often have one or 2 slots that can have rearranging, but far less than they could do... Mine has a PCIe5 NVMe slot and if you populate that the main 16x slot is downgraded to x8, but everything else is hardwired. Higher end chipsets provide enough lanes to just wire everything up and save on the muxes.

My two Z490 boards are weird too.  Pop a 10th Gen CPU in it and they're all PCIe 3.0  Pop an 11th Gen in and they're all 4.0  Including the Thunderbolt port on the Z490i Unify

[WhitetailAni]

On 12/27/2023 at 2:16 AM, WhitetailAni said:

I rescued a 990FX board with a stuck on cooler thanks to my new dremel, and I have built probably the dumbest system I have ever created.

  Reveal hidden contents

- Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3

- Phenom II X4 955 (125W TDP edition)

- 24GB of RAM

- 2x GTX 650 Ti BOOST

- A probably 10 year old cooler master power supply

- The Thermaltake SpinQ

It POSTs at 4.4 GHz (CPU is rated for 3.2), unsure if it's stable. Currently has no storage so no OS

It's not going so great anymore... I got Windows 10 installed after struggles with 7. However it was locking 20 of my 24GB RAM away even though it was 64-bit Windows, and refusing to set any updated CPU frequencies.

 

A downgrade to BIOS F2 from F3 fixed the CPU frequency bit, but then my GPU drivers stopped working on every reboot... 

and then the system stopped POSTing entirely...

 

so it's in my basement now to be worked on Some Day

[Genmech]

wrong thread

Edited January 2 by Genmech
Wrong thread

[Average Nerd]

Found an ancient Acer TravelMate 210TEV with 128MB of RAM, a Celeron processor of some kind, Windows XP says it runs at somewhere around 600-650 MHz and a spacious harddrive with 10,6 GB of storage.

The battery is completely cooked and holds no charge at all, and I had to fix a lot of damage that was caused by someone attempting to open it at some point in the past, breaking both hinge mounts and losing most of the mainboard screws. They also left the cooler loose.

Interestingly it manages to boot faster than my gaming laptop, no idea how it does that.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Average Nerd said:

Interestingly it manages to boot faster than my gaming laptop, no idea how it does that.

Just XP being the boss it always was  

[SimplyChunk]

15 hours ago, Genmech said:

Updated my set-up from page 1. Moved into a new room. Finally got those new desktops.

 

This should be in the show off your setups v2 thread right?

[Genmech]

5 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

This should be in the show off your setups v2 thread right?

Yes sir, my fault

 

[iHardware Shelden]

Got hooked on ipods thanks to dankpods, found my old 5th gen classic and did a case swap, new higher capacity battery and a 64gb micro SD card to replace the mechanical Toshiba drive. Love this thing!

 

Original battery was getting weak and the front case had spider cracks forming

 

[flibberdipper]

I guess it's only "kind of" retro thanks to the case, but still. Frankly I'm not sure where it's gonna end up, I might just throw it at my TV once I get that side of things more squared away. It DESPERATELY needs a Pure Rock Slim 2, the 6700K sits at 95-100C... In TF2. At some point I'm sure I'll be able to afford it but that time is not now.

 

Specs: Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.2GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1866MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro, HP Pavilion a6137c case

 

[Kilrah]

Never seen something that yellowed...

Unfortunately the weird 9500GT is ded, probably because of that shoddy cooling. That was kind of the interesting thing about this machine because there's a weird  back panel breakout with composite, S-Video and a footprint for a SCART connector that would have been fun to play with. PSU's dead too, so it's all going to the dump apart that mATX mobo and the Q6600/4GB of DDR2 on it and the DVD drive that work just fine (owner kept the HDD).

 

 

 

 

 

 

[da na]

This feels horribly wrong and I can't quite put my finger on why

 

 

[Average Nerd]

5 minutes ago, da na said:

This feels horribly wrong and I can't quite put my finger on why

Me neither...

[Average Nerd]

While aimlessly searching my storage, I found this HP Compaq nc6320, sadly its HDD is corrupted and it won't install an OS, which is a shame because, unlike my Windows XP laptop, it's not actively falling apart and has half decent specs, which include an unknown Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and a corrupted 80GB HDD.

The disk drive is half dead, it doesn't open anymore when I press the button, but it seems to still read disks that I put in by manually opening and closing the drive.

Edit: The Disk drive testing was done on the XP laptop btw, just to clarify.

Edited January 3 by Average Nerd

[da na]

1 minute ago, Average Nerd said:

While aimlessly searching my storage, I found this HP Compaq nc6320, sadly its HDD is corrupted and it won't install an OS, which is a shame because, unlike my Windows XP laptop, it's not actively falling apart and has half decent specs, which include an unknown Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and a corrupted 80GB HDD.

The disk drive is half dead, it doesn't open anymore when I press the button, but it seems to still read disks that I put in by manually opening and closing the drive.

Hey those are pretty nice. Solidly built chassis.

I have the 17" pro-workstation version, the NW9440, with Quadro FX graphics and it's one of my favorites in the collection.

[Average Nerd]

Just now, da na said:

Hey those are pretty nice. Solidly built chassis.

Yeah, solid describes it pretty well, this specific device spent most of its life in a hospital, according to the splash screen, so it's spotless on the inside. Not a single piece of dust anywhere.