Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Tjomme]

 http://imgur.com/ia7C63o still works great, Witcher 3 on low at 35FPS

[I need a better name]

i think i have some floppy discs laying around.

[iHardware Shelden]

My Word Processor and Core 2 Quad system

[itachipirate]

I have a pretty DANK 420 ATI Radeon HD 3870 I used right up until I got my 970

The flames do in fact make it go faster

[flibberdipper]

 http://imgur.com/ia7C63o still works great, Witcher 3 on low at 35FPS

Hilarious.  :mellow:

[Dabombinable]

I have a pretty DANK 420 ATI Radeon HD 3870 I used right up until I got my 970

The flames do in fact make it go faster

*sniffs* if I could only get my hands on an AGP version.

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I have a pretty DANK 420 ATI Radeon HD 3870 I used right up until I got my 970

The flames do in fact make it go faster

 

DUDE SO DANK ILL BUY

[itachipirate]

DUDE SO DANK ILL BUY

$900 because it's no longer produced, INSTANTLY making the price octuple! (Amazon logic)

 

Large upgrade from your dual 760s, Think of it like this. 760+760=1520, which is lower than 3870. The 3870 is better

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$900 because it's no longer produced, INSTANTLY making the price octuple! (Amazon logic)

 

Large upgrade from your dual 760s, Think of it like this. 760+760=1520, which is lower than 3870. The 3870 is better

 

on point. 3870 has flames too so that adds an extra 50fps

[itachipirate]

on point. 3870 has flames too so that adds an extra 50fps

Well according to this scientific review of flame decals they add torque, not speed. The computational power is increased while the clock speed remains the same. 50fps is just a low ball of the extra speed you can expect from these flame decals, the formula goes something like this

 

Surface area of flame decal = S: Original computational power = C: Original surface area of GPU = G

G+S(2)

______   + C

    C

Basically you take the percentage of the surface area compared to overall computational power, and factor in that any surface area covered with a flame decal counts as 3x the performance of regular uncovered surface area compared to the overall computational power, then you add that to the original computational power. While it's different for every card, with this one you can expect an increase of at least 50fps, usually more but if some of your flame stickers start to peel up they no longer increase speed for that amount of surface area peeled up.

[Ivelin]

I have a socket 7 AT pc(try guessing the manufacturer) which is still working, a satelite a50-106(search, it's a ddr1 machine, working better than my pc) and a 775 pc(look in show of your pc or smth like that)

Tomorrow I will add pics, now I am on mobile internet and the speed is awful.

[Dabombinable]

I have a socket 7 AT pc(try guessing the manufacturer) which is still working, a satelite a50-106(search, it's a ddr1 machine, working better than my pc) and a 775 pc(look in show of your pc or smth like that)

Tomorrow I will add pics, now I am on mobile internet and the speed is awful.

You do mean ATX right? AT went out with the 486.

[Ivelin]

You do mean ATX right? AT went out with the 486.

Nope, AT. No I/o on the back where it's now, it's on the case under the pci slots, I will add pics tomorrow, when I get home.

[linuxfan66]

You do mean ATX right? AT went out with the 486.

I've seen AT pentiums I swear...

[Tac127]

Should have a Pentium III lying around somewhere, unless someone threw it away. D:

same

[Ivelin]

I have a socket 7 AT pc(try guessing the manufacturer) which is still working, a satelite a50-106(search, it's a ddr1 machine, working better than my pc) and a 775 pc(look in show of your pc or smth like that)

Tomorrow I will add pics, now I am on mobile internet and the speed is awful.

[linuxfan66]

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Daw woo branded PC? What? I thought sharp was the weird one out now...

At least it's not a Packard bell...

[Dabombinable]

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And now I'm pissed because every last one of my motherboards with 2 ISA slots and a relatively modern CPU (K6-2 500, Celeron 300A, Celeron 333A) have dead caps preventing me from using them.

[flibberdipper]

And now I'm pissed because every last one of my motherboards with 2 ISA slots and a relatively modern CPU (K6-2 500, Celeron 300A, Celeron 333A) have dead caps preventing me from using them.

That bites. Not to toot my own horn, but every mobo I have is in good shape as far as caps go. Even though my Slot 1 rig has clear coat so thick on some parts it's white.

[Dabombinable]

That bites. Not to toot my own horn, but every mobo I have is in good shape as far as caps go. Even though my Slot 1 rig has clear coat so thick on some parts it's white.

I scrapped the bottom of the barrell with nearly every single bad cap manufacturer  . The good news is that they'll all be getting polymer capacitors (starting with my Abit VP6 or my Jetway 994AN-L), so they'll last a really really long time without a failure  .

[flibberdipper]

I scrapped the bottom of the barrell with nearly every single bad cap manufacturer  . The good news is that they'll all be getting polymer capacitors (starting with my Abit VP6 or my Jetway 994AN-L), so they'll last a really really long time without a failure  .

Noice. This is what I mean on my board:

 

20150718_211821 by Travis McClelland, on Flickr

[spwath]

That bites. Not to toot my own horn, but every mobo I have is in good shape as far as caps go. Even though my Slot 1 rig has clear coat so thick on some parts it's white.

Clear coat?

You should see the caps on emacs.

Covered in a ton of hot glue

[flibberdipper]

Clear coat?

You should see the caps on emacs.

Covered in a ton of hot glue

Clear coat spraypaint from when I had to use the poor thing in a workshop environment. All of that white shit was CLEAR, but so much layered on it turned white. You should see the rear intake fan, OMG. The thing is quiet, but man. It's sad because a can exploded by it and covered the fan.

[starwarsguy99]

I got some fairly old stuff from a friend's dad.

Two mobos with Core2 quads and an unknown AMD cpu from around the same time..

He also offered to give me a bunch of old gpus and some 256mb DDR sticks but I only needed DDR2..

Recently I found a mouse without a scroll wheel which was fairly amusing.. Its about 10 years old.

Any of this considered old or retro?

[Ceatra]

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I use dis beast for DOS gaming mostly cuz XP.  

wuts de graphics card?

 

 

(I had a Dimension )