Show off your old and retro computer parts

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

My GNT 5000 speakers. This thing has lived through 3 system upgrades and is still providing smooth sound for my ears.

[NoCarrier]

back in early 2012, I upgraded my then defunct AMD rig to a 3770k, h100 v1 AIO water cooler, 16gb of DDR3 Corsair Dominator memory, and a gigabyte sniper 3 motherboard.  Corsair Neutron GTX 240x2 in raid 0 over sata 6gbps.

 

Managed to score on the silicon lottery, and had it running at 4.6-4.7ghz all year round.  Been working great.

 

UNFORTUNATELY, this year i decided i needed to upgrade.  So I pretty much parted out my entire rig, picked up an X99 Asus Rampage V Edition 10, 6850k, and 32gb of Corsair Veangeace LED DDR4.  Samsung 960 EVO NVME. Got it all running at 4.2-4.3ghz on AIO water.

 

I figure it'ds been a solid 5 years so maybe hardware has come a long way. 

 

Yes, the new rig is faster.  Disk IO is great....  overall it feels snappier and improves the experience of using the computer.

 

However, it really does nothing that the old rig couldn't do.  I mean it renders a little faster.   I kept my 980ti that was in both rigs, and gaming feels the same except for load times.  Having those 2 extra cores really don't mean much unless I'm rendering video.  Perhaps i should have just gotten a PCI-e adapter for an NVME drive and popped it in the 3770k rig.

 

The best part about getting a new rig is shopping for it and building it.  Afterwards you're left with that shiny box and the vacuum in your wallet and you can't help but think of the money you could have saved by keeping your last rig.

 

I guess i will try to get 10 years out of this one.

[App4that]

My trusty 4790k. Still competitive and making it impossible to upgrade. Heartless bitch. 

[Lays]

21 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

my computer is 5 years old. i keep all my old GPU and HDD. it all goes on a shelf. its not wanted or worth anything. it looks neat to me. the alternative would be to pollute a landfill

 

Or sell the stuff when you replace it lol

[Lays]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

My GNT 5000 speakers. This thing has lived through 3 system upgrades and is still providing smooth sound for my ears.

bruh...

[SCHISCHKA]

3 minutes ago, Lays said:

 

Or sell the stuff when you replace it lol

na a lot of it is too old, not worth anything

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 minutes ago, Lays said:

bruh...

yes?

[Lays]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

yes?

look like some altec lansing shet doe

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

look like some altec lansing shet doe

 

 

Made in Korea. They were legendary back in the day.

[ProjectBox153]

11 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

Nice, mine is Blueberry  

Cool. One of mine is a mix of an Indigo and a Blueberry, and the other is Indigo.

[Dabombinable]

It would have to be my old 85MB HDD (WDAC280). Because its only ever had MS DOS+Windows 3.1 on it (a long with a few programs), with everything else being loaded of the FDD (5.25" & 3.5"). Still runs like new, with no damaged sectors (unlike uite a few of my newer HDD ranging up to around 6.4GB-but they saw normal use so it was expected).

[Automobili3XF]

My Chieftec!

I like this case so much, it serves me very well, i think i could never get rid of it. It's also rare to find a model like this where i live.

Bonus use: When i drink chimarrão, i can put the thermal bottle on it and fill the cup without spilling or having to reach for it.

[Dabombinable]

7 minutes ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

My Chieftec!

I like this case so much, it serves me very well, i think i could never get rid of it. It's also rare to find a model like this where i live.

Bonus use: When i drink chimarrão, i can put the thermal bottle on it and fill the cup without spilling or having to reach for it.

Let me guess, originally designed for Pentium 4, and due to that its perfect for newer hardware? Because I've got a case similar to it (smaller, standard ATX, primarily 5.25" drive bays), however it has a support bracket for all PCI/PCIe slots and is completely tool-less. Its also the only post 2000 case that I have which can support a lot of weight on the top of it due to the thickness of its steel.

[Automobili3XF]

15 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Let me guess, originally designed for Pentium 4, and due to that its perfect for newer hardware? Because I've got a case similar to it (smaller, standard ATX, primarily 5.25" drive bays), however it has a support bracket for all PCI/PCIe slots and is completely tool-less.

Nailed it. Made in 2007 but was launched in 2004 (for all i know), weights around 18kg, it has completelly tool-less mounts for 5.25 bays, for 3.5' HDDs, and PCI devices and has support for a redundant PSU.

It also fits Dell and HP server boards due to the way they drilled extra holes on the mounting tray.

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

Nailed it. Made in 2007 but was launched in 2004 (for all i know), weights around 18kg, it completelly tool-less and has support for a redundant PSU.

It also fits Dell and HP server boards due to the way they drilled extra holes on the mounting tray.

So more of a small server case then. Mine seems to have originally been designed as a work station case, but I still can't figure out what back in 2004 (it had a Pentium 4 540J manufactured in 2003) would reuire so many 5.25" bays + PCI/PCIe support brackets.

[JoeCoke]

On 1/12/2017 at 7:44 PM, NoCarrier said:

back in early 2012, I upgraded my then defunct AMD rig to a 3770k, h100 v1 AIO water cooler, 16gb of DDR3 Corsair Dominator memory, and a gigabyte sniper 3 motherboard.  Corsair Neutron GTX 240x2 in raid 0 over sata 6gbps.

 

Managed to score on the silicon lottery, and had it running at 4.6-4.7ghz all year round.  Been working great.

 

UNFORTUNATELY, this year i decided i needed to upgrade.  So I pretty much parted out my entire rig, picked up an X99 Asus Rampage V Edition 10, 6850k, and 32gb of Corsair Veangeace LED DDR4.  Samsung 960 EVO NVME. Got it all running at 4.2-4.3ghz on AIO water.

 

I figure it'ds been a solid 5 years so maybe hardware has come a long way. 

 

Yes, the new rig is faster.  Disk IO is great....  overall it feels snappier and improves the experience of using the computer.

 

However, it really does nothing that the old rig couldn't do.  I mean it renders a little faster.   I kept my 980ti that was in both rigs, and gaming feels the same except for load times.  Having those 2 extra cores really don't mean much unless I'm rendering video.  Perhaps i should have just gotten a PCI-e adapter for an NVME drive and popped it in the 3770k rig.

 

The best part about getting a new rig is shopping for it and building it.  Afterwards you're left with that shiny box and the vacuum in your wallet and you can't help but think of the money you could have saved by keeping your last rig.

 

I guess i will try to get 10 years out of this one.

That's the same exact reason I haven't upgraded my main rig. I only game in 1080p so there's no reason to upgrade, sure I would get more FPS, I'd be able to run more games at max settings and stuff would render faster, but there's just no real point. It does the same stuff, only a little fast. It's not like moving from a Piii 1ghz to a Athlon 64 1.8ghz, or from a Athlon 64 1.8ghz to a Core 2 Duo @ 2.4ghz. Those upgrades were huge leaps that allowed me to do many new things, but going from my Core 2 Quad to my current rig was a good improvement for sure, but it wasn't a leap.

[Okjoek]

i5 3450. Been using it everyday since 2012.

[Frankieanime158]

MB - Asus P5E3 Deluxe with Wifi, still has my pasted Q6700 in it

GPU - GTX 260 OEM version with 1,700mb of DDR3 instead of the standard 800

Pentium 4 cpu

And a buttload of ram. DDR2/DDR3 of all speeds. 

I also have a misc old Nvidia gpu. Doesn't have crazy cooling, I believe it was an 8800GTS or something weird like that.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Intel Celeron 500MHz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hyundai 64MB PC-100 SDRAM (CL 3-2-2, 3.3V)

 

[Joe Bennett]

That CPU is the same one I was using a month ago... Just upgraded to a dual xeon build

[ProjectBox153]

Figured I'd bring this thread back to life some. I have a ton of these. Some are P2's, either 350 or 400 MHz and the rest are P3's. I've never gotten the Pentium 3's to work right though. 

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

On 1/16/2017 at 7:38 AM, Frankieanime158 said:

MB - Asus P5E3 Deluxe with Wifi, still has my pasted Q6700 in it

GPU - GTX 260 OEM version with 1,700mb of DDR3 instead of the standard 800

Pentium 4 cpu

And a buttload of ram. DDR2/DDR3 of all speeds. 

I also have a misc old Nvidia gpu. Doesn't have crazy cooling, I believe it was an 8800GTS or something weird like that.

 

 

 

 

Man, I need that DDR2 for my main rig! 

[TheRandomness]

Thanks @Space Reptile c:

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

 

Thanks @Space Reptile c:

Do you have anything to go with it? 

[flibberdipper]

Oh man I forgot about this thread... Well here's some recent things. A 20MB HDD that's dead (out of my Sharp PC-4521 laptop), an 866MHz Pentium III Mobile, and 2x 64MB SDRAM laptop modules (one pictured, the other is in my ProSignia 165 to give that beast a whopping 128MB of RAM).