Show off your old and retro computer parts

[datamonger]

On 11/4/2017 at 7:25 PM, Bananasplit_00 said:

what is number three from the top left? that looks baller

 

That is a 450MHz PowerPC G3.

[beef00man]

On ‎12‎/‎19‎/‎2013 at 3:25 PM, TheTechnerd said:

 Today I thought we would do something fun and different. This is a topic about showing of all your old pc parts (or old computers). Feel free to post some pics:) It will be fun:D

 

Here's some of mine:

 

 

Kingston Hyperx DDR2 2GB 1066MHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz

 

 

Intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz backside

you may find that retro but that's beater than what I have rn

[Toby D.]

 

My IBM Thinkpad T22. 

With an Intel Mobile Pentium III 900 MHz,

S3 Savage IX8+ video controller with 8MB, 1024x768 and

128mb pc-100 ram

from 2001

 

[Dizzyhat]

I call it PCMart

 

 

[8uhbbhu8]

3 hours ago, Dizzyhat said:

I call it PCMart

 

 

 Been wanting to do something like this for a while.

But with full systems inside  

 

 

[Dizzyhat]

9 hours ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

 Been wanting to do something like this for a while.

But with full systems inside  

 

 

If I can get my fiancee on board I am one hundred percent stealing this idea.   I still have all the ram and cpus i pulled from those guys and a lot of expansion cards too.  Just need more boards and some nice leds

[8uhbbhu8]

1 hour ago, Dizzyhat said:

If I can get my fiancee on board I am one hundred percent stealing this idea.   I still have all the ram and cpus i pulled from those guys and a lot of expansion cards too.  Just need more boards and some nice leds

It'll be a while till I can do my version of it. At least till after I go through school next year.  Total cost for me to do this project the way I want could easily go over a grand even with all the parts I currently have.

 

One of the things I would need are PCI and AGP extensions (I can't seem to find any good or long enough ones... as well as watercooling equipment so I can go quite low profile for everything. 

[Vintage PC]

Hay guys! So pictures seemed a little underwhelming so heres my build video of my AGP/PCI-E hybrid build bench rig. I will be benching the FX5900ZT at some point but i still need to do the editing. If you would fancy helping me out by subing that would be a plus. Cheers from VPC

Build overview:

Benchmarks:

 

[Coaxialgamer]

On 11/10/2017 at 11:35 PM, beef00man said:

you may find that retro but that's beater than what I have rn

you realise you've just quoted a 4 year old post right ? :\

[Anghammarad]

If I had seen this thread earlier, I would have made some photos of the 3 Com 10/100 BTX/M PCI Nics I had around, (even windows 7 didn't support those anymore) 

 

I think I still have some SD-Ram, PS2 EDO Ram, well my Amiga 1200 T, well and if I dig deep enough I may by accident revive some more hardware zombies that I haven't gotten around to throw away, even though I got nagged to do it on many occasions =)

[ThreeStretch]

Doe's this count ?

An old processor i repurposed as a key fob... is it AMD or Intel ?

[flibberdipper]

5 minutes ago, ThreeStretch said:

Doe's this count ?

An old processor i repurposed as a key fob... is it AMD or Intel ?

 

 

boi you ain't foolin nobody. That looks like a 478 P4/Celeron

[eddycuss]

i still have an intel 80486 which still works (to the best of my knowledge) the only issue i have with it is trying to find software that still works along with compatible hardware

[Dabombinable]

On 11/19/2017 at 5:05 AM, ThreeStretch said:

Doe's this count ?

An old processor i repurposed as a key fob... is it AMD or Intel ?

I'd say burn it with fire, but you seem to have the situation handled. Unless its a Celeron, then there is no such thing as overkill.

[Tiberiusisgame]

On 11/14/2017 at 1:47 AM, Dizzyhat said:

If I can get my fiancee on board I am one hundred percent stealing this idea.   I still have all the ram and cpus i pulled from those guys and a lot of expansion cards too.  Just need more boards and some nice leds

Wait, wait... on board?! Heh. Also, brilliant idea.

[ERM64bit]

Just a few of the things I keep in my office:

 

A Nokia C250 bag phone with the optional car adapter. Up until a few years ago, this guy still worked until Verizon stopped broadcasting analog frequencies.

Spoiler

 

A Intel Pentium4 with it's badass 1.8GHz single core and 512K L2 cache. You can look into more about it here.

Spoiler

Several PATA drives (and a few newer SATA) that I have to hold on to for audit reasons, that range from a whopping 2GB-42GB of storage, and their original jumper positions.

Spoiler

And I have even more stuff in inventory, including quite a few 256MB & 128MB graphics cards, some older modem and NIC cards, and a lot of DDR-266 RAM. I'll have to upload them later on if you guys want me to.

[wnd]

On 10/23/2017 at 12:18 AM, MEC-777 said:

Picked up these two beaut's today for $5 each. Compaq LTE 5000 and a 5100, circa 1989 and 1990, I believe mid-90's. One or both supposedly work. Haven't tried yet...  

 

These are great laptops, having a 5100 myself with a 90MHz pentium, 24MB RAM and a 4GB CF card as hard disk. It is especially good for DOS gaming, because the integrated ESS sound chip is known to be extremely compatible with Sound Blaster Pro, and it contains even a very decent clone of Yamaha OPL3 or "Adlib". The color display, while quite small, is active TFT so it quite useable for games while being rather small though (12" and sometimes quite large black borders top of that.) These laptops don't support CD-ROM booting so if you have a working Windows 95-98 on the hard drive it it would make sense to take good care of it (not break the installation) because it can be troublesome to reinstall if they don't come with a bootable floppy drive that can be swapped to the same slot where the cd-rom drive is.

[Dabombinable]

47 minutes ago, wnd said:

These are great laptops, having a 5100 myself with a 90MHz pentium, 24MB RAM and a 4GB CF card as hard disk. It is especially good for DOS gaming, because the integrated ESS sound chip is known to be extremely compatible with Sound Blaster Pro, and it contains even a very decent clone of Yamaha OPL3 or "Adlib". The color display, while quite small, is active TFT so it quite useable for games while being rather small though (12" and sometimes quite large black borders top of that.) These laptops don't support CD-ROM booting so if you have a working Windows 95-98 on the hard drive it it would make sense to take good care of it (not break the installation) because it can be troublesome to reinstall if they don't come with a bootable floppy drive that can be swapped to the same slot where the cd-rom drive is.

You can always install Windows 95/98 onto the CF card on another desktop-remember, it doesn't care if you move it from one machine to another unlike any OS based on Windows NT (excluding 10).

[8uhbbhu8]

20 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

You can always install Windows 95/98 onto the CF card on another desktop-remember, it doesn't care if you move it from one machine to another unlike any OS based on Windows NT (excluding 10).

Huh I didn't know that! Maybe that's the solution for me getting a bigger drive into my Armada 4131T

[Dabombinable]

19 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Huh I didn't know that! Maybe that's the solution for me getting a bigger drive into my Armada 4131T

Lets just say that once I found the best VIA, Intel and ALi drivers for Windows 98SE, I've had a certain 3.2GB HDD that's being shifted around when I want to try a different hardware config.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I don't have any pictures, but I've got an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 1x256Mb + 1x512Mb DDR2 memory(more of that stuff on the way from a friend), an MS-7207(if I recall correctly) mainboard, some Antec 500W PSU, a first-gen SATA drive, and 2 IDE drives.

[8uhbbhu8]

34 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Lets just say that once I found the best VIA, Intel and ALi drivers for Windows 98SE, I've had a certain 3.2GB HDD that's being shifted around when I want to try a different hardware config.

Nice. I only have one system that runs W95 and 2 maybe 3 soon( not sure if I want my k7 system on SE, 2000, or XP) that run 98SE. 

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Nice. I only have one system that runs W95 and 2 maybe 3 soon( not sure if I want my k7 system on SE, 2000, or XP) that run 98SE. 

With your K7 system, just leave it with 98SE. Games will run better than under XP and you have proper DOS compatibility as well.

Edit: BTW, if you ever get a chance get an ISA Yamaha sound card (with the OPL2 or OPL3)-the driver support for DOS under 98SE is brilliant.

[8uhbbhu8]

3 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

With your K7 system, just leave it with 98SE. Games will run better than under XP and you have proper DOS compatibility as well.

Edit: BTW, if you ever get a chance get an ISA Yamaha sound card (with the OPL2 or OPL3)-the driver support for DOS under 98SE is brilliant.

hmmm Kinda makes sense to do SE as i current;y have a 16MB gpu in it so if I went to XP i'd want to upgrade that to a 32 or 64 MB card. Don't have any systems yet with ISA ports sadly. Hopefully in a few months I can find a good Pentium system once I have more cash to spend. Currently my favourite PCI card is the Sound Blaster Live with the EMU10k1 chip. Sadly I only have 2 right now, Didn't know Yamaha made sound cards. I will definitely we keeping an eye out for them. How much do you think one is worth?

[flibberdipper]

9 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

hmmm Kinda makes sense to do SE as i current;y have a 16MB gpu in it so if I went to XP i'd want to upgrade that to a 32 or 64 MB card. Don't have any systems yet with ISA ports sadly. Hopefully in a few months I can find a good Pentium system once I have more cash to spend. Currently my favourite PCI card is the Sound Blaster Live with the EMU10k1 chip. Sadly I only have 2 right now, Didn't know Yamaha made sound cards. I will definitely we keeping an eye out for them. How much do you think one is worth?

The good ol SoundBlaster 16 uses an OPL3 sound chip (AFAIK basically a slightly better OPL2 design), and both PCI and ISA versions of those go really cheap on eBay. Not really sure on anything else, but I have a SB16 ISA and my only complaint is that there's a fair bit of noise, but I remedied that oddly by running its line-out into my SB128 and using the output from that.