Show off your old and retro computer parts

[ProjectBox153]

6 hours ago, Macboi said:

I've been trying to get a desktop with a c2d for cheap to build a rig for my friend who currently plays ovw on intel hd 4000 (ouch).  And tips for finding one??

Used is best. I have gotten a lot of mine for free even from complete strangers at garage sales.

[LordMMX]

[floatingtrem]

21 hours ago, DOSjockey said:

Got enough 845E Max boards? (Says the guy who has bought 2 IC7-G's in the past week.)

[8uhbbhu8]

3 hours ago, floatingtrem said:

Got enough 845E Max boards?

.... No

[8uhbbhu8]

8 hours ago, LordMMX said:

Ooo I like those cases

 

*Gasp!!!!* Gigabyte P4 Titan spottested!!!! 

 

Been looking for one for a decent price for a over a year lol *don't mind my drool*

[DOSjockey]

5 hours ago, floatingtrem said:

Got enough 845E Max boards? (Says the guy who has bought 2 IC7-G's in the past week.)

Hehe.  Those I didn't buy individually.  I found a fellow that bought out an old computer repair center thinking he would turn it over for a quick profit...  Don't know how much he paid (thogh given his reactions, I suspect it was far too much in a storage bidding war), but I was able to convince him I was his only salvation, and scored all 5 pallets.  It was a gamble, as they were already re-packed and wrapped, but I promised I'd take them anyway.

 

4 hours and a box truck rental (it was raining) and I got to see what he'd hidden in there:  About twenty reams of dot matrix printer paper at the bottom of the stacks, along with another twenty or so boxes of internal records.  Whoever ran that shop was obsessive about bookkeeping.  LOL

 

Ended up with a ton of those boards.  I might end up using those for the Doom builds, actually; though I was kind of dreaming of going 486.  With these, though, they could be Quake machines as well without spoiling the Doom factor, and I can use ATX cases.  There is actually another row of boards behind the one you can see.  They were purchased as replacements, and never used.

 

I've got other stuff in the totes you can see, so far as motherboards are concerned; just not all in nice, easily organized boxes.

 

I'll get some more shots of the funny stuff I end up with in lots like that.  I had about 50 "Mouse Brand" mice, actually.  That was a riot.  LMAO  Buying like that when I see a big lot allows me to sell the stuff I don't need to pay for the stuff I actually wanted to get. 

 

Bright side:  In their attempts to bury wasted money at the bottom of piles, they always forget something cool that offsets the rip-off.  This dingbat left a fully functional Sansui A/V receiver from their halcyon days in there.  Yup.  That one hit the shops.  LOL

[LordMMX]

3 hours ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Ooo I like those cases

 

*Gasp!!!!* Gigabyte P4 Titan spottested!!!! 

 

Been looking for one for a decent price for a over a year lol *don't mind my drool*

I don't mind selling it. it's just sitting here. I just think shipping will be sooo expensive.

[DOSjockey]

Here's my 3200+ machine when I was swapping the heat sink out.  Don't have a shot with the new one, but it looks nice in there.

 

Tried to keep it vintage inside, and resisted the urge to go all out.  Obviously it's not modded to perfection, but I think it's clean for the era.  I did tidy up the cables a bit down below, of course.

 

Couldn't help including one of those round IDE cables.  LOL

 

That's an original WD Raptor down there.  When I say original, I mean I was standing in line at the launch event, just by chance.  The thing still works just fine.

 

[Dabombinable]

4 minutes ago, DOSjockey said:

Here's my 3200+ machine when I was swapping the heat sink out.  Don't have a shot with the new one, but it looks nice in there.

 

Tried to keep it vintage inside, and resisted the urge to go all out.  Obviously it's not modded to perfection, but I think it's clean for the era.

 

Couldn't help including one of those round IDE cables.  LOL

Still finding it weird that AMD didn't go back to using an IHS for the Athlon and Duron, like they did with the K6 series. Would have saved them the stress of worrying about the die on their CPU getting crushed.

[DOSjockey]

1 hour ago, Dabombinable said:

Still finding it weird that AMD didn't go back to using an IHS for the Athlon and Duron, like they did with the K6 series. Would have saved them the stress of worrying about the die on their CPU getting crushed.

You know, I've never actually damaged one of those dies.  Always counted myself lucky, in that regard.

 

I swapped the fan out on that one because I had a Thermalwright with a Tornado fan on there to manage the overclock, and it was absolutely as loud as a small vacuum cleaner.

 

Wouldn't run Crysis (no Shader 2.0 available on AGP; or at least I couldn't find one at the time), but it'll run Oblivion just fine.

[Dabombinable]

7 minutes ago, DOSjockey said:

You know, I've never actually damaged one of those dies.  Always counted myself lucky, in that regard.

 

I swapped the fan out on that one because I had a Thermalwright with a Tornado fan on there to manage the overclock, and it was absolutely as loud as a small vacuum cleaner.

 

Wouldn't run Crysis (no Shader 2.0 available on AGP; or at least I couldn't find one at the time), but it'll run Oblivion just fine.

I can't even run Oblivion on my P4 based LGA775 machine - its (free) PCX 5750 chokes on even minimum settings.

[flibberdipper]

3 hours ago, DOSjockey said:

That's an original WD Raptor down there. 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Still finding it weird that AMD didn't go back to using an IHS for the Athlon and Duron, like they did with the K6 series.

My Athlon has an IHS, although it's a 3800+

[DOSjockey]

1 hour ago, Dabombinable said:

I can't even run Oblivion on my P4 based LGA775 machine - its (free) PCX 5750 chokes on even minimum settings.

I don't have a YouTube account, so I can't really post up any gameplay videos.  Maybe Floatplane will allow me to do something like that at some point.

 

Too scared of Google, so I'm excited about the new platforms cropping up.  That's a conversation for another forum, of course, but I think it would be interesting to see someone actually running games on hardware that people tend to discount as producing unplayable results, when it's quite often not the case.

 

Not sure what that CPU will do as-is, without the over-clock; but I did run Oblivion for some time on the Thunderbird CPU I originally bought for the machine.  It's all I could afford, and I enjoyed it just fine.  You know, I might fire it up tonight and see if the game runs fine.

 

Here's the REALLY cool thing:

 

That motherboard is an ABIT NF-7 2.0.  Obviously pretty hot for the era, and at that time my favorite manufacturer.  I bought that at a MarketPro computer show in the King of Prussia, PA convention center from a very nice long-haired vendor.  I bought my first ATX motherboard from the same man.  This was when you picked on off the table and they built a system right there to prove they weren't selling dead hardware.  LOL Around 2008, or so, I went to another in Maryland, and while it was a ghost of what it used to be, that man was still there...  And I bought a spare NF-7 from him.  LMAO  Wish I could remember his name.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if someone here remembers buying from him, as well.

 

My word those shows used to be absolute bedlam.  Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into Chinese New Year and Mardis Gras.  Scantily clad women, pickpockets, stolen hardware for sale, people pulling RAM out of cardboard boxes to match sets, laser shows, VR booths (Cybermaxx was the cat's ass back then), alcohol, and ABSOLUTELY standing room only.  The parking lots were particularly "interesting".  Hehe...

 

Lots of fun.   

[DOSjockey]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

 

 

How's this to add to the "DOSjockey sucks" factor:  I got it for free.  LMAO  

 

It even came with a fancy display case (kind of like a tiny, glass-top humidor) and some development literature.  I wish I still had the extras, but there's just no finding replacement stuff like that.  At least I still have the drive.  I love those things.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, DOSjockey said:

 

How's this to add to the "DOSjockey sucks" factor:  I got it for free.  LMAO  

 

It even came with a fancy display case (kind of like a tiny, glass-top humidor) and some development literature.  I wish I still had the extras, but there's just no finding replacement stuff like that.  At least I still have the drive.  I love those things.

[floatingtrem]

8 hours ago, DOSjockey said:

You know, I've never actually damaged one of those dies.  Always counted myself lucky, in that regard.

 

I swapped the fan out on that one because I had a Thermalwright with a Tornado fan on there to manage the overclock, and it was absolutely as loud as a small vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, those things were actually durable AF.

 

I found they've still got some Thermalright XP-90s on Amazon. Perfect temporary 478 cooler until I go water!

[adman29]

Look at this thing I found in the back

[ProjectBox153]

46 minutes ago, adman29 said:

Look at this thing I found in the back

I want all of those Dell OptiPlex machines! Ahh, I love them!

[Subacid]

Ageia PhysX Baby!!....I'm a sucker lol

[KenjiUmino]

On 20.12.2013 at 4:16 AM, DarkEnergy said:

Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.

that is a pentium 1 with MMX instructions - look at the underside of the CPU

 

 

that first number: FV80503166 tells you it's a 166 MHz CPU. 

 

i believe the MMX pentiums came in 166, 200, 233 and 266 MHz so the number should end with 166, 200, 233 or 266 accordingly

[floatingtrem]

33 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

i believe the MMX pentiums came in 166, 200, 233 and 266 MHz so the number should end with 166, 200, 233 or 266 accordingly

There was defs a 133. The first cpu I ever bought! Kicked my 120 non MMX's ass.

[ProjectBox153]

I'm looking to dig out some of my older stuff tomorrow, so hopefully there will be some pictures!

1 hour ago, KenjiUmino said:

that is a pentium 1 with MMX instructions - look at the underside of the CPU

 

that first number: FV80503166 tells you it's a 166 MHz CPU. 

 

i believe the MMX pentiums came in 166, 200, 233 and 266 MHz so the number should end with 166, 200, 233 or 266 accordingly

Just thought I'd mention that the question you answered was from 2013.

[DarkEnergy]

1 hour ago, KenjiUmino said:

that is a pentium 1 with MMX instructions - look at the underside of the CPU

i believe the MMX pentiums came in 166, 200, 233 and 266 MHz so the number should end with 166, 200, 233 or 266 accordingly

Yeah, just looked at it. It ends in 166. Also edited my original post, added some new stuff. 

[Ωhmbreon]

Picture 1: 270 Intel processors from 2005-2006 I bought for a project, Mostly core 2 duos, but there were two quad core Xeons (E5440 and E5430). 

Picture 2: An i486 DX my sister found. A Pentium 3 from a friend, a Pentium 4 from a broken computer at the school, and the two Xeons mentioned earlier.

Picture 3: An EVGA GTX750Ti I got for free off of a friend after his disastrous build of 2014. It was completely taken apart, I'm ordering new fans. I don't know if it even works, but I'm trying to restore it.

Picture 4/5: An ATi Rage 128 from a friend's old computer. I don't know much about it.

Picture 6: A 512 MB stick of DDR RAM pron the Pentium 4 computer.

Picture 7: 128MB RAM from the ATi Rage 128 computer.

Picture 7: Two Pentium 2s, One on top from the ATi 128 computer, and one from a computer given to be by a friend.