Show off your old and retro computer parts

[JoeCoke]

My lucky day... All scored for 5$! Countless c64 floppy games and programs, carts, controllers, etc. All the cables, the disk and cassette drives have their boxes too. AHHH!!!! Imma happy.

 

Also included in the deal was this broken macintosh classic. Looks cool on a shelf at least!

Trump ain't got shit on my deals!

[Ace McPlane]

I'm actually not sure what card this is.

 

I meant to look for a model number on it yesterday when I took the picture, but I got side tracked and forgot.

 

Either way, I replaced the thermal paste on it and boy were GPU coolers stupid back then. I can't imagine this thing did much. The heatsink was the lowest quality I've ever seen. It almost felt like plastic.

[JoeCoke]

2 hours ago, stateofpsychosis said:

I'm actually not sure what card this is.

 

I meant to look for a model number on it yesterday when I took the picture, but I got side tracked and forgot.

 

Either way, I replaced the thermal paste on it and boy were GPU coolers stupid back then. I can't imagine this thing did much. The heatsink was the lowest quality I've ever seen. It almost felt like plastic.

If you plan on using that for anything or you just wanna pretty it up, you could get a heatsink from ebay for like 3$ that'll make it a lot better. They'll take a while to get to you because you'll most likely be buying from china, but still. I bought one for my 9600XT and I love it. The card looks prettier and runs cooler.

 

 

[Ace McPlane]

28 minutes ago, 2Buck said:

If you plan on using that for anything or you just wanna pretty it up, you could get a heatsink from ebay for like 3$ that'll make it a lot better. They'll take a while to get to you because you'll most likely be buying from china, but still. I bought one for my 9600XT and I love it. The card looks prettier and runs cooler.

 

 

Nice, but nah

it's going in a work computer.

I'm replacing my dad's computer with a VR compatible one and he wants the old one to go to the office.

It's CPU didn't have onboard graphics though and I'm pulling the GTX 970 out of it for the new computer, so I pulled this out of an old dell that was going to the scrapyard anyways.

[aezakmi]

my very first own gaming rig (long post)

 

Spoiler

 

MSI K7N2 Delta-L mobo, northbridge had a fan, died after 3 years, no replacement found, this was a "high end" board back then (2004)

 

Athlon XP 2600+ "Thoroughbred" core

 

compared to an fx chip

 

found these in a box, 3x DDR-400 512MB sticks and GeForce MX440 64MB, I thought of upgrading the gpu but it was 2010 already and the AGP platform was pretty dead

 

 

analog tv tuner and ye olde 56k PCI modem, upgraded to broadband later

 

 

40GB drive, enough for several games, now a single game is twice the size of this, ancient floppy drive

 

 

my modded thermaltake litepower 400 had blue leds 12 years before the rgb madness

 

 

everything still works but unfortunately I had to sell the case that was original to this build and now everything's stored in boxes

[Defunct Lizard]

On 12/19/2013 at 2:25 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

I am not sure those are considered "retro" (no offense I really don't like negitive statements online because they seem so harsh) but when I think of retro I think back to the 90s or 80s back when AMD reigned supreme.

[ProjectBox153]

28 minutes ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I am not sure those are considered "retro" (no offense I really don't like negitive statements online because they seem so harsh) but when I think of retro I think back to the 90s or 80s back when AMD reigned supreme.

I wouldn't consider them retro either (I use older computers on a daily basis), but that post was from 2013. 

[Dabombinable]

9 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I wouldn't consider them retro either (I use older computers on a daily basis), but that post was from 2013. 

Shame my 286 committed suicide via shitty barrel battery.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Dabombinable said:

Shame my 286 committed suicide via shitty barrel battery.

 My 286 doesn't boot anymore. Can't figure out why though.

[Dabombinable]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

 My 286 doesn't boot anymore. Can't figure out why though.

Probably the PSU-my 386 had a blown fuse in it, while the PSU from my K6-2 had a blown fuse, multiple failed caps and a dead fan (it smelled worse than the caps).

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Probably the PSU-my 386 had a blown fuse in it, while the PSU from my K6-2 had a blown fuse, multiple failed caps and a dead fan (it smelled worse than the caps).

Nah, the PSU is fine. It turns on and outputs a solid white screen. 

[Dabombinable]

4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Nah, the PSU is fine. It turns on and outputs a solid white screen. 

does the VGA card work in anything else?

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

does the VGA card work in anything else?

It's integrated. It's an IBM PS/1 Model 2011

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I am not sure those are considered "retro" (no offense I really don't like negitive statements online because they seem so harsh) but when I think of retro I think back to the 90s or 80s back when AMD reigned supreme.

Hence why the word "old" is in the title as well.

[Ωhmbreon]

Not sure if it could be called as old, but I've already put the somewhat-together 750Ti on here. That's an Asus Mars 760 I got off of ebay for around $170. Always wanted a dual-gpu card and now I have one.

[Aremis]

This thread makes me kek really really hard.

 

This is my amiga 2000.  The silver dell underneath actually acts as a hard drive of sorts connecting over a null modem connection from serial to parallel.  Neat tech.

[ProjectBox153]

13 minutes ago, Aremis said:

This thread makes me kek really really hard.

 

This is my amiga 2000.  The silver dell underneath actually acts as a hard drive of sorts connecting over a null modem connection from serial to parallel.  Neat tech.

 

Is that a GX520/620 I see down there as well? 

[Aremis]

13 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Is that a GX520/620 I see down there as well? 

That is a GTX770 waiting to be reflowed and flashed my guy

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Aremis said:

That is a GTX770 waiting to be reflowed and flashed my guy

No, the Dell OptiPlex next to the Precision?

[Aremis]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

No, the Dell OptiPlex next to the Precision?

Ohhhh yeah thats a bit of a science project.  All the capacitors are blown on the board but it still works.  Bios utility even lets me OC a little bit and the thing doesn't bitch at all.

 

What constitutes as old?  I don't really know since I use all of my "old machines" almost every day.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Aremis said:

Ohhhh yeah thats a bit of a science project.  All the capacitors are blown on the board but it still works.  Bios utility even lets me OC a little bit and the thing doesn't bitch at all.

 

What constitutes as old?  I don't really know since I use all of my "old machines" almost every day.

All caps are blown but it still works??? Damn, that's impressive. 

[Aremis]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

All caps are blown but it still works??? Damn, that's impressive. 

Its from the last of the optiplexes that weren't shit.  The precision's were always good, but the optiplexes were garbage after 2004.

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, Aremis said:

Its from the last of the optiplexes that weren't shit.  The precision's were always good, but the optiplexes were garbage after 2004.

My OptiPlex army (2x 330, 2x 780, 1x 755) have always worked perfectly. I’ve not had much experience with the Precision line. 

[Aremis]

4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

My OptiPlex army (2x 330, 2x 780, 1x 755) have always worked perfectly. I’ve not had much experience with the Precision line. 

Meh.  Dell's aren't that interesting past 1998.  And even then they're just kinda meh.  The BTX machines are cool, but only if you're gunna hack them and make them OC on air and all sorts of crazy stuff like that.  But, nah, they're either to well built or they die in a week.  I don't like dells very much so I hardly pick them up just because they aren't trustworthy.  Now you got some IBM?  Apple?  Lenovo?  HP?  Doing something really cool?  Aight I'm game.

 

And by HP I mean like NW8000 age

[ProjectBox153]

13 minutes ago, Aremis said:

Meh.  Dell's aren't that interesting past 1998.  And even then they're just kinda meh.  The BTX machines are cool, but only if you're gunna hack them and make them OC on air and all sorts of crazy stuff like that.  But, nah, they're either to well built or they die in a week.  I don't like dells very much so I hardly pick them up just because they aren't trustworthy.  Now you got some IBM?  Apple?  Lenovo?  HP?  Doing something really cool?  Aight I'm game.

 

And by HP I mean like NW8000 age

HP? I don’t like HP very much. I’ve got an IBM PS/1 Model 211. I’ve got too many Apple computers to name, I’ve got an old ThinkPad that doesn’t work right. Dell is my favourite (look at my title).