Show off your old and retro computer parts

[xxx_cringe_xxx]

i have ddr memory and a core 2 balancing ontop of a monitor 

[InertiaSelling]

Power Mac G5!

 

[Guest]

I got a certain something in the mail recently.

Tomorrow its getting torn apart and sanded/repainted.

[BlitzThose]

you don't see a boxed one of these everyday

[Bananasplit_00]

On 2018-01-01 at 8:50 AM, Macboi said:

 

 

eyy i got that mobo, but with the AGP slot and missing the bottom PCI, plenty of CPUs for it and the original case, PSU and cooler aswell. have no use for it so its just laying appart while the case is used for fun stuff like the LAN PC 5.0

[Bananasplit_00]

9 minutes ago, BlitzThose said:

you don't see a boxed one of these everyday

 

 

even though my hatered for these burns deep, i have never seen one in a box. thats actiually much nicer than what they use now

also i have a delided LGA775 P4, havent tested but should be working perfectly. can confirm that they use solder unlike some PGA478 ones which seem to be a mix of paste and solder depending on year and model

[flibberdipper]

24 minutes ago, BlitzThose said:

you don't see a boxed one of these everyday

 

 

Oh baby it's a Northwood! Too bad it doesn't have HT.

[Guest]

I got an old Geforce GT 220 from an old server:/

[NoCarrier]

are you going to put an ATX motherboard in the chassis?  I always loved how the powermac G5s were put together, they should have really given you an optional side panel so you can see how wonderfully arranged the innards were

 

 

On 4/11/2018 at 5:55 PM, InertiaSelling said:

Power Mac G5!

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

are you going to put an ATX motherboard in the chassis?  I always loved how the powermac G5s were put together, they should have really given you an optional side panel so you can see how wonderfully arranged the innards were

I'd love a PowerMac G5 honestly. I've been looking around for a used one I can use as a workstation for OSX-exclusive software, but prices are pretty high practically everywhere.

 

If it wasn't for longevity I'd be looking for an iMac or MacBook Pro but a full desktop like the G5 is significantly easier to keep running in the long term since I can actually upgrade hardware.

[TheRandomness]

On 14/04/2018 at 10:44 AM, campy said:

I got a certain something in the mail recently.

Tomorrow its getting torn apart and sanded/repainted.

Dude holy shit. How much was it? And I'm not going to snip this, everyone needs to see it again.

[InertiaSelling]

8 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

are you going to put an ATX motherboard in the chassis?  I always loved how the powermac G5s were put together, they should have really given you an optional side panel so you can see how wonderfully arranged the innards were

Yes I'm probably going to put HP z400 parts in there, most likely a xeon w3565 and a quadro 4000, which I'll use to run a perfectly legit copy of an OS I'm 100% allowed to run on this kind of hardware and discuss on this forum

 

8 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If it wasn't for longevity I'd be looking for an iMac or MacBook Pro but a full desktop like the G5 is significantly easier to keep running in the long term since I can actually upgrade hardware.

Well, it is easier to keep running once you've modded it to house standard ATX-compliant components that run the x86 instruction set and use PCIe extension cards. Otherwise, you're limited to PowerPC, which was ditched in 2005 iirc. Just look at these daughterboard CPUs!

[Midz]

An old slot card Pentium procecor, oldest i could find.

the motherboard in the Pic has DDR ram 

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Midz said:

An old slot card Pentium procecor, oldest i could find.

the motherboard in the Pic has DDR ram 

 

 

Not DDR, SDR. Quite a difference between them.

[bigsmiley2014]

Spec list:

razer ornata

razer death adder Elite

steel series mouse pad

8gb of crucial ram

i3 2 Core 4 thread 4100t 

860m gtx gpu

500gb hdd

1080p westing House monitor go easy on me please

[Pasi123]

10 hours ago, bigsmiley2014 said:

Spec list:

razer ornata

razer death adder Elite

steel series mouse pad

8gb of crucial ram

i3 2 Core 4 thread 4100t 

860m gtx gpu

500gb hdd

1080p westing House monitor go easy on me please

IMO that's not retro at all

[flibberdipper]

3 hours ago, Pasi123 said:

IMO that's not retro at all

It's not even old, really.

[NoCarrier]

2 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

It's not even old, really.

for the love of cookies, it can run Windows 10!!

[NoCarrier]

Picked up a clean Atari 1040ST yesterday... mint in box and not even yellowed! 

 

I now own the three 16bit computers i really wanted as a kid... the 1040st, an Amiga 1000, and an Apple IIGS.  I just need to find one game that is available for all three platforms so I can compare.

[flibberdipper]

Finally gave in and cloned this ol' girl that was in my Presario 2286 to an 80GB Hitachi drive and added a 31.5ish GB FAT32 partition to replace the 40GB DiamondMax 8 I had all the games and such stored on. Somewhat hilariously I chose the Hitachi drive over a newer Barracuda 7200.7 of the same capacity because it has that spindle whine which I find oddly soothing.

 

Only downside of this "upgrade" is I can no longer hear the heads clunking about.

 

[Pasi123]

My first PC:

That picture is exactly 1 year old (20.4.2017)

 

Some more photos:

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Specs:

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Celeron 333MHz | Diamond Micronics C400 | 384mb RAM | Diamond Viper V550 | 6gb HDD + 8gb HDD | WinME & Xubuntu 9.04

 

 

HP Omnibook 530

Picture from 23.7.2017

 

Specs:

Spoiler

Intel 486SX 33MHz
12mb ram
Maxtor MobileMax 131MB hard drive
Windows 3.11

[NoCarrier]

 

Funny how it's turning selectively yellow.  Time to retrobrite those bits!

 

Does the omnibook still hold a charge?

 

2 hours ago, Pasi123 said:

My first PC:

That picture is exactly 1 year old (20.4.2017)

 

Some more photos:

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Specs:

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Celeron 333MHz | Diamond Micronics C400 | 384mb RAM | Diamond Viper V550 | 6gb HDD + 8gb HDD | WinME & Xubuntu 9.04

 

 

HP Omnibook 530

Picture from 23.7.2017

 

Specs:

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Intel 486SX 33MHz
12mb ram
Maxtor MobileMax 131MB hard drive
Windows 3.11

 

[Pasi123]

52 minutes ago, NoCarrier said:

 

Funny how it's turning selectively yellow.  Time to retrobrite those bits!

 

Does the omnibook still hold a charge?

 

 

No, it doesn't hold a charge. But it does work with the charger. Oh, and mouse buttons doesn't work on that mouse thing

 

And another old PC which is currently in a closet:

 

[cflanders]

On December 19, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Mo5 said:

I have some IBM PS/1 RAM laying around, but no time to post a picture

Same here. Remember when ram sticks were only 128 MB? I will have to post a pic when I get a chance to find it. 

 

On December 19, 2013 at 11:53 PM, HexaGuy said:

Have some 512MB RAM lying around somewhere...it's at my other house so I can't post a picture now.

That is not small. Just upgraded an old computer to 1 GB sticks to bump RAM to 4GB

 

On December 19, 2013 at 10:16 PM, DarkEnergy said:

I have an old copper-full motherboard. Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.An old Hard Drive I had found in a large metal server next to the trash.

 

Part 2 edit on 1/7/18 because this topic seems popular. 

I've got a couple other things not in the pictures, didn't want to drag them out of storage. 

 

 

 

 

 

On the hard drive, just recycled/shredded some 80 MB drives a few weeks ago. Couldn't save then because of the data on them, confidential things like ss numbers, had to shred them. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

On 12/19/2013 at 10:16 PM, DarkEnergy said:

I have an old copper-full motherboard. Can anyone tell me which Pentium processor this is? I have no idea.

It looks like a Socket 478 or 186(I forget the exact numbers of early Intel sockets), so it would probably be one of the really early if not original Pentiums.