TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Compgeke · Sep 30, 2015

Got the serial terminal working with a little adapter chaining. Hooked to a Latitude D630 but close enough.

Trekkie4 · Oct 2, 2015

Certainly /is/ nostalgic hardware...

Been working on an old Akai tape deck... This thing was a total mess, what was supposed to be a quick touch-up, fix here & there ended up being a total overhaul. New belts, pinch roller, rebuilt clutch assemblies with new cloth material (both of them, for play & rewind), chemically restored tire (gear-like wheel with the thick rubber on the play/rec shaft assembly), etc. Still have to replace the light bulb for one of the VU meters & allow the new, somewhat too thick belt to stretch in order to minimize the stress & friction on the electric motor. It's been showing signs of too much stress, randomly slowing down & having problems with even the basic operations.

Also got this beautiful set of Sansui amp & tuner, along with Sony CD player! Awesome stuff, I believe this used to be one of the Sansui's best models from that era

This thing will be a perfect match for one of my other tape decks, Kenwood KX-W4080 (pic from the net)

Last but not least, another vintage VCR for my nostalgic hardware collection

Case design by Telefunken, but this VCR is actually based on a famous 5-motor config. JVC chassis, known for the quality & durability!

MaxiPro800 · Oct 2, 2015

What's going on around here?

I've been working on 2 more rigs:

Rig 1:

ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe
2GB DDR400 RAM
Pentium 4 HT 3.00GHz
ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
300W FSP300-60GTP
JNC 4JA-8673 case
80GB WDC WD800JD-60LSA5 - attached to Promise Fasttrak PDC20378 RAID controller onboard
stock Intel HSF
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
2x Sony CDRW/DVDROM drives +TSSTCorp CDRW/DVDROM drive

Rig 2:
ECS P6VXAT
256MB PC133 SDRAM
Celeron 1100 OC'd to 1.4GHz - Tualeron more exactly
S3 Trio 3D/2X onboard AGP 8MB
ANS LC-B350ATX PSU
60GB Maxtor D540X
Windows XP SP2

Misaki · Oct 5, 2015

Misaki · Oct 7, 2015

My first PC. Never dead, never obsolete!
In January, this computer will be a 10 years old. Oryginal windows installation from January 2006!

uuuaaaaaa · Oct 7, 2015

Misaki said:
My first PC. Never dead, never obsolete!
In January, this computer will be a 10 years old. Oryginal windows installation from January 2006!

Please list the full specs of the system! I'm curious x)

Misaki · Oct 7, 2015

uuuaaaaaa said:
Please list the full specs of the system! I'm curious x)

Oryginal specs were:
-Athlon 64 3000+ (754)
-Kingston 512MB DDR
-Radeon X800 XL
-160GB, 40GB, 20GB
-Some old Creative audio card

After a years of using and upgrading:
-Athlon 64 3000+
-1,5GB DDR
-Galaxy 8600GT (X800 died year ago)
-160GB, 250GB, 40GB, 20GB
-Some old Creative audio card

uuuaaaaaa · Oct 7, 2015

Misaki said:
Oryginal specs were:
-Athlon 64 3000+ (754)
-Kingston 512MB DDR
-Radeon X800 XL
-160GB, 40GB, 20GB
-Some old Creative audio card

After a years of using and upgrading:
-Athlon 64 3000+
-1,5GB DDR
-Galaxy 8600GT (X800 died year ago)
-160GB, 250GB, 40GB, 20GB
-Some old Creative audio card

I have an old school X850XT PE and that was the best card I have ever owned, and that X800XL was it the 512MB version? Pretty cool specs for its time!

Misaki · Oct 7, 2015

uuuaaaaaa said:
I have an old school X850XT PE and that was the best card I have ever owned, and that X800XL was it the 512MB version? Pretty cool specs for its time!

Yeah, it was a beast! 256MB only, but still kicked some serious ass. I never played games much, but at the time, my brother was playing Quake III and IV like crazy on this PC

uuuaaaaaa · Oct 7, 2015

Misaki said:
Yeah, it was a beast! 256MB only, but still kicked some serious ass. I never played games much, but at the time, my brother was playing Quake III and IV like crazy on this PC

I am a die hard quake III fan, still play it online x) Beautiful card!

cheers!

STIG_ZA · Oct 8, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Certainly /is/ nostalgic hardware...

Been working on an old Akai tape deck... This thing was a total mess, what was supposed to be a quick touch-up, fix here & there ended up being a total overhaul. New belts, pinch roller, rebuilt clutch assemblies with new cloth material (both of them, for play & rewind), chemically restored tire (gear-like wheel with the thick rubber on the play/rec shaft assembly), etc. Still have to replace the light bulb for one of the VU meters & allow the new, somewhat too thick belt to stretch in order to minimize the stress & friction on the electric motor. It's been showing signs of too much stress, randomly slowing down & having problems with even the basic operations.

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Also got this beautiful set of Sansui amp & tuner, along with Sony CD player! Awesome stuff, I believe this used to be one of the Sansui's best models from that era

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This thing will be a perfect match for one of my other tape decks, Kenwood KX-W4080 (pic from the net)

Last but not least, another vintage VCR for my nostalgic hardware collection Case design by Telefunken, but this VCR is actually based on a famous 5-motor config. JVC chassis, known for the quality & durability!

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Nice! Got an older kenwood setup myself. Kenwood ka-70 amp, kt413 tuner, kx-400 cassette deck and pioneer pl-512 turntable........just cant beat retro

Trekkie4 · Oct 10, 2015

STIG_ZA said:
Nice! Got an older kenwood setup myself. Kenwood ka-70 amp, kt413 tuner, kx-400 cassette deck and pioneer pl-512 turntable........just cant beat retro

You said it! Still didn't get to set it all up, I'm missing the speakers & HiFi cabinet or some kind of a desk but otherwise it's ready to go

I'll be uploading more pics as soon as I have it up & running!

JunkBear · Oct 11, 2015

Get cheap bookshelves boxes with broken speakers and just go to scrapyard to get cheap speakers of front doors on more expensive cars. They have more watts and stronger magnets.

MaxiPro800 · Oct 21, 2015

Sup' TPU.

Here be my Rat-Rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz - Socket 754
EpoX EP-8KDA7I - nForce 3 chipset
80GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 IDE
4x DVD drives - 2x DVD-ROM, 2x DVD-RW
JNC (Deer) 8673-4JA case (see pic)
Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
stock AMD cooler
Delux ATX-450W P4 PSU

JunkBear · Oct 21, 2015

MaxiPro800 said:
Sup' TPU.

Here be my Rat-Rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz - Socket 754
EpoX EP-8KDA7I - nForce 3 chipset
80GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 IDE
4x DVD drives - 2x DVD-ROM, 2x DVD-RW
JNC (Deer) 8673-4JA case (see pic)
Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
stock AMD cooler
Delux ATX-450W P4 PSU

View attachment 68708

Do you have the cpu with 512m cache or 1gig ?

MaxiPro800 · Oct 21, 2015

And...it's finally done.

Installed Windows 7 Enterprise x64 on it. Works pretty well.

Here's a desktop shot. Good god,the Radeon HD3450 drivers were a bitch to install but I finally found the 10.7 AGP hotfix drivers - they were made for the 4650,but it supports the 3450 as well.

Also,I've changed the PC's name to.....*drum sound* TronForce 3. Why? Because of the wallpaper and the fact that the chipset is nForce 3 250

Would have recolored the lines in green but I thought it's better as it is now.

JunkBear said:
Do you have the cpu with 512m cache or 1gig ?

I have 1GB of RAM,if that's what you wanted to say.

Devon68 · Oct 21, 2015

Here's a desktop shot. Good god,the Radeon HD3450 drivers were a bitch to install but I finally found the 10.7 AGP hotfix drivers - they were made for the 4650,but it supports the 3450 as well.

I got mine to work with Catalyst 12.3 but on win 7 32 bit.

Trekkie4 · Oct 21, 2015

MaxiPro800 said:
Sup' TPU.

Here be my Rat-Rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz - Socket 754
EpoX EP-8KDA7I - nForce 3 chipset
80GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 IDE
4x DVD drives - 2x DVD-ROM, 2x DVD-RW
JNC (Deer) 8673-4JA case (see pic)
Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
stock AMD cooler
Delux ATX-450W P4 PSU

View attachment 68708

Now here's something you don't get to see every day ... 4x ODDs on one system :laugh:

Mr.Scott · Oct 21, 2015

Rip a few disks do we? lol

dorsetknob · Oct 21, 2015

JunkBear said:
Do you have the cpu with 512m cache or 1gig ?

No @JunkBear they did not have either 512m or 1 gig Cache i suspect you meant 512 Kb Cache or 1 meg (1024kb ) cache

MaxiPro800 · Oct 22, 2015

Devon68 said:
I got mine to work with Catalyst 12.3 but on win 7 32 bit.

Yeah,mine were a pain to install due to OS being 64 bit.

Misaki · Oct 23, 2015

Gyus, be careful playing with windows 7. I have installed it on my old pc, everything worked fine. I ran Osu!, played for a moment. Suddenly freezee appeared and noise in a headphones. After restarting PC I had problems with booting operating system, after boot audio card was undetected, or detected but playback is impossible.
Creative SoundBlaster 128 PCI (1998 - 2015) [*]

stinger608 · Oct 23, 2015

Misaki said:
Creative SoundBlaster 128 PCI (1998 - 2015)

That is most likely the issue. A lot of the old soundblasters had issues in Vista and Win 7.

Misaki · Oct 23, 2015

stinger608 said:
That is most likely the issue. A lot of the old soundblasters had issues in Vista and Win 7.

I will just buy an SB Live! or Audigy, no big deal, but still - I used this card on a Windows 7 for a 3 months and everything worked just fine. Well, time has come for her I guess.
(It's actually a translation from Polish, her because "sound card" means "karta dźwiękowa" in Polish, which has a female pronunciation). Sorry for spilling nonsense and bad language, it's 3AM

stinger608 · Oct 23, 2015

Well, if it worked good for 3 months it may be something else causing the issue.

System Name	TouchNDie
Processor	2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600
Motherboard	Asus P5N32E-SLI
Cooling	Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Memory	6 GB G.Skill DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	ATI Radeon HD 4850
Storage	500 GB Western Digital Blue
Display(s)	Dell SE198WFPv (Primary), Dell 1704FPT (Secondary)
Case	Black Antec P180
Audio Device(s)	Random VIA-based card.
Power Supply	nSpire 650w
Software	Windows 7 Home Premium x64

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
Processor	Intel Pentium II, 350MHz
Motherboard	Chaintech 6BTM, Slot 1
Cooling	SECC Cartridge
Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
Video Card(s)	ATI Rage IIc AGP, Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB
Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
Display(s)	LG StudioWorks 57M
Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster 128
Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Keyboard	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Software	Microsoft Windows 98

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 43 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	ASUS RoG Cerberus mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

System Name	No name / Purple Haze
Processor	Phenom II 1100T @ 3.8Ghz / Pentium 4 3.4 EE Gallatin @ 3.825Ghz
Motherboard	MSI 970 Gaming/ Abit IC7-MAX3
Cooling	CM Hyper 212X / Scythe Andy Samurai Master (CPU) - Modded Ati Silencer 5 rev. 2 (GPU)
Memory	8GB GEIL GB38GB2133C10ADC + 8GB G.Skill F3-14900CL9-4GBXL / 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000
Video Card(s)	Asus R9 Fury X Strix (4096 SP's/1050 Mhz)/ PowerColor X850XT PE @ (600/1230) AGP + (HD3850 AGP)
Storage	Samsung 250 GB / WD Caviar 160GB
Display(s)	Benq XL2411T
Audio Device(s)	motherboard / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro + Front panel
Power Supply	Tagan BZ 900W / Corsair HX620w
Mouse	Zowie AM
Keyboard	Qpad MK-50
Software	Windows 7 Pro 64Bit / Windows XP
Benchmark Scores	64CU Fury: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11269229 / X850XT PE http://www.3dmark.com/3dm05/5532432

System Name	No name / Purple Haze
Processor	Phenom II 1100T @ 3.8Ghz / Pentium 4 3.4 EE Gallatin @ 3.825Ghz
Motherboard	MSI 970 Gaming/ Abit IC7-MAX3
Cooling	CM Hyper 212X / Scythe Andy Samurai Master (CPU) - Modded Ati Silencer 5 rev. 2 (GPU)
Memory	8GB GEIL GB38GB2133C10ADC + 8GB G.Skill F3-14900CL9-4GBXL / 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000
Video Card(s)	Asus R9 Fury X Strix (4096 SP's/1050 Mhz)/ PowerColor X850XT PE @ (600/1230) AGP + (HD3850 AGP)
Storage	Samsung 250 GB / WD Caviar 160GB
Display(s)	Benq XL2411T
Audio Device(s)	motherboard / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro + Front panel
Power Supply	Tagan BZ 900W / Corsair HX620w
Mouse	Zowie AM
Keyboard	Qpad MK-50
Software	Windows 7 Pro 64Bit / Windows XP
Benchmark Scores	64CU Fury: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11269229 / X850XT PE http://www.3dmark.com/3dm05/5532432

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Compgeke

Trekkie4

MaxiPro800

Misaki

Misaki

uuuaaaaaa

Misaki

uuuaaaaaa

Misaki

uuuaaaaaa

STIG_ZA

Trekkie4

JunkBear

MaxiPro800

JunkBear

MaxiPro800

Devon68

Trekkie4

Mr.Scott

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

MaxiPro800

Misaki

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Misaki

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

System Name	HEXA
Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @4.4
Motherboard	Gigabyte X570 Master
Cooling	Corsair H115i XT + ML140 pro fans
Memory	2x 8Gb Corsair Vengance pro 3600mhz
Video Card(s)	Zotac GTX1080Ti amp! extreme core edition
Storage	500GB sabrent pcie 4.0, 500GB samsung 750 Evo, 500gb crucial mx500, 4tb seagate
Display(s)	Asus PG279Q
Case	Corsair 500D
Audio Device(s)	Fiio K5 pro
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x white
Mouse	Corsair m65 pro rgb
Keyboard	Corsair K70 Lux rgb(mx brown)
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64bit

System Name	HTPC
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.00/6M/1333
Motherboard	AsRock G31M-GS R2.0
Cooling	CoolerMaster Vortex 752 - Black
Memory	4 Go (2x2) Kingston ValueRam DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	Asus EN8600GT/HTDP/512M
Storage	WD 3200AAKS
Display(s)	32" Irico E320GV-FHD
Case	Aerocool Qx-2000
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax NoiseTaker 2 - 465w
Mouse	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (M510)
Keyboard	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (K350)
Software	Win_7_Pro-French
Benchmark Scores	Windows index : 6.5 / 6.5 / 5.6 / 6.3 / 5.9

System Name	Ryzen 2023
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7700
Motherboard	Asrock B650E Steel Legend Wifi
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	G Skill Flare X5 2x16gb cl32@6000 MHz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Radeon RX 6950 XT Nitro + gaming Oc
Storage	WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB 64MB 7k SATA600 Blue WD10EZEX, WD Black SN850X 1Tb nvme
Display(s)	LG 27GP850P-B
Case	Corsair 5000D airflow tempered glass
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime GX-850W
Mouse	A4Tech V7M bloody
Keyboard	Genius KB-G255
Software	Windows 10 64bit

System Name	Master
Processor	Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3
Motherboard	SR-2 Classified
Memory	12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX680
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro