TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

Right, I had Sports Car GT for years, longer than Ford Racing 2 but you really can't compare them to each other. SCGT is more like old-school simulator, designed for older video cards & Voodoo2, while the Ford Racing was aiming high with HD-like textures, models & effects. Which is hardly a surprise, considering Ford Racing is newer than Sports Car GT...

 

[AsRock]

Yeah but SCGT has even today great play-ability. Kinda like NFSU you had a sense of control. But yeah it's old as the hills but it was awesome with a steering wheel.

 

[Rich Costello]

After catching this forum thread from a link from another tech site, started to get nostalgic for the good old days of comp
building. I took out some of what I had left over from those days and some older stuff recently purchased from you know
where to re-constitute and old comp build:

FIC PA-2013 2mb cache Motherboard (re-purchased a year ago )
Asus P5A Motherboard (not shown but re-purchased about 6-7 years ago) got nostalgic once before lol
AMD Processors:
K6-2 450
K6-3+ 450
K6-2 500
k6-2+ 550
HDD whatever I have laying around
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 digital
2-256 mg mushkin silverline PC 133
Voodoo 5-5500 agp videocard
ATI 3D rage Pro video card
ATI ( can't remember nomenclature of card, old though )
some SATA to PATA adapters for HDD and DVD player


I call attention to the center foreground of the pics. I had picked up a generic socket 7/370/A heatsink that would have sufficed
for cooling purposes, but wanted to find my all time favorite HSF at that time, the Alpha PAL6035. Could not find one, or really, any Alphas at all:

Behold, for your viewing pleasure... a brand spanking new Alpha PAL6035 Heatsink direct from Alpha Novatech, Ltd. $ 33.00 including shipping 5 days ago...
Sorry for the crappy pics...had to take a pics of the screen at lower res...2mb pretty small for a pic, have higher res pics...

 

[stinger608]

First, welcome Rich to TechPowerUp man!!! Glad to see ya and posting bro!!!

You have some sweet ole Nostalgic hardware there man!

 

[Rich Costello]

Thanks, also have an old build that I put together a few years ago around an AMD XP 2700+ and ASRock K7S41GX to run some old video games I used to like to play...
will post pics when I get a chance...the games were:

SW: Rogue Squadron
SW: Racer
SW:StarFighter
SW: Battle For Naboo
Forsaken
Incoming
Quake III: Arena
Recoil
Tachyon: the Fringe
Crimson Skies

Just threw in a different videocard, had an ATI x850 Pro in there but things didn't render quite right, probably too new a card, replaced with
a Gigabyte 9600 XT video card, renders great now...

 

[IceScreamer]

Gonna take pictures tomorrow but I got some old-ish PC hardware. People here where I live had old computers they wanted to throw out so they gave them to me, so I'm kinda hoarding at this point (to think I had no computer a couple of years ago). I don't know the whole list but I do know I got a Pentium MMX, Pentium III slot processor, AMD Duron, an AMD K5, a Soltek 478 board (that never had a LAN port), tested it not a while ago. Also have an Athlon 4200+ system on which I just recently installed Linux Mint.
Gonna look at everything tomorrow.

 

[Rich Costello]

...Some more pics of other stuff I ratholed...I obviously have nothing to do tonite...lol

 

[Rich Costello]

first pics resized:

 

[Trekkie4]

After catching this forum thread from a link from another tech site, started to get nostalgic for the good old days of comp
building. I took out some of what I had left over from those days and some older stuff recently purchased from you know
where to re-constitute and old comp build:

FIC PA-2013 2mb cache Motherboard (re-purchased a year ago )
Asus P5A Motherboard (not shown but re-purchased about 6-7 years ago) got nostalgic once before lol
AMD Processors:
K6-2 450
K6-3+ 450
K6-2 500
k6-2+ 550
HDD whatever I have laying around
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 digital
2-256 mg mushkin silverline PC 133
Voodoo 5-5500 agp videocard
ATI 3D rage Pro video card
ATI ( can't remember nomenclature of card, old though )
some SATA to PATA adapters for HDD and DVD player


I call attention to the center foreground of the pics. I had picked up a generic socket 7/370/A heatsink that would have sufficed
for cooling purposes, but wanted to find my all time favorite HSF at that time, the Alpha PAL6035. Could not find one, or really, any Alphas at all:

Behold, for your viewing pleasure... a brand spanking new Alpha PAL6035 Heatsink direct from Alpha Novatech, Ltd. $ 33.00 including shipping 5 days ago...
Sorry for the crappy pics...had to take a pics of the screen at lower res...2mb pretty small for a pic, have higher res pics...

Now here's something I would absolutely love to have!! Socket 7(and/or 8) ATX board! I got several S7 and one S8 with the Pro chip, but they're either AT boards or non-standard design, by Digital corporation. Nice collection you got there, especially the Voodoo5 card, that one is a real gem!

 

[IceScreamer]

So as promised, here goes.

AMD K5, Pentium MMX, slot Pentium III, Celeron 2,8 Ghz S478, AMD Duron 1000, the same Duron with a DFI AK75 EC motherboard, Nvidia FX5200, Ati 9200, Ati 9600, unknown card, nothing on the back label, Trident Daytona 64T, Pentium IV, with 768 MB RAM on a Soltek SL-85DR3-C, MSI MicroStar P54C TR5 Socket 7 motherboard with some expansion cards (modem and sound card), includin RAM sticks (don't know the exact capacity).
And lastly the Athlon 4200+ system in what is possibly the dumbest case layout I have ever seen, at least PSU position wise. The card inside is a Radeon HD2600 Pro with fixed up ghetto cooling (of which I'm very proud of), 3GB DDR2 RAM and a fan for the Northbridge (or is that Southbridge).

 

[GreiverBlade]

2 new in the thread? a real HAPPY NEW YEAR indeed ...

welcome by the way

 

[Rich Costello]

So as promised, here goes.

AMD K5, Pentium MMX, slot Pentium III, Celeron 2,8 Ghz S478, AMD Duron 1000, the same Duron with a DFI AK75 EC motherboard, Nvidia FX5200, Ati 9200, Ati 9600, unknown card, nothing on the back label, Trident Daytona 64T, Pentium IV, with 768 MB RAM on a Soltek SL-85DR3-C, MSI MicroStar P54C TR5 Socket 7 motherboard with some expansion cards (modem and sound card), includin RAM sticks (don't know the exact capacity).
And lastly the Athlon 4200+ system in what is possibly the dumbest case layout I have ever seen, at least PSU position wise. The card inside is a Radeon HD2600 Pro with fixed up ghetto cooling (of which I'm very proud of), 3GB DDR2 RAM and a fan for the Northbridge (or is that Southbridge).

Very nice fan work on that videocard...
My first Athlon product was the Duron 600...slapped it in and ran it right up to 1000 on air

 

[Bungz]

Hey guys

My first machine was a celeron 466 but my first experiments were with Athlons and Duron socket A stuff before blowing student loans on A64 gear and the rest is history!

I flogged all my old stuff back in the day but have recently started acquiring older parts and built a few *period* gaming rigs.

Alot of the stuff is more or less free or given away which makes it more fun.

Get a kick out of recapping stuff that would otherwise be dead and gone forever
Will check in with an itinerary and some pics, glad I have found some folk of similar mind

 

[dorsetknob]

Bungz
Welcome to TPU hope your going to enjoy your Stay

 

[Trekkie4]

Awesome! One more individual to join the retro fun nostalgia Welcome to TPU @Bungz

I actually have Celeron 466 among my retro machines, will see if I can dig a pic or two. Despite the initial assumption(s) on my behalf, it turned out to be quite an interesting retro system!

 

[Bungz]

Some more obsolete tat came in the post today so thought I would share before I dig any systems out.

I have been after a nice 9800 pro for some time, they are quite rare in unmolested or modded form ( I presume due to running silly hot and having naff reference coolers) but have come across a 9800XT that was in reasonable condition so that will scratch the itch for now prob paid a little more than scrap money for it but hey ho.

Needed a clean up!

I like to add a little machine oil to the bearing as they tend to be dry after such a time.

Precision engineering on these heat sinks! Predate our modern heatpiped wonders just a little.

Bonus shot of a X1950Xt 256mb. Sadly its not been used much if at all, nothing to clean

No doubt more to follow.

 

[Derek12]

I think I still have an AMD K6-2 bought in 1999 out here but I can't find it (maybe it was thrown away)

EDIT:

That computer specs (first computer ever here, prebuilt, for all family, I still was a kid lol) I can remember

CPU: AMD K6-2 450 MHz I think
GPU: Nvidia Riva TNT 2, later a Voodoo2, and later back to the Nvidia, after the Voodoo broke off. Can't remember well if an ATI was used at some time.
RAM: At first 64 MB, later upgraded to (128MB? 256MB?) can't remember
HDD: 8GB, never upgraded
CD Drive. Replaced with another one after the original one exploded lol
Motherboard: Never got the brand, maybe was a DFI? Never upgraded
Monitor, CRT LG Studioworks
OS: Windows 98, later Windows ME, later Windows 2000, and back to Windows 98. Windows XP was incompatible


Everything but the CPU was thrown away due to not having space at home to pile up "junk", so can't get pics other than Googling as said I can't find the CPU, maybe it was lost somewhere, or thrown away, who knows!
The computer was never opened nor cleaned, so it burnt off after the fan was clogged with dust , and it began to BSOD, then stopped working.

Currently the oldest computer/hardware at home is a 2007 Samsung laptop still in working condition

 

[micropage7]

...Some more pics of other stuff I ratholed...I obviously have nothing to do tonite...lol

great you keep it fully

 

[Boatvan]

Not the typical hardware posted here, but this was a Domain Controller from my last job. Luckily it was decommissioned in 2013.

 

[qynqy]

Monster laptop

 

[Rich Costello]

Photos of the two gaming PC s I built a few years ago and my main desktop, which will be nostalgic itself as soon as AMD's Zen products hit the market...

 

[Rich Costello]

some more...not sure why that last pic was stretched out so much...

 

[Trekkie4]

I was curious, so for the 1st time ever, I decided to try my luck with 3dfx (Glide) emulators, nGlide in particular... Still have to actually run the game & see the performance, but according to their website, it's supposed to be working perfectly in 99.9% situations.

What I'd really like to know is what's your opinion regarding these things, are they worth the effort, can they utilize & run on older hardware (GeForce4 for example), and probably most importantly, can you run them in parallel with the real 3dfx cards & drivers without conflict?

 

[stinger608]

Seems like, back in the day, @Trekkie4 , OpenGL was leaps and bounds better than Glide. Could have just been the games that I was into though.

 

[AsRock]

Seems like, back in the day, @Trekkie4 , OpenGL was leaps and bounds better than Glide. Could have just been the games that I was into though.

But it was dam nice to have the options.