TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[biffzinker]

 

[agent_x007]

Thanks guys.
Until I get a new board, here are some RAM pics (all DDR ECC Reg.) :
https://i.imgur.com/L5U5QmE.jpg
First two rows are new old (I was preping board for them when it failed "smoke test"),
3-rd row is RAM I was using until now, and bottom is cheap 1GB/DIMM for testing stuff.
CF 1GB card is for my other project

 

[Cutting-Edge Retro]

Hey everyone, Thanks for the heads up on this thread btw @stinger608 .

So I've been collecting / building retro system for a while now and never bothered to share much outside of my personal Facebook. I recently posted a couple of my more rare GPUs on the Rare & Unreleased GPU thread and It was suggested I share my collection here. This is the bulk of my ever growing PC hardware collection, some GPUs listed here I've recently purchased and are yet to arrive.

I can't upload photos of every item as the forums won't let me post more than 10 images, So I've picked a "highlight" of builds/parts I have already taken photos of. I do high res photos of every GPU I get in, but haven't done many of anything else yet except finished retro systems. I will try to chuck up some more collection photos once I have some time.

Hope you guys enjoy.

CPUs:
AMD AM486DX-4 100
2x Intel Pentium 3 1Ghz coppermine
Intel Pentium 3 1.2Ghz tualatin
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ thoroughbred
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ thoroughbred
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ barton
Intel Pantium 4 2.8Ghz HT northwood
Intel Pantium 4 3.4Ghz HT northwood
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
AMD Opteron 180
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
Intel Core 2 Q6600
Intel i3 2120
Intel i5 2400
Intel i5 2500K
Intel i7 3770K
AMD Phenom X4 9850 BE
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE

Motherboards:
Gigabyte AGP Socket 370 (forgot model number)
Asus A7N266-VM Socket A
EPoX EP-8RDA3G Socket A
Shuttle AN35N Ultra Socket A
Soltek SL-86SPE-L Socket 478 (purple, see photo below)
Albatron PX865PE Pro Socket 478
DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert Socket 939
DFI Lanparty UT P35-T2R Socket 775
ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32X Socket AM2
ASRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen3 Socket 1155
Asus Z68 Maximus Gene-Z Gen3 Socket 1155
Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H Socket 1155






GPUs:
PCI Cards:
2x Magic 3D II Voodoo 2 12mb SLI
Reference Radeon 9250 128mb
Alphaserver Radeon 7500 64mb (in transit)
Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 (GF2 GTS) (in transit)
Hercules Stringray 128 6mb (in transit)

AGP Cards:
Matrox Millenium G450 (in transit)
Reference Riva TNT2 32mb (in transit)
Gainward Geforce 2 Ti 32mb
Reference Geforce 3 Ti500 64mb
Reference Geforce 4 MX440 4x 64mb
Asus Geforce 4 MX440 8x 64mb
Triplex Millennium Silver Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb
Asus Geforce 4 Deluxe Ti4600 128mb
Albatron Geforce FX 5800 Ultra 128mb (in transit)
EVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra Extreme 256mb
Powercolor Radeon 9500 Pro 128mb ("I" vram config)
Reference ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Reference ATI Radeon 9800 XT 128mb (in transit)
Reference ATI Radeon X700 Pro 128mb (in transit)

PCI-E Cards:
Albatron Geforce 6800 GT 256mb
2x Leadtek Geforce 6800 Ultra 512mb
Reference Geforce 7800 GTX 256mb
Asus Extreme N7800GT Duel
XFX Geforce 7950 GT 512mb (in transit)
2x Reference Geforce 7950 GX2
XFX Geforce 8800 GTS 640mb
EVGA Geforce GTX 460 1Gb EE
EVGA Geforce GTX 580 1.5Gb
EVGA Geforce GTX 760 2Gb SC EE
Reference Geforce GTX 770 4Gb
MSI Geforce GTX 970 Gaming 4G w/EK block (In my main system)
Sapphire Radeon X800 XT AIW 128mb
Reference Radeon X850 XT PE 256mb
Reference Radeon X1950 XTX Crossfire Edition 512mb
Reference Radeon HD 2900 XT 512mb (in transit)
Asus Radeon HD 3870 512mb
XFX Radeon HD 5770 1Gb XXX

(Not upto date collection photo)






Complete Retro Gaming Systems:
Project Prophet:
AMD XP 3200+ @2.4Ghz
Shuttle AN35N Ultra
2Gb OCZ Platnium Elite DDR400
320Gb WD Black IDE 7200RPM
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro w/ Arctic Silencer
Creative SB Live 5.1
Intel Gigabit Lan PCI Card
Thermaltake View 27 Case
Thermaltake Volcano Extreme 12 cpu cooler w/green led fan
Seasonic 450watt PSU
Windows XP
(Photo taken when I had the 6800 ultra in it)





Project Nalu: (this is my most used retro system)
Pentium 4 Northwood @3.6Ghz
Albatron PX865PE Pro
OCZ Platnium Elite DDR400 4Gb (3.5gb in XP)
Nvidia 6800 Ultra Extreme 256mb
1Tb Samsung Spin Point F3
Creative Audigy 2 ZS (headphones)
Audiophile 24/96 Midi card (2.1 monitors)
Intel Gigabit Lan PCI Card
Thermaltake View 27 Case (previous case in photos below)
Lian Li PC-7FW Black Case (current case)
EK Supremacy Signature Edition CPU Block
Swiftech Nvidia 6800/7800 GPU/Vram blocks.
XSPC Ion Pump
XSPC 360mm Rad
Corsair VS650 PSU
Mayhem Aurora II Pearl Blue coolant
Windows XP






Work-In-Progress Builds:
Windows 98 Machine: P3 1Ghz / GF3 Ti500
Vista 64 Machine: Intel X6800 / DFI Lanparty P35-T2R / GF 7950 GX2
ATI Ruby Red Machine: Phenom X4 9850 BE / ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32X / ATI X1950 XTX + X800 XT AIW

 

[Ahhzz]

Well, after following some advice, I realized that I was taking the romanticism out of this project by putting pieces from other generations like Abit's glorious NF7, so I made a lot of modifications.

Replace the following:

Motherboard: Before Abit NF7, Now Intel D815E (beautiful by where they look at it)

- Processor: Before AMD Athlon XP 2.2+, Now Intel Pentium 3 @ 800Mhz

- Video Card: Before nVidia GF5200 Custom Cooler ThermalTake, Now Diamon Viper V550 16MB

- Sound Card: Before SoundBlaster SB0090 Audigy, Now SoundBlaster Live CT4830 (this change hurt me, but for the SB0090 natively there are no drivers for Win98, only emulation and it is not the same)

- LAN: Before TP Link WN851n (WIFI), Now D-Link DFE-538TX

- HDD: Before Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM, Now Western Digital WD WD400 7200RPM 40GB

- CPU Cooler: Before Thermaltake Volcan0 12, Now Thermaltake Silent Boost

- Memories: Before Kingston DDR 1GB (the Supertalent Died), Now 512MB Kingston 1 256, 2 x 128

It keeps:

- Cooler Master Centurion 5 Cabinet

- STB Blackmagic Voodoo II (x2)

- TOP POWER 350W

- LG Optical Drive

I did love my V550... upstairs right now

 

[Apocalypsee]

Aaaaand back to more familiar stuff
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Been after one of these for a while, friend at uni had a 6800GT. Always loved the huge heavy cooler.

Only a boggo 6800 but still pleased with it, bought it from a local listing from a rough as hell area thought I was handing cash over for scrap!

Damn, when I see this card all I can remember is I want one to play Doom3

 

[stinger608]

That is an amazing collection @Modzy !!!!

 

[GreiverBlade]

1989 ... i have it since i was 8yrs old .... (had the soft on Atari ST 1st)

 

[Bungz]

Few more bits came in today.

And yes the abit fan needs oiling!

 

[StrayKAT]

That was really a good time for computers (diversity wise). All risc workstations were great in one way or another. UNIX, PowerMac, or NT.

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Few more bits came in today.

And yes the abit fan needs oiling!
View attachment 92116 View attachment 92117

Gotta love Abit! I sill have my IC7-MAX3, best board I've ever had!

 

[Bungz]

Hey guys

I have several early 90's IDE hard drives that I would like to test before I sell them, what is the best way to do this as it is all a bit before my time.

They show in bios and appear to be ok but I wanted to test them a bit further.

 

[PHaS3]

Hey guys

I have several early 90's IDE hard drives that I would like to test before I sell them, what is the best way to do this as it is all a bit before my time.

They show in bios and appear to be ok but I wanted to test them a bit further.

SeaTools should work, might need an older version...

 

[dorsetknob]

Scan them with Anti Virus ( you never know better safe than sorry + other plenatudes ) Test with Crystal disk

 

[Bungz]

Thats my usual go to but didn't know if these things had smart being so old.

Id like to see what a virus from 1991 would make of windows 10

 

[dorsetknob]

Its a patched reworked and repatched corperate cock up you never know what legacy bits and crap pieces may be effected

I have a docking Station with IDE interface and crystal disk reads ( the) disk's both over native IDE from motherboard and via Docking station via USB

 

[AsRock]

Thats my usual go to but didn't know if these things had smart being so old.

Id like to see what a virus from 1991 would make of windows 10

I am pretty sure a virus like the whale virus would be detected pretty fast, and yes that is a actual virus and what it did was to mess with the boot sector and the command.com file would look like it had grown end result was system would not boot.

 

[agent_x007]

Dinosaurs rule (on left Raptors 36GB, 74GB, 150GB [RaptorX], on right VelociRaptors 300GB/600GB/1TB)

Legendary company should always be presented in pairs

Gigabyte Intel board without "R" in name, but with "R" type south bridge (delivered today) :

Of course board came with heatsinks (and it works fine on F10 BIOS)

PS. Out of curiosity, I checked specs for MOSFETs on this board...

And if I see/read things right, they went NUTZ with Low side on this board : 104A @ 25C and 75A @ 85C... EACH - there are 12 of them in total (2 per phase).
Sure, each MOSFET produces 65W of heat at that load - but still
Here's spec sheet I base this on : LINK.
Oh, and High side is made out of FETs... recommended for Low side : LINK - because, why not
Wish board had screw mounting system for VRM heatsinks, instead of plastic push-pins.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

World's first answering machine.

Long before modern telecommunications, countries communicated via telegraph by sending coded messages along cables from one operator to another.

In order to pick up these signals a telegraph siphon recorder was required.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphon_recorder

Made by Muirhead & Co, of Westminster, London, this model from 1880 is 13in high and 13in wide

It ran and recorded without an operator having to sit and watch it, making it the world's first answer machine.


http://www.flintsauctions.com/catalogue/telegraph-siphon-recorder-muirhead-co-ltd-westminster/

 

[AsRock]

Porn at it's best .

Largest and most expensive HDD, the Ausy guy from EEVBlog did a run down on it in fact a picture of that video with some info on the drive on it here
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...argest-and-most-expensive-hard-drive-teardown

For the actual EEVblog video the link below.

 

[stinger608]

And of course @agent_x007 , your sending me all of the hard drives..................................Right?

Always wanted one or two of them ole 36 gig windowed Raptors, but they were insane priced back in the day and pretty damn rare now. Awesome ole collection of hard drives man!!!!!

 

[agent_x007]

Always wanted one or two of them ole 36 gig windowed Raptors, but they were insane priced back in the day and pretty damn rare now. Awesome ole collection of hard drives man!!!!!

Actually RaptorX (the windowed one) are 150GB each
36GB ones are in bottom left corner.

 

[Liquid Cool]

agent_x007,

Absolutely LOVE those windowed drives!

Recently had a kind soul gift me a WD Velociraptor 300GB hard drive, I'm using it as my main drive(see System Specs) and it's working beautifully.

Since I count myself among the "old school" crowd, somehow, I feel there is something missing when I don't hear a hard drive chattering away. Some might be happy about this, but I personally missed the noise. I used to run two 74GB Raptors in Raid 0 before switching to one Raptor for the OS and the second for the swap file and storage. I liked that set up better than Raid 0. I missed my Raptor drives, but this 300GB Velociraptor is definitely scratching the itch!

Thanks for posting those pictures...much appreciated.....,

Liquid Cool

 

[agent_x007]

Not sure if this counts as nostalgic hardware...

Edit (3DMark 03) :

Quake III Arena Demo001 test
1024x768 @ 32bit

 

[biffzinker]

Not sure if this counts as nostalgic hardware...

Careful with calling a 980X old hardware. I'm sure @Tomgang would likely be offended since he has a lot to say about staying put on the 980X.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Careful with calling a 980X old hardware. I'm sure @Tomgang would likely be offended since he has a lot to say about staying put on the 980X.

meh .... i was pretty nostalgic when i ran my i7-920 rig, about 2 or 3 yrs ago, just before i upgraded to a i5-2400 (errr more a downgrade, but i got it for free in a "dump-run") and then a Xeon E3-1275v2 .... (Asus Rampage III Extreme and 12gb 1866 1600, my bad, for the 920) Q4-08 is old enough for me .... and as we said/wrote many times here : you can be nostalgic about yesterday