TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ruru]

That one is Abit AN7. Got it from a close friend. It's very dear to me. And it clocks decent too!

Noice, I would love to have one too

 

[Bungz]

Lot of boards out there, but mostly with a Via chipset, so no OC

Via boards can OC fine if you work around the locks, had some monster clocks with a Epox 8K3A with a JIUB tbred

Used to be quite common to get NF2 boards but now they usually go for a bit of cash.

NF7-s / AN7 are strong to reasonable money but Asus a7n8x tend to go quite cheap.

Abit boards are a lotto to what caps are on them too, some use Nichicon HM series and those are always bad so factor that in too.

 

[Ruru]

Via boards can OC fine if you work around the locks, had some monster clocks with a Epox 8K3A with a JIUB tbred

Used to be quite common to get NF2 boards but now they usually go for a bit of cash.

NF7-s / AN7 are strong to reasonable money but Asus a7n8x tend to go quite cheap.

Abit boards are a lotto to what caps are on them too, some use Nichicon HM series and those are always bad so factor that in too.

NForce/NForce2 has also the benefit of having a dual channel mem controller

 

[F-Zero]

I got myself a new, unopened still in wrapper Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 PRO Red Edition

 

[Robert B]

NEW HW FOUND!!!

1. MSI MS6191 VER:1 Slot A AMD 750 + AMD K7800MPR52B A
2. Gigabyte 6VX7-4X S370 + P3 800/133
3. Arctic Cooling Super Silent Pro CPU Cooler

The AGP slot on the MSI board has already been fixed. Plastic surgery completed!!!

 

[delshay]

GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM US2H...

Just bought one of these but it's version 1.1. ..It's looking like a dud motherboard because the northbridge/southbridge can't clock pass 2300Mhz, it should be doing 2700MHz+. Not sure if I should send it back.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Yesterday's loot

X05-29232 is the wise word.

 

[Fouquin]

Finally after so many years of watching their price tick up, up, and away... I got a desktop Gallatin.

Miracles do still happen. Just gotta be eagle eyed and find them hiding in eBay auctions.



Fairly innocuous looking listing. Nothing in particular stands out except the Willamettes, which I am personally a sucker for. But let's take a quick scan through the photos.




Woah woah, hold up. There's a thirty-capper in there. Northwood M0 probably? Couldn't be a Gallatin, surely... No way an Extreme Edition is sitting in a scrap lot next to a measly pile of Celerons and Willamettes.




Squint really hard. Well I'll be damned.


The happy conclusion: It works! Another Pentium 4 Extreme Edition saved from being "gold scrap".



Now to figure out why my P4P800-E stopped booting...

 

[Trekkie4]

Finally after so many years of watching their price tick up, up, and away... I got a desktop Gallatin.

Miracles do still happen. Just gotta be eagle eyed and find them hiding in eBay auctions.

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Fairly innocuous looking listing. Nothing in particular stands out except the Willamettes, which I am personally a sucker for. But let's take a quick scan through the photos.


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Woah woah, hold up. There's a thirty-capper in there. Northwood M0 probably? Couldn't be a Gallatin, surely... No way an Extreme Edition is sitting in a scrap lot next to a measly pile of Celerons and Willamettes.


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Squint really hard. Well I'll be damned.


The happy conclusion: It works! Another Pentium 4 Extreme Edition saved from being "gold scrap".

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Now to figure out why my P4P800-E stopped booting...

Perhaps the CPU does indeed work, but you missed the golden opportunity to recycle that CPU for gold (using your generic kitchen blender) & make a fortune out of it!

 

[Fouquin]

Perhaps the CPU does indeed work, but you missed the golden opportunity to recycle that CPU for gold (using your generic kitchen blender) & make a fortune out of it!

Darn you're right. I should get to work on recovering the 4 micrometers of gold plating off those tiny pins!

 

[Trekkie4]

Darn you're right. I should get to work on recovering the 4 micrometers of gold plating off those tiny pins!

Damn right! What you're waiting for?!

 

[Robert B]

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?

Nice catch Foquin! I got my Gallatin(s) this year. Still untested but I'm sure they work. I mean, CPUs NEVER DIE!!! or should I say the probability is quite low.

 

[Fouquin]

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?

I mean, CPUs NEVER DIE!!! or should I say the probability is quite low.

Never say that too loud around a 130nm Intel chip.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Was cleaning out some old stuff around the house today & behold, I was surprised to find an old early 2000s beige coloured box stuck in a dusty corner of a storage area. I must have forgotten I even had this box or how I acquired it well over a decade ago... this was from the days when my ex & I frequented charity shops selling old stuff & assorted electronic gear back in the day. I obviously bought it, put it down somewhere then got swept up in other matters of life at the time.

Opening it up revealed a pristine MSI KT4V based system (socket 462) with a SURPRISING over powered Cooler Master's first 1kw PSU on the market, way back from 2007 jammed into the PSU area of the box....
I have no idea whatsoever how on earth this came to be inside this old box or who installed it back then.


Yep, 6 x 12v rails!!

Apart from that shocking (pardon the pun) surprise, the case itself is most interesting in the sense that it is made of thick steel all round, unlike the thin stuff often seen today in system cases, the case itself has very limited option for fans, here is the front of it when the cover is closed.

Opening the cover reveals this with an out of place optical drive in black, no colour coordination here my friends!

Opening the side cover revealed this system...

I removed the somewhat lacklustre Nvidia MX440 8X 64Mb card & replaced it with this Asus ATI 9600SE 128Mb unit I had stored away for years already ... all AGP of course @ 8X speed.

Before attempting to boot it up I wanted to check the ID of the ram modules & clean out any sort of dust anywhere in the system before attempting to boot to bios & ensure they were seated properly. This is what they are, nearly a matched set of 3!

The optical drive... CD only!

I don't know what model Athlon XP is in it, presuming the sticker at the front is correct for the cpu ID.
IF all boots up well, I was thinking of resurrecting Windows 2000 Pro for it!
Oh what fun....

Ok, update on installing Win2K Pro. The ATI card was giving a bit of trouble when rebooting so lucky I had another AGP card handy. This time it's Winfast A280 LE, based on Nvidia's Geforce 4 Ti 4200-8x gpu. System seems to like it & at least it has 128bit/128Mb memory.


Anyway... on to the software side of things & the Win2K Pro disk (original MS disc) throws up this error msg...

Quick bit of trouble shooting without mucking around online, I replaced the optical drive with this model...

Same error msg turns up again...

 

[Robert B]

The Trunk O' Loot!

 

[lexluthermiester]

The Trunk O' Loot!

Nice swag Rob! Today's haul from the flea-market?

 

[Robert B]

Yeah baby! Pouring rain and low temps but I went there no matter what! Fully equipped!

 

[Trekkie4]

Was cleaning out some old stuff around the house today & behold, I was surprised to find an old early 2000s beige coloured box stuck in a dusty corner of a storage area. I must have forgotten I even had this box or how I acquired it well over a decade ago... this was from the days when my ex & I frequented charity shops selling old stuff & assorted electronic gear back in the day. I obviously bought it, put it down somewhere then got swept up in other matters of life at the time.

Opening it up revealed a pristine MSI KT4V based system (socket 462) with a SURPRISING over powered Cooler Master's first 1kw PSU on the market, way back from 2007 jammed into the PSU area of the box....
I have no idea whatsoever how on earth this came to be inside this old box or who installed it back then.
View attachment 221020

Yep, 6 x 12v rails!!

Apart from that shocking (pardon the pun) surprise, the case itself is most interesting in the sense that it is made of thick steel all round, unlike the thin stuff often seen today in system cases, the case itself has very limited option for fans, here is the front of it when the cover is closed.
View attachment 221021
Opening the cover reveals this with an out of place optical drive in black, no colour coordination here my friends!
View attachment 221022
Opening the side cover revealed this system...
View attachment 221023
I removed the somewhat lacklustre Nvidia MX440 8X 64Mb card & replaced it with this Asus ATI 9600SE 128Mb unit I had stored away for years already ... all AGP of course @ 8X speed.
View attachment 221024
Before attempting to boot it up I wanted to check the ID of the ram modules & clean out any sort of dust anywhere in the system before attempting to boot to bios & ensure they were seated properly. This is what they are, nearly a matched set of 3!
View attachment 221025
The optical drive... CD only!
View attachment 221026
I don't know what model Athlon XP is in it, presuming the sticker at the front is correct for the cpu ID.
IF all boots up well, I was thinking of resurrecting Windows 2000 Pro for it!
Oh what fun....

Ok, update on installing Win2K Pro. The ATI card was giving a bit of trouble when rebooting so lucky I had another AGP card handy. This time it's Winfast A280 LE, based on Nvidia's Geforce 4 Ti 4200-8x gpu. System seems to like it & at least it has 128bit/128Mb memory.
View attachment 221049

Anyway... on to the software side of things & the Win2K Pro disk (original MS disc) throws up this error msg...

Quick bit of trouble shooting without mucking around online, I replaced the optical drive with this model...
View attachment 221051
Same error msg turns up again...

Love the case, it reminds me (a lot, actually) of my Adison(s)!

The Trunk O' Loot!

Whenever there's a Slot 1 (or Slot A for that matter) involved, it's always a guaranteed success IMHO!

 

[seth1911]

Still which year its nostalgic ?

 

[Trekkie4]

Still which year its nostalgic ?

This is highly subjective question. To me personally, that would be 1996-1999, perhaps up to 2002-2003 at most. Come to think of it, even older than 1996, considering I started with 486, DX2.

But when I think of old(er) computers, I immediately visualize Pentium II and not DX2 ... despite the fact that I absolutely adore DX2 and got fond memories of playing all those well-known DOS games

 

[seth1911]

my HW is to young oldest is from the Year 2008

 

[Trekkie4]

my HW is to young oldest is from the Year 2008

Well then, in your particular case the answer is 2008 And likewise, some of the guys in this thread will have fond memories of 286 and 386 machines ... some of them maybe even older than that (Commodore, Atari gaming console, Amstrad CPC464 & similar)

Hence what I initially said, this is highly subjective question with no particular (or correct) answer IMHO.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Still which year its nostalgic ?

Generally, anything around 10 years old or more, but that's not a hard rule...

This is highly subjective question.

Also this.

my HW is to young oldest is from the Year 2008

That works. If it's nostalgic to you and you want to share it, feel free. Most(All?) of us who frequent this thread try hard to keep it a welcoming place. If you have something that is only 7 years old and you feel nostalgic about it, post it! It's all good! It's fun to see what other people have fond and good memories of!

 

[Bungz]

Latest find

 

[Trekkie4]

Oddly enough, this is the second time in less than a week to encounter someone talking & posting pics of their acrylic cases

As I already wrote on the other forum, I remember these when they were first introduced, back in 2004, 2005. I wanted to buy one and fill it up with neon lamps and LED fans ... that is, up until I saw the price tag!

In fact, I have a computer magazine from around that era (2005, I think?!) when they reviewed one of the models, and pointed out its advantages and disadvantages. At the time, people wanted everything to be transparent, so even after all these years, I still remember various mods to some of the internal components, such as taking your hard drive apart & replacing a standard, metal lid with acrylic one (which was a really, REALLY bad idea) and even some of the PSU vendors who replaced the old-fashioned metal cover with transparent counterpart, so that you can see caps & fans on the inside ... good times!