A Tale of broken laptops, trades, and epic wins :D

[WhitetailAni]

Got some stuffs for y'all!
These were given to me by an LTT forum-goer. I know, I know, but I've been active on there for WAY longer than I've been active here.
4-device 5-port 10/100 Ethernet switch. Will replace the ASUS AC1200 I'm using currently for that purpose.

XP Pro x86 + product key.

Quantum Bigfoot TX 4GB.

GeForce 6800 Ultra OC. Repasted with MX-4, and yes, I connected the fan.

A sealed copy of Vista Home Basic.

Enermax 550W PSU. For my P3 machine.

The PSU has 9 molex connectors, 2 floppy power connectors, a 20-pin ATX connector, a 4-pin CPU connector, and half of an AT power connector ensemble.
Plus two fans (one on the back, one on the bottom/top) and a PSU monitoring thing to prevent it from overheating and exploding if the fans stopped working.

 

[Mussels]

oooooh an XP gaming system is appearing

 

[WhitetailAni]

oooooh an XP gaming system is appearing

Part of it, yeah.
I have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe + Prescott P4 3.4E in the basement (from same guy that gave me this stuff), and once I get a case, PSU, and cooler for it (I only have a spare Optiplex 3020 MT case that's Micro-ATX and the board is ATX) it shall be revived with XP.
Possibly on an SSD, since the board has 4 SATA ports.

I'm currently in the process of setting up my P3 machine with Windows 2000.
My optical drive isn't working (gives error D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.) so I'm going to have to struggle with transferring files over the network.
Thankfully I have a 10/100 Ethernet card. Intel Pro/100+.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Got some stuffs for y'all!
These were given to me by an LTT forum-goer. I know, I know, but I've been active on there for WAY longer than I've been active here.
4-device 5-port 10/100 Ethernet switch. Will replace the ASUS AC1200 I'm using currently for that purpose.
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XP Pro x86 + product key.
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Quantum Bigfoot TX 4GB.
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GeForce 6800 Ultra OC. Repasted with MX-4, and yes, I connected the fan.
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A sealed copy of Vista Home Basic.
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Enermax 550W PSU. For my P3 machine.
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The PSU has 9 molex connectors, 2 floppy power connectors, a 20-pin ATX connector, a 4-pin CPU connector, and half of an AT power connector ensemble.
Plus two fans (one on the back, one on the bottom/top) and a PSU monitoring thing to prevent it from overheating and exploding if the fans stopped working.

These would be right at home over in the following thread...

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

TPU Nostalgic Hardware Club The great thing about tech life is that you can embrace the future without completely leaving the past behind. First, I want to thank @QuietBob for this amazing post recently!!!!!! I spent the whole day yesterday on my WinXP machine and I've got some great...

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[Toothless]

@lexluthermiester as promised.

It does have a 5.25" bay fan and side panel fan. Runs around 50c on full load on the core and the 1070 is so nice with the overclock while keeping the 150w limit.

 

[lexluthermiester]

@lexluthermiester as promised.

It does have a 5.25" bay fan and side panel fan. Runs around 50c on full load on the core and the 1070 is so nice with the overclock while keeping the 150w limit.

Well nice this! Don't let anyone give you nonsense about the SuperFlower PSU, that brand is actually a solid budget brand and IIRC that PSU model is one of their best.

 

[Mussels]

Reviving thread, since i had another epic win
Was buying 16GB of DDR4 off a random facebook seller, but he was confused as to what speed it actually was (or if the 16GB label meant a 16GB kit, or two 16GB sticks)
In the end, he just said $70 to take everything he had, as he had stability issues with the PC.
In the end it was no thermal paste, and a flat CMOS battery. Oops.

Some of this is posted elsewhere on the forum, but this thread needed some love.

In the end, i got all this for $70 Au:

B150 motherboard. DDR4 2133 max, which turns out to be what the RAM is! (Runs at 2133 CL12... acceptable.)
He did not know this had a CPU installed under the stock intel heatsink, therefore he did not know what it even was.

The stock thermal dust paste was amazing!

At this point, I did something known in Australia as "cacked me dacks" otherwise known as shitting ones pantaloons.
I don't care its 6 generations old, you get a free i7? It's a good damn day!

Missing one set of PCI-E power cables, leaving it with a single split 6+2 combo cable (So, two 8 pins still possible)
Mystery oil residue seems to be external only, fortunately.

One corsair ML120 fan: Turns out the ARGB is dead, he connected it to a generic ARGB controller and fried it. Using it on the CPU cooler regardless, its quiet.

Mystery corsair case: He had it all in pieces, drive cages removed etc. I think it shocked him that i could grab a case i'd never seen before and just reassemble it in seconds.

The final build:
i7 6700 (Mild OC, 3.7GHz all core, 4.0 turbo)
16GB DDR4 2133 C12
GTX 970 4GB (noisy even at idle, i need to lube the fan bearings) I Got this free because of its retarded display outputs: One DVI, one micro HDMI, three mini displayport. Back before us aussies could amazon an adaptor, that made the damn thing near useless for anything but a basic DVI monitor.
Thermaltake 750W Gold PSU (Missing almost every cable, so i kept the fractal for myself)
500GB Samsung Evo SSD (This was found in a generic USB 2.0 HDD caddy a while back)


40C at full load in Linpack, back when 14nm wasn't abused to fit enough cores to fill an apple orchard

Bonus: the dumb display outputs on the 970:

 

[QuietBob]

Reviving thread, since i had another epic win
Was buying 16GB of DDR4 off a random facebook seller, but he was confused as to what speed it actually was (or if the 16GB label meant a 16GB kit, or two 16GB sticks)
In the end, he just said $70 to take everything he had, as he had stability issues with the PC.
In the end it was no thermal paste, and a flat CMOS battery. Oops.

Some of this is posted elsewhere on the forum, but this thread needed some love.

In the end, i got all this for $70 Au:

B150 motherboard. DDR4 2133 max, which turns out to be what the RAM is! (Runs at 2133 CL12... acceptable.)
He did not know this had a CPU installed under the stock intel heatsink, therefore he did not know what it even was.
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The stock thermal dust paste was amazing!
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At this point, I did something known in Australia as "cacked me dacks" otherwise known as shitting ones pantaloons.
I don't care its 6 generations old, you get a free i7? It's a good damn day!
View attachment 245251

Missing one set of PCI-E power cables, leaving it with a single split 6+2 combo cable (So, two 8 pins still possible)
Mystery oil residue seems to be external only, fortunately.
View attachment 245252

One corsair ML120 fan: Turns out the ARGB is dead, he connected it to a generic ARGB controller and fried it. Using it on the CPU cooler regardless, its quiet.
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Mystery corsair case: He had it all in pieces, drive cages removed etc. I think it shocked him that i could grab a case i'd never seen before and just reassemble it in seconds.
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The final build:
i7 6700 (Mild OC, 3.7GHz all core, 4.0 turbo)
16GB DDR4 2133 C12
GTX 970 4GB (noisy even at idle, i need to lube the fan bearings) I Got this free because of its retarded display outputs: One DVI, one micro HDMI, three mini displayport. Back before us aussies could amazon an adaptor, that made the damn thing near useless for anything but a basic DVI monitor.
Thermaltake 750W Gold PSU (Missing almost every cable, so i kept the fractal for myself)
500GB Samsung Evo SSD (This was found in a generic USB 2.0 HDD caddy a while back)


40C at full load in Linpack, back when 14nm wasn't abused to fit enough cores to fill an apple orchard
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Bonus: the dumb display outputs on the 970:
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Nice score! 4c/8t with 16GB RAM and an SSD is perfectly usable today, and even the GTX 970 is good for some gaming.

 

[Mussels]

Nice score! 4c/8t with 16GB RAM and an SSD is perfectly usable today, and even the GTX 970 is good for some gaming.

Yup. The GPU has a noisy fan, which i've failed at replacing.

The factory heatsink is *tiny* and all my existing spares hit the damn PCI-E connectors - could dremel chunks of fins away and force a fit, but that'd make me sad

I've tried slapping on 60mm and 92mm fans, but the GPU hits 80C (hotspot around 100C) and i'm not keen on that

Cant find any after-market GPU coolers around either, they've all vanished off the market :O

Tomorrow, i'll be reverting to the stock fan/shroud and leaving it be until it fails or a get my hands on more spare heatsinks

 

[lexluthermiester]

The GPU has a noisy fan

Have you opened the bearing and re-oiled it?

 

[Mussels]

Have you opened the bearing and re-oiled it?

Yeah, didnt help. Spinning it by hand it has a 'click' every spin where it tries to stop

Did find a stock fan for $15Au shipped, as long as it lives for the next month we're good enough

 

[_JP_]

There was a way to ghetto a duct between the fan and the heatsink so that the mass of airflow was constant (i.e. no dead spot under the hub) and then one would seal almost all the sides of the heatsink so as to create pressure inside the system. That would work better than just slapping a fan on top of the heatsink, but it would have to be a fan that moves a ton of air, instead of high static pressure.

Edit:
Something like this:

This example is with a Thermaltake Vulcano, but you get the gist:

Thing is, more pressure would be attained by sealing by half the air exit through the fins and getting a fan that would push even more air.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Not sure if that's for cooling a GPU or growing jazz cabbage.

 

[dorsetknob]

Nudging old thread
Times are hard and there is still appeal in dumpster diving
my latest aquirement is a fully working
Samsung net book.
Great little find
Hardware is
10" screen
320 gig HD
Atom N102 CPU (1.3 Ghz)
1 gig ram (immediately upgraded to max of 2 gig) and Geniune windows 7 Starter O/S
Power brick.
oh and about 100 Retail DVDs and 20 Retail Blue Ray Disks..

Took me 3 trips to collect goodies.
so Yeh a good Result for me

 

[neatfeatguy]

Nudging old thread
Times are hard and there is still appeal in dumpster diving
my latest aquirement is a fully working
Samsung net book.
Great little find
Hardware is
10" screen
320 gig HD
Atom N102 CPU (1.3 Ghz)
1 gig ram (immediately upgraded to max of 2 gig) and Geniune windows 7 Starter O/S
Power brick.
oh and about 100 Retail DVDs and 20 Retail Blue Ray Disks..

Took me 3 trips to collect goodies.
so Yeh a good Result for me

Who the hell just dumps dvds/bluray movies? I've got a couple places near me that will buy them, even if you get just $1 a disc that's $120. Sounds like you made out pretty well.

 

[64K]

Who the hell just dumps dvds/bluray movies? I've got a couple places near me that will buy them, even if you get just $1 a disc that's $120. Sounds like you made out pretty well.

Agreed. It's just dumb to throw DVDs away. I donate all of my unwanted DVDs to a Not For Profit Charity that I support. My last donation was about 100 DVDs that I hadn't watched in years and wouldn't ever watch again most likely. I still have more to cull from my collection.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Agreed. It's just dumb to throw DVDs away. I donate all of my unwanted DVDs to a Not For Profit Charity that I support. My last donation was about 100 DVDs that I hadn't watched in years and wouldn't ever watch again most likely. I still have more to cull from my collection.

I've got 6 big plastic storage bins (I actually need to get one more) full of DVD/Bluray movies/TV series down in the storage crawl space (not really a crawl space, it's a big area and the ceiling for it is 5ft high). I keep all mine. I don't buy any movies/shows/music off digital platforms because I don't trust them so I like to have physical copies. I like stopping by the stores near me every now and then and picking up some fairly inexpensive copies, then I add them to my plex server and put the discs into storage.

 

[Mussels]

Who the hell just dumps dvds/bluray movies? I've got a couple places near me that will buy them, even if you get just $1 a disc that's $120. Sounds like you made out pretty well.

people have to move house in a hurry sometimes, and run out of space

When i divorced, I had to dump stuff i'd later regret but had no choice at the time as everything had to fit in the one remaining car
(She took one, crashed it, then took the second one... wooo)

So yeah, take the wins you can. I haven't had any super lucky finds the last year or two, like i was given a stash of 15 laptops from a hoarder - but only one could be made to work and it was a core 2 duo so that wasn't so exciting

 

[lexluthermiester]

Geniune windows 7 Starter O/S

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