TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Retro Hardware is in the Czech Republic and he finds so much goodness there.

Wow that's a lot of reading the guy must do I was trying to work out his accent but you have told me it is Czech, but then again who reads magazines anymore?

 

[Audioave10]

Wow that's a lot of reading the guy must do I was trying to work out his accent but you have told me it is Czech, but then again who reads magazines anymore?

The last part of the video shows some rare hardware he also picked up. Magazines from the year 2000 are Nostalgic if you remember those times.

 

[Greenslade]

The last part of the video shows some rare hardware he also picked up. Magazines from the year 2000 are Nostalgic if you remember those times.

I get your point there,i have not seen the video yet.

 

[Mr.Scott]

does anybody know which memory modules are used for those Athlon 64 FX rankings on hwbot with CL 1.5?
BH-5 on steroids?

Lol. Most of those subs are mine.
They are BH-5.
Natively they are CAS2, but you can set it lower with software like A64 Tweaker.
Does it help?.....eh, maybe. Most will say no, but my 32m times are always faster so take it for what it's worth.

 

[framebuffer]

Lol. Most of those subs are mine.
They are BH-5.
Natively they are CAS2, but you can set it lower with software like A64 Tweaker.
Does it help?.....eh, maybe. Most will say no, but my 32m times are always faster so take it for what it's worth.

OK, well that's crazy!!
Yes I saw several of yours submissions, other than impressive they are a good help to compare results

Today I tested all my DDR modules, very tedious job tbh, forgot how many times I had to reset the CMOS
Long story short, I have some 512 and 1024 MB pairs capable of 200 2-2-2-5 and plenty capable of 2-3-2-6, some can go up to 220 at same timings, so good stuff for default/daily systems
Unfortunately, when it comes to go higher and do some decent benchmarks, I only have one pair of BH-5 that can do, better than nothing I guess...

I also have few pairs that should be Samsung TCCD, was hoping to see some nice numbers at CL 2.5 (250~290) but, no way...

 

[Greenslade]

I have just seen this
HP Z230 Workstation Desktop PC | Intel i3-4330 | 4GB RAM | 500GB HDD | Win10Pro *This PC has been fully refurbished and tested by our qualified technicians and is in excellent fully ”...£70 make an offer.I dare say a PSU want cost much less than buying that PC.
Quality-vetted sellers
Professionally inspected, cleaned and refurbished by the vetted seller.
1-year guarantee
Minimum 1-year guarantee included. Provided by the seller, UK only.All though i prefer a better PSU in there.

 

[Courier 6]

copper thermalright era
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Now that´s the stuff, nice!

 

[Greenslade]

To bright of a picture. Can't see much of anything bro.

I just wish i could transfer the motherboard to another case.
HP are a pain in the neck with there propriety stuff. I did send a message to the seller ,and asking if he has a PSU that would fit in the PC like the one it comes with.i did say i was interested in buying it.But i have orded the adapter so i can see if the my PC works .

 

[lexluthermiester]

Boots fine. 2x256mb 1333 ram sticks, AMD thunderbird 1333, AGP Geforce 4 MX 64mb
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That is a good board, especially if you want to do overclocking & IDE RAID. These days you can use CompactFlash+IDE Adapters in IDE RAID to great effect!

copper thermalright era
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Nice collection!

 

[Bones]

OK, well that's crazy!!
Yes I saw several of yours submissions, other than impressive they are a good help to compare results

Today I tested all my DDR modules, very tedious job tbh, forgot how many times I had to reset the CMOS
Long story short, I have some 512 and 1024 MB pairs capable of 200 2-2-2-5 and plenty capable of 2-3-2-6, some can go up to 220 at same timings, so good stuff for default/daily systems
Unfortunately, when it comes to go higher and do some decent benchmarks, I only have one pair of BH-5 that can do, better than nothing I guess...

I also have few pairs that should be Samsung TCCD, was hoping to see some nice numbers at CL 2.5 (250~290) but, no way...

Have a few of those myself running 1.5CL but the majority of mine are higher RAM speed runs like this one: Bones`s SuperPi - 1M score: 24sec 797ms with a Opteron 175

 

[Greenslade]

Some people are lucky to get stuff for free

 

[lexluthermiester]

Some people are lucky to get stuff for free

Wow did he get excited on boot-up of the 486...

 

[Greenslade]

Could i use Suglue to fix a PSU in this case rather than having to drill two holes out for this PC?I would use the nuts and washers for the other end. Its a pain in the neck that it does not take a normal sized PSU or does anyone know of a PSU that is the same size as the one in the HPZ230 MT i can,t see the exact PSU that origanal came with the case.There must be one that fits in the same.HP sucks.I don,t have a drill.Or would it be best to go for this?
Refurbished

Quality-vetted sellers
Professionally inspected, cleaned and refurbished by the vetted seller.

1-year guarantee
Minimum 1-year guarantee included. Provided by the seller, UK only.

“This PC has been fully refurbished and tested by our qualified technicians and is in excellent fully.Aster all i would peoberly gave to pay nearly as much as this PC for a new PSU.I will wait until i get the adapter so i can try a Dell PSU which i have going spare.To check that the origanal PSU did not take any of the other stuff with it. It is just a shame i can,t put the motherboard in another case, where i could put a normal sized PSU in there.

buy the one on ebay for £70 pounds make an offer?It has been tested and working fine so they say.

b

 

[_JP_]

Still irritates me that modern motherboards will throw a metric ton of aluminum for heat sinking and charge what they do for the boards, and won't do copper instead.

Who can forget MSI's wild rollercoaster rides on copper, or ASUS' massive heatsinks.
Then again, AIBs in the HD2xx0 and HD3xx0 era were also throwing some impressive exposed metal chunks on the cards, as they've showed-up on this thread and on the rare cards one.

 

[Mr.Scott]

OK, well that's crazy!!
Yes I saw several of yours submissions, other than impressive they are a good help to compare results

Today I tested all my DDR modules, very tedious job tbh, forgot how many times I had to reset the CMOS
Long story short, I have some 512 and 1024 MB pairs capable of 200 2-2-2-5 and plenty capable of 2-3-2-6, some can go up to 220 at same timings, so good stuff for default/daily systems
Unfortunately, when it comes to go higher and do some decent benchmarks, I only have one pair of BH-5 that can do, better than nothing I guess...

I also have few pairs that should be Samsung TCCD, was hoping to see some nice numbers at CL 2.5 (250~290) but, no way...

Voltage is important.
For BH-5, 3.6v is almost a must for high speed.
For TCCD, 3.0v.

 

[SpittinFax]

After missing my old one for years it's very cool to have an O.G. PS1 again, just picked one up today very cheap "for parts". It just had some minor issues with spindle and laser actuator gears but it was easy to get it reading disks again.

I couldn't save the partially-responsive Dual Shock 2 controller though. But I expected it would be knackered and I've got plans to mod my own controller anyway.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Got a base with motherboard and some other parts for 20 some bucks on eBay. In theory this should fix my elitebook. The item was supposedly is tested and working. Will see about that considering there is a stinkbug in between the chipset and heatsink.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Will see about that considering there is a stinkbug in between the chipset and heatsink.

As long as it's dead, it shouldn't be a problem! I'm guessing you've already cleaned it..

 

[GreiverBlade]

but then again who reads magazines anymore?

i do buy them sometime and read them ofc

After missing my old one for years it's very cool to have an O.G. PS1 again, just picked one up today very cheap "for parts". It just had some minor issues with spindle and laser actuator gears but it was easy to get it reading disks again.

I couldn't save the partially-responsive Dual Shock 2 controller though. But I expected it would be knackered and I've got plans to mod my own controller anyway.


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well... not really the same but then, i never owned a OG PS1 (i still have a PS2 Platinum Slim i won in a contest, which made me buy Xenosaga III, FF7 Dirge of Cerberus and Odins sphere back in the days )

although for thinkering it's not bad at all (plus i got her cheap instead of the outrageous price they asked at launch )

nonetheless ... that one is better at being a PS1 than a PS Classic, now if only the Raspberry Pi Zero W 2 would be in stock (and maybe compatible with the GPi case )

i know they did a cartdridge for the Rpi4 Compute module but it change the shape so much that it does not even look like a GB anymore (and the compute module is not even in stock either ... well ... glad i got 2 Rpi Zero W before that, but seriously it's been 2yrs since i can't buy anything Rpi related other than the Raspberry Pi 400, ah no not even that one ... but it was in stock recently )

 

[Audioave10]

I have a young friend in his forties that loves to play with PC hardware like i do. We give each other extra parts whenever needed.
He just upped the generosity game big time. Yes, that's an Asus Strix GTX 1080Ti !

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Stinkbug didn't pay rent and got evicted.

But that did the trick and fixed basically everything. Laptop now turns on and off every time I press the button. There is no bios lock nor CMOS errors. The screen lock, pop out led at the top, and capacitive controls all work perfectly now.

It's still not perfect but I don't plan on fixing the other minor flaws. I will probably still get the rubber track point nub for it (even though I prefer to use the touchpad), and I probably will install a different os onto it.

 

[MachineLearning]

Stinkbug didn't pay rent and got evicted.
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But that did the trick and fixed basically everything. Laptop now turns on and off every time I press the button. There is no bios lock nor CMOS errors. The screen lock, pop out led at the top, and capacitive controls all work perfectly now.
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It's still not perfect but I don't plan on fixing the other minor flaws. I will probably still get the rubber track point nub for it (even though I prefer to use the touchpad), and I probably will install a different os onto it.

Disgusting and impressive - well done repair

 

[lexluthermiester]

but then again who reads magazines anymore?

I do. Prefer magazines actually. Call me old fashioned..

 

[SpittinFax]

Stinkbug didn't pay rent and got evicted.

But that did the trick and fixed basically everything. Laptop now turns on and off every time I press the button. There is no bios lock nor CMOS errors. The screen lock, pop out led at the top, and capacitive controls all work perfectly now.

It's still not perfect but I don't plan on fixing the other minor flaws. I will probably still get the rubber track point nub for it (even though I prefer to use the touchpad), and I probably will install a different os onto it.

Debugging, literally!

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Debugging, literally!

The first "bug in the code" was a moth that got into a primitive computer, causing errors.

Software bug - Wikipedia

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