TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Found a listing for a "Case in original box" on shopgoodwill. I just had a hunch this boxed case was actually a full PC, even though the pictures and listing never showed/said this. The shipping weight was high, the case top shown looked really dirty from use, and goodwill has a tendency to list things very poorly. Threw a small bid on it that would make me happy if it was just a nice case, but here happy if it were a whole pc. It arrived today, and my gut was right.

It was filthy, it doesn't work, and I now have a headache from all of the dust I inhaled in the entire afternoon I spent cleaning it. But she's shiny now. I took every single thing apart and cleaned it. GPU and CPU repasted, the completely blocked fins cleaned, every fan and mesh filter cleaner, it was a CHORE. I even made a half hearted effort to clean the PSU by removing the grille.

The gtx570 unfortunately has perished, VGA led, it only gives a video output once in a blue moon, and even then it's brief and often garbled. But with another GPU, it boots to the bios and seems to work fine. Nothing special as far as x58 rigs go, i7 920, 3x2gb 1600mhz Corsair ram, no storage. nice PSU through, and a blue ray drive.

 

[jak_2456]

Found a listing for a "Case in original box" on shopgoodwill. I just had a hunch this boxed case was actually a full PC, even though the pictures and listing never showed/said this. The shipping weight was high, the case top shown looked really dirty from use, and goodwill has a tendency to list things very poorly. Threw a small bid on it that would make me happy if it was just a nice case, but here happy if it were a whole pc. It arrived today, and my gut was right.

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It was filthy, it doesn't work, and I now have a headache from all of the dust I inhaled in the entire afternoon I spent cleaning it. But she's shiny now.
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The gtx570 unfortunately has perished, VGA led, it only gives a video output once in a blue moon, and even then it's brief and often garbled. But with another GPU, it boots to the bios and seems to work fine. Nothing special as far as x58 rigs go, i7 920, 3x2gb 1600mhz Corsair ram, no storage. nice PSU through, and a blue ray drive.

Wow. That's a score and a half there! An awesome case and a fully working PC for $21? Lucky you!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Wow. That's a score and a half there! An awesome case and a fully working PC for $21? Lucky you!

Realistically it was closer to 40 after shipping and tax, and it doss NOT work, but I'm still pretty happy. The GPU is for sure bad. The board works fine but some component on it has visibly exploded

 

[Ruru]

Found a listing for a "Case in original box" on shopgoodwill. I just had a hunch this boxed case was actually a full PC, even though the pictures and listing never showed/said this. The shipping weight was high, the case top shown looked really dirty from use, and goodwill has a tendency to list things very poorly. Threw a small bid on it that would make me happy if it was just a nice case, but here happy if it were a whole pc. It arrived today, and my gut was right.

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It was filthy, it doesn't work, and I now have a headache from all of the dust I inhaled in the entire afternoon I spent cleaning it. But she's shiny now.
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The gtx570 unfortunately has perished, VGA led, it only gives a video output once in a blue moon, and even then it's brief and often garbled. But with another GPU, it boots to the bios and seems to work fine. Nothing special as far as x58 rigs go, i7 920, 3x2gb 1600mhz Corsair ram, no storage. nice PSU through, and a blue ray drive.

I'd pay easily 50EUR for that Antec case alone. Still stylish exterior and the case itself is not built with that thin tinfoil that most modern cases are.

Also a nice X58 Sabertooth there

 

[jak_2456]

Realistically it was closer to 40 after shipping and tax, and it doss NOT work, but I'm still pretty happy. The GPU is for sure bad. The board works fine but some component on it has visibly exploded View attachment 364972

Whoops. I didn't look at the whole post.

 

[DR4G00N]

The board works fine but some component on it has visibly exploded

That was the fuse for the firewire header I'm guessing. Should be fine to leave as is but I'd scrub it down with some IPA to get rid of the residue.

 

[lexluthermiester]

My best guess is that some are simply too lazy for selling their old stuff so they just throw them out.

Yeah, that's kinda part of what I meant.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

That was the fuse for the firewire header I'm guessing. Should be fine to leave as is but I'd scrub it down with some IPA to get rid of the residue.

Thanks. I'll try that. I would try to remove it but I have a feeling I'd melt the pcie slot above it with the hot air gun given it's proximity. As far as I can see, it's not hurting anything by being there right now. Who knows how long it was operated after this occured.

Any ideas on what GPU to throw in it? I already have a 920+3x260 and a 990x+gtx590 PC.
Maybe I should go Radeon. If my gtx480 wasn't dead I'd put it in here

 

[Ruru]

Thanks. I'll try that. I would try to remove it but I have a feeling I'd melt the pcie slot above it with the hot air gun given it's proximity. As far as I can see, it's not hurting anything by being there right now. Who knows how long it was operated after this occured.

Any ideas on what GPU to throw in it? I already have a 920+3x260 and a 990x+gtx590 PC.
Maybe I should go Radeon. If my gtx480 wasn't dead I'd put it in here

Agree! I'd go with anything between HD 4850 to HD 7970 myself.

 

[masterdeejay]

My main retro LCD monitor. (I don't have space for CRT)
Belinea 19" 1280x1024@75hz dont have the Power adapter but it works on molex 12v. DVI and Dsub. Stereo speakers.

 

[Ruru]

My main retro LCD monitor. (I don't have space for CRT)
Belinea 19" 1280x1024@75hz dont have the Power adapter but it works on molex 12v. DVI and Dsub. Stereo speakers.
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Nice that it has DVI so it's usable with newer cards as well without adapters.

 

[AleXXX666]

Found a listing for a "Case in original box" on shopgoodwill. I just had a hunch this boxed case was actually a full PC, even though the pictures and listing never showed/said this. The shipping weight was high, the case top shown looked really dirty from use, and goodwill has a tendency to list things very poorly. Threw a small bid on it that would make me happy if it was just a nice case, but here happy if it were a whole pc. It arrived today, and my gut was right.

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It was filthy, it doesn't work, and I now have a headache from all of the dust I inhaled in the entire afternoon I spent cleaning it. But she's shiny now. I took every single thing apart and cleaned it. GPU and CPU repasted, the completely blocked fins cleaned, every fan and mesh filter cleaner, it was a CHORE. I even made a half hearted effort to clean the PSU by removing the grille.
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The gtx570 unfortunately has perished, VGA led, it only gives a video output once in a blue moon, and even then it's brief and often garbled. But with another GPU, it boots to the bios and seems to work fine. Nothing special as far as x58 rigs go, i7 920, 3x2gb 1600mhz Corsair ram, no storage. nice PSU through, and a blue ray drive.

i'd suggest to change that retro PSU "just in case". Otherwise, good gem!

 

[MaxiPro800]

i'd suggest to change that retro PSU "just in case". Otherwise, good gem!

I think that's an Enermax Revolution 85+. No need to be replaced as Enermax made good PSUs.

 

[Greenslade]

Yup, found all them from the trash. It had a 6600K preinstalled, most likely its previous owner's combo since day one. The pins were in perfect shape and the GPU's cooler was never removed.

Still installing Windows updates since I don't have a spare SSD so I need to use a HDD, hella slow progress..

Wow wish i could find stuff like that. All i have found over the years, was two very old PC,s ,at the time i did not know anything about PC,s they did not work so threw them out,Why would someone chuck something out that works like the one you found?

 

[Ruru]

Wow wish i could find stuff like that. All i have found over the years, was two very old PC,s ,at the time i did not know anything about PC,s they did not work so threw them out,Why would someone chuck something out that works like the one you found?

Like guessed above, probably just too lazy to sell them (or didn't have a friend in need of them) and didn't want to keep them anymore.

 

[Greenslade]

This is a long shot .I don,t supose any one uses a Mac Computer and uses Brave briwser on there ?.I have a problem with Brave browser crashing on the Mac, on Windows it works with no problem.

Like guessed above, probably just too lazy to sell them (or didn't have a friend in need of them) and didn't want to keep them anymore.

It is such a waste

 

[Ruru]

This is a long shot .I don,t supose any one uses a Mac Computer and uses Brave briwser on there ?.I have a problem with Brave browser crashing on the Mac, on Windows it works with no problem.


It is such a waste

Personally I've been using Firefox for the last 20 years.

I'll probably take the machine built with those parts to my parents.

 

[Greenslade]

Personally I've been using Firefox for the last 20 years.

I'll probably take the machine built with those parts to my parents.

I to have been using Firefox for 18 since i first got a PC,it had different things that Firefox had not got like watching you tube with no adds and you could ask it any questions.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Well, this is probably the final list of the boards I got working. There are still two left to go, namely GA-6VA that seems to be stuck in reset and SL-65LIV-T that needs a reflash.

 

[Ruru]

I know that AGP (or Slot 1) on an AT board isn't that rare, it still feels so uncommon to see such a board.

 

[MaxiPro800]

That's DFI for ya, although the layout they chose is really weird, like a mix between their ATX version (P2XLX) and whatever AT design they could come up with.
Funnier thing - I had to undo the polymod and use standard lytics - the polys would cause the board to detect only 1024K of RAM. Meanwhile the BH6 couldn't care enough with its shiny golden polymers.
Also forgot one more board to add in the list - Intel D815EEA.

 

[jak_2456]

Has anyone here heard of the Princeton Ultra 52 CRT monitor? I have one but I wasn't able to find much info on it online. It's a great monitor: able to do up to 1024x768 at 85 Hz and 1152x864 at 75 Hz. I'd use it as my main monitor if it wasn't only 15" because the colors are great and the response time is practically nonexistent. Shame desktop CRTs are so expensive because a lot of them are lovely, especially if you have a lower-end PC and want something ideal for lower resolutions.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Playing around on my Radeon 9100, I kept getting freezes and brown striped screen before I disable AGP fast write, think ATi knows that why they out the setting inside the Catalyst control panel to disable it. I get it clocked to Radeon 8500 speeds too (default is 250/250 same as 8500LE, it was stuck at 260 before I disable fast write)

Overclock the CPU a bit and get over 11k. This is on Intel Desktop Board I use SetFSB to overclock in Windows.

 

[TASOS]

Hello to all

Any ABIT AB-BH6 owner in here , that has a board with Revision later than 1.2 ?

 

[MaxiPro800]

Has anyone here heard of the Princeton Ultra 52 CRT monitor? I have one but I wasn't able to find much info on it online. It's a great monitor: able to do up to 1024x768 at 85 Hz and 1152x864 at 75 Hz. I'd use it as my main monitor if it wasn't only 15" because the colors are great and the response time is practically nonexistent. Shame desktop CRTs are so expensive because a lot of them are lovely, especially if you have a lower-end PC and want something ideal for lower resolutions.

I assume you saw this page about it?