TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Compgeke]

Do those motherboards on the far right in the last picture have CF or PC card slots on the top left?

 

[Misaki]

Do those motherboards on the far right in the last picture have CF or PC card slots on the top left?

Yes, Amiga 600 has PCMCIA slot.

 

[stinger608]

Oh wow, great find Misaki!!!

 

[STIG_ZA]

Hi, am new to this forum but have many old pc's around. This seems like the right place to post pics of them

Will start with this as i built it up a few days ago using an old HP compaq D310 which was in really good condition just it only does 533mhz fsb so a 2.66Ghz p4 was the best i had for it.

Original specs were like this:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.66Ghz
Motherboard: OEM(liteOn) intel 845GE based board
RAM: 256mb DDR333
GPU: Nvidia geforce 2 mx400
HDD: 40Gb WD
PSU: 200W liteON, well made it seems

So i pulled all that out and replaced it with some slightly newer skt478 parts, in order to upgrade the CPU
Specs are now:
CPU: 2.8Ghz pentium 4 HT(northwood)
Motherboard: Asus p4v8x-mx, did have 3 dodgy capacitors that i replaced
Ram: 1x 1gb DDR400
GPU: PowerColor ATI radeon 9600pro(looking for an x800 or 6600GT)
HDD: 80Gb Seagate 7200.10 IDE drive
PSU: 250W Hippro(from a higher end HP system), used it as it seems like a decent 250w psu and does 14amps on 12v rail

 

[GreiverBlade]

Hi, am new to this forum but have many old pc's around. This seems like the right place to post pics of them

Will start with this as i built it up a few days ago using an old HP compaq D310 which was in really good condition just it only does 533mhz fsb so a 2.66Ghz p4 was the best i had for it.

Original specs were like this:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.66Ghz
Motherboard: OEM(liteOn) intel 845GE based board
RAM: 256mb DDR333
GPU: Nvidia geforce 2 mx400
HDD: 40Gb WD
PSU: 200W liteON, well made it seems

So i pulled all that out and replaced it with some slightly newer skt478 parts, in order to upgrade the CPU
Specs are now:
CPU: 2.8Ghz pentium 4 HT(northwood)
Motherboard: Asus p4v8x-mx, did have 3 dodgy capacitors that i replaced
Ram: 1x 1gb DDR400
GPU: PowerColor ATI radeon 9600pro(looking for an x800 or 6600GT)
HDD: 80Gb Seagate 7200.10 IDE drive
PSU: 250W Hippro(from a higher end HP system), used it as it seems like a decent 250w psu and does 14amps on 12v rail

if i could i would hit thanks 2time but i can't
firstly welcome! secondly GOOD choice to post here as you 1st post! thirdly thanks! for sharing that and for having a Han Solo-Chewbacca avatar

 

[stinger608]

Sweet ole hardware STIG_ZA!!!!!
I will get you added to the original post after work today!

And a big welcome to TechpowerUp!!!!

 

[kazz]

i should take computers from my office to this thread, most of them are pentium 4 or athlon64

 

[stinger608]

i should take computers from my office to this thread, most of them are pentium 4 or athlon64

Yes you should man.

 

[STIG_ZA]

Sweet ole hardware STIG_ZA!!!!!
I will get you added to the original post after work today!

And a big welcome to TechpowerUp!!!!

Thanks, looks like an awesome place. Will keep posting more stuff, have a few of everything from a 120mhz Pentium to a core 2 duo

i should take computers from my office to this thread, most of them are pentium 4 or athlon64

Yep got most of the pentium 4's I have from offices who were throwing them out. Seems they are even just tossing core 2 based pc's out now

 

[FIXED I.T.]

Hello People , I don't have any photos at the moment as my s2 got run over
by a truck on the weekend . I have lots of old stuff , but no photographs .
If this loads properly , it should be an old picture of a NASA pod being fitted
to a plane full of computers and aerials to map the ground below .
My old job . I know it doesn't fit here , but I thought you might be
interested .

 

[stinger608]

Alright, finally got around to adding ya STIG_ZA!

 

[STIG_ZA]

Slowly getting around to taking pics of the stuff i have.......exams meh

This is my socket 939 athlon64 2004/2005 games pc, has some newer games on too just because i wanted to see what it could do......played crysis but low with some medium settings was about it.

Got this as a complete pc a while ago, was just pretty dusty and unloved with some bad dents in the case and very home made fan extension cables. Stripped it out completely, cleaned everything, replaced the leaking capacitors in the PSU and swapped the basic frame of the case for another that was similar except for having a different front panel. Only issues it still has are one dead Ethernet port(gigabit port sill works at least) and then the ram will not work in dual channel, no matter what i do it will just refuse to post if you have them in the correct slots for dual channel mode.

Specs are:
CPU: AMD athlon64 3200+ (2.0ghz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939
Ram: 2x apacer 512mb DDR400(sigh can not get it to run in dual channel, have tried 4 different sets of ram)
GPU: Gainward 6800GT Ultra2400 Golden Sample GLH
HDD: 1x 80GB maxtor diamond max plus 9(have another one for if i need more space)
OS: Windows XP pro sp3
PSU: procase 300W

Cooler/cover is pretty faded unfortunately

 

[stinger608]

Sweet STIG_ZA!!!!

 

[P4-630]

My first laptop: Packard Bell igo 5960 or something like that, bought it in 2003, specs: intel celeron 2Ghz, 512Gb ram, os windows xp.
No wifi...

 

[MaxiPro800]

Specs are now:
CPU: 2.8Ghz pentium 4 HT(northwood)
Motherboard: Asus p4v8x-mx, did have 3 dodgy capacitors that i replaced
Ram: 1x 1gb DDR400
GPU: PowerColor ATI radeon 9600pro(looking for an x800 or 6600GT)
HDD: 80Gb Seagate 7200.10 IDE drive
PSU: 250W Hippro(from a higher end HP system), used it as it seems like a decent 250w psu and does 14amps on 12v rail

I have the very same motherboard as you,except it's relabeled as ASRock P4VM800 and the only differences are that PCB's blue,PS/2 ports are arranged horizontally (on motherboard) and I have 2 extra USB ports. Besides that,the onboard components seem to be the same.

Back to thread,just got another SATA cable as old one broke down and while at it,got a old 256MB Sparkle FX5200 128-bit AGP 8X video card that awaits to be recapped. (3 Crapxon caps were bad,so I'll replace 2 with Sanyo WG caps and the last with a I.Q cap)

 

[STIG_ZA]

I have the very same motherboard as you,except it's relabeled as ASRock P4VM800 and the only differences are that PCB's blue,PS/2 ports are arranged horizontally (on motherboard) and I have 2 extra USB ports. Besides that,the onboard components seem to be the same.

Back to thread,just got another SATA cable as old one broke down and while at it,got a old 256MB Sparkle FX5200 128-bit AGP 8X video card that awaits to be recapped. (3 Crapxon caps were bad,so I'll replace 2 with Sanyo WG caps and the last with a I.Q cap)

Yep seems to be pretty similar. Many of asrocks boards seemed to almost be copies of asus stuff

Also got a fx5200 with some dead caps and broken fan, tried fixing it but bearings are destroyed

 

[Ruru]

I would already say that my CPU and motherboard are pretty nostalgic. i7 920 D0 and Asus P6T SE. Still has pretty much horsepower when overclocked to 4GHz and over.

The reason why I sold my Z68 setup was that the mobo was kinda broken and this X58 setup cost only 60 Euros(!)

 

[GreiverBlade]

I would already say that my CPU and motherboard are pretty nostalgic. i7 920 D0 and Asus P6T SE. Still has pretty much horsepower when overclocked to 4GHz and over.

The reason why I sold my Z68 setup was that the mobo was kinda broken and this X58 setup cost only 60 Euros(!)

yep indeed also worth mentioning it i had a 1366 setup with a P6T SE a 920 for 60chf (less than 60€ tho) but it also had a Rampage III Extreme and 12gb ram in the bundle (1600) funny point was: i received the P6T SE 1st and i thought i bought a RIIIE and the guy sent me a mail with "dont worry the RIIIE/RAM/CPU will follow shortly", so basically i got that for 0chf and even made 20chf on it, since i did resell the P6T SE for 80chf talk about a strike of luck ... tho i wouldn't include anything after core 2 duo as nostalgic until mid 2015 (nitpicking eh?)

 

[Ruru]

Not bad Maybe I just get a Gulftown to this so I don't need to upgrade other things yet..

 

[STIG_ZA]

Dug out my dusty and forgotten about slot 1 pentium 3 system, busy cleaning it up and trying to get it going. For some reason it has become unbelievably fussy with ram, have a whole box with about 50 different SDRAM modules and only 3 out of all of that seems to work at all in here.........even then its a struggle to get it to detect all of it.

It had a 600Mhz p3 with 133mhz bus using a slot 1 - skt370 adapter, 512Mb pc133 SDRAM(because of the overclocked bus), gigabyte bx2000 intel 440BX board, 40gb HDD, ati radeon 9250 and some generic genius sound card with a cmedia chip.

CPU got fried after some jumper settings for the voltage were changed by accident. Not sure if that also damaged the motherboard making the ram such a pain to get working. So right now it has a 500Mhz p3(early one with 512k external l2 cache), 256Mb ram as cant get 512 to work, an FX5200(might put 9250 back as it seemed faster), since It has windows 98 now and not XP put in an old media vision pro audio spectrum 16 card(sounds really nice actually), 20GB hdd as 40gb is overkill for dos games. Working ok for now just needs more of a clean and then will put some pics up

 

[Ruru]

4.3GHz seems to need some tuning, BF4 crashed though the system seemed to be stable... Needs some fine tuning..

 

[JunkBear]

Dug out my dusty and forgotten about slot 1 pentium 3 system, busy cleaning it up and trying to get it going. For some reason it has become unbelievably fussy with ram, have a whole box with about 50 different SDRAM modules and only 3 out of all of that seems to work at all in here.........even then its a struggle to get it to detect all of it.

It had a 600Mhz p3 with 133mhz bus using a slot 1 - skt370 adapter, 512Mb pc133 SDRAM(because of the overclocked bus), gigabyte bx2000 intel 440BX board, 40gb HDD, ati radeon 9250 and some generic genius sound card with a cmedia chip.

CPU got fried after some jumper settings for the voltage were changed by accident. Not sure if that also damaged the motherboard making the ram such a pain to get working. So right now it has a 500Mhz p3(early one with 512k external l2 cache), 256Mb ram as cant get 512 to work, an FX5200(might put 9250 back as it seemed faster), since It has windows 98 now and not XP put in an old media vision pro audio spectrum 16 card(sounds really nice actually), 20GB hdd as 40gb is overkill for dos games. Working ok for now just needs more of a clean and then will put some pics up

By experience i can tell you that in older systems single aided and double sided rams dont work well together. Go for single side only because sometimes a double sided ram were detected as 2 memory sticks so one of the slot was unused due to that configuration.

 

[Ruru]

Damn!! Found a Voodoo2 12MB when I was cleaning my old apartment (just moved to another one) and instantly installed it to my retro P3-866 PC! Surely I post some pics later!

I just hope that it works

 

[Compgeke]

Got this over the weekend.

Mac SE without a Radius upgrade.

First off, I didn't actually spend $100 on this, instead $3. It was being thrown out and a few bucks to save it is all it took.




Like I said, it doesn't have a Radius upgrade like the sticker says. Instead it has a better one - General Computer Hypercharger 020. It has a 16 MHz 68020, 68881 FPU and an unknown amount of ram.


Hard drive is a Miniscribe 20 meg. Label is a bit of an oxymoron as Miniscribe and Quality aren't usually seen together.




And yes, it does in fact work. I have to dig a mouse out tomorrow to check the OS version and how much ram but I can tell you for sure it's OS 6.x.x and at least 2 megs.

 

[TRWOV]

Finally got off my ass and finished my XP build:

Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA
Phenom II X4 965
8GB DDR2-1066
HIS Radeon HD3850 IceQ Turbo AGP
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic low profile (got it for the front panel connector)
SiL3512 PCI card
Gigabyte iRAM w/ 4GB of RAM
2x Seagate 160GB in RAID0
Corsair CX430

XP and 8GB of RAM you ask? I'm using eboostr to use the unused RAM as cache, similar to Readyboost. The bad thing is that boot and shutdown times are increased since the cache has to be copied and loaded from disk.
The iRAM is used for the pagefile

Benchmarks soon