TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Retrorockit · Mar 12, 2020

E-Bear said:
The 4x4 is just to make the stool screw higher. I can probably remove it and put back to his normal height but then it could be only a child stool or a shoes shinner stool.

I was thinking a farmers milking stool. Too elaborate for a childs use, and shoe shine stools have storage in them for polish and brushes. Did the screw originally go down into the center post? I though the whole screw and 4X4 were added.

E-Bear · Mar 13, 2020

Retrorockit said:
I was thinking a farmers milking stool. Too elaborate for a childs use, and shoe shine stools have storage in them for polish and brushes. Did the screw originally go down into the center post? I though the whole screw and 4X4 were added.

No the screw goes into the 4x4 because they drilled a hole in it but its inside the round wood usually.

Robert B · Mar 14, 2020

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

Fresh meat!

Even if I didn't find so much stuff like in the past years, the Flea Market Gods have been kind to me!

1. Arctic Cooling - Slim Silent Pro TC - NOS/NIB - full package
2. Redragon VARA K551 - Outemu Blue / RED led - in full working condition - full package - already cleaned and put to work at my office. No more rubber dome for me there!

Shhh ... don't ask about the noise though. Even if at home I have a Cherry MX Black keyboard, I really like those Blue Outemu switches.

3. NEC D3142 - 44MB MFM HDD - 1988 *** 31+ years old! My first MFM HDD. The funny thing is that I didn't buy 4 MFM controllers that were sold for peanuts a few weeks ago. Life works in mysterious ways. The HDD starts and stops as it should but I am unable to test it. Probably ok. Probably... Ancient tech that dies hard. Also it is complete with a factory BAD.

4. As expected I've been confronted with a massive shortage of japanese electrolytic capacitors so I'll have to use what I have in my box-of-parts or I'll have to scavenge some caps from other boards but this will be a last resort measure applied only in exceptional cases. Keep your fingers crossed as I need it to revive yet another slot A motherboard. Chances are 50/50 that I might be successfull ...
5. The Sk A CPUs were bought as a test. Chipped to death. How much chipping until being dead? Well, that amount of chipping will just about do it ... rest into the great silicon void beyond ...
6. ASUS K7M Rev:1.04 - My 3rd K7M.

You can never have too many slot A motherboards!

I still need a GFD but I don't hold my breath for finding one ... if I'll ever find one.

Where I live those were rare as hen's teeth even back in the day ...
7. AMD Slot A 600MHz CPU - K7600MTR51B A
8. PowerColor Riva TNT2 32MB - CTNT2SG Ver1.0 - missing some bits. Probably still alive.
9. SDRAM - 32MB,128, ECC/REG

Ruru · Mar 19, 2020

Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad.

Grog6 · Mar 19, 2020

Chloe Price said:
Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad.

Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again...

Ruru · Mar 20, 2020

Grog6 said:
Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again...

I have one 1GHz Athlon which is chipped pretty bad but seems to work fine.. though it's not a good overclocker, that's why bought another one (the 1GHz AXIA one which clocks easily over 1400MHz :toast:

)

My S462 CPUs, the Sempron in the center seems to have a scratch in the surface, I need to investigate that..

Other CPUs, the Q6600 arrived DOA but well, it was like 6EUR so whatever. I need to get a 1150 board for that G3258.. AMD 6000+ & 555BE didn't make it to be pictured since they're in project builds

Bungz · Mar 20, 2020

One of you guys has surely got a place for this

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Ruru · Mar 20, 2020

Bungz said:
One of you guys has surely got a place for this

Disney Dream Desk PC | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Disney Dream Desk PC at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!

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Perfect for a sleeper build. :love:

Robert B · Mar 21, 2020

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine (Deepend ft Charles Sax Bootleg)

'Twas a good day today!

I still have a lot more work to do but I'm getting close to finishing all of the parts that still need restoring.

Flea market visits have been postponed so I'll focus on what I have at the moment.

READY! SET! GO!!!

Ruru · Mar 21, 2020

Robert B said:
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine (Deepend ft Charles Sax Bootleg)

'Twas a good day today!

I still have a lot more work to do but I'm getting close to finishing all of the parts that still need restoring.

Flea market visits have been postponed so I'll focus on what I have at the moment.

READY! SET! GO!!!

FX 5800 & FX 5900 XT?

Robert B · Mar 21, 2020

Yeah.

I'm so glad I found those puppies.

Grog6 · Mar 21, 2020

That has to be the worst version of that song I've ever heard...

Ruru · Mar 22, 2020

Robert B said:
Yeah. I'm so glad I found those puppies.

I'd love to have a fast FX card, the fastest I've owned so far was FX 5600 Ultra :rockout:

Radical Vision · Mar 27, 2020

My latest founds, it was really dry period, did not found a thing like in a year or so...

ATi Radeon x1950XTX Crossfire Edition
ATi Radeon HD3850 AGP
ASUS CUSL2-C
And some crappy EnermaX Noisetaker 375W

ATi Radeon HD3850 AGP front Sapphire.jpg

And here is my collection (or at least for the most part...)

Collection
Compaq Deskpro 486/33m
IBM dual V8 machine Death Star - work in progress
AMD K7 Armored Interceptor+
Ultra 386 build and no proper AT case
Compaq PII GTO Slot 1
HP PIII GT Slot 1
Compaq AP550 Pro need PSU
AMD Opteron/ LanParty NF4 R/T Charger
Socket 7 Mob machine

462 socket
3Dfx Voodoo cards
ATi/ Radeon cards

Keyboards

AMD Opteron 165 (UP) @ 2700.66 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[s3yhar] Validated Dump by S939-RTR_64 (2017-06-01 19:41:31) - MB: DFI LP NF4 Series - RAM: 2048 MB

valid.x86.fr

AMD Athlon XP-M @ 2606.14 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[9s6qlr] Validated Dump by 462GT-ULTRA (2017-03-25 22:56:55) - MB: Abit NF7-S/NF7NF7-V (nVidia-nForce2) - RAM: 2048 MB

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Intel Pentium III-S @ 1403 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[j8sxn1] Validated Dump by (2018-09-21 02:50:04) - MB: Unknown - RAM: 2048 MB

valid.x86.fr

Intel Pentium II @ 451.1 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[zb9ve9] Validated Dump by HP-06AB02B74407 (2013-12-11 10:12:43) - MB: FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER 440BX - RAM: 512 MB

valid.x86.fr

Intel Pentium III EB @ 800.19 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[rd0y5f] Validated Dump by P2-GTO (2016-04-05 21:47:36) - MB: Unknown I440BX-W977 - RAM: 768 MB

valid.x86.fr

GreiverBlade · Mar 27, 2020

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oh... a hoarder... (collection or old computer shop stock? )

Chloe Price said:
Seeing the condition of the cores on those Athlons makes me sad.

Grog6 said:
Not as sad as owning one, and be mounting it for the 100th time as one of those big chips occurs.

And it never boots again...

well i also have a Duron "cracked Die" edition ... still boot, it was from my first self built system back in the days, ah ... no wait ... my first self build was with a AMD K6 II, i got some other Athlon for my collection and fortunately none of them was cracked/chipped.

Chloe Price said:
I'd love to have a fast FX card, the fastest I've owned so far was FX 5600 Ultra

well at the time i had a FX 5900 (Leadtek Winfast A350 TDH 128mb MyViVo, i kept it ) and i still have a lone MSI FX5600 sitting in a corner (i need to check the HSF and find some pushpin or screws for it )

stinger608 · Mar 27, 2020

Just wanted to say hi to everyone and thank everyone for keeping this awesome thread alive and well!!!!

Sorry its been a year since posting on the forums but it has been an insane year to say the least. I'm not going into detail but I think I'm finally on the track to normalcy once again.

agent_x007 · Mar 27, 2020

I overclocked my Tbird so hard, that AIDA64 thinks it's an Athlon Ryzen CPU (logo)

^My Socket A collection (I got Palomino on it's way).

MaxiPro800 · Mar 27, 2020

A pretty old card (it's nearing the 10 year mark pretty soon) which still holds up today.

It's a Radeon HD7870 2GB I picked up for cheap ($35) locally. Works as it should, and it seems a cheap gaming card to this day (I ain't planning no 4k gaming with this, but 1080p is just fine)

Grog6 · Mar 27, 2020

agent_x007 said:
...I overclocked my Tbird so hard, that AIDA64 thinks it's an Athlon Ryzen CPU (logo)

I've got a Barton core XP-2500M running 400fsb, and a 13.6 multiplier.

It won't quite do 1080p mp4 files, but it was a tv pc for years.

Radical Vision · Mar 27, 2020

Grog6 said:
I've got a Barton core XP-2500M running 400fsb, and a 13.6 multiplier.

It won't quite do 1080p mp4 files, but it was a tv pc for years.

Damn even better clocker then mine, my best Mobile Barton gets to 2.6Ghz, and i hav one more 2.6 but is not 100% stable... Looking for to get a 2.7Ghz one, seems ur one is platinum one, as i consider the 2.6GHz golden samples and above Platinum... What voltage it needs to get there tho, mine needs like 1.875v -1.9v.... It is stable 48 hours prime 95 at 1.830v, but for some reason, movies at 1080P laggs, and some games like Crysis crashes, Most wanted also, while with the more voltage they are stable, not sure how the fk it can be 48 hours prime 95 stable at 1.830v, but not stable in other things...
I have also Mobile Barton 3000+, but is bad OC....

The CPU stepping is IQYHA right ?

Why wont run 1080P ?!?!? With x264 hardware aceleration on the Radeon GPUs u can run about all 1080P Blue ray stuff, mine runs no problem 30-40GB blue ray movies, last i watched was Avengers Infinity War 35GB....

Grog6 · Mar 27, 2020

It's always been particular about that OC; it will not run any other multiplier at 400fsb. (200DDR)

It's an Nvidia chipset; a A7N8X mobo.

13.5 seems like such a weird number, lol.

I don't have any good AGP video cards anymore; the last one that was in that PC died due to the fan dying, and melting the chip off the PCB.
It was an X800GT, and was a bit too slow for MP4, so as a PC it got replaced with a Pentium D820 setup, running XPx64, and PCI-e.

Not sure about the stepping; I should dig it out and get some pix.

GreiverBlade · Mar 27, 2020

stinger608 said:
Just wanted to say hi to everyone and thank everyone for keeping this awesome thread alive and well!!!!

Sorry its been a year since posting on the forums but it has been an insane year to say the least. I'm not going into detail but I think I'm finally on the track to normalcy once again.

welcome back buddy, glad to see you back and glad to hear it's going better (at last i hope it will go that way for you)
:toast:

adequate statement for the actual time ... i think ...

well at last my first PC did teach me that ... (which is not the same as my first self built i mention a few post above )

Mr.Scott · Mar 28, 2020

I have a few socket A's.

I have three more of these

.

Radical Vision · Mar 28, 2020

Well before i got good parts long ago i used Radeon 9550, and did run in you tube 720P very well, without HW aceleration, and i think i read in some forum, a guy to said that he did run 1080P movies on his machine with Radeon 9550, but i did never try that, can imagine the 9550 can run HD as well, as Radeon cards are very strong for this, while nVIDIA card are meh all AGP nVIDIA cards sucks as far as i know..

Mr.Scott said:
I have a few socket A's.
I have three more of these

.

With that kinda of "care" for them, they wont last much, last time i did sort CPUs with pins like that (the ones i sell, not the personal) they all got bended pins, some of them even broken, the K7 CPUs the rubebrs did falle, and Athlons got broken parts of their crystals....

BTW how much of u have this, as i rarely see this panel, or this keyboard in ebay never saw any of these anytime soon...

Grog6 · Mar 28, 2020

I've never seen any of those, although that KB is a direct knockoff of a Model M.

Nice!

A tube amp for a computer; that's neat.

System Name	BTXTREME
Processor	QX6800 SLACP Core2 Extreme
Motherboard	Dell 0WG864 LGA775 BTX
Cooling	Dell T9303 heatpipe cooler, Delta GFB1212VHG 2 motor fan.
Memory	8GB Dell DDR2@800
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Dual BIOS R9-285 ITX O/C 2GB DDR5
Storage	Crucial M500 240GB SSD
Display(s)	Dell 22" LCD
Case	Dell Dimension E 520 MT
Audio Device(s)	onboard sound with Logitech Z523 speakers
Power Supply	EVGA B2 750W semi modular
Mouse	Logitech wireless (two installed)
Keyboard	Logitech wireless backlit
Software	Win7-64, Throttlestop 6.00 overclock
Benchmark Scores	3DMark 11 P7644 (52% )In Win7 64, Firestrike 6892 ( 58% ) http://valid.x86.fr/l2j5p1

System Name	HP Pavilion a6552f
Processor	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
Motherboard	Asus IPIBL-LB / HP Benicia-GL8E
Cooling	DeepCool Gammaxx 200
Memory	8gigs Kingston 4x2gigs DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	Zotac GT630 "Fermi" 2gb DDR3 128bits Synergy Edition
Storage	Western Digital Green 7200rpm 1tb
Display(s)	LG Flatron EW234 Super LED
Case	HP Pavilion
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Thermaltake TR2 430w
Mouse	Razer Abyssus Mirror Special Edition Blue LED
Keyboard	Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Commander Red LED Backlighting Mechanical Keycaps Membrane Gaming Keyboard
Software	Windows 7 Home Premium 64bits

System Name	4K-gaming / media-PC
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero / Asus Z170-A
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50 / Thermaltake Contac 21
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3080 10GB / RX 6700 XT
Storage	3.3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni BT speaker
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

System Name	BorgX79
Processor	i7-3930k 6/12cores@4.4GHz
Motherboard	Sabertoothx79
Cooling	Capitan 360
Memory	Muhskin DDR3-1866
Video Card(s)	Sapphire R480 8GB
Storage	Chronos SSD
Display(s)	3x VW266H
Case	Ching Mien 600
Audio Device(s)	Realtek
Power Supply	Cooler Master 1000W Silent Pro
Mouse	Logitech G900
Keyboard	Rosewill RK-1000
Software	Win7x64

System Name	4K-gaming / media-PC
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero / Asus Z170-A
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50 / Thermaltake Contac 21
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3080 10GB / RX 6700 XT
Storage	3.3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni BT speaker
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

System Name	AM4 XTR
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3D
Motherboard	Gigabyte Aorus x370 K7 AM4
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15 + NF-A14 G2, x3 140mm Be Quiet Silent Wings, x3 140mm Noctua Indistrial PPC 3K
Memory	G. Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4 3.7GHz CL14
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon Red Devil 6800XT 2.65GHz
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 256GB, Samsung 870 Evo 1TB, x2 4TB SeaGate
Display(s)	DELL 4K G3223Q
Case	Fractal Design Define 7 XL
Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster AE-9
Power Supply	Corsair HX 1000W Platinum
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	IBM Model M Gen 2, Cherry G80-1000 MX Black, NBM RT-101 Space Invaders
Software	M$ Windows 11 Pro

System Name	main/SFFHTPCARGH!(tm)/Xiaomi Mi TV Stick/Samsung Galaxy S23/Ally
Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D/i7-3770/S905X/Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/Ryzen Z1 Extreme
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk/HP SFF Q77 Express/uh?/uh?/Asus
Cooling	Enermax ETS-T50 Axe aRGB /basic HP HSF /errr.../oh! liqui..wait, no:sizable vapor chamber/a nice one
Memory	64gb DDR4 3600/8gb DDR3 1600/2gbLPDDR3/8gbLPDDR5x/16gb(10 sys)LPDDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	Hellhound Spectral White RX 7900 XTX 24gb/GT 730/Mali 450MP5/Adreno 740/Radeon 780M 6gb LPDDR5
Storage	250gb870EVO/500gb860EVO/2tbSandisk/NVMe2tb+1tb/4tbextreme V2/1TB Arion/500gb/8gb/256gb/4tb SN850X
Display(s)	X58222 32" 2880x1620/32"FHDTV/273E3LHSB 27" 1920x1080/6.67"/AMOLED 2X panel FHD+120hz/7" FHD 120hz
Case	Cougar Panzer Max/Elite 8300 SFF/None/back/back-front Gorilla Glass Victus 2+ UAG Monarch Carbon
Audio Device(s)	Logi Z333/SB Audigy RX/HDMI/HDMI/Dolby Atmos/KZ x HBB PR2/Moondrop Chu II + TRN BT20S
Power Supply	Chieftec Proton BDF-1000C /HP 240w/12v 1.5A/4Smart Voltplug PD 30W/Asus USB-C 65W
Mouse	Speedlink Sovos Vertical-Asus ROG Spatha-Logi Ergo M575/Xiaomi XMRM-006/touch/touch
Keyboard	Endorfy Thock 75% <3/none/touch/virtual
VR HMD	Medion Erazer
Software	Win10 64/Win8.1 64/Android TV 8.1/Android 13/Win11 64
Benchmark Scores	bench...mark? i do leave mark on bench sometime, to remember which one is the most comfortable. :o

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	BOX
Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,26GHz (1,28V)
Motherboard	X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F23c + bifurcation mod)
Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
Video Card(s)	Titan V (~1650MHz @ 0.77V, HBM2 1GHz, Forced P2 state [OFF])
Storage	WD SN850X 2TB + Samsung EVO 2TB (SATA) + Seagate Exos X20 20TB (4Kn mode)
Display(s)	LG 27GP950-B
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Audio Device(s)	Motu M4 (audio interface) + ATH-A900Z + Behringer C-1
Power Supply	Seasonic X-760 (760W)
Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 43 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	ASUS RoG Cerberus mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

System Name	Master
Processor	Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3
Motherboard	SR-2 Classified
Memory	12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX680
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750

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