TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[stinger608]

Guys we should probably start a thread of vintage parts for exchanging between each of us. But don't do like some adds here and not telling where you live
Like me I have some 478, 754 and 775 cpu, DDR 266,333,400 DDR2 533, 667, 800ram ,some cards and other stuff and I'm from Canada.

Trouble with that is we would have to follow the TPU guide lines and post in the "For Sale" forum.

We started to do that in the World Community Grid forum and got that shut down right away.

It would be tough to manage a for sale thread with multiple posters I would imagine. If the original poster was a moderator it would be a ton easier.

 

[JunkBear]

Guidelines are followed by moderators only when it's their advantage. We want to do something nice for others but if they cant take advantage of it then they going to shut us down.

 

[Backfire]

Yesterday a parcel with 5 older graphic cards came in. Nothing really exciting. I just wanted the VLB- card for the 486er.

I saw the Canopus Voodoo-Graphics Card had a fan installed, and as the miro has the same pcb,
I put a fan on a miro HISCORE 3D. Maybe it helps and the card lives a bit longer.

A thing I have to invent, Voodoo Graphics Quad SLI ...

 

[Ruru]

Damn those old ISA & PCI cards are cool! I also like the old ISA Sound Blaster's, SB64AWE Gold is my favourite.

 

[JunkBear]

Wow man! These Quad sli are like maybe...64megs total.

 

[Backfire]

The AWE64 Gold is a pretty fine card.

My favourites are:

these are ISA- Cards, my absolute favourite is the PCI TerraTec DMX 6fire 24/96.

 

[Backfire]

Wow man! These Quad sli are like maybe...64megs total.

It's 24MB. These are 6MB Voodoo Graphics cards.

 

[silkstone]

Coolermaster v8?

edit: as a radiator?

With a TEC?

 

[stinger608]

Damn nice photography also Backfire!!

What are you using for your background? And what lighting are you using?

I also like the style of font your using on them. Pretty classy looking.

 

[Backfire]

Hehe, I'm using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 digicam and the background is a white sheet of thick paper. The lighting is various, from an officedesk- lamp up to two 100W halogen spots.
The magic is the software. I'musing IrfanView & PhotoScape which are both freeware. I'll show you a picture as it comes from the camera.

I just reduced the size to 800px width.

edit: the name of the font in the upper left corner is "neuropol", the name of the font for the "Backfire" sign is "flexsteel".

 

[stinger608]

Wow, I'll have to check into the software!
I am using a Lumix DMC-FZ40. Very awesome camera. Got a smoking deal on it from one of the local members T_ski here on TPU.

 

[GreiverBlade]

With a TEC?

next time read the rest after the 1st answer and : wow did you waited all that long thinking over the answer,since the post is from a while ago, because you sure took your time (just joking don't worry )

edit i completely forgot to post pics of the ACER 5735Z i salvaged from the dump ... better late than never ahah

Hehe, I'm using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 digicam and the background is a white sheet of thick paper. The lighting is various, from an officedesk- lamp up to two 100W halogen spots.
The magic is the software. I'musing IrfanView & PhotoScape which are both freeware. I'll show you a picture as it comes from the camera.

View attachment 55823

I just reduced the size to 800px width.

aahhh i also use Irfanview it is pretty much a classic standard in fact

 

[micropage7]

Hehe, I'm using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 digicam and the background is a white sheet of thick paper. The lighting is various, from an officedesk- lamp up to two 100W halogen spots.
The magic is the software. I'musing IrfanView & PhotoScape which are both freeware. I'll show you a picture as it comes from the camera.

View attachment 55823

I just reduced the size to 800px width.

i use paper too, but sometimes i place coin under the object to make it looks better.
it looks you have alot of oldies hardware

 

[Backfire]

This soundsystem is nice, too. Fits good for a socket A or P4- system.

 

[micropage7]

This soundsystem is nice, too. Fits good for a socket A or P4- system.

View attachment 55831

reminds me of old VIA soundcard, still works but theres no way to find the driver

 

[stinger608]

reminds me of old VIA soundcard, still works but theres no way to find the driver

You can go here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

Which then it will take you to here: http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp

I just did a basic select with win 98SE but didn't select the VIA product.

I actually just dealt with this with an old Gateway machine that is still running 98SE LOL

 

[Backfire]

Hello kids, today we are talking about the color "blue". Look, the sky is blue! The water is blue, too. Cookie monster is blue. The AsRock board is blue ...

 

[Mr.Scott]

Mr.Dio..........I mean Backfire, I have a few ISA's floating around here. No where near as nice as yours but they all still work.

MediaVision Jazz-16
Oak Technology Mozart-16
SRS sound/modem combo

 

[Backfire]

Nice ones Mr. Scott!

The Postman brought me this today >



Complete and in very good condition for 4.50€.

 

[Backfire]

no comment

 

[Ruru]

That Asrock upgrade mobo was cool, I remember when those hit the market. Too bad that almost nobody bought the upgrade cards, instead everybody just upgraded their motherboards.

edit: At least those are damn hard to find as used ones here in Finland.

 

[micropage7]

You can go here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

Which then it will take you to here: http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp

I just did a basic select with win 98SE but didn't select the VIA product.

I actually just dealt with this with an old Gateway machine that is still running 98SE LOL

yeah, but i gave the soundcard to my friend, since then i think 40 times before buying soundcard

 

[Ruru]

Damn I'm drunk as hell but I',m listening to Doom3 theme from youtube and I think should I begin to play it again.. Damn it was nice when I ran it first time smoothly, I had an Asus 6800LE @ 15/5 pipes & 380/950 clocks.. overclocked like mad


edit: I simply need more coffee and cigarettes, don't want to be drunk anymore.
edit2: Eating some delicious chicken seems to help too

 

[HammerON]

I built my first pc to be able to play DOOM 3. Asus motherboard (don't remember which one), AMD Athlon 64 3200+, ATI 9600XT (I wanted the 9800XT - too expensive though), 1GB of RAM, cheap PSU and case. I had a lot of fun playing DOOM 3 and Quake 4 on that pc

 

[GreiverBlade]

I built my first pc to be able to play DOOM 3. Asus motherboard (don't remember which one), AMD Athlon 64 3200+, ATI 9600XT (I wanted the 9800XT - too expensive though), 1GB of RAM, cheap PSU and case. I had a lot of fun playing DOOM 3 and Quake 4 on that pc

i played D3 and Q4 (and Eve Online xD) on my Athlon XP (Barton@2.25~) rig KT6V with a Geforce FX 5900 ultra and 1 gb RAM never had any lag or such (iirc i played it with all settings at max)

you coul've afford the 9800XT (or not) if you took (or kept) a XP instead of the 64 (BTW winchester or Clawhammer?) who was a bit useless without 4gb and more RAM (Doom3, also, didn't had a 64bit exe right? ) but the 64 had SSE2 instr.