Remember when ?...Post your old pc parts pics !

[Sir Beregond]

Looked and can't find any pics of older rigs from prior to 2009/2010. Oh well. 

 

But had some early 2000's rig with some Athlon in it, initially with a Radeon 7500. Had a slighly updated one with a 9700 pro. My Dad had a P4 rig that we later put an X1650 Pro into.

 

We had some other ones that I don't really remember what they had aside from some real crappy Nvidia FX-era mid-range or maybe even low end card. Didn't run much. Later built an E8500/9800 GT rig.

 

And pretty sure there are more I am forgetting.

 

Edited February 12, 2023 by Sir Beregond

[J7SC_Orion]

...digging deep in the old pics file...I think that's an AMD 9800 Pro GPU I picked up used for some early benching follies...

 

  

 

.... @Bastiaan_NL - you probably like this, HWBot and all. LN2 pot, Phase cooler and a back of a mobo prepped with LET 

 

 

 

CM Storm Stryker w/ Asus X99w/ 5960X cpu and 2x 980s...a relatively recent rebuild for retro-gaming and file serving, now has a X79 E-WS board (my fav) and a very fast 4960X in it instead...

 

[pio]

That first image.......

 

That's definitely either a 9800 or X800 / X850.  Can tell by the VRAM locations on the top of the PCB and the PCB itself.  It APPEARS that its got a molex plug plugged in, but in the image its hard to say.  If so, that limits it to a 9800 or X850 being as that would make it an AGP card for sure.

 

So yeah, almost certainly a 9800.  Just had mine die the other day.

[J7SC_Orion]

3 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

That first image.......

 

That's definitely either a 9800 or X800 / X850.  Can tell by the VRAM locations on the top of the PCB and the PCB itself.  It APPEARS that its got a molex plug plugged in, but in the image its hard to say.  If so, that limits it to a 9800 or X850 being as that would make it an AGP card for sure.

 

So yeah, almost certainly a 9800.  Just had mine die the other day.

 

...I checked some more, and it was a 9800 Pro (like below), AGPx8, Molex side feed etc...I was already very dated when I picked up used; I've since then given it away...it had some fun software, ie. changing the VRAM timings by discreet adjustments and various other ways to get a totally frozen up screen 

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Bring back the LN2 hardware J! 
We need to see the frozen pots on record breaking hardware

[schuck6566]

Can't really dig much out 'Cause I've got people coming in to remodel the kitchen so all that stuffs in my living & dining room blocking my parts cabinets in living room. BUT.... I did dig this out from the box under the coffee table Pic taken roughly 10 mins ago....

 

[Barefooter]

Some cool old hardware here!

[J7SC_Orion]

4 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

Can't really dig much out 'Cause I've got people coming in to remodel the kitchen so all that stuffs in my living & dining room blocking my parts cabinets in living room. BUT.... I did dig this out from the box under the coffee table Pic taken roughly 10 mins ago....

 

 

I wonder what else is in that box under your coffee table   ?

 

5 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

Bring back the LN2 hardware J! 
We need to see the frozen pots on record breaking hardware

   

Can't do it for a whole for a host of good reasons. But you are certainly on your way to 'arctic cold'  - and I don't mean in some sort of strange balloon over Alaska / Yukon... 

[schuck6566]

4 hours ago, J7SC_Orion said:

 

I wonder what else is in that box under your coffee table   ?

 

   

Can't do it for a whole for a host of good reasons. But you are certainly on your way to 'arctic cold'  - and I don't mean in some sort of strange balloon over Alaska / Yukon... 

lol, well, somebody else had already posted a pick of a ide cd rom/cd burner so I didn't bother taking a pic of that. a bunch of other drives are in it,but this 1 is the oldest.Think it still has xp on it. The others are larger,all the way up to a 200 GB one.     In 1 of my drawers I also have an All In Wonder HD floating around.(not that it does much good on anything much after Xp unless U manage a work around for the capture)

[Diffident]

 

 

Looking back...DFI boards were all kinds of ugly.

 

 

My first Core 2 Duo E6600

 

 

The system for the E6600.  My first watercooled system.

[Snakecharmed]

I was rummaging through some old boxes to see if I could collect a total of eight M5 fan screws for my case mod project. Here's some of the crap I found:

 

 

This 5.25" IDE hard drive is the Quantum Bigfoot TX, the slowest consumer-grade 6 GB piece of crap on the planet. It was pulled from my cousin's 1998 IBM Aptiva PC. The computer eventually changed hands and became my parents' for a few years. Like all IDE hard drives I held on to for far too long after I got a motherboard that supported SATA, I never bothered to hook this up with a SATA-IDE adapter to pull any useful data and wipe the drive. This one just went in a box for me to forget about for a couple of decades.

 

This thing was a complete joke of a hard drive. 4000 RPM. Yes, 4000 RPM. That was actually an upgrade over the original Bigfoot and Bigfoot CY which spun at 3600 RPM. This family of drives was so damn loud and slow that I remember my friends clowning another friend for actually spending money on one back in high school. He was so happy that he got the biggest consumer drive on the market at 19.2 GB and it was relatively cheap, which to be fair, mattered a lot for a high school student. But it was loud and slow and generally sucked. Everyone else at that lunch table would have preferred making up the deficit with Iomega Jaz drive cartridges or a stack of CD-RWs instead of having this poor excuse of a contemporary hard drive.

 

Here is the original 3.5" internal floppy drive to my Gateway 2000 PC.

 

The original ATX motherboard backplate for my Gateway: two serial ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, and parallel port. That was it.

 

Lastly, this is the fan I removed from my Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro after it died on me.

 

Oh yeah, I only found two M5 fan screws but somehow I have over a dozen M4-sized ones, so I ended up ordering 50 more M5 from Amazon.

Edited February 24, 2023 by Snakecharmed

[J7SC_Orion]

16 hours ago, Snakecharmed said:

I was rummaging through some old boxes to see if I could collect a total of eight M5 fan screws for my case mod project. Here's some of the crap I found:

 

 

This 5.25" IDE hard drive is the Quantum Bigfoot TX, the slowest consumer-grade 6 GB piece of crap on the planet. It was pulled from my cousin's 1998 IBM Aptiva PC. The computer eventually changed hands and became my parents' for a few years. Like all IDE hard drives I held on to for far too long after I got a motherboard that supported SATA, I never bothered to hook this up with a SATA-IDE adapter to pull any useful data and wipe the drive. This one just went in a box for me to forget about for a couple of decades.

 

This thing was a complete joke of a hard drive. 4000 RPM. Yes, 4000 RPM. That was actually an upgrade over the original Bigfoot and Bigfoot CY which spun at 3600 RPM. This family of drives was so damn loud and slow that I remember my friends clowning another friend for actually spending money on one back in high school. He was so happy that he got the biggest consumer drive on the market at 19.2 GB and it was relatively cheap, which to be fair, mattered a lot for a high school student. But it was loud and slow and generally sucked. Everyone else at that lunch table would have preferred making up the deficit with Iomega Jaz drive cartridges or a stack of CD-RWs instead of having this poor excuse of a contemporary hard drive.

 

Here is the original 3.5" internal floppy drive to my Gateway 2000 PC.

 

The original ATX motherboard backplate for my Gateway: two serial ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, and parallel port. That was it.

 

Lastly, this is the fan I removed from my Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro after it died on me.

 

Oh yeah, I only found two M5 fan screws but somehow I have over a dozen M4-sized ones, so I ended up ordering 50 more M5 from Amazon.

 

 ...that floppy drive and I/O shield takes me back  ...also had Quantum HD drives but a different kind.

 

Below is a still-shrink-wrapped ATX 2.01 PSU from ~ 20 years ago...I always kept identical back-ups for our early-days business '''machines''' when we initially started out, but this one never got called to action.

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by J7SC_Orion

[J7SC_Orion]

...another oldie pic hiding on a retired SSD: a rare dual-GPU AMD 8990 OEM w/custom water-block

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by J7SC_Orion