TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Toothless · May 19, 2015

I love seeing hardware that's older than my first desktop. I forgot what it was but it had 256MB DDR memory, an 80GB IDE drive and was some Celeron chip that was clocked under 1ghz.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 19, 2015

@Toothless

let me know if you need to add another 64 gb oh sorry i meant mb

sorry about the shaky pic, i am "nostalgic" too. :toast:

Trekkie4 · May 19, 2015

Mr.Scott said:
That's what TweakMonster shims are for.

Athlonite said:
easy peasy with a shim

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Never had (or even saw) one of these before, these would be VERY useful back in a day! Personally, I hate dealing with Sockets A, or even 7 & 370. 7 is fine because they don't require bigger heatsinks, but 370 & A were just terrible to work with, most of the mobos were always missing (at least) one of the plastic tabs, or would have a mounting problem of some kind. If you also consider the fragility of exposed AMD CPUs back in a day, this was probably the worst possible design they've could have come up with

Slot-1 FTW!

On a side note, I do understand those of you who are not happy to see modern-ish hardware in this topic, as I'm kinda feeling the same. I had serious doubts about posting that Win98/XP machine a while ago, as it had (what I would consider) modern OS, and it was running the games such as Half Life 2, which i still consider to be the latest & modern up-to-date games for today. But I'm not complaining, just to make it clear only expressing my personal opinion - I DO like hardware in all shapes & sizes after all

GreiverBlade · May 19, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Never had (or even saw) one of these before, these would be VERY useful back in a day! Personally, I hate dealing with Sockets A, or even 7 & 370. 7 is fine because they don't require bigger heatsinks, but 370 & A were just terrible to work with, most of the mobos were always missing (at least) one of the plastic tabs, or would have a mounting problem of some kind. If you also consider the fragility of exposed AMD CPUs back in a day, this was probably the worst possible design they've could have come up with Slot-1 FTW!

On a side note, I do understand those of you who are not happy to see modern-ish hardware in this topic, as I'm kinda feeling the same. I had serious doubts about posting that Win98/XP machine a while ago, as it had (what I would consider) modern OS, and it was running the games such as Half Life 2, which i still consider to be the latest & modern up-to-date games for today. But I'm not complaining, just to make it clear only expressing my personal opinion - I DO like hardware in all shapes & sizes after all

what is modern for you ... : you can be nostalgic about yesterday

,

for me as long as it's pre 2008 i'm fine 7 year is a good number eh?

MaxiPro800 · May 19, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
It's all balanced perfectly fine until you lose one of those heatsink rubber cushions, that's when you can easily cause some serious damage if you're not being careful ... talking from personal experience

I even had a weird situation where the system refused to boot up (Athlon 2400+, I think & Gigabyte something board, red PCB) and it seemed to be toasted until I took the CPU cooler off. For some reason it wasn't seated properly on the CPU, rubber cushions were too thin & didn't have enough clearance which caused short circuit, I guess? Didn't have any permanent damage from what I can tell, so I can't tell for sure that it really was a short circuit behind the problem. Either way, system booted up perfectly fine when I took the Spire FalconRock 2 off the board. Frankly speaking, Falcon Rock is pretty hefty piece of hardware, so I'm not surprised

Right, I definitely remember posting these pics a while ago, when I 1st joined TechPowerup forum Took me a while to find them though, and it wasn't Gigabyte like I thought so, but I DO have a spare Gigabyte board among the spare parts, same specs & also the same, red PCB color.

Ah, the red MSI board. I know that MSI liked to use red PCBs for everything from Socket A to 939. (including 478 and LGA775). I also have a MSI though,nForce 2 chipset.

And please show us that red Gigabyte board. I never recalled ANY of Gigabyte's motherboards being red,and Google doesn't turn up anything useful.

stinger608 · May 19, 2015

MaxiPro800 said:
And please show us that red Gigabyte board. I never recalled ANY of Gigabyte's motherboards being red,and Google doesn't turn up anything useful.

I agree. I don't ever recall Gigabyte building red PCB motherboards. Back in the socket A era they made a lot of greens and blues.

GreiverBlade · May 19, 2015

looks like i have also a hard time to read ... end of the post ...

ok mea culpa

tho i call bogus: no Gigabyte mobo used RED, definitely not possible.

know to be red lover : MSI, DFI, ABIT, Foxconn, Jetway (thanks @dorsetknob ) annndd i think it's all (Sapphire ... well nope ... only connectors not pcb

)

JunkBear · May 19, 2015

GreiverBlade said:
ok next time i will write "New vintage beauty" ... or "New (in my house) but not in the time (of production) beauty"

Grammar Nazi is happy.

dorsetknob · May 19, 2015

not a gigabyte motherboard But its RED .........VERY RED

pic courtsey of toms hardware

board in picture is a Jetway 775GT4-SLI

wonder where Jetway are now ?

Trekkie4 · May 19, 2015

MaxiPro800 said:
Ah, the red MSI board. I know that MSI liked to use red PCBs for everything from Socket A to 939. (including 478 and LGA775). I also have a MSI though,nForce 2 chipset.

And please show us that red Gigabyte board. I never recalled ANY of Gigabyte's motherboards being red,and Google doesn't turn up anything useful.

stinger608 said:
I agree. I don't ever recall Gigabyte building red PCB motherboards. Back in the socket A era they made a lot of greens and blues.

GreiverBlade said:
looks like i have also a hard time to read ... end of the post ...

ok mea culpa

tho i call bogus: no Gigabyte mobo used RED, definitely not possible.

know to be red lover : MSI, DFI, ABIT, Foxconn annndd i think it's all (Sapphire ... well nope ... only connectors not pcb )

Wow! So yes, here's the thing, I was 100% certain that the spare mobo in one of my boxes was Gigabyte, but after Googling around myself it seems that all of you are correct. The easiest way to solve this would be to take the board out & take a pic, but sadly it's buried underneath tons of my other stuff, as I'm moving to new apt and everything's stacked together, dozens of boxes

(See one of my latest pics, from about a month ago)

Spare boards SHOULD be in one of these boxes, here

Unfortunately, you guys will have to wait until I move in & sort out all the paperwork.

GreiverBlade · May 19, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Wow! So yes, here's the thing, I was 100% certain that the spare mobo in one of my boxes was Gigabyte, but after Googling around myself it seems that all of you are correct. The easiest way to solve this would be to take the board out & take a pic, but sadly it's buried underneath tons of my other stuff, as I'm moving to new apt and everything's stacked together, dozens of boxes (See one of my latest pics, from about a month ago)

Spare boards SHOULD be in one of these boxes, here Unfortunately, you guys will have to wait until I move in & sort out all the paperwork.

AHAHA it remember me, when i moved from my old house to the one where i am actually ... the only box that was moved 1st and put aside was the box with my GPU/CPU/mobo collection in fear to loose it in the middle of the cardboard tide :roll:

JunkBear · May 20, 2015

dorsetknob said:
not a gigabyte motherboard But its RED .........VERY RED

pic courtsey of toms hardware

board in picture is a Jetway 775GT4-SLI

wonder where Jetway are now ?

Http://www.jetway.com.tw

dorsetknob · May 20, 2015

JunkBear said:
Http://www.jetway.com.tw

Yes i know they are still in business Not for the last umpteen years they have not been in the motherboard business
Have you seen any NEW Jetway motherboard for sale
whats their range
where do they retail them ?
Hence the Question wonder where Jetway are now ?

GreiverBlade · May 20, 2015

dorsetknob said:
Yes i know they are still in business Not for the last umpteen years they have not been in the motherboard business
Have you seen any NEW Jetway motherboard for sale
whats their range
where do they retail them ?
Hence the Question wonder where Jetway are now ?

probably mostly on the Chinese market i guess, i never saw a Jetway mobo in retail (even before ...) and their actual line highest PCH is the H81-B85 ... so let say they are "dead" for consumer (IPC seems to be more up to date)

dorsetknob · May 20, 2015

It is a very nice VERY RED Motherboard tho worthy of the RED Team

were they any good ? when they were on sale compared to their rivals

Valeriant · May 20, 2015

I found this when disassembling an old Creative MP3 Player. A mechanical storage in an MP3 player. That is a bad combo and yeah, it died just a year after. It's pretty cool to see how small can a mechanical hdd be, it is in a CompactFlash's form-factor. Found on Wiki it was made in 2004.

dorsetknob · May 20, 2015

they were called nano hard drives or Micro drives

P4-630 · May 20, 2015

Valeriant said:
I found this when disassembling an old Creative MP3 Player. A mechanical storage in an MP3 player. That is a bad combo and yeah, it died just a year after. It's pretty cool to see how small can a mechanical hdd be, it is in a CompactFlash's form-factor. Found on Wiki it was made in 2004.

Cool, yeah I know those drives, I had a palmtop with windows CE back in the days, there was also an option to insert these drives, never had one though.
What I did buy was a modem in Compact Flash form for my palmtop, was working great, could use the internet on my palmtop! Dial-up

Trekkie4 · May 20, 2015

GreiverBlade said:
AHAHA it remember me, when i moved from my old house to the one where i am actually ... the only box that was moved 1st and put aside was the box with my GPU/CPU/mobo collection in fear to loose it in the middle of the cardboard tide

Yeah, I hate moving. Last time I was moving in & out was around 2001, long time ago! And having 25-ish computers & god knows how many spare parts makes all this painful experience even worse because I have no idea where to put all my stuff, as I'm moving to smaller apartment.

Random Murderer · May 20, 2015

Valeriant said:
I found this when disassembling an old Creative MP3 Player. A mechanical storage in an MP3 player. That is a bad combo and yeah, it died just a year after. It's pretty cool to see how small can a mechanical hdd be, it is in a CompactFlash's form-factor. Found on Wiki it was made in 2004.

Ha, mine was SeaGate but same form factor. Swapped the failing HDD out of my Creative Zen Micro with a 16GB CF card. Surprisingly, doing the swap not only increased my storage capacity and fixed the boot-up issue, but also decreased access time to the libraries and files on the device, even shortening load times between songs. I didn't think a dated device like that would have been able to benefit from full UltraDMA 133, but it did make a noticeable difference. I still have it and it still works, but the drivers don't support Win 7.
I'll have to see if I can find it in my computer room full of boxes :laugh:

JunkBear · May 20, 2015

dorsetknob said:
Yes i know they are still in business Not for the last umpteen years they have not been in the motherboard business
Have you seen any NEW Jetway motherboard for sale
whats their range
where do they retail them ?
Hence the Question wonder where Jetway are now ?

Wrong! Look on website menu after selecting English on mainpage. They produce mobos for Sandy bridge, amd fm2 also. They make new ones.

Bow · May 20, 2015

Found this beauty on CL, https://potsdam.craigslist.org/sys/5019947821.html

stinger608 · May 20, 2015

Bow said:
Found this beauty on CL, https://potsdam.craigslist.org/sys/5019947821.html

Says "page not available @Bow

JunkBear · May 20, 2015

stinger608 said:
Says "page not available @Bow

Maybe Craiglist is blocked for you cause I see it and im from Canada.

GreiverBlade · May 20, 2015

Bow said:
Found this beauty on CL, https://potsdam.craigslist.org/sys/5019947821.html

Commodore 128 full ... wow

meanwhile in my mailbox ...

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D! this gonna be FUN!
CD include, sound module but sadly no I/O Shield nor cable but 1.10 ... not complaining.

enjoy

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Processor	5950x
Motherboard	MSI MEG x570 Ace
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB Elite
Memory	4x16GB G.Skill TridentZ
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Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
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Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Mouse	Corsair Nightsword
Keyboard	Corsair K55
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2
Software	Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores	PEBCAK

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Processor	Xeon w 3520
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty
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Memory	6 gb Ballistix Tracer
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Power Supply	Corsair
Mouse	cheap
Keyboard	under going restoration

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
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Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
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Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
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Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
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Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
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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
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Power Supply	Chieftec Proton BDF-1000C /HP 240w/12v 1.5A/4Smart Voltplug PD 30W/Asus USB-C 65W
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Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
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Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 32 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	Marvo KM400 Mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

Trekkie4

GreiverBlade

MaxiPro800

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

GreiverBlade

JunkBear

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

Trekkie4

GreiverBlade

JunkBear

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

GreiverBlade

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

Valeriant

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

P4-630

Trekkie4

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

JunkBear

Bow

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

JunkBear

GreiverBlade

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 3700X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B550
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/16 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/Gigabyte GTX 1660
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

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Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.00/6M/1333
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Keyboard	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (K350)
Software	Win_7_Pro-French
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System Name	Isabella
Processor	Intel i7-4790K OC
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark I
Cooling	NZXT Kraken X61, 2x Corsair SP PWM, 2x Noctua iPPC 3K PWM
Memory	Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1866
Video Card(s)	Zotac GTX 980Ti AMP! Extreme
Storage	Samsung 850 EVO 250GB & 500GB, 2xPatriot Blaze 240GB, WD Green 6TB
Display(s)	Dell U2410f, Viewsonic VP720b, Sony Bravia 40"
Case	NZXT H440 Blue
Audio Device(s)	FiiO K3
Power Supply	Corsair AX760i
Mouse	Logitech G700
Keyboard	Corsair K70 RGB

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Processor	Intel i7 12700K P-Cores @ 5Ghz / Intel i3 7100U
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master / HP 83A3 (U3E1)
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12A 2 fans + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme + 5 case fans / Fan
Memory	32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 6000MHz CL36 / 8GB DDR4 HyperX CL13
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Power Supply	Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 750W / Powerbrick
Mouse	Logitech MX Anywhere 2 Laser wireless / Logitech M330 wireless
Keyboard	RAPOO E9270P Black 5GHz wireless / HP backlit
Software	Windows 11 / Windows 10
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Cooling	Custom water on CPU and GPU, dual 360mm radiators \| Corsair H80i
Memory	4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX DDR3-1600 \| 2x 4GB G.Skill RipJaws 4 DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	Sapphire AMD R9 295x2 \| PowerColor AMD HD7970
Storage	Samsung SSD 830 256GB, various others \| 2x 1TB Seagate Barracudas in RAID1
Display(s)	Dell U2713HM 2560x1440 IPS \| Panasonic TC-L32E5 1080p IPS TV
Case	Thermaltake Suppressor F51 (stripped down to hold two radiators) \| Cooler Master Elite 130
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Power Supply	LEPA G1600-MA 1600W \| Corsair CX750M 750W
Software	Win 10 64
Benchmark Scores	over 9000 BungholioMarks, "Bitchin' Fast"

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Cooling	Quench 360 Liquid Cooler
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Video Card(s)	NVidia GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB GDDR6X
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 M.2 SSD 2TB 2.5 SanDisk SSD Plus
Display(s)	Asus 28" VP28UQG 4K 3840x2160
Case	Athena M1, 6 Chassis Fans
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA Super Nova 1000W
Mouse	Razer Deathadder
Keyboard	Razer Ornata
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-Bit