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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

JunkBear said:
One of the first XFX branded gpu.
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I was gonna guess TNT2 at first (because I don't read).... then I saw the "XFX" sticker, and shit bricks.

JunkBear said:
The older computer I just built to play older and newer games and it's rocking flawlessly Windows 7 ultimate.

CASE: Aopen

PSU: Thermaltake TR2-430NP

FLOPPY: 3 1/2" Matsumita

OPTICAL: LG GH22NS50

HDD: WD 320gigs SATA-2 Blue

MOTHERBOARD: Aopen AX4SPE-UN skt478

CPU: Pentium 4 HT 3.0E (3.0 gigs / 1024k cache / 800mhz FSB) Prescott 90nm (Socket 478)

MEMORY: 3 gigs DDR-400

GPU: HIS HD 4670 IceQ AGP 8X Overclocked from company. The most powerful AGP they ever made and that can also bring the sound through HDMI port. http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b146/his-hd-4670-iceq-native-hdmi
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There was a time when people would have thought you were cool for having all that hardware! :P

I had a Sapphire X800 AGP.... Couldn't unlock it though. I never thought I would give up AGP... I always kept hoping they would bring it back. Such a cool looking slot!
 
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Basard said:
I was gonna guess TNT2 at first (because I don't read).... then I saw the "XFX" sticker, and shit bricks.

Need some lube?!! huhuhueeueue


There was a time when people would have thought you were cool for having all that hardware! :P

Yup but buddy its Nostalgic hardware thread so im sooooo cool here :-P


I had a Sapphire X800 AGP.... Couldn't unlock it though. I never thought I would give up AGP... I always kept hoping they would bring it back. Such a cool looking slot!
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My old pc that still is used for data back up from old media and failing hard drives.

Cpu: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz with HT.
Ram: Kingston 1GB DDR 333Mhz
Motheboard: Foxconn 865M01-G
Media storage drives:
5 1/4 in floppy drive
3 1/2 in floppy drive
100Mb Zip Drive
DVD/CD-RW Drive
300 GB WD PATA HDD
Gpu: ATI Radeon 3650 512 MB
Os: Windows 7 / CentOS / Lubuntu
PSU: CoolMax 500 Watt ....... i bought its really 500 Watts since its from 2005.
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PcFixer said:
My old pc that still is used for data back up from old media and failing hard drives.

Cpu: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz with HT.
Ram: Kingston 1GB DDR 333Mhz
Motheboard: Foxconn 865M01-G
Media storage drives:
5 1/4 in floppy drive
3 1/2 in floppy drive
100Mb Zip Drive
DVD/CD-RW Drive
300 GB WD PATA HDD
Gpu: ATI Radeon 3650 512 MB
Os: Windows 7 / CentOS / Lubuntu
PSU: CoolMax 500 Watt ....... i bought its really 500 Watts since its from 2005.
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With that light im pretty sure that no germ is alive inside that case.
 
ya you could say its "virus free"....... but also I have blinded myself on the light more times than i want to admit to.
 
PcFixer said:
ya you could say its "virus free"....... but also I have blinded myself on the light more times than i want to admit to.
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I heard right away the song Blinded by the light ..from that drug movie with Johnny Depp
 
Hmm old Gpus i got one...... Intel 740 and it still runs... just nothing well.. dont think it can play pacman.
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PcFixer said:
My old pc that still is used for data back up from old media and failing hard drives.

Cpu: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz with HT.
Ram: Kingston 1GB DDR 333Mhz
Motheboard: Foxconn 865M01-G
Media storage drives:
5 1/4 in floppy drive
3 1/2 in floppy drive
100Mb Zip Drive
DVD/CD-RW Drive
300 GB WD PATA HDD
Gpu: ATI Radeon 3650 512 MB
Os: Windows 7 / CentOS / Lubuntu
PSU: CoolMax 500 Watt ....... i bought its really 500 Watts since its from 2005.
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Used to have something very similar to this, back in a day :) Mine had the following specs & was the 1st custom build by me! :D (it started out as standard system bought in the store, which then I eventually modified to this)

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Cpu: Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz S423
Ram: 2x Samsung RIMM (Rambus) 64MB
Motheboard: Asus P4T (S423)

Teac 3.5 floppy drive
Iomega ZIP100 Drive
NEC DVD-ROM Drive
BenQ 56x CD-ROM Drive
Maxtor 40GB P/ATA HDD

Gpu: Abit Siluro FX5600
Os: Windows ME
PSU: Codegen 500W ATX

It also had:
Coolermaster AeroGate fan controller
Coolermaster Musketeer
 
Remember my first built was an onboard soldered PcChips brands that could overclock. Did not made long time but it was far ahead of its time. All integrated.
 
Oldest video card I have (knew i had this, but had to wait till after work to find it.)... is the STB Monochrome Graphics Card on an 8 bit Isa interface.
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PcFixer said:
Oldest video card I have (knew i had this, but had to wait till after work to find it.)... is the STB Monochrome Graphics Card on an 8 bit Isa interface.
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8Bits and monochrome...you could totally play Mario Bros NES on a monochrome monitor. :-)
 
I would try to run the STB card in a computer if i had something with an ISA Bus in it, but i sadly don't.
 
Last week a friend brought over her laptop. It's certainly not the oldest thing out there, but I was somewhat amazed that it was in such excellent condition.

2005 Apple iBook G4 12" (1.33Ghz PPC).

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It came with OSX 10.4 but was upgraded to OSX 10.5 in 2007. Had a minimum requirement of 512MB and it shows - you can only do one thing at a time. For $13 I picked up a Crucial 1GB PC2700 SODIMM to max out the unit at 1.5GB (the other 512MB is soldered on). She should have gotten this upgrade back in 2007, but better late than never. There also exist PATA SSD for the purpose of upgrading old laptops, and that was very tempting, but we ultimately decided to see how the new RAM felt first. While the RAM is a cheap quick drop-in, the SSD is not and costs around $95.

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Yes they all work still, the foam i used is static sensitive foam. Wasn't cheap but didn't want to kill my chips. The last one i posted was just random cpus from the early days of computing and other cpus that didn't fit in with an Intel or AMD only shadow box.

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I got creative with all my old cpus.

Workin on one for amd and Intel only cpus.
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This is the previous one.

Row 1: 8086
Row 2: Am186, i286
Row 3: IDT Win Chip, AM386, i486, Am5x86, I960
Row 4: Via C3, Cyrix DX4 100, Sun UltraSparc
Row 5: Cyrix 6x86, IBM 6x86, Cyrix MII
Row 6: Intel Itanium, Cyrix Media GX, National Semiconductor Geode, Transmeta Crusoe
All Around: Other chips are random.

Heres the other two.

Intel starting at the Pentium and going to the Core i Series.
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Row 1: Pentium, Pentium Flip Chip, Pentium Pro,
Row 2: Pentium 2, Celeron (370), Pentium 3 (Slot 1)
Row 3: Pentium 3 (370), Celeron 3 (370)., Pentium 4 (423), Celeron (478)., Pentium 4 Northwood
Row 4: Celeron D (478), Pentium 4 Prescott(775), Pentium D, Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, Core i3.


AMD starting with K5 to A4 / bulldozer
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Row 1: 5k86, K5
Row 2: K6, K6-2, K6-III (super reflective.)
Row 3: Athlon (Slot A)
Row 4: Athlon, Athlon MP, Duron, Sempron, Geode
Row 5: Athlon 64 (754), Athlon 64 (939), Sempron (754), Athlon 64 X2(AM2), Athlon II(AM3), A4-6300

Took me a while to get these finished but they turn out nicely.

Enjoy.
 
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Random Murderer said:
I have that exact card game program in my library of 5.25 floppies! Loved it when I was younger.
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Why don't you guys put all games together in a zip file with a DOS emulator so people could play all these past games only by pluggin in USB keys?
 
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