TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Keullo-e]

Apparently, they do, but as we are out of the EU it would be costly. Buy Your Product(S) From the Cex Online Store They truly do take the hassle and worry out of the process of international shipping. Once they receive the package, they will notify you to see if you would like them to ship it to you in Europe, or if you would prefer to bundle a larger order. It can save you time and money in the long run!

Nah, paying a little import tax and/or customs is fine if it's a good deal.

Tho I don't know how it works for them, I bought trigger clips from ebay for 2 Dualshock3s, they came from UK and as I paid the tax on purchase, I didn't need to do anything else.

edit: what I mean, sometimes a package waits in Finland customs and I need to pay the customs before it arrives to me.

 

[Greenslade]

Nah, paying a little import tax and/or customs is fine if it's a good deal.

Tho I don't know how it works for them, I bought trigger clips from ebay for 2 Dualshock3s, they came from UK and as I paid the tax on purchase, I didn't need to do anything else.

edit: what I mean, sometimes a package waits in Finland customs and I need to pay the customs before it arrives to me.

Send a parcel to Finlandfrom only £8.87 exc VAT​

• Collection and drop-off service available
• 
  
• Get parcel cover worth up to £50 included
• 
  
• Protect your parcel up to £5000 with extra cover
• 
  
• Send up to 70kg on selected services
• I have had that from china. the customs wanted an extra £20 plus on an item that was £60. If I had known that before I bought it, I would have gotten it from the UK. It would have been around the same price.

 

[Keullo-e]

Send a parcel to Finlandfrom only £8.87 exc VAT​

• 
  
• Collection and drop-off service available
• 
  
• Get parcel cover worth up to £50 included
• 
  
• Protect your parcel up to £5000 with extra cover
• 
  
• Send up to 70kg on selected services
• I have had that from china. the customs wanted an extra £20 plus on an item that was £60. If I had known that before I bought it, I would have gotten it from the UK. It would have been around the same price.

Not bad. I may check what CEX has to offer when I get cash in 6.9., at least I could stash some DDR3/DDR4 RAM. Maybe some cheap old CPUs and GPUs too.

Thanks!

 

[GreiverBlade]

Going to give away the upper one, it works even tho the die is kinda fked up. But on the lower one... no way, that's an AXIA, the best Thunderbird stepping.

i have a Duron (ceramic package like these two) also in the "cracked die" edition, as i like to call it, that was my daily driver some time (actually ages ... it was what replaced my AMD-K6-2/333AFR ) ago, i kept it on my CPU shelf

it was still working nonetheless (and should still be ) iirc i did mess up with the Titan Silver Orb installation

 

[Audioave10]

Another gift (I think) as I don't have experience with DOS or Floppies. It DID have XP Pro on it (no hard drive now), some Pentium CPU
maybe and an AGP Ati 9000 Pro video card. It starts, so the PSU still works. I have not started on it yet as it needs a different case as this
one is beat-up too much. It has 6 80MM noisy fans and the video card fan is not good. where to start...

 

[Greenslade]

Another gift (I think) as I don't have experience with DOS or Floppies. It DID have XP Pro on it (no hard drive now), some Pentium CPU
maybe and an AGP Ati 9000 Pro video card. It starts, so the PSU still works. I have not started on it yet as it needs a different case as this
one is beat-up too much. It has 6 80MM noisy fans and the video card fan is not good. where to start...

Thats a big old PC nice


I take it that is a room you just use for your PC stuff

 

[Audioave10]

Thats a big old PC nice
That looks like a marble floor?

I take it that is a room you just use for your PC stuff

that is 28 year old carpet in my living room ( I could NOT keep a house and retire - too expensive)

 

[Greenslade]

that is 28 year old carpet in my living room ( I could NOT keep a house and retire - too expensive)

I just have a studio flat ie living bedroom in one ,with separate kitchen and bathroom I wish i lived in a house, have not lived in one since i was 20 many years ago.That,s a long time to have a carpet I Have been in my flat for just over 16 years.

 

[MachineLearning]

It pains me to injure a board I love, especially accidentally...

I've been using a Thermalright TBK (Bolt-through adapter for many sockets I bench) for LGA775 testing on my Striker II Extreme. Used the wrong (longer) screw without realizing it was just above this capacitor.

Luckily it still works. But I'm not sure if I should be concerned long-term, or if this cap is now failing/failed.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Seeing the old cases in this thread sure gives me an appreciation of how nice of cases we get now and their airflow performance. No more bleeding when working on PCs.

 

[Courier 6]

Another gift (I think) as I don't have experience with DOS or Floppies. It DID have XP Pro on it (no hard drive now), some Pentium CPU
maybe and an AGP Ati 9000 Pro video card. It starts, so the PSU still works. I have not started on it yet as it needs a different case as this
one is beat-up too much. It has 6 80MM noisy fans and the video card fan is not good. where to start...

Nice case! I would love to have one of those

 

[Audioave10]

Inside that old case was this Socket478 (I think its an Intel board as I could not find another brand name) with
Pentium 4 @2.8GHZ and 2x256 DDR RAM @266Mhz speed.

 

[68Olds]

Inside that old case was this Socket478 (I think its an Intel board as I could not find another brand name) with
Pentium 4 @2.8GHZ and 2x256 DDR RAM @266Mhz speed.

The AB60N model number says it is a Shuttle mobo w/ 865PE chipset. Probably a fun board to play with & may have some overclocking potential.
Shuttle AB60N Socket 478 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com

 

[QuietBob]

Inside that old case was this Socket478 (I think its an Intel board as I could not find another brand name)

Actually, it's a Shuttle mainboard
EDIT:
@68Olds you beat me to it

 

[Audioave10]

The AB60N model number says it is a Shuttle mobo w/ 865PE chipset. Probably a fun board to play with & may have some overclocking potential.
Shuttle AB60N Socket 478 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com

Thanks! I was sure that one of you guys would give me the hint I needed.

 

[68Olds]

Actually, it's a Shuttle mainboard
EDIT:
@68Olds you beat me to it

Yeah, but you found their site! I remember looking at those Shuttle XPC barebones boxes in the computer shops. Seemed to be great for the lan party crowd, but that wasn't me.

 

[Audioave10]

Its easy to pop out the pins to remove the fan on the ATI 9000 Pro. pulled back the sticker and dropped in some fine oil and cleaned the rest of it.
If the bearing is still good it might just work.

 

[Greenslade]

Its easy to pop out the pins to remove the fan on the ATI 9000 Pro. pulled back the sticker and dropped in some fine oil and cleaned the rest of it.
If the bearing is still good it might just work.

I remember this video from Phil's computer lab. And seeing Phil push the pins out. I have this one with a fan like yours. I have not used it yet. My question to you is your fan nosiey?

 

[Audioave10]

I remember this video from Phil's computer lab. And seeing Phil push the pins out. I have this one with a fan like yours. I have not used it yet. My question to you is your fan nosiey?

It was noisy and I've taken the whole PC apart to work on it. I won't know if it works for awhile.

 

[Greenslade]

I got the fuses but they were the wrong ones ,i got the glass ones Instead of the fuses for plugs.I want bother sending them back i do have stuff i can use them for,Plus the fact they only cost a couple of quid.I got the adapter to test to see if everything was ok on my motherboard with the Dell PSU.Is there just one way you can plug it in.i take it is.

I have tried the adapter with the dell psu ,
HPZ230 MT 4 Red bleeps ,can anyone tell me the problem the green light is on no fans going any idea?

It did not work with the Dell PSU with the adapter four red beeps with the back fan going for a few seconds. From the conversation with Lex
*If I understand you, you plugged a Dell PSU into an HP workstation? That might be your problem. Unfortunately, PSUs are not 100% universal from brand to brand. Dell and HP are known to do funky things with their PSU pin-outs and voltages.*.Do I take a chance and buy a power supply?Or buy this for £150

HP Z440 Workstation Xeon E5-1620v3 4-CORE TURBO 3.60GHz -500GB SATA-Quadro K4000

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

I bought a listing of 1.05 pounds of AMD PGA CPUs listed for gold recovery on eBay. A mix of early 00s to mid 2010s in here.

The photos were really poor and only showed half of the CPUs included but I really scored for the $8 I paid.

The majority of them have anywhere from a couple to a ton of bent pins, mostly due to how it was packed. I do not see any broken pins, but the 2 in this photo below may not he repairable.

So far I have repaired the pins on several of the CPUs but only had time to test the am3/+ CPUs which Included an FX8320, FX6300, Phenom ii X4 830, and Athlon ii x4 635. All post.

There are some other interesting CPUs in there, several Athlon 64s and Sempron that fit better in this thread., I will sort through those and update probably tomorrow.

 

[Robert B]

I've seen far worse.

For me the problematic pins were those that were wavy. Like the letter S. So I took a pair of pliers and I shaved the tips with a grinder until they were fine and pointy. I also grinded the insides of the tips. Then I buffed them with a buffing wheel and some polishing paste. With this tool I was able to return the pins to a nice shape. Be careful though, if you apply too much pressure you can flatten the pin. How do I know? Well, it happened to me when I thought that brute force was required.

To straighten the pins I used a syringe needle cut to size with a pair of pliers. Then I took a regular needle and I opened up the hole. Then I buffed the tip gently to make it smooth.

The syringe needle is way better than any tool to straighten the pins of S478 and other CPUs with fine pins.

After I have straightened all the pins in a general manner I use a credit card like this. The distance between pins is quite large. I took the credit card and while I kept the CPU at my eyes level. I rested it on a row a pins, so that the card was angled, then I pressed gently on the top of the card and I saw how the pins got into a line, then I moved the card on the neighboring row o pins and I repeated the procedure. Think like a pendulum would move that is the trick.

The most tricky pins are on the sides. There, I used a lot of tactics including deforming them outward with a credit card and then resting the pins on a flat surface to put them in a line.

If you are patient you can recover many CPUs deemed dead including Ryzen chips that suffer damage like this.

L.E. I saw on the bay a batch of Opteron ceramic CPUs but I couldn't buy it. Some great models were in that lot. Shipping too expensive. If you are patient you can find in scrap lots, even the Holy Grail Athlon 64 FX, FX-51, 53, 60, etc CPUs.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

There was a wavy pin on the quad core athlon but I managed to get it good enough to go into the socket (with some force)

Will see about the rest

 

[Robert B]

Good job!

With patience anybody that is willing to try, can save a great number of these so called "dead" CPUs.

Keep you eyes on the Athlon 64 batches. There is bound that you will find at least a few FX 64 ones.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

I do use a credit card, a sewing needle, and also a lead pencil to bend back pins.

Sewing needle is mostly to pry up flattened down pins, and if pins are just bent slightly I can stick the tip of the lead pencil over the tip and move the pencil to bend the pin back.

Credit cards are good for rows but I've found sometimes they can cause issues. If you try and stick it in a row and get resistance, I need to remember to stop, because it can just make things worse and flatten pins bent perpendicular to the credit card.