How much spare PC stuff do you have?

Richard Dower

LOL, it's pure madness i tell you!
In the last year i've had some six DVD-ROM's and three burners. Right now i have a Plextor 716A, 712SA, 130A and an Asus E616A and two of these have not been used! :eek:

It's loonie the amount of PC hardware that has passed through my hands in the last two years, mobo's, GPU's, memory. I jst hate having gear laying about and even worse when the "upgrage" bug hits you

I've got boxes of this that and the other, fans, cables and god knows what else.
Least i'm not as bad as some guys who literally could build four rigs from all there parts.

Gone West

meh. We've always had about the contents of a spare room of computer parts for as long as I can remember. Probably early 1990s.

Richard Dower

Flog it!
Things is...even stuff from like 2 years ago is hard to shift, price depreciation is a b_*itch!

Gone West

im talking 386s here.

Richard Dower

38what?

david

Richard Dower wrote:

38what?

386 = really old computer!

conzy

I have 4 PSUs, 3 Cd Drives, 3 motherboards, 3 P4 cpus, 1 case, An old K6-2 system, around 6 sticks of Pc100 ram a Pentium 2 Cpu, A P1 Dell laptop, a P2 Dell laptop, a few Hdds, modems..........

Maybe i will be able to build at least 1 system out of it all:D

Kintarō Hattori

freakonaleashx wrote:

386 = really old computer!

(I think he was joking!)

slade_x

I have a lot of older computer lying around, along with some other spare parts:

Few old 40GB - 80GB hard drives
Connect3d Radeon 9700PRO
Sapphire X800XT Platinum Edition
1 Gig Corsair + 1 Gig Geil 3200
Athlon XP (Barton) 3200+
Athlon 64 (Winchester) 3200+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
MSI K8N NEO2 PLatinum
LG DVD/RW writer
Sharkoon 350 Watt silent power supply
550watt power supply + 300watt + 350 watt
Some spare CPU + GPU water blocks
etc.....

Richard Dower

How much for the Winchester 3200+?

galwaydude18

slade x how much for the LG DVD/RW writer?

SouperComputer

too much to list.

At a glance:

5 iMacs, 9 PC's, 5 or 6 optical drives, 15 2.5" drives about 7 or 8 3.5", a few gutted laptops all kinds of goodness here!

gline

slade_x wrote:

Sapphire X800XT Platinum Edition

is this pci-e? interested in selling if it is ? PM me


ive a LOAD of old pc stff lying around in drawers, boxes etc, in total i think 3 drawers and 3-4boxes full of stuff..... some of it is for sale here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054897710
I wouldnt like to know how much computer gear passes through my hands in a year, i practically live in the computers FS section

gline

SouperComputer wrote:

15 2.5" drives /quote]

what are we talking here? below 10gig? any of them working, interested in anything over 10 gig if u are selling any

SouperComputer

gline wrote:

SouperComputer wrote:

15 2.5" drives /quote]

what are we talking here? below 10gig? any of them working, interested in anything over 10 gig if u are selling any

I should have a couple of 20's or 30's. When ill get around to testing them is another thing though!

gline

SouperComputer wrote:

gline wrote:

I should have a couple of 20's or 30's. When ill get around to testing them is another thing though!

cool, im interested if u want to sell them, pm me anyway, thanks

Capt'n Midnight

FuzzyLogic wrote:

meh. We've always had about the contents of a spare room of computer parts for as long as I can remember. Probably early 1990s.

Deja Vu.

Last night I saw some 256Kb simms.

gline

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Deja Vu.

Last night I saw some 256Kb simms.

OMG they were around when i was born (Middle 80's)

SouperComputer

yea, I think I still have the whopper 1Mb upgrade from my Atari 520 STFM lying about!

gline

its amazing the amount of junk you can accumilate in such a short space of time, i really got to do a clearout one of these days

slade_x

Richard Dower wrote:

How much for the Winchester 3200+?

Sorry, im not selling it, i have clocked it to hell and back.

galwaydude18 wrote:

slade x how much for the LG DVD/RW writer?

Its actually an LG DVD/CD-RW combo - it can only read dvd's and write CD's, it wouldnt be really worth selling as you can pick up an actual DVD-RW/CD-RW for around €40, and its always nice to have a spare just in case

gline wrote:

is this pci-e? interested in selling if it is ? PM me

Its AGP, it like everything else, has been severely overclocked

shanethemofo

omg like im such a poor tenage wannabe computer freak.. i envy u guys with buckets of pc parts to throw around.... someday maybe i will live up to u guys....yes someday... *sobs uncontrollably*

please send all donations to the "i wanna hav a room ful of junk" foundation
adress: ME!

:P

Richard Dower

I got into computers back in the old ZX81 days and the Spectrum, from a very young age i loved computers, lol...Basic :-)

conzy

slade_x wrote:

I have a lot of older computer lying around, along with some other spare parts:

Few old 40GB - 80GB hard drives
Connect3d Radeon 9700PRO
Sapphire X800XT Platinum Edition
1 Gig Corsair + 1 Gig Geil 3200
Athlon XP (Barton) 3200+
Athlon 64 (Winchester) 3200+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
MSI K8N NEO2 PLatinum
LG DVD/RW writer
Sharkoon 350 Watt silent power supply
550watt power supply + 300watt + 350 watt
Some spare CPU + GPU water blocks
etc.....

How much for the XP 3200 and a 40gb HDD?, We can start our own FS section in this section and trade all our scrap LOL:D

riptide

freakonaleashx wrote:

386 = really old computer!

286->386->486->Pentium->Pentium MMX -> you know the rest

riptide

I have an old 486 @ 75Mhz that i let my dad mess with. The hardrive was a cool 454MBs. I upgraded it to a 2gig:D . I upgraded the stock 8MB ram to a whopping 40mb. Surprisingly still, she runs Win98 'ok'. I upgraded 2x cdrom to a 52x Dvdrom...

Man that machine cost £1100 back in '96, and thats where it all began. And I thought it was a rocket ship, cos the machine in the classroom was a 808086 or something that ran Dos Shell.

That school thing used to have to be left on for 15mins and rebooted before it would heat up enough to complete the boot!!!! But sure thats where the love started... I used to enjoy putting in a few BASIC lines to get the speaker to squeel at 16kilohertz then at 16.5 in a siren effect to slowly give everyone a headache (nobody knew it was an almost inaudible high pitch that was doing it)
Thems were the days.......

DingChavez

lots..

dazberry

I did a clear out recently and got down to 4 machines from 7. I still have the bits for 2 full machines (excl. cases and fdds). The oldest piece of kit I have is a 5 1/4" 1.2MB FDD from 1989 - it still works - its grey two - would probably match my current (aluminium) kit too.

One thing that came in really handy recently was an old Aero 7 Lite (looks like a jet engine). Was never happy with the cooler and it was sitting idle for years. Needed a low profile socket A cooler, and discovered that the top jet bit clips off and it is exactly 80mm So I got a Zalman slim 80mm VGA cooler fan, and clipped that on instead. Have it via a Zalman Fanmate 2 turned down the lowest, the machine is almost silent and its far better than any low profile cooler I've ever came across

riptide wrote:

Man that machine cost £1100 back in '96, and thats where it all began. And I thought it was a rocket ship, cos the machine in the classroom was a 808086 or something that ran Dos Shell.

That sounds a bit dear for a 486 for that time tbh, unless it came with some bells and whistles! I was routing thru' some old (paper)files this morning and found an invoice for a PC I bought on the August 14th 1996. It was a p1-133 and afair with 15" screen. It was basically a full machine without a CDROM (I had a 4 speed drive eagerly waiting to be put into it) - and it cost IR£1,016.40.

D.

Richard Dower

Brings back memories.

riptide

dazberry wrote:

That sounds a bit dear for a 486 for that time tbh, unless it came with some bells and whistles! I was routing thru' some old (paper)files this morning and found an invoice for a PC I bought on the August 14th 1996. It was a p1-133 and afair with 15" screen. It was basically a full machine without a CDROM (I had a 4 speed drive eagerly waiting to be put into it) - and it cost IR£1,016.40.

D.

I remember exactly. Cos I had saved £600 and my family donated the balance £500. It was bought in the Compustore in Wexford town. I was probably robbed a little at that price.... it was a Packard Bell. it was a pity actually cos I only had it when the Pentiums came out. Things seemed to move a little faster in the mid-late 90's.

dazberry

riptide wrote:

I remember exactly. Cos I had saved £600 and my family donated the balance £500. It was bought in the Compustore in Wexford town. I was probably robbed a little at that price.... it was a Packard Bell. it was a pity actually cos I only had it when the Pentiums came out. Things seemed to move a little faster in the mid-late 90's.

Actually that probably wasn't too bad (beyond the Compustore premium) in that I'm sure you got the full kit with the machine. I didn't get a sound card or CDROM for instance, as I had them already, didn't get any software either. I went to AIB for a 1K loan to buy the thing, paid it off over a year. Also managed to get £50 off by claiming it was for a work client and we were reselling it - I was such a chancer

D.

riptide

Yep... There was/is a soundcard with it. it was ready to use on plug in when i got home and a good bit of software came with it.

unklerosco

If anyone, in all of there hoards of gear, has a socket A mobo they don't want please pm me as i needs to get my hands on one fairly soon...

TomCo

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Cuddlesworth

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

I just checked and your right, how were they allowed get away with that. As for me, I have only been into computers for just over a year and already my room is full of old parts. Besides my main rig I have an assortment of crap fans, heatsinks, propriotory cases and mobos, an old At 133 I use to kick when im pissed off at my rig and a dell ???? that may or may not run. I havnt bothered to check yet. That is if you can find them

Capt'n Midnight

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Just like the power button on every non-electronic device.

When it's on it's on, and when it's off it's off. No autopower on when changing a card. None of this power button not working because of a software crash. ZERO watts power usage when turned off etc. Zero fire risk when turned off. A lot to be said for it

riptide

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Just like an electric kettle!

Cuddlesworth

Picture a full steel case with bad positioning on the power switch. You could easly knock it out and onto the metal.

gline

my first was a 286, LOL
i remember that, it was sweet at the time, 20meg hdd + 256k memory i think, no ram, no cd, no sound, 16 colours hehehe made by WANG, LOL
ah the memories, playing prince of persia and the time you were able to EXIT out of windows (3.0) into dos, hahahah

riptide

This is getting akin to, "So how did you loose your virginity?"

gline

riptide wrote:

This is getting akin to, "So how did you loose your virginity?"

LOL "when did you first use your floppy", hahahaha

riptide

gline wrote:

LOL "when did you first use your floppy", hahahaha

Well to answer the question, I used to use the 5 1/4 in ones in school as frisbies and cut the heads off guys in the class. They actually had great aero dynamics and you could bend them and get a flight path out of them.... and if you were really good you could get it such a way that the corner would hit someone in the cheek!

gline

riptide wrote:

Well to answer the question, I used to use the 5 1/4 in ones in school as frisbies and cut the heads off guys in the class. They actually had great aero dynamics and you could bend them and get a flight path out of them.... and if you were really good you could get it such a way that the corner would hit someone in the cheek!

hahahaha , we used to use them in school too but not throwing them

riptide

gline wrote:

hahahaha , we used to use them in school too but not throwing them

Well our school spent more money on gyms for the football/hurling team and nothing on computers hardly. I could count on 1 hand the amount of PCs in the place... and that was a school of 600/700. And the ones that were there, we didn't get to use much... and i remember my best friend formatted one of the harddrives after I told him to impress the teacher with this 'special' command for the craic and the teacher went bannanas. ... so you can see why not a lot of interest was put into PCs with guys like us around...

gline

riptide wrote:

Well our school spent more money on gyms for the football/hurling team and nothing on computers hardly. I could count on 1 hand the amount of PCs in the place... and that was a school of 600/700. And the ones that were there, we didn't get to use much... and i remember my best friend formatted one of the harddrives after I told him to impress the teacher with this 'special' command for the craic and the teacher went bannanas. ... so you can see why not a lot of interest was put into PCs with guys like us around...

hahaha computer smart people in schools then was rare

SouperComputer

anyone have those horrid nework-based token-ring RM nimbus'? They were awful, easy enough to hack though

Capt'n Midnight

krazy_8s wrote:

Picture a full steel case with bad positioning on the power switch. You could easly knock it out and onto the metal.

That's one of the reasons metal cases are earthed.
Alternatively Compo

riptide

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

That's one of the reasons metal cases are earthed.
Alternatively Compo

Alternatively Funeral