Post Your Old Hardware

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  1. Dyre Straits

    Dyre Straits 10 Grandkids -2 Great-grandsons

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    I just got this one back from my mother's PC that I had built for her a few years ago. She now has an HD5450 in her refurbished box that I got her for Christmas this year.

    This served me well and was still in good working order when I got it back at Christmas.

    X1950 Pro:

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    Dyre Straits, Feb 9, 2015
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  2. IvanV

    IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member

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    Thanks for the reply, grog, I didn't know dummy cards used to be required on older boards when not utilizing multi GPU.

    @Dyre: Sweet card! It came out during what was a hardware drought for me (between my 9800 Pro and the 4670).

    We used this card for a very short period, my sister needed one urgently for her old PC and, as it was already really old at the time, someone just gave it to us and it remained in the house:

    LEGO i Stari HW 029sc.jpg
     
    IvanV, Feb 12, 2015
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  3. grog

    grog Roxy Music

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    I had one of these many moons ago

     
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  4. Calliers

    Calliers Administrator Staff Member

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    Sweet ass card Dyre! :D

    And I too owned a Geforce MX 440 at some point or other Ivan, I remember I was bloody excited when we got it (after it's range had just come out).
     
    Calliers, Mar 11, 2015
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    Kazeko Active Member

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    I can't post pics (due to the nature of the building they're in), but I have five old 733mhz Intel Celerons (512 megs of ram!) on proprietary mainboards running a few voice recording modules that are still in daily use.

    I recently had to replace a CPU card (MB/CPU/RAM all in one), and had to ship the card back to the OEM for reman. Ultimately they had to source another part because the mainboard was clocking the CPU up to 748mhz (and crashing!)
     
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    tastyweat Lurking

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    tastyweat, Jul 5, 2017
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    clubrope Active Member

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    Nice collections :O
     
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  8. Shane Haumpton

    Shane Haumpton New Member

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    AMD athlon 2.7ghz
    512mb ram, 500gb storage
    700watts psu
     
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  9. GigaWatt

    GigaWatt Now In Color :D

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    Ummm... define "old hardware" :D.

    Tighten the heatsink on a bench vise and use a screwdriver and a hammer to nudge it a bit. Just hammer on the screwdriver a bit while it being inserted between the CPU's PCB and the heatsink. I know this looks a bit savage, but it works :p :D.
     
    GigaWatt, Dec 15, 2020
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  10. GigaWatt

    GigaWatt Now In Color :D

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    You've got bad caps on the card.

    LEGO i Stari HW 029sc.jpg
     
    GigaWatt, Dec 15, 2020
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  11. IvanV

    IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member

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    Oh yeah, those are bulging. I don't know if the card is still at my mom's home or not, though.
     
    IvanV, Dec 15, 2020
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  12. Judas

    Judas Obvious Closet Brony Pony

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    it's the nvidia way.... they've always had inferior on the edge of passing/failing hardware components.
     
    Judas, Dec 15, 2020
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  13. Calliers

    Calliers Administrator Staff Member

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    Wowzer, you guys have eagle eyes.

     
    Calliers, Dec 16, 2020
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