Wow, I didn't even click onto that. Logic controlled amp gain is neat, especially in an amp of that vintage. I'd probably clean any switch contacts just to be thorough, but no pots is a definite plus.

Not really dumpster find.. but I was given these:

i7-920
i7-4770
Athlon 64x2 6000 AM2
Phenom II 1090T
AMD FX-8150 (some bent pins)

Also got a gaggle of motherboards that came with them. Supposedly most of the motherboards are faulty. I will have to test stuff out when I get a chance.

The only ones I am not holding up much hope for are some LGA socket boards with bent pins. Not sure if I can fix them or not.

There was also some RAM installed in a few of the motherboards.

Nice gift.

Marry that person who gave you that stuff

oeuvre wrote:

Marry that person who gave you that stuff

HAHAHAHA, ummm no. For one, I am already married. And for another, I am not gay.

Anyway, he is a friend that was getting rid of stuff he was having trouble with or possible just was not being used anymore and had already put it all in boxes to get rid of.

He knew I was looking for old computer stuff. And although this stuff is not near as old as what I was really looking for I am not going to turn down free computer hardware.

Will be getting some CRT monitors from him as well at some point.

Might want to condenser becoming gay to marry him 🤣 might end up being worth wile.

off course Im joking.

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oeuvre wrote:

Marry that person who gave you that stuff

HAHAHAHA, ummm no. For one, I am already married. And for another, I am not gay.

Anyway, he is a friend that was getting rid of stuff he was having trouble with or possible just was not being used anymore and had already put it all in boxes to get rid of.

He knew I was looking for old computer stuff. And although this stuff is not near as old as what I was really looking for I am not going to turn down free computer hardware.

Will be getting some CRT monitors from him as well at some point.

Well, maybe you can have a bromance built around computer parts, then.

Convert to Islam then you can have multiple spouses.

cyclone3d wrote:

Not really dumpster find.. but I was given these:

Phenom II 1090T
(some bent pins)

That on it's own is pretty awesome. Are any of the boards SLI / Crossfire capable?

KCompRoom2000 wrote:

A few days ago, a neighbor gave us this Planar PL1700 LCD Monitor for free, It works fine although there's one minor issue - it makes a hissing noise when turned off, not sure if that's normal behavior for its kind or if there are dying capacitors on the circuit boards inside, haven't opened it up yet.

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It might be okay. I have a Benq FP71G+ I got for cheap that does the same hiss.

Although, I also suggest open it up and check for badcaps.

brassicGamer wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Not really dumpster find.. but I was given these:

Phenom II 1090T
(some bent pins)

That on it's own is pretty awesome. Are any of the boards SLI / Crossfire capable?

Yep, I know.

Most of the boards are SLI/Crossfire capable. Basically no low end boards. All of them are ASUS or Gigabyte.

I've already got higher end stuff in my main systems, but these make for some nice spares as well as some nice parts to maybe build a nice XP box. Basically I have waaaaay too much hardware laying around already and not nearly enough cases to put everything in. If I had about 5-6 more ATX cases and 3-4 AT cases I would be set for a while.

A lot of hardware passes through my hands and stuff I don't have any use for or I don't want and is not worth me selling, if it is good enough, gets handed down to people that need computers or have even lower end stuff. I'm a lot more careful now than in the old days when I would sell or give stuff away.

Not really a dumpster dive, and not really recent acquisitions, but still neat nonetheless. Grabbed these for $20 each from the local Deseret Industries thrift store, before it relocated to another city.

LaCie Electron Blue III 19", manufactured October 2001:

Dell UltraScan P780 D P/N 06271R 17" Trinitron, manufactured December 1999:

kode54 wrote:

Not really a dumpster dive, and not really recent acquisitions, but still neat nonetheless. Grabbed these for $20 each from the […]
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Not really a dumpster dive, and not really recent acquisitions, but still neat nonetheless. Grabbed these for $20 each from the local Deseret Industries thrift store, before it relocated to another city.

LaCie Electron Blue III 19", manufactured October 2001:

Dell UltraScan P780 D P/N 06271R 17" Trinitron, manufactured December 1999:

Yeah,those are a serious find. Beautiful, sharp picture. Congrats man.

Someone had left a tower case in a dumpster with both side panels missing. There was a motherboard with dual cpus and a psu inside. The psu was dead when I tested, but the motherboard and cpus work fine.
When I first saw the case in the dumpster my first thought was that it was a dual P2 system, but when I looked more closely at home, they were both actually 450Mhz P3 cpus.
I don't have a picture of the case and the dead psu because I threw them away before I thought of posting here, but here is a picture of the motherboard:

Not sure what I will do with it. There isn't much from that era that takes advantage of multiple cpus. One option is just steal one of the cpus from the motherboard and use it to upgrade my P2 300Mhz system to 450Mhz.

I love dual cpu systems! You can build a nice dual-boot Windows 2000 / Windows 98 system with it for example. Windows 98 won't use the second CPU, but it will still be a nice Intel BX chipset PIII system. But even in Windows 2000 the second CPU will be of limited use...

Gigabyte made nice boards back then!

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Someone had left a tower case in a dumpster with both side panels missing. There was a motherboard with dual cpus and a psu insi […]
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Someone had left a tower case in a dumpster with both side panels missing. There was a motherboard with dual cpus and a psu inside. The psu was dead when I tested, but the motherboard and cpus work fine.
When I first saw the case in the dumpster my first thought was that it was a dual P2 system, but when I looked more closely at home, they were both actually 450Mhz P3 cpus.
I don't have a picture of the case and the dead psu because I threw them away before I thought of posting here, but here is a picture of the motherboard:

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Not sure what I will do with it. There isn't much from that era that takes advantage of multiple cpus. One option is just steal one of the cpus from the motherboard and use it to upgrade my P2 300Mhz system to 450Mhz.

oeuvre wrote:

Convert to Islam then you can have multiple spouses.

Well, that solves half of that issue 🤣

Wow, those Dell Ultrascan monitors take me back. Those were great. I had a P990 but ran out of space for it so it had to go 🙁

There are plenty of retro regrets with me.

I almost forgot, the Dell came with a scuff in the coating on the glass, that obscures the image slightly. That whitish spot slightly below the center.

Ended getting two systems and a dead motherboard (not shown) from my uni, the first system is an HP XW4000 Workstation without the PSU which have an interesting videocard, a Matrox Parhellia-512 AGP, can't test the xw4000 because of propietary PSU missing, second system is an usual i865G mATX system. I can confirm both the Parhelia and the Geforce 4 MX4000 cards works
Specs:
XW4000
Pentium 4 2.66 ghz Northwood with propietary cooler
HP XW4000 motherboard
no RAM
Matrox Parhellia-512 128 MB
Maxtor 40 GB
Custom P4 system
Pentium 4 HT 2.8E Ghz Prescott with an all copper socket 478 cooler
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MF
no RAM
Geforce 4 MX4000 (Gigabyte GV-N40128TE)
Samsung 80 GB SATA HDD
InWin 240 watt PSU

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Ended getting two systems and a dead motherboard (not shown) from my uni, the first system is an HP XW4000 Workstation without t […]
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Ended getting two systems and a dead motherboard (not shown) from my uni, the first system is an HP XW4000 Workstation without the PSU which have an interesting videocard, a Matrox Parhellia-512 AGP, can't test the xw4000 because of propietary PSU missing, second system is an usual i865G mATX system. I can confirm both the Parhelia and the Geforce 4 MX4000 cards works
Specs:
XW4000
Pentium 4 2.66 ghz Northwood with propietary cooler
HP XW4000 motherboard
no RAM
Matrox Parhellia-512 128 MB
Maxtor 40 GB
Custom P4 system
Pentium 4 HT 2.8E Ghz Prescott with an all copper socket 478 cooler
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MF
no RAM
Geforce 4 MX4000 (Gigabyte GV-N40128TE)
Samsung 80 GB SATA HDD
InWin 240 watt PSU

Is that HP a twin 6 pin? Adapters are like 3 dollars on eBay. More than worth it for a working workstation IMO.

Why did they take nothing but the RAM though? AFAIK RAM is usually the least valuable part in the PC. Probably doubly so for the workstation as I bet it accepts ECC memory which is always a fraction of the price of normal ram due to it constantly being mass retired from server farns.