Ok, that is just not a dumpster find, it's the motherload of motherloads.

CkRtech wrote:

Very nice, krivulak. Congrats.

I didn't find it, it was found by kanecvr, so nothing to congrats me for 😉

the Motherboard on the palette "down right", with the Zilog Symbol on one of the MCUs looks pretty familiar..
don't know which home computer it is 😁

kanecvr wrote:

Lots of 3dfx stuff, some matching cards as well, including two rare provideo voodoo 2 cars. An MX voodoo rush, an Alliance rush, some V1 cards, a 6800 GT AGP, a 5950 Ultra (red one), some ISA video cards including a couple of ET4000 cards and a Paradise card, an 8 bit Pro Audio Spectrum, a GUS clone, a PCI sistem on board (looks like socket 370), several creative ISA cards including an AWE64 gold, some VLB controllers and video cards, and a few motherboards.

Now I just need to find the time to clean and test all of them - see what works and what doesn't, and what can be fixed.

Wow. Just wow.

That old dusty board at the bottom - what the hell is that? It's got 2 DIN sockets which usually means one for keyboard and one for tape drive so that would put it in the era of the original PC.

krivulak wrote:

CkRtech wrote:

Very nice, krivulak. Congrats.

I didn't find it, it was found by kanecvr, so nothing to congrats me for 😉

That's what I get for glancing at a quote rather than scrolling back up!

My humble dumpster find today. Someone had thrown away a compaq CRT monitor. I just wiped the dust and it seems to be working. I have never had a monitor made by compaq, so I have no idea if it makes good ones.

Baoran wrote:

My humble dumpster find today. Someone had thrown away a compaq CRT monitor. I just wiped the dust and it seems to be working. I have never had a monitor made by compaq, so I have no idea if it makes good ones.

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I have a much newer Compaq S5500 15" model. Good colors overall but it displays all blacks with a VERY slight hint of brown.
Generally speaking there OK, if you have the space definitely keep it.

brassicGamer wrote:

That old dusty board at the bottom - what the hell is that? It's got 2 DIN sockets which usually means one for keyboard and one for tape drive so that would put it in the era of the original PC.

The old motherboards are form old romanian made PC's - a "PRAE 1000" - the first romanian designed PC (1983), and a Felix HC 91. They were commodore like machines, built into a keyboard case. Unfortunately they were disassembled and the cases and keyboards thrown away.

Both machines are based on the Zilog Z80 CPU. The PRAE 1000 has 16kb of ram and a 16kb rom, with the CPU running at 2.5MHz. The HC91 uses the same Z80 CPU but runs at 4MHz. It has 64KB of ram and a 32kb rom. More about the machines here:

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC

http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/PRAE - use google's "translate" feature, they are in romanian.

krivulak wrote:

Yes, it makes everybody jealous! I mean I found pretty nice stuff in dumpsters, but this is WHOLE new level! 😲

I did have to pay for them, but I payed for their scrap value. Also I don't know witch of them work and witch don't. On avarage, out of a haul like this about 1/3 are broken with missing parts or damaged PCB from being rattled around in a bin - and out of those about half are fixable. Also having more of the same guarantees I have a supply of parts to fix the defective ones - great fun on weekends 😀

Gatewayuser200 wrote:

A local computer shop was closing down and because I interned there the owner invited me over to help myself to what ever was in […]
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A local computer shop was closing down and because I interned there the owner invited me over to help myself to what ever was in the storage room.

Some of the highlights of what I got:

A lifetime supply of (mostly beige) IDE optical drives

Pictures
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4D2JORCiWs … d0NBTnhRUl93QzA

The is a kiloton of stuff...
Any spectacular optical drives among them, like the ones knows to be good for quality scanning... in approximate descending order...
Plextor
Benq/Philips (other rebadges and some models that may be confused with them http://hardware.forumsee.com/a/m/s/p12-57738- … ia-chipset.html )
Liteon / Sony (Classic Liteon front plate has emergency eject hole at about quarter left, rounded end line LED to left of centre, rounded end line button)

I did bit of research online and it seems that my compaq monitor is actually manufactured by HP and not compaq.

I work in IT and my company has been retiring a lot of hardware so I have picked up a bunch of things over the last year. Yesterday I got a Dell XPS 15 L502X laptop!

Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.20 GHz
8GB DDR3 Memory
320GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 1GB Video
15.6HD TLF WLED LCD Screen
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 and Bluetooth 3.0
8X CD/DVD Burner

It had a lot of dust in it so it took a while to clean most of it out. It's in great physical condition and works fine. The only thing wrong with it is one of the USB 3.0 ports are broken. Fortunately the USB ports are on a separate circuit board by themselves rather than being right off the motherboard so I purchased a replacement USB board from ebay for $5.00. Because of the severe dust inside I am going to replace the cooling fan as well ($9.00) and the battery needed to replaced also ($11.00). All minor investments to get the laptop back into perfect condition again.

X800 GT 256mb

Not sure if it works, but the fan is misisng and so is the top of the heatsink, gonna see if I have anything at home that works makeshift to see if its a working card

candle_86 wrote:

X800 GT 256mb

Not sure if it works, but the fan is misisng and so is the top of the heatsink, gonna see if I have anything at home that works makeshift to see if its a working card

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I think the 9800 xt fan is exactly the same if you have one.

Not really a recent find, but a find I made quite some time ago and am just getting back to.

3 8-bit ISA cards, found in a bin some months back.

Could use some help identifying these, as well. To me it looks like an EGA card, an I/O card, and a RAM board without much RAM on it, but past that I'm not sure where to look.

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Not really a recent find, but a find I made quite some time ago and am just getting back to.

3 8-bit ISA cards, found in a bin some months back.

Could use some help identifying these, as well. To me it looks like an EGA card, an I/O card, and a RAM board without much RAM on it, but past that I'm not sure where to look.

Yep you're pretty spot on. top left: video card. Top right: MFM hard drive controller card. Bottom, EMS ram expansion board.

LHN91 wrote:

Not really a recent find, but a find I made quite some time ago and am just getting back to.

3 8-bit ISA cards, found in a bin some months back.

Could use some help identifying these, as well. To me it looks like an EGA card, an I/O card, and a RAM board without much RAM on it, but past that I'm not sure where to look.

Can't find that Magitronic board anywhere but the memory board is an Intel Above Board, providing up to 2MB of expanded memory. The controller appears to be a variation on the Scientific Micro Systems OMTI 5520A, supporting 2 MFM drives. I love me a bit of 8-bit ISA action.

We rescued a PVM-20M4U. These displays are pretty remarkable for retro gaming. Incredibly crisp.

Retrieved from a PC being chucked out, which apparently has never been used - the fans and the heatsink are clean as a whistle!

FSP400-60GHN. 17A and 15A on the 12V rails so not that impressive really, especially considering it's got 2x 6+2 PCI-e power connectors and 2x CPU connectors. I wonder if it could run a Phenom X6 with a 4850x2? Plus a silent Coolermaster S775 HSF. Not pictured: Core 2 Duo E8300 from the same PC.

Well, I am powering Phenom X6 with 500W EVGA PSU and it feels like it is starving for juice a little bit 😁

brassicGamer wrote:

Retrieved from a PC being chucked out, which apparently has never been used - the fans and the heatsink are clean as a whistle!

FSP400-60GHN. 17A and 15A on the 12V rails so not that impressive really, especially considering it's got 2x 6+2 PCI-e power connectors and 2x CPU connectors. I wonder if it could run a Phenom X6 with a 4850x2? Plus a silent Coolermaster S775 HSF. Not pictured: Core 2 Duo E8300 from the same PC.

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In short:
No fucking way
Way too much wattage with that dual GPU monster and that CPU. That's a pathetic amperage. My 500 Watt EVGA has 50 amps on the
12v rails and it struggles with a lesser load (E8400, 9800GX2, 4 Hard drives, 2 disk drives). Also doesn't the 4850x2 need a 6+8 pin connection?