Scrapyard yielded a badly beaten up HP laptop with Centrino CPU in it.

Obviously beaten up, cracked screen, destroyed hinges, missing keyboard keys and broken RAM slot covers, but still had 120 GB WD Scorpio SATA drive in it which works perfectly. I'll just salvage CPU, hdd and throw it out.

These were my two latest finds, found within a day of eachother. 1991 Packard Bell Diplomat (aka Zenith Z-LIte) 386 laptop and a 1993 Packard Bell Legend 845 486DX minitower! 😁

Another one of my friends mentioned that they had some old hardware I could have.

I love how people classify "old" these days.

3 motherboards
1. Some random Intel branded LGA775 board - not sure what CPU is in it as I haven't taken the heatsink off yet. PCIE + PCI. It does have IDE and floppy drive connectors as well as SATA so it must be a pretty old board.
2. ASUS AM3 mATX board. Not sure of the model. I think I already have the same exact board already
3. ASUS Sabertooth FX990 AM3+ board with a supposed dead FX8150 chip.

Dead Nvidia GTX 260
Some random sticks of RAM which I probably gave him a while back
A couple stock AMD heatpipe coolers.

A generic ATX case which I will probably end up using.

So yeah, my not-so-retro collection is growing without me even trying.

cyclone3d wrote:

I love how people classify "old" these days.

Sorry to tell you, but I think most of us here fall into that category as well. At least as far as technology is concerned. Hence the confusion.

cj_reha wrote:

Scrapyard yielded a badly beaten up HP laptop with Centrino CPU in it.

Obviously beaten up, cracked screen, destroyed hinges, missing keyboard keys and broken RAM slot covers, but still had 120 GB WD Scorpio SATA drive in it which works perfectly. I'll just salvage CPU, hdd and throw it out.

Centrino isn't a cpu but a complete platform, the cpu is a Pentium M and sometimes a Core Duo/Solo depending on the age of the machine. Some of these laptops make ideal fast win 9x and xp retro machines like the Inspiron 9300. People over look or flat out refuse but in the years to come people will look at these as an affordable alternative when Nvidia GF5/6/7 have become too costly.

cyclone3d wrote:

Another one of my friends mentioned that they had some old hardware I could have. […]
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Another one of my friends mentioned that they had some old hardware I could have.

I love how people classify "old" these days.

3 motherboards
1. Some random Intel branded LGA775 board - not sure what CPU is in it as I haven't taken the heatsink off yet. PCIE + PCI. It does have IDE and floppy drive connectors as well as SATA so it must be a pretty old board.
2. ASUS AM3 mATX board. Not sure of the model. I think I already have the same exact board already
3. ASUS Sabertooth FX990 AM3+ board with a supposed dead FX8150 chip.

Dead Nvidia GTX 260
Some random sticks of RAM which I probably gave him a while back
A couple stock AMD heatpipe coolers.

A generic ATX case which I will probably end up using.

So yeah, my not-so-retro collection is growing without me even trying.

Old isn't written in stone and is subjective so what most people consider old might be modern to a few. Also it is wise to collect in advance when the goodies are so cheap or even free long before there is any interest so you end up with all the choice parts like how people had done with past generations like paying $10 or 20 a pop for a gravis ultrasound or $10 for a voodoo 5 5500 ect.

nforce4max wrote:

Old isn't written in stone and is subjective so what most people consider old might be modern to a few. Also it is wise to collect in advance when the goodies are so cheap or even free long before there is any interest so you end up with all the choice parts like how people had done with past generations like paying $10 or 20 a pop for a gravis ultrasound or $10 for a voodoo 5 5500 ect.

Yeah, I know. That's a good way to look at it and I won't turn down any hardware that people want to give me.

Compared to my own main rigs, it is older stuff, but I guess I am a little bit surprised when people give that sort of stuff away when I know other people that still run even older stuff as their main rigs.

I remember my tech friend telling me about the employee still running a P2 Dell running XP until the end of support in 2014. Apparently it had a Rage card and 128mb of ram on the original 98 to XP upgrade. The OEM 98 files were still on the 20gb Maxtor drive o.0

King_Corduroy wrote:

These were my two latest finds, found within a day of eachother. 1991 Packard Bell Diplomat (aka Zenith Z-LIte) 386 laptop and a 1993 Packard Bell Legend 845 486DX minitower! 😁

Zenith stuff was business-grade hardware so they actually made some quality shit before they were bought out by Packard Bell, who were very much consumer-grade. Great finds!

Thanks, yeah it's a neat laptop. If you are interested in knowing a bit more about it I wrote up a post on it here on my page: http://transcendentalairwaves.com/index.php/2 … mat-386-laptop/

The page is meant to supplement my youtube but so far this has been the only thing I've written about on it. 🤣

I found some kind of 3dfx card in local recycling center today. I have not tested yet if it works.

Baoran wrote:

I found some kind of 3dfx card in local recycling center today. I have not tested yet if it works.

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Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, nice!

I haven't found anything in a while though.

Tetrium wrote:

Baoran wrote:

I found some kind of 3dfx card in local recycling center today. I have not tested yet if it works.

20170619_212053.jpg

Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, nice!

I haven't found anything in a while though.

How did you recognize it as voodoo 3 2000? I thought it might have been 2000 or 3000

Baoran wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Baoran wrote:

I found some kind of 3dfx card in local recycling center today. I have not tested yet if it works.

20170619_212053.jpg

Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, nice!

I haven't found anything in a while though.

How did you recognize it as voodoo 3 2000? I thought it might have been 2000 or 3000

According to falconfly.de it's a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI SGRAM.

http://hw-museum.cz/data/vga/pic/3dfx_Voodoo3 … R_rev._D1_F.jpg

http://www.falconfly.de/identify-3dfx.htm
When I looked this table, it basically says that both 2000 and 3000 can have same model number 210-0382-004

Found this AMD FX-57 in a pretty sad state. Going to try removing the gunk and straightening all the pins and see what happens.

Baoran wrote:

http://www.falconfly.de/identify-3dfx.htm
When I looked this table, it basically says that both 2000 and 3000 can have same model number 210-0382-004

The 3000 only came in AGP as far as I know.

cyclone3d wrote:

Baoran wrote:

http://www.falconfly.de/identify-3dfx.htm
When I looked this table, it basically says that both 2000 and 3000 can have same model number 210-0382-004

The 3000 only came in AGP as far as I know.

The 3500 came in only AGP (and typically would need that blue octopus cable adapter thingy if you wanted to actually connect it to a monitor), there were Voodoo 3 3000 PCI cards. Just not that easy to find.
The difference between a Voodoo 3 2000 and Voodoo 3 3000 is in the heatsink...or at least I'd hope that PCI Voodoo 3 didn't run at 3k speeds with that tiny heatsink (it already runs quite hot as it is).

And watch out, that tiny VRM heatsink on the top left of the card will get VERY hot!! 🤣

cyclone3d wrote:

The 3000 only came in AGP as far as I know.

I beg to differ:

Edit: This Voodoo 3 3000 PCI does indeed have a bigger heatsink than the one shown in Baoran's post. (About twice the size.)

Baoran wrote:

http://www.falconfly.de/identify-3dfx.htm
When I looked this table, it basically says that both 2000 and 3000 can have same model number 210-0382-004

The V3 3000 uses a bigger heatsink. I'll bet my left nut that's a V3 2000.