Here's another for the retro fleet. Someone gave me this around 2008, Dell Precision 530 workstation; dual skt603 with failed caps of course, Nichicon HM. At the time it was deemed not worth messing with and it sat on a shelf in the garage since; it was made 2002~2003-ish (datecodes on the caps were 2001, the 'dark era' for Nichicon HM series). It being buried under other stuff is probably the only thing that kept it from being scrapped.... I came across it the other day when I was scrapping the stuff on top of it and thought hmmmm....maybe a little retro status, considering it's a RAMBUS system, and it has a pair of 3GHz Prestonia's (the fastest it could take)...but apparently their values has gone up!! I stole the RAM out of it ages ago, but CPU's are still in it. RAMBUS survivors are becoming less every passing day. Recapped it and it's working.
Blasted with the air hose and wiped down.... The real miracle with this one, the door is still on it and not broken!!


Yup, miracle! In hunting, I looked around for these. The door was almost never there.

Butt shot....

Inside. Stuck an ATI x1600 Pro 512mb AGP GPU in it. Not sure what it originally had, I stole it over a decade ago.

CPU heatsinks & fans had also been robbed.....so I had to rummage through my box of old skt 603/604 parts. This is one of the few times Dell didn't use a proprietary heatsink/fan setup. The originals were really cheesy passives that I tossed ages ago, but the bases that held them were standard for any socket 603/604, thus any compatible heatsink could be used.

The box is about empty.....I don't see or deal with much 603/604 stuff....they're pretty antiquated now and weren't hugely popular back in the day as it was.

I ordered 2gb of ECC RDRAM, the most it can take...I'll wrap this one up then.... This will be a stellar XP box!
Blasted with the air hose and wiped down.... The real miracle with this one, the door is still on it and not broken!!
Yup, miracle! In hunting, I looked around for these. The door was almost never there.
Butt shot....
Inside. Stuck an ATI x1600 Pro 512mb AGP GPU in it. Not sure what it originally had, I stole it over a decade ago.
CPU heatsinks & fans had also been robbed.....so I had to rummage through my box of old skt 603/604 parts. This is one of the few times Dell didn't use a proprietary heatsink/fan setup. The originals were really cheesy passives that I tossed ages ago, but the bases that held them were standard for any socket 603/604, thus any compatible heatsink could be used.
The box is about empty.....I don't see or deal with much 603/604 stuff....they're pretty antiquated now and weren't hugely popular back in the day as it was.
I ordered 2gb of ECC RDRAM, the most it can take...I'll wrap this one up then.... This will be a stellar XP box!
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