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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Cooler setup looks like someone who wants their daily 5 Ghz or at least close to 4.5 Ghz fix.
Today's setups also often need hefty VRM cooling.Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 12-05-2018, 10:44 AM.ASRock B550 PG Velocita
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Arc A770 16 GB
eVGA Supernova G3 750W
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Remember VRM/chipset heatsinks and fans of the early 2000s?Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
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Now you get a big block of metal (low surface area) with a plastic cover (blocking airflow) for looks.
Anyway, that's a nice Xeon system.Comment
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Thanks. It came with a pair of 900MHz 2mb L2 CPU's, the fastest supported by this board. Those unfamiliar with Xeons of that era, their L2 caches run @ full speed, unlike their Pentium2 counterparts that only ran @ half speed for the consumer market. Also included was the 1130c raidport controller that the seller said didn't work...but he didn't know the magic trick to these, there's a weird firmware 'marriage' process you have go do before it'll work. Lastly, there is 2gb of ECC memory. I gave very little for this, everything works. It will get recapped, it has a bunch of those phony 'NRSY' caps that SM used back in those days.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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I found a pair of 200's with 512k L2's for $40....but yea, I'm eyeballing a pair of 333MHz overdrives...but I want to make sure the board is good first... the OD CPU's usually go for ~$100ea.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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today's cheap score was 10 36gb 10k U320 SCA scsi HDD's. Retro builds love these!<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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picked up a 2003 eMac with 1Ghz G4 and 256 ram will upgrade ram.My Computer: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Asrock X370 Killer SLI/AC, 32GB G.SKILL TRIDENT Z RGB DDR4 3200, 500GB WD Black NVME and 2TB Toshiba HD,Geforce RTX 3080 FOUNDERS Edition, In-Win 303 White, EVGA SuperNova 750 G3, Windows 10 ProComment
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It don't even have a 2000s' style PATA ribbon connected to the HDD, even when it looks like it's from 2006! It's apparently got a ribbon that's only UDMA 33 compliant! (The cable looks more like something from 1998, LOL)A Philips DVDR3455H DVD Recorder with 160GB HDD for $3.25 (These regularly sell for $100-$125 on eBay, and sold for $350 back in 2007 when they were new). I got it so cheap because it had a sticky disc tray (sometimes didn't come out when the open button was pressed), but a new belt fixed that and now it is a good as new.
Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 12-13-2018, 11:12 PM.ASRock B550 PG Velocita
Ryzen 9 "Vermeer" 5900X
32 GB G.Skill RipJaws V F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Arc A770 16 GB
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There's a good chance that the PSU has a bulging Elite cap, if not more of those bundles of misery! Elite caps, apparently can't even handle idling at low temps!
I made the discovery of a bulging Elite cap in a Dell Dimension PSU of a Dimension 2350 or the like, (probably Bestec, Delta or Lite-On) one day, on July 19, 2012, IIRC. It was a PC that hardly had been used, but was powered on regularly. Mostly idling in Windows or standby, LOL.ASRock B550 PG Velocita
Ryzen 9 "Vermeer" 5900X
32 GB G.Skill RipJaws V F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Arc A770 16 GB
eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Western Digital Black SN850 1TB NVMe SSD
Alienware AW3423DWF OLED
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(sigh) I just scrapped two shelfs -- 12 drives, each -- of 72GB SCA drives. I've been dumping any SCSI/SCA/FC-AL drives smaller than 146GB, lately, to make room for bigger drives.
I'll have to keep my eyes open for any other SCA discards. OTOH, I'm not sure how well drives fare in the mail...Comment
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How do you pack them? I haven't bought a "mail order" disk in almost 3 decades -- back then, one disk per box, surrounded by a couple of inches of packing material. And, I was never quite sure if I should expect it to work once installed...
I don't think I have any more 50pin drives -- except for 2" drives (which I won't discard any time soon as they are hard to come by). Even the 68pin drives are pretty scarce. I find SCAs in servers, from time to time, but have steadily increased the minimum capacity drive that I'm willing to "pull"...
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antistatic bag and then wrap them a couple times in small bubble wrap, and put them in a box with paper or more bubblewrap. They'll survive.How do you pack them? I haven't bought a "mail order" disk in almost 3 decades -- back then, one disk per box, surrounded by a couple of inches of packing material. And, I was never quite sure if I should expect it to work once installed...
I don't think I have any more 50pin drives -- except for 2" drives (which I won't discard any time soon as they are hard to come by). Even the 68pin drives are pretty scarce. I find SCAs in servers, from time to time, but have steadily increased the minimum capacity drive that I'm willing to "pull"...
Even the FC-AL "minimum" is now up to ~300G!
I'd take 50-pin, but not much demand for them 68-pin and 80 pin sca are the most practical for this era of builds and decent controllers of course. SCA's can be used either with adapters or those dorky 'mobile racks' that were stylish in the 90's..they supported all popular interfaces of the time.
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But, if shipping 4, 8, 12 of them, this gets pretty bulky. Would you, in that case, treat the "set" as a "megadrive" and pack it as above? Or, would you still treat each drive individually?
My SB2000 uses them. I also see shelfs with them (which is where I pilfer my "spares" from)FC.....I havent seen a working fiber channel setup in ages!Comment
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I just got 10 in a box....it was a little 'girthy', but all was well. wrapped each drive 2 layers of bubble wrap was fine....so stacked, there was technically 4 layers, plus the antistatic bag....packed snug in the box with more bubblewrap so they weren't hitting eachother loosely.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Scored this PC. Not bad but definitely not the best either:
ASRock P4V88+ mobo w/ 6 bulged KZGs (recapped)
P4 HT 3GHz Prescott (no wonder why the caps died)
1GB RAM
Radeon 9250 128MB
P&O LC-B400ATX (MAX:400W (yeah right.) gutless wonder
Allied/APEX PC-115 case
Samsung SD-612 DVD-ROM
NEC ND-3540A DVD-RW
Maxtor STM3160215A 160GB 7200RPM.
Windows 7 (italian)
Came with a free Windows 7 DVD as well, but don't know if it's SP1 at all.Main rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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Recently I've gotten into EC flashing due to my broken laptop(s) and started frantically searching methods for flashing the IT5571E-128 chip on the cheap(due to me beaing a student and not having a job) and noticed that ITE newer chips can be flashed via ISP (In-System Programming) either via SMBus or the KBC (EPP - Enhanced Parallel Port) interface. While these can be achieved with programmers like SVOD4/3 or the RT809H/F those options are WAYYY out of my budget so I was horrified. But recently I stumbled uppon some programmers on aliexpress that claim they can program a variety of ITE chips...06-17-2025, 07:17 AM -
My Mom bought some cheap motion sensor lights on wish... then complains about about batteries and this thing chews though them, well it uses 4 AAA batteries and a pack of rechargeable ones is about 13 USD
well since it uses 4 AAA and rechargeable are 1.2v and non-recharge at 1.5 this thing must work with 4.8-6v, I'll shove a USB cable on it, infant i will use a broken phone charge cable... dam this thing uses 430 mA and they made it battery powered...
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Hi all,
I was looking to upgrade my main multimeter (Asita MD591) with something that has more features. I'll use it mostly for board diagnostic and diy repairs. I've been eyeing out many of those multi-function ones from Aliexpress but can't seem to make my mind up. Here are the features that I'm looking after:
- Autorange
- DC volts up to 30V
- Accurate Resistance
- Diode test (Beep mode)
- Frequency up to 200MHz
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- as cheap as possible
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Just as the title states. Two cheap SiS machines, surprisingly stable.
What I will tackle in the near future (the build will be slightly postponed due to slight stomach issues - am still recovering and my physical power (sorry if it sounds weird,English isn't quite my primary language) isn't the best at the moment. Especially with the diet I have to take at the moment.) are two SiS based machines.
The first one is a IPC rebranded Mitac 7521T. Why did I feel the need to tackle this machine? Well, just look at the specs:
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"Caseless Cheap Chinese electronic tools" I mean things you get from banggood, ali, fleabay, Am-Zon, etc. like AVR-Transistortester, miscellaneous signal generators, frequency counters, (variable) power supplies, oscilloscopes, low resistance meters, etc., etc. that comes optionally with a case, or comes only with a cheap piece of plastic that barely provides protection to the PCB.
Just wondering what of these (generally flimsy) tools you actually find use (almost) everyday and find indispensable for the price, compared to buying a Fluke or whatnot, if there is an expensive...
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