At least destroying solid-state media is pretty easy, just snap 'em in half and toss the pieces in a bin.
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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
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Originally posted by TechGeek View PostAt least destroying solid-state media is pretty easy, just snap 'em in half and toss the pieces in a bin.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Probably easier to munch on than a credit card offer envelope or an old CD.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
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Swapped out an Arctic Freezer II 360mm for a client that for some reason wouldn't cool anymore despite the fact the pump was running and it didn't leak (no coolant loss). I built the system for the client back in 2021 or so. Client gave me the old one....so I dissected it to see where the failure was.... Apparent defect from the manufacturer; gasket issue that caused electrolysis to occur. They supplied a replacement cold plate & gasket. Drained all the old coolant, flushed, and installed the new parts & refilled with my own cocktail. Good as new!<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Scored some more retro stuff:
2x Jasper 360s
Mercury KOB 730s FSMx - basically PCChips M810LR rev 7.1A, has VIA audio codec instead of C-Media/Realtek (thank god - the one on the green recapped M810 is a nightmare.). Came with a green XP1700, one of the CPUs that first got me into the retro business
MSI K7T266 Pro2-U w/ AXP 2000+, 2x DDR sticks (unknown size)
MS Industrial KY-400ATX - pretty beefy Sun Pro\
genuine PS3 Dualshock 3 - you'd be scared to find out how many fakes are out there.
genuine 360 controller
a cold beerMain 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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Had a big dropoff of goodness from a local resort. The pick of the litter is a Precision T7910 dual 2011-3 workstation supporting E5 2xxx v4's. Gonna have some fun with this one.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Compaq EVO D310v case, probably the next days (awaiting confirmation from my friend that he can give it away).
I'm tempted to build either a P4 or go Athlon XP w/ PCChips M810LR recap.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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Originally posted by Topcat View PostHad a big dropoff of goodness from a local resort. The pick of the litter is a Precision T7910 dual 2011-3 workstation supporting E5 2xxx v4's. Gonna have some fun with this one.64gb DDR4; 8x 8GB modules. Weaksauce NVS310 GPU, LSI 9361 SAS card w/ BBU. HDD's were 2x toshiba 1tb sata.
Not bad!
The fun has already begun...bought a few things for it...<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Originally posted by Dan81 View PostI had to reoder the PCI cards for one
Originally posted by Topcat View PostE5-2690 v4 CPU's 14 cores per CPUthat price on just a cpu alone...
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Originally posted by ChaosLegionnaire View Postah ok. looks like a pci slot irq assignment problem. the creative soundblaster cards also had those problems. wouldnt work in some pci slots but were ok in others. had to keep moving the card around until it found a pci slot it liked and worked okay in... very fussy and picky hardware!
looked that cpu up on wikipedia. turns out it cost US$2090 back in the day when it first came out. couldnt believe it...that price on just a cpu alone...
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Originally posted by ChaosLegionnaire View Postlooked that cpu up on wikipedia. turns out it cost US$2090 back in the day when it first came out. couldnt believe it...that price on just a cpu alone...
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And now they go for around $30 on eBay (gotta love depreciation). At that price point they make a pretty good budget build option when combined with one of the many Chinese X99 motherboards that are flooding the market (or of course in an older workstation if you can get it for a decent price). Performance wise they're on-par with something like a Ryzen 5 5500 of I7-12400F, but since it is split across 14 cores rather than 6 in the newer CPUs the Xeon isn't as good in single threaded performance, and of course the Xeon is far less efficient with a 135W TDP rather than the 65W of the newer chips.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Gutted a C2D BTX prebuilt:
- Chieftec-Delta GPS-350FB-101 A PSU (yum!)
- 80GB Sammy HDD
- T H I C C A F Akasa 8cm fan (suspecting a rebranded Delta)
- Samsung DVDRW
- sleeved PATA cable
- Intel DQ965CO mobo
Other stuff today
- Panasonic Smart TV pre-Vestel buyout
- Xpertvision Radeon 9000 64MB AGP
Tomorrow:
- big retro component lot, among which there is a Quantum Bigfoot.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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So, recent stuff:
- 2x Quantum Bigfoot CY 2160AT - one is dead with unreadable sectors, the other is absolutely fine (managed to partition and format just fine)
- ASUS A52JE - i5 540m+ HD 5470M. Interestingly glossy case (a bit uncharacteristic for the 52 series) and the CPU as well, as I have yet had to encounter a 5xx series CPU. 320GB 7.2k HDD, a Hitachi.
- Chieftec custom-build w/ M2N4-SLI, 450W Chieftec-Delta PSU, 8400GS Rev2 (G98), Samsung 320GB HDD
- ASUS F3SL that had a 8400MG in need of a reflow and some proper thermal paste application. Whoever thought an aluminium square tape over the copper that goes over the GPU is a good idea needs to be fired.
- Seagate Medalist 4321 - working, neat shape! One of Seagate's better drives IMO.
- Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB - also working and as a bonus, has 98SE installed already. Will have to pull my 440LX/Deschutes 300 mobo tho, as the dual P3 MSI spits out an insufficient memory error. (1.5GB SDR).
- Quantum Fireball 630AT 630MB - might be bad as only 310MB managed to get tested. I might have a chance fixing it with either Spinrite or DiskGenius.
- Fujitsu MPE3102AT - dead apparently. Produces garbled text during POST.
- Fujitsu MPB3021AT - worksLast edited by Dan81; 02-13-2024, 08:59 AM.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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Originally posted by Dan81 View PostSo, recent stuff:
- 2x Quantum Bigfoot CY 2160AT - one is dead with unreadable sectors, the other is absolutely fine (managed to partition and format just fine)
- ASUS A52JE - i5 540m+ HD 5470M. Interestingly glossy case (a bit uncharacteristic for the 52 series) and the CPU as well, as I have yet had to encounter a 5xx series CPU. 320GB 7.2k HDD, a Hitachi.
- Chieftec custom-build w/ M2N4-SLI, 450W Chieftec-Delta PSU, 8400GS Rev2 (G98), Samsung 320GB HDD
- ASUS F3SL that had a 8400MG in need of a reflow and some proper thermal paste application. Whoever thought an aluminium square tape over the copper that goes over the GPU is a good idea needs to be fired.
- Seagate Medalist 4321 - working, neat shape! One of Seagate's better drives IMO.
- Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB - also working and as a bonus, has 98SE installed already. Will have to pull my 440LX/Deschutes 300 mobo tho, as the dual P3 MSI spits out an insufficient memory error. (1.5GB SDR).
- Quantum Fireball 630AT 630MB - might be bad as only 310MB managed to get tested. I might have a chance fixing it with either Spinrite or DiskGenius.
- Fujitsu MPE3102AT - dead apparently. Produces garbled text during POST.
- Fujitsu MPB3021AT - works
For Fujitsu MPE3102AT check IDE connector for bent or damaged pins.
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They're all straight. Drive doesn't complete seek test properly but does not spin down, causing garbled text.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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Finally got around and got the dual Coppermine monster in a not-really-retro-but-it-looks-cool case - a Deepcool Tesseract BF I bought for the BP6, originally, in fear that I wouldn't have a case to house it in (which I later found, a Chieftec behemoth that almost BROKE MY SPINE)
Final specs:
Case: Deepcool Tesseract BF
MB: MSI 694D Pro-AR
CPUs: 2x Pentium 3 SL52R, 1GHz/133FSB/256k L2
RAM: 1.5GB SDRAM, PC133
HDDs: WD Raptor 74GB 10k (SATA2IDE, bootdrive), Seagate Cheetah 36GB 10k ST336607LW (SCSI, storage drive)
GPU: Gecube Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB w/ Omega drivers
LAN: Realtek RTL8169SC Gigabit LAN
USB2.0: NEC
SCSI controller: Adaptec AHA-2940UW
TV Tuner: InnoDV SmartTV PCI w/ SAA7131 chipset
PSU: Chieftec-Delta GPS-450AA-101 A, 450W (w/ white Gamemax fan)
ODD: TSSTCorp SH-S182D DVDRW
OS: XP Pro SP3 VLK
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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Originally posted by Dan81 View PostQuantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB - also working and as a bonus, has 98SE installed already. Will have to pull my 440LX/Deschutes 300 mobo tho, as the dual P3 MSI spits out an insufficient memory error. (1.5GB SDR).
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Originally posted by Dan81 View PostHDDs: WD Raptor 74GB 10k (SATA2IDE, bootdrive), Seagate Cheetah 36GB 10k ST336607LW (SCSI, storage drive)
PS.
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Technically the 74GB is SATA2IDE, so I'm maxing out the IDE channel output. As in, the drive itself is SATA at its core.
btw I think I tested both drives' speed on HDSentinel (as it has a seek test feature, or something close to that but I forgot their wording) and both were almost equal in speeds - the Cheetah was barely any faster, despite being SCSI.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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