Just took apart an old pc

ellingham · 20 Sep 2010 at 14:25

Well my first build will be getting underway soon so I took apart an old pc to familiarize my self with what's inside a pc. My mum bought this about 5 years ago from Woolworths, I thought you guys might be interested in some shots of the internals.

1 stick of RAM

MOBO

CPU

CPU cooler

320W PSU

The case, there are no fan spaces.

With the front panel on

Tealc · 20 Sep 2010 at 14:33

That CPU cooler looks like it has a plant pot taped to it.

Must have been a pretty low power PC to not have any ventilation besides CPU and PSU. The inside of the case looks a bit like an old Advent mATX machine I bought years ago, only a little larger.

ellingham · 20 Sep 2010 at 14:46

Tealc said:
That CPU cooler looks like it has a plant pot taped to it.

Must have been a pretty low power PC to not have any ventilation besides CPU and PSU. The inside of the case looks a bit like an old Advent mATX machine I bought years ago, only a little larger.

That's what I thought, the amount of noise that thing used to make when it got old and struggled playing videos was ridiculous. Oh and it a coolermaster CPU cooler.
Case dimensions are: 6"(W)x13"(H)x14"(D)

K1LLSW1TCH · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:09

A whopping half a GB of RAM! :eek:

Freelanc3r · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:14

LOL! Nice plantpot cooler.

And all those neatly braided cables, hmmmmmm

MDPC!

-fedexer- · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:20

Damn i still wish i had the old computer my father decided to scrap.. it ran on 256mb of ram...and not much else haha. Twas hilarious... it also had a 1GB HDD... Yeah, that was a nifty little machine xD

ellingham · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:20

K1LLSW1TCH said:
A whopping half a GB of RAM!

Ballin'

Freelanc3r said:
LOL! Nice plantpot cooler.

And all those neatly braided cables, hmmmmmm MDPC!

Yeah MDPC have contacted me after seeing this thread but I had to turn them down as people might get depressed when my pc styles on all the other machines on that site. I'm just too nice a person to do that...

kae2 · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:22

Right..... not really that old, is it

Unless you're 13....

ellingham · 20 Sep 2010 at 15:25

kae2 said:
Right..... not really that old, is it

Unless you're 13....

It's old to me, this was the first pc we bought and i was about 14 at the time, now 19 so it's getting on a bit. Obviously some of you will probably have systems older than me tucked away somewhere...

Klau55 · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:37

reminds me of the rigs i have to use at work!

Podmonkey · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:40

The colours remind me of a fruit salad.

Lobwan · 22 Sep 2010 at 13:42

Not 2 much dust for 5 years but when it doesn't have any intake fans I guess it would be hard for dust to get in lol.

ellingham · 22 Sep 2010 at 16:31

Lobwan said:
Not 2 much dust for 5 years but when it doesn't have any intake fans I guess it would be hard for dust to get in lol.

I gave it a clean before i took pictures, on the side panel there is a circle vent, but you cant install a fan to it.

Nyoron · 22 Sep 2010 at 16:55

Very unusual cpu cooler you got there.