What retro things have you done today?

Sorted my in-laws out with a nice little 9th gen i5 dell for their home office needs which means there first gen i7-860 work horse which has been ploughing away faultlessly for 9 odd years is going to be decommissioned.....into my lab :p

Now have an extra 1366 base to build from, Asus P7P55D-E, i7-860, 8gb ddr3-1600 and nice xigmatek cooper cooler with 8600GT 512MB, XFX PSU all in a fractal case

Now thinking I should put the 4870s into that build and then the C70 Corsair I got might have to become home to a mint Abit AW9D-Max I got given maybe with a Q6600 and pair of 2600xt's?
 
Replaced two caps and the PS/2 is back in action!
Quite proud of myself, I've never replaced caps before... Wild I know.

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phatboy said:
Now have an extra 1366 base to build from, Asus P7P55D-E, i7-860, 8gb ddr3-1600 and nice xigmatek cooper cooler with 8600GT 512MB, XFX PSU all in a fractal case
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First gen i7’s are super fast for XP! Could put a much quicker GPU in there, even something like a GTX 660 which you can get for virtually nothing would be great for XP :)

I’ve still got a couple of 1156 boards, a Formula and an Extreme with an i7-870.
 
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I have an issue, the Maximum Extreme has a X38 chipset which doesn’t support SLI… Can anyone recommend an SLI board from ~2006 / 2007
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The problem back then was the Intel chipsets were arguably better than those from NVIDIA. I’ve had a fair few over the years up to and including the 790i Ultra chipset boards and to be honest they were all a bit flakey! I would advise going for one of the 700 series instead of the 600’s though.
 
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I’ve got the Cooler Master Lab setup and I’ve impressed myself by managing to find my old Raptor drives

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update: the 80GB Raptor is dead :( but the BIOS detects the 36.7GB Raptor and it's trying to boot into XP now. Seems like it's taking longer than I remembered, it may have crashed!
 
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Think this case is a bit of a NEED !
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Oh I will absolutely be getting one of those!
Needs a few little tweaks, the faux 5.25" bay blanks could look a bit more convincing, but otherwise, thats hot stuff right there. :cool:

Fixed it. Bit of sharpie in the slots and shes reet!

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Tyan S1857 Trinity 371

Tyan S1857 Trinity 371 is a motherboard based on the Intel 440BX (Seattle) chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
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Thinking of making my "one retro rig to rule them all (again)" with this motherboard.
Not sure what CPU to go with. Can see that a 1ghz celeron should work. Dont really want to spend out a lot however.
Think I have a socket pentium 3 that is around 650. I do also have a slot 1 engineering sample that is about 800mhz but it can be fussy what boards it works in. And it needs a heat sink.
 
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iirc the trouble with those is while they are technically "new" they are stock from way back so already quite drained
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I took new to mean reproduction in this case, but I guess we will see! You're probably right.
 
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The problem back then was the Intel chipsets were arguably better than those from NVIDIA. I’ve had a fair few over the years up to and including the 790i Ultra chipset boards and to be honest they were all a bit flakey! I would advise going for one of the 700 series instead of the 600’s though.
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I remember having to ship my EVGA nForce 680i board back to them for some kind of chipset related issue...pretty sure that was a Intel Core2 Extreme x6800 system with SLi 6800GTs ( which I regretted not just getting a single 6800 Ultra :p )
 
So I finally picked up my old Packard Bell from my mum's house. The exterior is very yellowed so it will need cleaning but the inside is pretty good, just a thin layer of dust, all the caps look good so just need to give it a good blast out and cross my fingers that it boots!

Best of all I still have the original keyboard and all of the restore CDs (minus a couple of games) so I'll get it fully restored.

If it's all working I'm going to upgrade the graphics memory and replace the soundcard as I always remember having issues with some DOS games, not sure what to replace it with though.

I'll post some pics later on :)
 
Just had a browse around Retrofest at the Swindon Steam Museum. It's a grade above my geekiness. Lots of stuff that was just before my time which was good too see. The RM machines were lovely and seeing that blue menu screen again in person was worth the visit. I bought a PicoMem with Sound add on for the 386 I was going to sell. :o

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I've just started playing TimeSplitters 2 on PS2 which is one of those rare console games that I always wanted to try based on the universal acclaim it received...really enjoyed the first 'stage' and it's certainly very charming, I'm not great at FPS with a joypad though so that's resulted in some entertainment in itself :p

I wasn't sure whether this would actually be 'retro' enough to post about...I then realised it's almost 23 years old now as it was released in October 2002...
 
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I've just started playing TimeSplitters 2 on PS2 which is one of those rare console games that I always wanted to try based on the universal acclaim it received...really enjoyed the first 'stage' and it's certainly very charming, I'm not great at FPS with a joypad though so that's resulted in some entertainment in itself :p

I wasn't sure whether this would actually be 'retro' enough to post about...I then realised it's almost 23 years old now as it was released in October 2002...
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I did the exact same thing a couple of months ago! I also enjoyed the first stage. Sadly though, for me it gradually got less enjoyable as the game progressed.
 
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