What hardware is in your junk drawer?

[lutjens]

Checked out my junk drawer today and was startled to see how much old hardware I've been accumulating.

So, I thought it might be interesting to see what hardware some people have kicking around gathering dust in their junk drawer. You know...parts that have been replaced with upgraded ones, and end up languishing on the shelf for ages and then end up cobbled together in a sort of Frankenstein machine.:D

So...what does everybody have in this netherworld region known as the junk drawer??


I'll start...

Pentium 4 3.0E SL7PM E0 stepping that I bought to play with...:)
Abit IC7Max3 (recently got it back from RMA)
Adaptec 19160 SCSI card
2 x Pioneer 10x DVD (slot load)
Plextor 40x SCSI CD-ROM drive
Yamaha 20x SCSI CD-RW drive
Seagate Cheetah X15 18.4 GB HD
2 x Seagate Cheetah 73LP 73.4 GB SCSI HDs
1 x Maxtor Atlas 10kIII 73.4 GB HD (from RMA)
1 x Quantum Atlas 10kII 73.4 GB HD (was part of a pair...it's partner got RMAed)
Promise TX4 4-channel SATA RAID card
4 x WD Raptor 73.4GB HDs
Realmagic DVD decoder card (those were the days):)
Abit BE6 II 440BX motherboard w/Celeron 400
4 x 64MB PC100 (pretty much useless for anything)

:toast:

[TekXoID]

Well, starting with my first left desk drawer:

AthlonXP 2500+ Mobile
GeForce2 MX400
Intel Pentium 400MHz
Fried GF3 TI500
TI4200 on it's third repair job from water damage
The very nice pair of glasses that cost me $275 a few months ago were just found in this drawer, scratching lense side flat on the back of a 56k modem, between two optical drives.:cussing:
Pioneer slot load 16x DVD
LiteOn 52x CDRW
NEC Laptop DVD-ROM
2x256MB Mushkin LvL II PC3500
9xAssorted memory DIMM's

[Disposibleteen]

jeez, my only hardwarethat i have functioning laying around is a 56kmodem, FX 5200, and an old duron compaq system.

[perkam]

Mostly P3/P2 stuff, other than the Geforce 4 MX420 which I had for 4 years prior lol. Ran HL2 flawlessly :D Didnt try Doom3 though :eek:

Perkam

[erorr404]

an old 486 66MHz system, a PII 233 MHz system, a 20GB maxtor 7200RPM HDD, a few IDE cables, and an ATI Rage3d PCI card.

[pcboarder]

Mine as some of your collections is small I have:
Radion 9600pro with zalman cooler
A open CD-rom (JUNK!!!)
Some floppys
A bunch of random P2/P3 cards and mobos

[Waxman]

A few P2/P3 mobos, a lot of obsolete things like old pc cases and hardrives.

[[XC] moddolicous]

wow, I have some really odd stuff. I have about 2 P2 board and 3 P1 boards, a couple of modems, a hard drive I tried to make see-through with a cd-case (has Windows 95, so it works) and random 512/256cache hard drive with about 512mb space.

[Guardian]

wifes floppy? :slapass:

[ingentingmendeg]

i got a geforce 2 32mb pci card, couple modems, tons of cables, and some cd's.

[Disposibleteen]

Oh i forgot the 2 original pentium processors thati have.

[ingentingmendeg]

lol nice. are those the ones that look like big black boxes?

[Disposibleteen]

yea, they were going to throw them away at school so i picked them up and now they sit on my desk looking nice, it amazes my friends who say "are those processors, arent you worried about breaking them?"

[masterofpuppets]

On top of my monitor (aka: junk draw) I have: my dead P4C800-E (stll works, but USB is broke and it has a bad BIOS flash), dead Audigy II ZS, Leadtek GeForce 3 (that thing used to clock like hell! 350MHz core clock with stock cooler, can't remember what RAM clock though), my old, and still working Asus A7A266 mobo (missing BIOS chip though, still have it here somewhere), broken Pentium II mobo (some random ASUS thing. clocked pretty good though), ISA Creative AWE32 soundcard, a 486DX2 in a mobo, an AMD 386 in a mobo and a couple of old PCI modems. And in my box'o CPU's: 2x AMD t'birds (1 AHYJA 1.4GHz, and 1 800MHz, both Socket A), 3 Intel 8086's (2 have odd serial numbers, they start with Q!), 3 Intel 486's (2 SX's and 1 DX), 1 AMD 386, 4 Pentium 1's (1 socket 5, 3 socket 7), 486DX2. Lot's of retro stuff there!

[STEvil]

-snip-

Pentium 4 3.0E SL7PM E0 stepping that I bought to play with...:)
Abit IC7Max3 (recently got it back from RMA)
Adaptec 19160 SCSI card
2 x Pioneer 10x DVD (slot load)
Plextor 40x SCSI CD-ROM drive
Yamaha 20x SCSI CD-RW drive
Seagate Cheetah X15 18.4 GB HD
2 x Seagate Cheetah 73LP 73.4 GB SCSI HDs
1 x Maxtor Atlas 10kIII 73.4 GB HD (from RMA)
1 x Quantum Atlas 10kII 73.4 GB HD (was part of a pair...it's partner got RMAed)
Promise TX4 4-channel SATA RAID card
4 x WD Raptor 73.4GB HDs
Realmagic DVD decoder card (those were the days):)
Abit BE6 II 440BX motherboard w/Celeron 400
4 x 64MB PC100 (pretty much useless for anything)

:toast:

Wow.... wish my junk drawer had those HDD's in it.

[Disposibleteen]

Checked out my junk drawer today and was startled to see how much old hardware I've been accumulating.

So, I thought it might be interesting to see what hardware some people have kicking around gathering dust in their junk drawer. You know...parts that have been replaced with upgraded ones, and end up languishing on the shelf for ages and then end up cobbled together in a sort of Frankenstein machine.:D

So...what does everybody have in this netherworld region known as the junk drawer??


I'll start...

Pentium 4 3.0E SL7PM E0 stepping that I bought to play with...:)
Abit IC7Max3 (recently got it back from RMA)
Adaptec 19160 SCSI card
2 x Pioneer 10x DVD (slot load)
Plextor 40x SCSI CD-ROM drive
Yamaha 20x SCSI CD-RW drive
Seagate Cheetah X15 18.4 GB HD
2 x Seagate Cheetah 73LP 73.4 GB SCSI HDs
1 x Maxtor Atlas 10kIII 73.4 GB HD (from RMA)
1 x Quantum Atlas 10kII 73.4 GB HD (was part of a pair...it's partner got RMAed)
Promise TX4 4-channel SATA RAID card
4 x WD Raptor 73.4GB HDs
Realmagic DVD decoder card (those were the days):)
Abit BE6 II 440BX motherboard w/Celeron 400
4 x 64MB PC100 (pretty much useless for anything)

:toast:
if thats a junk drawer and you have raptors in there :stick: put them in your pc man!

[pcboarder]

if thats a junk drawer and you have raptors in there :stick: put them in your pc man!
Or hand them away to some of us ;)

[dislexik_ninja]

junk lets see

AMD 2100+,256 kingmax,shuttle mk32n MoBo,80gWD8m cache, 40g seagate, geforce mx440, ATI 9200 128mb, dolphin nic, speed demon modem, 8 crossover cables, 2 cases [cheapo] 13 dollar ones], DVD-rom, 2 x 52 x CD-RWs, 19" AOC monitor, compac MoBo, 192 meg combined gen RAM, 3 floppy's [dead] 4 keyboards [2 taken apart, forgot how they went back together] 15" compac monitor, 2 PSU's [350,230], internal modem [fried I think], 4 or so USB cables of different types, about 200 screws of various size/type/thread, 10 fans from 30mm-120mm, 2 stock AMD heatsinks [1 from the 2100 and one from my 3500] varoius add-on cards, digital out, 6 speaker sound, vivo card adapter, 2 s-video to RCA leads, 3 mouses[2 balls 1 opt] 2 x 2.1 speaker sets, fan grills, misc power leads, that prolly about covers it all, I know alot of junk wish I had time to make, maybe a file server or something with it all, maybe when I get holidays.

[lutjens]

if thats a junk drawer and you have raptors in there put them in your pc man!

I would, if I had the excess power connectors to hook them up...damn 6800 Ultra...:rolleyes:

As for adding the Raptors in, 8 drives is getting pretty close to the limit as it is (ruling out yet more splitters). This power supply, while large, is under a great deal of stress with what is required of it.

Performance-wise, my Atlas 15k RAID 0 array is significantly more capable than the Raptors. The Atlas 10kIV array is more so the equal of the Raptors, although the Raptors are slightly faster, due to their higher platter density. The main issue is that the Raptors are only 73GB each, while the Atlas 10kIV's are 146GB each...which is a significant advantage when you are trying to have a large, fast and redundant storage volume.