Geez, seeing that "AMD 64" logo reminds me of my first PC. Back in 2014, I befriended the IT people for my high school since I was starting to get into computers for 3D animation and modeling. One of them gifted me with a modified HP with a dual AMD Opteron motherboard, an Nvidia 256 MB Quadro FX GPU, and the 64 bit version of XP. I then upgraded it by finding enough DDR2 ECC to get it up to 12 GBs and upgrading the Opterons to ones that were slightly higher frequencies. It worked about as good as my school issue Macbook Air, though with a lot more RAM.Some computer porn for you geeks out there.
This is a 2005 pc tower that is still running XP. It was last turned on in 2013/2014 before it was retired to storage.
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Had to turn it on last night and connect it to the internet (yes it worked but Google Chrome was screaming!!!) To download knoppix so that jedi could make a bookable DVD since this is the only computer jedi has with a burner on it.
Look what is still on it.
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Need the knoppix DVD to boot this machine into knoppix so that jedi can the load an even older hard drive from a Toshiba laptop, that drive is 20 years old, that is failing and windows finally got corrupt on it.
The drive is "seen" by windows on other machines but most of the folders are access denied since they were under the other windows profiles on the machine. So need to see if jedi can use knoppix to save those images, videos, old files since NO ONE EVER LISTENS and backups their data regularly!!!!
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This is the old hard drive duct tapped ti a little board for board and USB so that the tower can connect to it.
Family!!!!! Ugh....
WHY DOES NO ONE EVER LISTEN AND BACKUP THEIR DAMB DATA!
That was good until I built my first computer a few years later by getting a surplus SuperMicro board and some Westermere Xeons from EBay. An 18 DIMM slot, Dual Hyper-threaded Quad-core Xeon system at 3.88 GHz for $400 was nothing to sneeze at back in 2016. Those Westermeres I believe were roughly $1200 each back in 2010, but I got them for $50 each in 2015, and that computer could play Arma 3 at ultra settings until some updates broke it. Only upgraded to an i9 last year.
Sigh. Building computers sucks now with the price of GPUs and the trend of putting an LED on every square inch of a component. Kids today don't know the joys of jury rigging two non-modular power supplies with the rainbow wires because you need two 8-pin CPU plugs AND two 8-pin PCI-e Peripheral plugs, but were too broke to get one of those new-fangled modular PSUs.
