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The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

WhoBeDaPlaya said:
Anyone have >= 240GB SATA M2 drives?
The only ones I have on hand are 2TB, which is comically large for the intended applications.

Have :
120/128/240/250/256GB 2.5" SATA SSDs (Samsung, Kingston, maybe some Intel/Microns)
Lots of 4GB DDR3-1600 SODIMMs
Lots of 2GB DDR3-1333 ECC DIMMs
*space reserved for stuff I do not remember off hand*
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I could use some of your 2.5" sata ssd's and 4gb ddr3's to upgrade my kids' old laptops. pm you. thx:)
 
stevexyz, buschman31, CAD4466HK, atwood7fan : Will definitely set aside what you requested once I get a chance to hit my hardware stash tomorrow, consider your requests fulfilled!
DM me your shipping ZIP if you haven't already.
 
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atwood7fan said:
Iso 2 black IDE cd or dvd drives
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just found one in my old pile. was pulled from an HP desktop long ago. but can't be certain if it's still functional. no way to test it now.
 

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No promises that it works (I have nothing to test with), but it's yours for shipping.

You asked at the right time, since I had just put it on the recycling pile.
 

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Dont know if anyone wants these two 3.5'' hdds but you are welcome to them. One is SCSI (146gb) and one is SAS Cheetah (15k). I dont have the hardware for them and dont know if they work or not.
 
I've got two old Dell servers in rack format that I want to see if someone would grab them before putting them in the dumpster. They are heavy and probably not worth shipping to your place. Picking up in Saint Cloud, MN if anyone is interested, PM me and we will go from there.

1. Dell PowerEdge R300 (has 6GB Memory and an Intel X3323 CPU on it)
2. Dell PowerEdge 2950 (has 4GB Memory and an Intel E5405 CPU on it)
 
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Does anyone want to donate an AMD FX-8370? I got a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 from my workplace with an FX-8150 on it, but no matter what I do, only four Cores show up (it's an 8-core CPU). Four cores are dead, I believe. I want to see if someone has an 8-core lying around that is not being used anymore.
 
JCNiest5 said:
Does anyone want to donate an AMD FX-8370? I got a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 from my workplace with an FX-8150 on it, but no matter what I do, only four Cores show up (it's an 8-core CPU). Four cores are dead, I believe. I want to see if someone has an 8-core lying around that is not being used anymore.
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Technically the 8150 is a Quad Core with HT

It wasn’t a true 8 Core. I remember owning a 8150, 8350, 8370, and 9370

Does it show as 4/8 or 4/4
 
Durvelle27 said:
Technically the 8150 is a Quad Core with HT

It wasn’t a true 8 Core. I remember owning a 8150, 8350, 8370, and 9370

Does it show as 4/8 or 4/4
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All of the 8xxx & 9xxx FX chips show up as 4/8. They are a 4 module - "8" core chips.
All of the 6xxx FX chips show up as 3/6. They are a 3 module - "6" core chips.
All of the 4xxx FX chips show up as 2/4. They are a 2 module - "4" core chips.

Each CPU has 2 cores per module that have some independent resources but share some others, floating point and cache.
Many sites will call them 4, 6 ,8 core chips but everyone knows that they were not, hence the lawsuits against AMD since task manager called them out.
It's like calling an i7 6700 a 8 core chip when it was actually a QC with HT or a 4core/8thread CPU.
 
Durvelle27 said:
Technically the 8150 is a Quad Core with HT

It wasn’t a true 8 Core. I remember owning a 8150, 8350, 8370, and 9370

Does it show as 4/8 or 4/4
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It's an 8-core when it comes to INT ops, but a 4-core for FP
Still have two FX-8320s running as fileservers (on ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2 mobos - great I/O, and not much need to replace them)
 
Bird222 said:
Can someone explain the whole "core/thread" thing?
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Well, this is the wrong place for this, but... Let's take cores first. Used to be one socket = 1 cpu = 1 core. If you wanted more than one processor in your system, you needed one socket for each. Probably IBM, Sun or someone else did it first, but Intel started stacking two cpus together and called them dual-core; later they built chips with two cores in a single die. Each core is a whole separate processor, usually with its own L1 cache and maybe sharing L2 depends and shared L3 and external I/O.

Then you have threads. Some processors can have a core run two things 'at the same time', cpus have lots of resources, and usually not everything is busy, because of waiting for loads and stores; by letting two threads of execution share the same core, you can sometimes (often) get better utilization and throughput.

Where it gets weird is the AMD FX (Bulldozer) is built up of modules that share some things and not others. AMD called each module 2 cores, and in some ways it is, but in other ways it's more like one core with two threads. The module shares L1 instruction cache, instruction decode and floating point units, but there is a dedicated integer unit and L1 data cache for each side. In terms of practical performance, I think it worked out that a Bulldozer that AMD sold as a 4-core wasn't significantly better than a 2-core K10, but maybe if you had the right program it could have been.
 
Bird222 said:
Does anybody by chance have one of these hard drive caddies for a HP Zbook 15 G6? This is what it looks like.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7392w2tapP4&t=185s
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I have the HP Z book 17 and I do like the lever that slides the SATA SSD's out. I know you can just use sticky foam tape like others suggested. The original part is surprisingly expensive on ebay. It's around $30 to $50 on eBay for the official part. Its also different than the Zbook 17 HDD Cage (with green lever) and the one you're looking for has a black lever and the 15 and 17 HDD cages are not interchangeable .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176339491954
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255809477869
Did you ever end up finding one? I know you can tape the drives in, but they are nice parts to have.
 
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JCNiest5 said:
I've got two old Dell servers in rack format that I want to see if someone would grab them before putting them in the dumpster. They are heavy and probably not worth shipping to your place. Picking up in Saint Cloud, MN if anyone is interested, PM me and we will go from there.

1. Dell PowerEdge R300 (has 6GB Memory and an Intel X3323 CPU on it)
2. Dell PowerEdge 2950 (has 4GB Memory and an Intel E5405 CPU on it)
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FYI: This Thursday is trash day, so unless someone PMs before then, they will go in the trash.
 
pendragon1 said:
"free, works" sign and to the curb. bet theyll disappear for ya.
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True sometimes, but sometimes they would just open up the PC and take out what they need, then leave a mess on the curb. I want it gone as one, not scrapped out. If not, straight to trash as I can keep the CPU and memory for someone else down the road.
 
Honestly that gen of cpu and mem is pretty worthless. Already avalible for cheap shipping cost on ebay. Only one who would want it is someone thinking they can scrap the whole servers for metal.
 
MooCow said:
I have the HP Z book 17 and I do like the lever that slides the SATA SSD's out. I know you can just use sticky foam tape like others suggested. The original part is surprisingly expensive on ebay. It's around $30 to $50 on eBay for the official part. Its also different than the Zbook 17 HDD Cage (with green lever) and the one you're looking for has a black lever and the 15 and 17 HDD cages are not interchangeable .
https://www.ebay.com/itm/176339491954
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255809477869
Did you ever end up finding one? I know you can tape the drives in, but they are nice parts to have.
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Yeah, someone did finally come through with one.
 
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Bird222 said:
Yeah, someone did finally come through with one.
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Nice! This is what makes this thread so great. Sourcing cheap parts that are outrageously overpriced.

I have an IBM Thinkpad T23 that I still need, because it has a serial port. And there is a specific software application that I have that needs to run under Windows XP. No, it will not work under VMware ESXi with hardware passthrough either. Does anyone have a IDE SSD for laptops? Or... an m.2 SATA to IDE 44pin 2.5" laptop HDD adapter? Or MSATA to IDE 44 pin adapter? I ordered an m.2 SATA to PATA laptop adapter off eBay and those aholes cancelled my order (they said they shipped from the USA and they'd have it delivered this week, turns out their little drop ship fiasco didn't work out for them).

My Kingspec 2.5" IDE SSD failed on me.
 
MooCow said:
Nice! This is what makes this thread so great. Sourcing cheap parts that are outrageously overpriced.

I have an IBM Thinkpad T23 that I still need, because it has a serial port. And there is a specific software application that I have that needs to run under Windows XP. No, it will not work under VMware ESXi with hardware passthrough either. Does anyone have a IDE SSD for laptops? Or... an m.2 SATA to IDE 44pin 2.5" laptop HDD adapter? Or MSATA to IDE 44 pin adapter? I ordered an m.2 SATA to PATA laptop adapter off eBay and those aholes cancelled my order (they said they shipped from the USA and they'd have it delivered this week, turns out their little drop ship fiasco didn't work out for them).

My Kingspec 2.5" IDE SSD failed on me.
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I think I may have one for you. I just threw away all my old 2.5" IDE drives, but I have something better. Compact Flash is just IDE with a different connector. I have a 32 GB CF drive with a cf2g or a cf5h adapter, your choice. I used to use this in an old laptop and it was faster than the old spinning rust. The cf2g is the same format as a 2.5" drive Don't use the SATA-PATA adapters, they aren't reliable, they randomly cut out. Also turn off virtual memory, CF doesn't have wear leveling or TRIM and virtual memory will kill a CF drive in days (I know).
 
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