The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

462/A Asus A7VBX-MXSE

462/A Duron 900 DHM0900AQS1B
462/A Athlon XP 1600+ AX1600DMT3C
462/A Athlon XP 1900+ AX1900DMT3C
462/A Athlon XP 2100+ AX2100DMT3C
462/A Athlon XP 2400+
462/A Athlon XP 2500+ AXDA2500DKV4D 2@
462/A Sempron 2600 SDA2600DUT3D
462/A Athlon XP-M 2600 AXMG2600FQQ4C
462/A Sempron 3000 SDA3000DUT4D
462/A Athlon XP 3200+ AXDA3200DKV4E

754 Sempron SDA3100AIP3AX 1.8GHz
754 Sempron SMS3300BQX2LF 2GHz 25W

S1 Turion 64 x2 TMDTL58HAX5DC 1.9GHz 35W
S1 Athlon AMGTF20HAX4DN 1.6GHz 15W

495 mPGA2 P3 SL3LG Coppermine mobile 0.45GHz

478 P4 SL5TJ 1.5GHz
478 Celeron SL6HY 2GHz
478C PM SL7SM 2GHz

M Celeron SL92F 1.733GHz


LGA775 P4 630 SL7Z9 3GHz


APC shark rack LCD-15-1

Sirius S12 receiver with antenna, needs a 5V power brick.

EKWB EK-multioption RES X2 TOP W/thread

2@ Samsung 2GB M471B5773CHS-CF8 DDR3 sodimms

 

Free! Up for grabs:

Matching pair - Ramaxel 512mb 1RX8 PC-5300S-555


Tyan SLI Bridge




Brand New Still Sealed! The Elder Scrolls IV - Shivering Isles - Expansion Pack for Oblivion




Brand New Still Sealed! Space Siege

 

Gone

 

I'll take!

 

Consider it yours. PMing back now.

 

I'll take all the 462/A stuff. sending you a PM now.

 

This is still available, FYI.

 

Kind of a long shot, but does anyone have extra GPU cables for the Enermax Modu82+ series?

 

wow, unexpected love for socket 462, a lot of PMs to sort through

 

I think a lot of us started exploring enthusiast grade hardware in that era. I know I did. Would love all that stuff for sentimental value but I have no real use for it at this point. Great for retro gaming though if you have some old AGP cards.

 

If other people already sent PMs before me, I don't really "need" any of it. I already have a bunch of socket A stuff. Just trying to save it from being thrown away.

 

Does anyone have a spare PCIE NIC laying around?

 

*insert socket 462 gang sign*

 

Pm... if available, I'll snag it

 

NEXT!

 

Free pickup or pay for shipping (USPS Priority B) from 97007.

Tyan K8 Thunder Pro, S2882-D Dual Opteron Mobo with IO Shield.

 

Free local (Knoxville, TN) pickup--Deepcool Tesseract ATX case (black with blue accents). This is the ventilated panel version (not the windowed version). It's new in the box. I purchased this a long time ago for a build that ended up getting canceled. The postage on this would be a killer, so unless you want to send me a shipping label that's already paid for, this is only available locally. The case looks like the picture below. CLAIMED

 

please be patient on me going through the PMs guys, I'm really trying to NOT sit in front of the dammed internet all day

 

REPENT!

 

This is the freebies thread... If anyone is being annoying and impatient, they obviously don't need it.

 

Does anyone have any use for an old Amazon Dash button, or should I just toss it?

 

LG Blueray burner and Dual NIC PCI4x card. Pay shipping.

Edit: Both gone.

 

Ill take these for upgrading a htpc if no one else claimed.

 

Hi everyone! Looking for some DDR2 desktop ram. Pretty sure mine just gave up after 12+ years if I'm understanding this memtest correctly. Thanks!

 

What size? (Gb)

I have 2x256m sitting around...

 

Heliocentrical looks like I have some 512MB and 1GB sticks of PC2-4200U and PC2-5300U

 

According to the errors, 3475.6MB is going to be a stick farthest away from the CPU. If you have four sticks, it will be the fourth one, if you have two, it will be the second one.

Remove the stick and run memtest again.

 

I have some 1GB and 2GB DDR2-5300 I can send

 

Looking for a mini ITX motherboard. Does not need to be working, using it for mock up on my case I am modding. Anything that is standard for factor will work. When it's done a Z270 is going in there.

Thanks!

 

Wow thanks, didn't even consider doing that. There are 4 1gb sticks. I took the furthest one out and am running the test again.

I appreciate the offers. Let me finish the new memtest and see where I stand. Maybe I should try and max this baby out, says it can handle up to 8gb ram.

Edit: Two of the four sticks have tested bad so far. Testing the last two now. Either way, I'll pm you guys to see what we can work out.

 

Alright, this might be a risky post, but hear me out, lol... I also have an immense amount of Kingston DDR2 ECC RAM on eBay. They are all pretty beefy sticks with heat spreaders. It's been on my ebay forever... If anyone wants to make a decent "shipping charge offer" on them, they are yours... I also think there is another box of more of these somewhere closeby them and I'll throw them in too, lol. I'm just downsizing and I know it could mean the world to someone

Here's the link https://www.ebay.com/itm/264089048546

Feel free to PM me to chat first.

 

You may want to change your listing because those are not DDR2 ECC modules, they're FB-DIMMs, a completely different memory technology. You can't physically plug these modules into a normal DDR2 slot because the key notch is in a different location.

Unlike regular DDR2 memory, which uses a parallel drop memory bus, FB-DIMMs use a buffer chip on the module to communicate with the memory controller over a serial link.

The reason that they've been on Ebay forever is because nobody can use them. They only went into very high end servers and workstations that were only on the market for a short period of time. FB-DIMMs were never very popular because they were incredibly expensive and had latency issues because of the buffer chips.

 

WOAH.

I just did some more reading on them. I just got schooled. Wow, man thanks for letting me know. I guess I never really knew what I had. My apologies. I never heard of this technology.

Welp, to the trash you go.

 

Yeah, they get misidentified quite often because it's such an obscure memory standard that looks so similar to DDR2. The key notch is only off by a few pins compared to DDR2, so if you don't know what you're looking at, they can easily be mistaken.

I've had to learn about obscure memory because I work on so many different machines spanning decades. FB-DIMMs aren't the first memory modules with an identity crisis, there were plenty of others like 5v EDO DIMMs which were identical to 3.3v 168 pin SDRAM DIMMs with the only difference is one of the key notches was moved 2-3mm. All of the pins were in the same place, so a determined user could plug normal SDRAM into a 5v EDO slot and watch everything explode into fire and smoke. These weird modules were common in Apple Power PC machines, like the Power Macintosh 6400/6500.

I'd suggest keeping at least four modules in a drawer somewhere because you never know what you'll come across. I keep a few sticks each of dozens of types of RAM in small drawers because I never know what will end up on my bench.

 

recycle, DIMMs are #1 board down at the port man...thars GOLD in them thar pins

 

Copper.

There's gold in the bond wires in the memory ic packages, but not on the module contacts. You'll spend more in chemicals and equipment than you'll recover in gold, and you'll be stuck with hazardous waste at the end that can't be poured down the drain or thrown in the trash legally.

Seriously, don't promote this shitty industry, it's why we vintage computer enthusiasts have to pay eye watering amounts for old gold topped CPUs, because they're sold for scrap by the thousand now. And again, it's also toxic, most idiots that do it don't know how to handle aquaregia or dispose of it properly.

 

Heh. Do you have a table saw? Just take a broken uATX mobo and rip it down to 170x170mm!

(that's actually sort of serious, too--the mounting hole pattern is the same, as is the i/o plate)

 

I was not advocating doing it at home. Both the bond wires and the pin plating are a source, admittedly small, of Au.

Are you seriously saying that landfilling unwanted board is preferable to recycling to you? Do you not think that mining new gold has environmental impacts?

I live in a West coast port city, so YMMV, but I'm getting over $1/lb for current production board, more for older board and backplanes, it adds up.

 

I do and could, but the idea of plastic etc. hitting a spinning blade with my fingers in the vicinity urge my brain to pay for someone's broken parts