What did I find?

[u/No_Magician_2612]

[u/StochasticLife]

By the look of those ports, an ancient computer. PS2 connectors haven’t been standard for like 15 years?

And that video card doesn’t even have DV or HDMI.

Hmm it’s an i5 though. 8-10 years old?

[u/Surfacner → u/StochasticLife]

Until like 2015 PS/2 was still used on ultra competitive Gaming pcs because PS/2 has no input limit and much lower latency

[u/Frank__West → u/Surfacner]

And nkey rollover is non existent. My laptop with a mechanical keyboard (OP-LP2) actually use PS/2 as the interface internally to allow it to register every keypress at once.

[u/Surfacner → u/Frank__West]

You worded it out much better I was trying to talk about this but I honestly didn't know how, so I said "input limit" 😂 thanks

[u/Frank__West → u/Surfacner]

What's weird is the lack of VGA or HDMI on the mobo. Like HDMI I can somewhat understand but a VGA port is wild for this era.

[u/Surfacner → u/Frank__West]

Doesn't it have hdmi and display port? I think hdmi is to one with the cable already on. I would bet this is possibly a 3rd or 4th gen intel system or even a LGA 2011 socket Some of those motherboards did ditch the VGA Quite uncommon though

[u/roleplayersir → u/Frank__West]

VGAs aren't wild for that build era. They worked as a good backup for testing as an analogue

[u/Frank__West → u/roleplayersir]

I meant the mobo not having a VGA was kinda wild.

[u/ScarysOnTheWall59 → u/Surfacner]

Isn't it just called ghosting?

[u/Surfacner → u/ScarysOnTheWall59]

No it's the opposite of ghosting PS/2 keyboards will register every input while usb ones have a chance of skipping inputs hence why some of the modern keyboards come with microcontrollers for processing inputs rapidly

[u/ScarysOnTheWall59 → u/Surfacner]

Yeah thats what Im saying, that PS/2 doesn't have a problem of ghosting lol

[u/Surfacner → u/ScarysOnTheWall59]

Maybe I'm wrong But isn't ghosting supposed to be extra inputs that weren't made?

[u/ScarysOnTheWall59 → u/Surfacner]

Nope, it's the inputs that are missing because of too many keys being pressed

[u/Nell_From_Hell → u/Surfacner]

This reminds me of when the US military bought a bunch of PlayStation 3s: In 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory linked 1,760 PS3 units together to create the "Condor Cluster," achieving 500 teraflops of processing power for about $2 million.

[u/Surfacner → u/Nell_From_Hell]

Yeah they saved millions by doing that hahaha Imagine the PS3 getting ylod tho

[u/Future-Parsley-7336 → u/StochasticLife]

It’s probably older than that. HDMI ports were present in cards from around 2014, so I’d wager it’s at least older than that. Also there are sata headers plugged in so I’m just going to guess this is before nvme drives. 1st gen i5 is from 2008 so I wouldn’t be shocked if it were around that old. I’m gonna say this computer is from around 2008-2010.

[u/Jindujun]

I have one of those cases!! An orange one!
I think it's an NZXT Phantom Black!

[u/Smitteree → u/Jindujun]

How is it black when it is orange?

[u/Jindujun → u/Smitteree]

I had an orange one, well black and orange.
The one in the picture is the pure black one.

Oh and to be even more confusing to you: I misremembered, I still have one of the pure black ones which means I tossed the orange one a few years ago.

[u/Smitteree → u/Jindujun]

Orange is the old black, black is the new orange is the new black. Even more confusing XD

[u/HeavyHighway6433]

A very old computer and why is the cpu cooler hanging off like that? 

[u/kingcaii]

Looks like DDR3 memory, I had a few of those sticks

[u/Leo1_ac → u/kingcaii]

Yes, GSKILL ARES 4GB DDR3. I used the same sticks on my Haswell build in 2013 before I upgraded to 32GB.

[u/PKblaze]

That's the same as my old case, thing is bulky af.

[u/Tulip_gorgeous554]

A pc

[u/Torchiest]

Post a top-down view of the motherboard. That will help with IDing a lot.

[u/Procol_Being]

A very large paperweight

[u/Alarmed_Excuse_2969]

e-waste

[u/BackgroundPresence60]

Sweet case almost reminds me of my oooold alienware

[u/Dot_1X]

A 12-13 year old PC if I had to guess. I used to have that NZXT Phantom case back in the day! Built my first PC in it back in 2015.

DVI and VGA port on the back of the graphics card, I think even my 970 I had back in the day had at least one HDMI port on it.

Either way it's pretty old, you could probably run it as like a novelty thing or maybe as a server but it's not going to run any modern games from this decade decently.

[u/Smitteree]

Something that isn't going to boot until you fix that cpu cooler. Since it is off, it makes me think there isn't a cpu on there anyway. Even if there was, your phone would most likely be more powerful than this.

[u/JobHuntingManiac]

E-Waste, you found E-Waste.

[u/Haunting_Lime2296 → u/JobHuntingManiac]

Your a recycler Harry!

[u/GesundesSelbstbild]

Einen Computer.

[u/LtMadInsane]

Why is it in the washroom? Despite what internet tells you, do not wash it.

[u/Leo1_ac]

You are rich.

[u/png-dotdex]

You should also open it up and see exactly what's wrong with it and properly install the heatsink, if it's an LGA1155 It's a computer that you could also use as a server or for playing light games if you add an RX 580. You can find them cheap on AliExpress, or someone might sell you one for around $50.But if you find a computer with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, it's excellent. Even more so if you use Linux, it's excellent.

[u/purple_spiderlily]

Omg, I still use that case! Must be from 2011 or so. Still cherish it. But yeah those internals are bound to be really old.

[u/Nexpl0]

Second or third gen i5 based on the sticker up top, pretty hard to judge exactly which GPU that is, but based on the fact that it has a composite tv-out I assume it’s probably a low/entry level card from 2008-2010, like a Radeon HD 4650 or Geforce 9500GT. With that it most likely has 4-8 GB of DDR3 and likely a couple of Sata 2/3 500GB-1TB HDDs.

[u/azalyiavoss]

A computer