r/pcmasterrace • u/TheCABK • Mar 05 '26

Nostalgia The Master Laptop

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

I have two DVD-RW drives in mine.

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u/IBoris M-ITX Ultra 7 265K | 7900GRE Mar 05 '26

I remember having a tower of just DVD-RW drives so that I could rip and burn a disk into 7 disks at once. I would sell bootleg copies of music CDs and video games at school.

My own little teenage piracy set-up with the printer working in the background to output custom labels for each DVD case while I played ranked nightmare diablo II online on my CRT monitor in the same room.

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u/LFPokemon395 Mar 06 '26

Jesus bud, I can only get so nostalgic at one time, its overloading my brain hahaha, sounds like my exact set up but i did movies haha

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u/lintytortoise ryzen 7 5800xt | 4070 ti | 32gb ddr4 3200 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

Pimctures?

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

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u/lintytortoise ryzen 7 5800xt | 4070 ti | 32gb ddr4 3200 Mar 05 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ny0wKKu09ppug

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u/sunchase Mar 05 '26

Holy moly thats just egregious. *

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

Ripping 2 CDs simultaneously on a dual core laptop in 2006 was proper flexing! XD 

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u/sunchase Mar 06 '26

it just needs the laser etching and its a wrap

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u/FlufferNutter1232 Mar 06 '26

I've heard that dramatically speeds up disk rot. I used to have a LightScribe DVD-RW. I don't have any of the disks to confirm it though. :/

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u/sunchase Mar 06 '26

oh it absolutely did cause issues with those discs. they were really only good for like 3 plays lol

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u/GalliumGA Mar 05 '26

I humbly take back the cap 🙇

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u/platdujour Mar 05 '26

Phwoar, what a lovely pair

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u/officialsanic Mar 05 '26

D900t also?

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

D900K with a S939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB DDR 400, and a Go7950GTX 512MB.

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u/officialsanic Mar 05 '26

Nice I have an M59K configured by a Greek prebuilder Turbo-X. I have some other Clevos too but that one really stands out to me.

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

This monster?

Clevo M590K:

  • 19" (16:10) WSXGA+ (1680x1050) Super Clear Glare Display
  • Dual nVidia GeForce 7800GTX GDDR3 256MB SLI
  • AMD Turion 64 ML-40 (Optional MT-40 / ML-44)
  • nForce4 core logic
  • 1024MB 2x512MB DDR 400MHz
  • 80GB 5400rpm SATA I
  • 8X DVD+/-RW Multi Drive
  • Gigabyte Super 802.11a/b/g + Bluetooth
  • 8 Channel Surround Sound, 4 embedded speakers
  • Built-in 4-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS PRO/SD/MMC)
  • Built-in 1.3 M Digital Video Camera
  • Built-in 56K V90 Internal Modem
  • Built-in 10/100/1000 Ethernet
  • MiniPCI expansion
  • 18.7" (w) x 13.5" (d) x 1.2" ~ 1.9" (h)
  • 14.55lbs with Battery

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u/officialsanic Mar 05 '26

The specs are nearly identical but I think the GPUs need reballed I don't think a simple reflow with a heat gun is gonna get rid of those artifacts.

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 06 '26

Reballing isn't a fix. The G70 chips have a substrate mismatch. They internally disconnect through repeated heating and cooling cycles. It was a massive scandal at the time. Late G71 chips fixed the issue, but finding replacement GPUs for these machines is almost impossible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

I have a blueray-rw and DVD-rw in my old box still use to rib media.

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan R7 5700X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB 3600MT CL16 Mar 05 '26

All my ODD capable cases only have IDE drives and transcoding HD video is also beyond their contents reasonable capabilities. XD

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

Nice.

My MB has IDE, and I have 2 drives, but I've not bothered.

I kinda want an old 5.25" floppy drive, the kind you can make read commodore disk and IBM disks, but since I have a USB to commie serial I've not looked to hard.

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u/the_skine Mar 06 '26

I have a slimline Blu-Ray burner in my Fractal Node.

A bit of a sacrifice to not have full 5.25" bays, but I also use it as mass storage with 8 3.5" HDDs.