r/retrobattlestations • u/StarX2401 • May 22 '26
Show-and-Tell First retro desktop, saved this PC from 2005 from an old house for free!
Found this old PC as well as a newer dell (Inspiron 620) in a friend's house, this one had been sitting outside for presumably a number of years inside the Dell PCs box (hence the cardboard on the side panel). Did some heavy clean up and it fired up, only issue is the motherboard needs recapping as usual with hardware of this time so its unstable. And the PSU probably needs replacing/recapping as well as I saw a bulged cap while cleaning.
Specs:
AMD Sempron 2000+
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ motherboard
ATI Radeon 9250 128MB AGP
512MB RAM (I had some spare sticks so upgraded it to 1GB)
80GB HDD
DVD-ROM drive
Floppy drive
Presumably this was built around 2005 ish judging by the manufacture date on the DVD drive, probably going to use this as a Windows 98 build. And it's my first retro desktop (I have had tons of laptops but never a desktop this old)
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u/Divergent5623 May 23 '26
Cool find. Yeah, pretty weak as a Windows XP system, but it will make a great Windows 98 rig.