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EvanHedgie
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 Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2026 7:38 pm Post subject: [Showcase] Coolest old setups thread |
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I wanted to make a thread for cool old setups I find.
This is one from 2005
Anyways, use this thread for posting whatever cool desktop setups of the 2000s you can find!
Remember, they have to be embedded images.
Also sorry if this seems like a nonsense thread
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that image link is giving me a 403 forbidden; i think you might have to be logged in to see it
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EvanHedgie
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| parasquared wrote: | | that image link is giving me a 403 forbidden; i think you might have to be logged in to see it |
oh darn..
lemme try somethin else rq
fixed!! used imgbb
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One that's always stood out to me is the render farm used for Toy Story.
There's also Theo de Raadt's rack of computers used to build OpenBSD, which is another one of my favorites.
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woah those are cool!!
I honestly wonder how big the render farm was for making Jimmy Neutron
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They are, aren't they? Unix machines, my beloved. 
That's a good question. Jimmy Neutron (the movie) came out about six years after Toy Story, and the TV series about a year after that. Given how much computing hardware changed in those six to seven years, I'd imagine that the render farm could have been made considerably smaller.
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this ones always seemed quite awesome to me... a flight sim setup from the early 00s!
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woah!!!
I honestly wonder how much work he could get done with all those monitors haha
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| Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2026 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: [Showcase] Coolest old setups thread |
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| EvanHedgie wrote: | I wanted to make a thread for cool old setups I find.
This is one from 2005 |
Dude, it looks just like the setup from Grandma's Boy |
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Some of my favorites are the horrendous ISP closets from the early dial-up era.
Years ago, I also found this Spanish website where someone was documenting the process of building a homemade double high case by sticking two together. There were some good pictures in there.
If you scroll back on HardOCP forums, there's a lot of good stuff in there too.
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woah!!!
that double tower is super cool, I honestly wonder if it's possible to fit 2 core duo PCs in there
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| EvanHedgie wrote: | woah!!!
that double tower is super cool, I honestly wonder if it's possible to fit 2 core duo PCs in there |
Given that it is literally two standard PC cases welded together, I think there is a good chance you could do that if you so desired.
There were also some cases in the 90s and early 00s that could do this right from the factory, mostly big stuff with wheels that nobody seemed to keep around sadly. |
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| VCSMaster wrote: | Some of my favorites are the horrendous ISP closets from the early dial-up era.
Years ago, I also found this Spanish website where someone was documenting the process of building a homemade double high case by sticking two together. There were some good pictures in there.
If you scroll back on HardOCP forums, there's a lot of good stuff in there too. |
These images don't seem to load for me
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| VCSMaster wrote: | Here are the direct links if you want to give them a try.
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i get "No address associated with hostname" from ping, and Firefox doesn't even attempt to load it. is something up with your DNS entries perhaps?
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