After high-capacity hard drives and subsequently SSDs and RAM of all kinds had risen sharply in price due to extreme demand from AI companies, this unexpected news came […]
Setup:
Retro Server
After several changes over the years, the server is now equipped close to its limit. Unless something breaks, nothing else is likely to change – the Windows Server […]
Retro Server: HP ProLiant DL120 G5
Like so much else in my hardware collection, this 19″ computer server from HP with a height of 1U came into my possession as electronic waste. Like all […]
External 3.5″ hard drives from WD and their deliberate incompatibilities
There used to be many hard drive manufacturers, but today there are only a few. Three have survived the flood of solid state drives, which are generally better […]
Setup:
Medion PC-MT6 (MD8080)
This is the current status after the revival and overhaul of both computers. Hardware: Base Medion MD 8030 (2004)Ready-made PC Medion MD 8083 (2004)Ready-made PC Processor Intel Celeron […]
Medion PC-MT6 #4:
Maintenance and upgrades
After installing Windows XP with minimal drivers on a 40 GB PATA hard drive from Seagate to perform some hardware tests, I noticed the following: Spare parts are […]
Medion PC-MT6 #3:
Hardware and Possibilities
As mentioned earlier, both models share some components: The motherboard is based on the Intel 865PE chipset with ICH5 and is equipped with a PGA 478 socket. DDR […]
The first desktop quad-core processors: OC legends
After acquiring one of these desktop processors from Intel a long time ago, I came across the bundle consisting of a motherboard and CPU again while rearranging other […]
Setup:
Gast-PC
Revision 1.1 (01/2026) | Revision 1 (11/2025) If you just pack salvaged components into boxes and shelves, you don’t get anything out of them. That’s why we have this “guest […]