TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Athlonite]

I've got the GA-7N400-Pro 2 version of that mobo

 

[Jetster]

Gigabyte K7 Triton with a Athlon XP 2500+

http://img.techpowerup.org/130907/Capture138.jpg

Ok well funny story. This is not a Gigabyte K7. Its a MSI KT4 Ultra. The person that gave it to me put a Gigabyte north bridge heat sink on it and put it in a Gigabyte box. I caught on when I noticed the box says Dual Channel and the board only has three slots. Plus the board is red.

 

[Athlonite]

hinky indeed

 

[GreiverBlade]

i wonder if i can call a AM2+ setup nostalgic ... i guess so ...

btw i got that for 1$ as said above, now im waiting on the reste to come to do some tests

the main mobo of my Athlon XP rigs is a MSI KT6V400 xD

 

[kniaugaudiskis]

Here is my socket 939 system I'm feeling nostalgic about:

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Ok well funny story. This is not a Gigabyte K7. Its a MSI KT4 Ultra. The person that gave it to me put a Gigabyte north bridge heat sink on it and put it in a Gigabyte box. I caught on when I noticed the box says Dual Channel and the board only has three slots. Plus the board is red.

Socket A boards capable of daul channel only came with 3 memory slots. The 2 close together where one channel and the one by itself was the other channel. You can technically put 2 x 512mb sticks in the 2 mem slots close together and a 1gb stick in the slot by itself and be running 2gb in daul channel. This is my shuttle Nf2 dual channel board. It only has 3 mem slots.

Here is my socket 939 system I'm feeling nostalgic about:

[url]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4807/tng8.jpg[/URL]

Hey Kniaugaudiskis, here is a screenshot from my 939 rig. I have a pair of 8800 GTX's in Sli in mine.

These pics where when I was waiting for the Psu to return from RMA.

 

[Jetster]

Anyone need a IDE controller card. i think it will do raid. NT and Windows 95 compatible

 

[Athlonite]

Socket A boards capable of daul channel only came with 3 memory slots. The 2 close together where one channel and the one by itself was the other channel. You can technically put 2 x 512mb sticks in the 2 mem slots close together and a 1gb stick in the slot by itself and be running 2gb in daul channel. This is my shuttle Nf2 dual channel board. It only has 3 mem slots. http://img.techpowerup.org/130810/IMG_1640Large.jpg

not quite it depended on the manufacturer my gigabyte GA-7n400 pro2 mobo has 4 dimm slots and dual channel which was running 4x 512MB ddr400 dimms for 2GB dual channel

as did my Abit NF7S v2 mobo 4 dimms 4x512 duel channel

 

[Frick]

Hey Kniaugaudiskis, here is a screenshot from my 939 rig. I have a pair of 8800 GTX's in Sli in mine.

Your "nostalgia" machine has more GPU power than me. Bleh.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

not quite it depended on the manufacturer my gigabyte GA-7n400 pro2 mobo has 4 dimm slots and dual channel which was running 4x 512MB ddr400 dimms for 2GB dual channel

as did my Abit NF7S v2 mobo 4 dimms 4x512 duel channel

Sorry I meant to write most Dual channel boards came with 3 dimm slots. My Nf7-s v2 only has 3 dimm slots as well as the shuttle board and my Asus A7n8x-x boards. Maybe you have some weird version of the Nf7 board. That would be cool and badass if you do.

 

[_JP_]

I don't recall nForce 2 motherboard having 4 DIMM slots...
Anyway, my NF7 sure hasn't got 4.

 

[Random Murderer]

I don't recall nForce 2 motherboard having 4 DIMM slots...
Anyway, my NF7 sure hasn't got 4.

http://i.imgur.com/IL7rj.jpg

Voltage hardmods... those were the days. Not so simple as switching some jumpers, and less frustrating and time-consuming than spending hours in BIOS tweaking... The perfect mix of hands-on and time spent tweaking in those days.
BTW, nice ABit collection. I loved my ABit boards.

 

[Frick]

Voltage hardmods... those were the days. Not so simple as switching some jumpers,

Just want to point out that overclocking switches was quite common in the slot 1 era, and possibly before that.

Anyway, my cousins husband was about to throw away a case with stuff in it. "No way, makes a perfect file server" I said while hoping I could afford to fill it with HDD's some day.

The motherboard is a GA-7DXR rev 0.2, which is an odd number. The CPU I don't know, but I think it's a Thunderbird. Speed I don't know. The PSU is a 500W Sun Pro with a 20A 12V rail, so it's good for something.

 

[_JP_]

Voltage hardmods... those were the days. Not so simple as switching some jumpers, and less frustrating and time-consuming than spending hours in BIOS tweaking... The perfect mix of hands-on and time spent tweaking in those days.
BTW, nice ABit collection. I loved my ABit boards.

It's not my collection, but I agree with all you've said.

 

[Random Murderer]

Just want to point out that overclocking switches was quite common in the slot 1 era.

I know, I had a few boards that had jumpers/DIP switches, that's where the comment came from
Personally, I preferred the hardmod route over switches/jumpers, because that was just too easy. Looking at a mobo with wires and connectors soldered all over it so you could squeeze another 100 precious MHz out of the CPU and a little bit more out of the RAM, that's part of what made overclocking so impressive and unique to each system back then. It gave your rig more character, you know?

 

[Jetster]

The three memory slots is just something that caught my eye. I checked the MSI Manual and the Via chipset does support Dual channel DMA 66/100/133. Im picking up a PSU in a couple of days and firing this thing up

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

The three memory slots is just something that caught my eye. I checked the MSI Manual and the Via chipset does support Dual channel DMA 66/100/133. Im picking up a PSU in a couple of days and firing this thing up

The MSi kt4 has the kt400 chiset which doesn't have dual channel memory support. I believe what you read was dual channel on the ide port which means you can run 2 devices per port. Nice board anyway and will be fun for you to play with. The only socket A Via chipset I know of that had Dual channel memory support was the Kt880 which in compared to stock to stock was indeed faster then the NForce2. The Nforce still had the way better sound solution.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I remember DFI boards used to be littered with jumpers

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I remember DFI boards used to be littered with jumpers

Didn't they have a crap load of jumpers on the Nf4 sli board to enable SLi?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

yup

 

[Frick]

The Asrock DS2 was nice that way.

 

[Jetster]

The MSi kt4 has the kt400 chiset which doesn't have dual channel memory support. I believe what you read was dual channel on the ide port which means you can run 2 devices per port.

Your correct I just saw Dual Channel and stopped looking. Its the VIA VT8235 chipset that supports Dual channel Ultra DMA 66/100/133

 

[GreiverBlade]

What a glorious day than today! i recieved both of my delivery.

went from a Athlon x2 4850e to a Phenom x4 9600b without bios flashing TOPSCORE!
well a Win7 AM2+ rig with a CPU from 2006 can be call nostalgic in the end (2005 for the Athlon)
its in a Antec NSK 3480 indeed and its a pretty neat little mATX box, it features a separated PSU/Motherboard section and the previous user was smart enough to use a Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro heatsink (SWISS FTW!!!), Win7 32bit sadely but with 4gb ram it doesnt matter (3.25gb useable is plenty) and those ram are Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800

Spoiler: warning imageshack didnt resized 3 of those pics... 3264x2448 FTW!

i didnt bothered to fire it up with the 4850e inside to check the bios i took a wild guess that it would be allright!

the 4850e who will sit in my CPU collection.

the Mobo is a nForce 720 based from Asus

too bad its a 3650 but hey ! i didnt had one in my GPU collection!

DDR2 WHATTT oohh i guess i can find something in my bits'n parts box to change that the NSK380 PSU has a PCIex 6pin connector

now thats a blast... 89$ for the rig and 1$ for the 9600B ... i can say: i've seen worste deals!!!

 

[Jetster]

ATI Radeon R6 DDR SG32M

Dimond Viper V77 32 Mb 150-183hz TNT 2

Diamond's Viper V550 32Mb 85hz TNT

Let me get my retro rig running and I may part with one or two of these

 

[_JP_]

The Asrock DS2 was nice that way.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/photo/939Dual-SATA2(m).jpg

Then there's that little detail about ASRock always wanting to top itself.

Heck, at least it's not like the ECS P4VXASD2+, which had a whole row just to setup the FSB (RAM and CPU separated), which you either had to leave there or remove the jumpers (or leave them on the side, inserted in either line of pins).

And the manual was utterly useless.
I hate that board. Came across it many times, since it was cheap and people bought a lot of them.
But it's a crappy board overall.