TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[stinger608]

2000 Pro was/is damn good, but I must say that the best Windows OS I've ever used was 3.11 for Work Groups.

Yep, I must agree! 3.11 for Work Groups was frigging awesome! Went to 95 for about 2 days and right back to 3.11 until 98SE came out!

Played tons of Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, and Hexen with 3.11. Used a application that was called "Out & Back." Was great. Ya just clicked on the game and Out & Back would take it right to the DOS program and then when you exited the game it would take ya right back to Windows 3.11. Out & Back worked great in 98SE as well. Made gaming in 3.11 so simple.

Not even sure if you can still find Out & Back anywhere. I tried Googling "Out & Back" and "Out and Back" a couple of years ago............ I'll bet you can just imagine some of the sites that came up with that search.

 

[GreiverBlade]

ok guys the BattleWorkStation got new heatsink for the RAM, SHINYYYY!



And then:
GENERATION CLASH!


Result ... BattleWorkStation goes to Hawaii!

 

[xvi]

That's cheating.

 

[GreiverBlade]

That's cheating.

naaaahhh not so much

the CPU and PCI-E revision bottleneck it

TR2013 290 lowest settings (like the R7 run) you can see a effective CPU bottleneck (temp 93° on GPU )


now : ULTIMATE SETTINGS! indeed CPU bottleneck but the R9 run was kinda smooth, the drop under 1fps where for some milliseconds it seems (i didn't noticed them)also the R7 could not display anythings but a slideshow at 1fps (a real pain in the ass to watch xD) again 93° GPU but the cpu's never passed 51° (48° cpu0 51° cpu1)

 

[GreiverBlade]

That's strange, I played TR2013 on Athlon 64 and GTX460. But compare it with Phenom, incredible differences.

eh? settings? its a A64+460? or a phenom??? remember i am using a dual single core 1st gen 940 optys and a 290 +4gb (in fact 2.67 usable since 2 and 2 splitted between cpu0 and cpu1) ECC DDR 266mhz no DDR2 or higher frequ than 266.
my Phenom II X4 955 BE @4.1 8gb DDR3 1866+ 580 SLI never reached that result (on ultimate ofc) even my i5 2400 or the Xeon E3-1275V2 with the same RAM GPU too

 

[GreiverBlade]

Max settings, TressFX disabled. Phenom II X6 and R9 270X

ok so ultra settings not ultimate and DDR3 over DDR ECC

 

[stinger608]

Would like to take a moment in silence to honor one of the most awesome fellow members on TPU!!!!

R.I.P. my friend!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/dean-kreij-kortenhoven-1959-2014.201978/

 

[GreiverBlade]

Would like to take a moment in silence to honor one of the most awesome fellow members on TPU!!!!

R.I.P. my friend!

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/dean-kreij-kortenhoven-1959-2014.201978/

yep ... R.I.P ... really a helpful person, all post i had read from him was to help others or to guide them ... he will really be missed a lot

 

[Ruru]

Good old Opterons..

And the new Lara, damn she's hot! I've played myself few hours, but damn dat ass of hers!


Greiver, I just started FF VIII for the umm.... 8th(?) time? I got dualshock3 for those old games

 

[GreiverBlade]

awesome news ... one of my fav etailer has some DDR1 400 in 1gb format and i noticed that i never noticed (wtf? ) that the KT600 was able to handle 2gb total.

added to wishlist ... 2x1gb DDR400 and 2 other heatsink for RAM (or 6 if i find some DDR ECC for the WorkBattleStation)

 

[Ruru]

KT600 was IMO a pretty crappy chipset. Was there any difference between it and KT400A..?

nForce2 Ultra400 was my favourite S462 chipset.

 

[GreiverBlade]

KT600 was IMO a pretty crappy chipset. Was there any difference between it and KT400A..?

nForce2 Ultra400 was my favourite S462 chipset.

i never had any problem with my MSI Kt6V : void statement you are denied to say such statement even if its iyo you are not the majority thus what you think fail miserably to prove anything: we are VIA the KT600 is supreme the KT600 REIGN OVER ANY OTHER... (ok i stop joking)

the only chipsets from nV i like is the nForce Pro 2200 and 2050 (thanks Supermicro XD) the rest is : something nV should have continued, support AMD and stop overpricing any card (thanks 8800GT .... golden card golden time ... long faded away )


yet may i ask what was crappy?

 

[Ruru]

At least my DFI KT600-AL was like a fresh pile of crap.. :/ Maybe the KT600 isn't bad itself, but that my board sucked. Only good thing was that it had the holes near socket so I could install a Zalman 7000Al-Cu to it.

nForce 3 Ultra was my favourite nVidia chipset, I had a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with a 3000+ Venice and damn it overclocked like mad, 50% OC (2.7GHz) with boxed cooler!

And yeah, the GPU prices are again messed up, 8800GT and HD4850 were the best bang for buck cards ever!

 

[GreiverBlade]

and AMD did it again .... for me .... the R9 290 is the 8800GT legacy ... only on the red side instead of green
if it were not for sh*tcoins ... i mean cryptocurrencies the 290 price would still be on the 770 level i am quite happy to live where gpu mining is too expensive

and since i am clearing my last debt .... my NOSTALGIA MADNESS CAN RUN FREE AGAIN!

damn: and particularly this thread !

 

[MaxiPro800]

Back with a new update regarding my P4P800-VM board:
Apparently 2MB BIOS chips work too!
So far I got to work a SST 49LF002A and a PMC Pm49FL002T BIOS chip.
BIOS chips that don't work are any SST chip that begins with 29/39 instead of 49 (i.e 39VF020 doesn't work but 49LF002 does)
So far I've got 2 256K BIOSes to work.First is EPoX EP-4PLAI and second is ACORP 4865G.

 

[TRWOV]

So how large is the original bios chip?

 

[MaxiPro800]

So how large is the original bios chip?

4MB. (512KB)

 

[JunkBear]

Don't know if you can consider it a Nostalgic hardware but I got this baby at an auction in a box full of junk of all sort like wook toys, hair flattening iron that made girlfriend happy, couple of other stuff and a dusty power supply that I did not know if it was working.

ENERMAX Noisetaker II EG495P-VE 485W ATX12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194009

After testing and cleaning it works fine, no leaking capacitors, no whining and good voltage.

All of that for a 2$ invested in a pile of junk.

 

[Random Murderer]

Don't know if you can consider it a Nostalgic hardware but I got this baby at an auction in a box full of junk of all sort like wook toys, hair flattening iron that made girlfriend happy, couple of other stuff and a dusty power supply that I did not know if it was working.

ENERMAX Noisetaker II EG495P-VE 485W ATX12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194009

After testing and cleaning it works fine, no leaking capacitors, no whining and good voltage.

All of that for a 2$ invested in a pile of junk.

Lol, "Highly efficient: Delivering up to 80% efficiency..."

Good snag, and definitely in the range of nostalgia. That was from early LGA775 days, iirc.

 

[stinger608]

awesome score JunkBear!!!

 

[JunkBear]

Talking about nostalgic I still rock my 8600GT in system specs. I would like to suck more power from it so what is the way to do it? Any easy bios mod that stay or a software to overclockat windows ? The GTS versio nis it the same as my GT just higher clocking?

Thx

 

[Random Murderer]

Talking about nostalgic I still rock my 8600GT in system specs. I would like to suck more power from it so what is the way to do it? Any easy bios mod that stay or a software to overclockat windows ? The GTS versio nis it the same as my GT just higher clocking?

Thx

Contact Solaris17. He is the 8600GT/GTS guru around here, so much so that he took an 8600GT, gave it a dedicated power adapter, and set a world record or two with it. I believe at one point he had the core clock at something ridiculous like 1.3GHz.

 

[JunkBear]

I will take a look but if you find the thread about it tell me. Thx

 

[Random Murderer]

I will take a look but if you find the thread about it tell me. Thx

Just shoot him a PM, he'll help you out.
Here is his profile page.

 

[TRWOV]

Just got the 735 in the mail. Now the set is complete and ready to go into the P4 build.

I also picked up 2 160GB Barracudas for some RAID0 sweetness