TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

kazz · Apr 2, 2015

VIA KT880 is my favorite soc A chipest

up to 4 ram slots @ dual mode, support for big amount of usb, sata, no problems with later AGP videocards, passive norhtbridge cooling

JunkBear · Apr 3, 2015

Just got a computer on the street with 4 old PCI camera surveillance cards. Each cards has 4 video entrances and 1 for sound. Mobo is way too far blown but cpu seems ok Socket 478 P4 Prescott 2.80Ghz/1M/800. 2 X 200gigs IDE hard disks. ATI Radeon 9250 128megs AGP

dorsetknob · Apr 3, 2015

JunkBear said:
4 old PCI camera surveillance cards. Each cards has 4 video entrances and 1 for sound.

That sounds like a good find

FireFox · Apr 3, 2015

I hope this count as hardware.
It should because it has some hardware inside of it.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Apr 3, 2015

kazz said:
VIA KT880 is my favorite soc A chipest
up to 4 ram slots @ dual mode, support for big amount of usb, sata, no problems with later AGP videocards, passive norhtbridge cooling

I liked the kt880 also and it did compete kinda close to the Nf2. But the Nf2 was the king for Socket A.

dorsetknob · Apr 3, 2015

N force chipsets did they not run so hot that you could fry eggs on them resulting in lots of Failure's unless you improved the cooling on them
and did'nt they play funny with ATi graphics cards

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Apr 3, 2015

dorsetknob said:
N force chipsets did they not run so hot that you could fry eggs on them resulting in lots of Failure's unless you improved the cooling on them
and did'nt they play funny with ATi graphics cards

In one word Nope. I still have a Nf7-s with it's stock chipset cooler and running a Hd2400pro gpu and it works great and while overclocking a Barton Mobile chip.

RichF · Apr 6, 2015

dorsetknob said:
yes you got to show us the Pictures otherwise its just a tease

I'll get some eventually. I'm really bad about taking photos of stuff. But, I will.

JunkBear said:
Why nicknamed like that?

Six knobs and the unit was heavy. Computer equipment at that time needed to be very heavily shielded. That's why the Atari 400 and 800 computers were built like tanks. That model is also known for being the most resistant to breaking and is the only one made in the US afaik.

A 5 minute video to basically tell you the one thing you need to look for: the thickness of the outer casing.

MrGenius · Apr 6, 2015

My old ASRock NF3 250 with my skt 754 Mobile Athlon 64 4000+ @3.0GHz + 2GB DDR500 + HD 3850 AGP = POWER!!! :rockout:

It was one hell of a nice OCing mobo for it's day. All I had to do was hard mod it for more volts(vcore/vdimm) and throw a slightly bigger passive HS on the chipset. Stable as a table. I still hold #5 highest OC with that processor on the CPU-Z DB. 3.214 GHz on air. That's +.6 GHz with the old cheapo Thermaltake A1838 cooler. I lost the link to the top 15 page, but you can check that here if you want. Yes I know the link to the validation details page is wrong. But that's not my fault.

Jetster · Apr 7, 2015

And the CPU and board work

GreiverBlade · Apr 7, 2015

Jetster said:
And the CPU and board work

kay six two BUDDY! yay! :toast:

(the board work, nice! tho these caps looks ... hum... you know ... :twitch:

)

Jetster · Apr 7, 2015

GreiverBlade said:
kay six two BUDDY! yay!

(the board work, nice! tho these caps looks ... hum... you know ... )

Just a little leaky. Gives it character

My first real build was a K6-2

twilyth · Apr 7, 2015

That was the first chip I ever tried to overclock. It was bullet proof.

Jetster · Apr 7, 2015

I have no idea about the dip switches

How about a nice macro shot of that leaky cap

dorsetknob · Apr 7, 2015

Dip switch's on a motherboard "ah " the Pre Plug and play era Nostalga

And the joy in composing your
Config.sys + Autoexec.bat file's

If your old enough or you run old enough equipment your know what i mean

stinger608 · Apr 7, 2015

@Jetster , the 8 position dip switch is for the cpu frequency. The 4 position is most likely something for the memory modules.

Depending on the model of motherboard, a person might be able to find a PDF motherboard manual.

dorsetknob · Apr 7, 2015

stinger608 said:
the 8 position dip switch is for the cpu frequency. The 4 position is most likely something for the memory modules.

Probably right on the 8 position dip switch is for the cpu frequency

The The 4 position dip switch is probably to set the I/o for on board ports

There is usually silk screen printing near the Dip switches with settings labeled
thats a big clue as to what they are for

stinger608 said:
Depending on the model of motherboard, a person might be able to find a PDF motherboard manual.

Only way to know for sure is to Download and view the motherboard manual.

Mr.Scott · Apr 7, 2015

Jetster said:
I have no idea about the dip switches

How about a nice macro shot of that leaky cap

Your board. Gigabyte GA-5SMM
http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-5smm/

FIXED I.T. · Apr 8, 2015

Mr.Scott said:
Your board. Gigabyte GA-5SMM
http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-5smm/

The specifications on your board give the reason for the two switchblocks .
Makes me shiver to see SIS chips . Very few ran properly unless underclocked if my
memory hasn't totally gone .

FIXED I.T. · Apr 8, 2015

Jetster said:
I have no idea about the dip switches

How about a nice macro shot of that leaky cap

If you google Capacitor Plague Wiki , you will find the reason for most capacitor failures between 1999-2007 . If you want to replace capacitors use much later ones , or Japanese ones. Good luck .

Trekkie4 · Apr 13, 2015

Getting ready to move out... So here's all my 3dfx collection in one frame ... well, most of it anyway! There are couple of more Voodoo2 builds here & there, including SLI system which is currently still in use

micropage7 · Apr 13, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Getting ready to move out... So here's all my 3dfx collection in one frame ... well, most of it anyway! There are couple of more Voodoo2 builds here & there, including SLI system which is currently still in use

20+ cpu? wow.......
some reminds me of my old pentium I 166, my first pc

GreiverBlade · Apr 13, 2015

Trekkie4 said:
Getting ready to move out... So here's all my 3dfx collection in one frame ... well, most of it anyway! There are couple of more Voodoo2 builds here & there, including SLI system which is currently still in use

imagebam.... please use TPU image uploader or the "upload a file" button .... the option given for the reader are the most comfortable, and even for the poster (thumbnail or full size)

otherwise : nice

Trekkie4 · Apr 13, 2015

micropage7 said:
20+ cpu? wow.......
some reminds me of my old pentium I 166, my first pc

Actually, I believe the correct number would be around 28 of them

Ranging all the way from 486 DX4 (also got DX2 among spare parts) to Core2 Duo & Core2 Quad. Planning on buying Core i7 some time soon, for playing Grand Theft Auto 5.

As for the early Pentiums, I'm afraid none of these are Pentium 166, although I MIGHT have one (CPU alone, in ceramic package) inside one of the boxes with all the spare parts (it's not even MMX lol

) 3 of the builds in this pic are Pentium I 233, you can see 2 of them on the left side, small AT towers along with the 3rd one hidden behind that Windows XP machine with 2 stickers on the panel

GreiverBlade said:
imagebam.... please use TPU image uploader or the "upload a file" button .... the option given for the reader are the most comfortable, and even for the poster (thumbnail or full size)

otherwise : nice

I believe I've already explained why I'm using Imagebam some time ago, it's because I find TPU image uploader very complicated to use. Not only I can't make thumbnails, but I also can't upload multiple images at once, it's one image at the time which is very time consuming

As for pretty much everyone else, they either have similar restrictions or require registration, which I don't want (or need). But anyway, here are those 2 pics uploaded to TPU, in case you guys can't see them on Imagebam

GreiverBlade · Apr 13, 2015

complicated????? it's the simplest way to upload a pics here... just press "upload a file" then select on HDD and good... the other mean who doesn't use the button aforementioned is like any other image host (like imgur which i use only for PM, even if i can also use TPU for that, but if i have a batch upload i use imgur for MP ) :roll:

you are missing the point : multi upload + thumbnails is : "Upload a File" button just right of "Post Reply"

little repost for a example: (for multi you do same but you select more than 1 pics and then you can either post them full size or thumbnails)

full size

System Name	K7
Processor	AMD Athlon XP 3200+ @ ~2,4GHz /socekt A
Motherboard	Asus A7V880 /KT880
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper series with 2x 80x80mm Arctic FANS
Memory	2x1GB Corsair XMS PC4000 dual @ ~440MHz
Video Card(s)	HIS Radeon HD4670 1GB AGP
Storage	STEC Mach8 SSD 50GB SATA
Display(s)	23" LG Flatron IPS231
Audio Device(s)	Creative SB Live! CT4830
Power Supply	350W Enermax

System Name	HTPC
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.00/6M/1333
Motherboard	AsRock G31M-GS R2.0
Cooling	CoolerMaster Vortex 752 - Black
Memory	4 Go (2x2) Kingston ValueRam DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	Asus EN8600GT/HTDP/512M
Storage	WD 3200AAKS
Display(s)	32" Irico E320GV-FHD
Case	Aerocool Qx-2000
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax NoiseTaker 2 - 465w
Mouse	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (M510)
Keyboard	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (K350)
Software	Win_7_Pro-French
Benchmark Scores	Windows index : 6.5 / 6.5 / 5.6 / 6.3 / 5.9

Processor	Intel i7 10700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero
Cooling	2x Black Ice Nemesis GTX 480 - 1x Black Ice Nemesis GTX 420 - D5 VPP655P - 13x Corsair LL120 - LL140
Memory	32GB G.SKILL Trident Z RGB 3600Hz
Video Card(s)	EVGA GEFORCE RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB/1TB - WD Blue SN550 1TB - 2 X WD Blue 1TB - 3 X WD Black 1TB
Display(s)	Asus ROG PG278QR 2560x1440 144Hz (Overclocked 165Hz )/ Samsung
Case	Corsair Obsidian 1000D
Audio Device(s)	I prefer Gaming-Headset
Power Supply	Enermax MaxTytan 1250W 80+ Titanium
Mouse	Logitech G502 spectrum
Keyboard	Virtuis Advanced Gaming Keyboard ( Batboard )
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise/Windows 10 Pro/Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	My PC runs FiFA

System Name	Agent Texas / Selene / Eve
Processor	Ryzen7 5800x / Fx 8350 / Fx 8350
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite Ax V2 / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 r4.0 / Msi 970a Krait
Cooling	Msi Mag Core liquid / H100i / Cryo-pc Cooler
Memory	2 x32 GB Gskil Ripjaws v series / 4x 8gb G.Skill Snipers / 2x 8gb G.Skill Ripjaws
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Rx 6800xt / Msi RX580 / Gigabyte R9 290x
Storage	1tb M.2, 2tb wd / 500 gb ssd, 2x 2tb Wd Blacks/ 500 gb ssd, 1tb WD Black
Display(s)	Dell Ultra Sharp 2408 WFp / Hp w2207 / Sanyo tv
Case	Corsair 780t White / Raidmax Vampire / NZXT Phantom 240
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio
Power Supply	Corsair Rm 850 watt / Corsair TX 850 watt / Corsair TX 750 watt
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero / Logitech G500s / Logitech wireless
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe / Corsair k50 / Logitech wireless
Software	Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro
Benchmark Scores	What are benchmarks anyway?

System Name	Agent Texas / Selene / Eve
Processor	Ryzen7 5800x / Fx 8350 / Fx 8350
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite Ax V2 / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 r4.0 / Msi 970a Krait
Cooling	Msi Mag Core liquid / H100i / Cryo-pc Cooler
Memory	2 x32 GB Gskil Ripjaws v series / 4x 8gb G.Skill Snipers / 2x 8gb G.Skill Ripjaws
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Rx 6800xt / Msi RX580 / Gigabyte R9 290x
Storage	1tb M.2, 2tb wd / 500 gb ssd, 2x 2tb Wd Blacks/ 500 gb ssd, 1tb WD Black
Display(s)	Dell Ultra Sharp 2408 WFp / Hp w2207 / Sanyo tv
Case	Corsair 780t White / Raidmax Vampire / NZXT Phantom 240
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio
Power Supply	Corsair Rm 850 watt / Corsair TX 850 watt / Corsair TX 750 watt
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero / Logitech G500s / Logitech wireless
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe / Corsair k50 / Logitech wireless
Software	Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro / Win 11 pro
Benchmark Scores	What are benchmarks anyway?

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

kazz

JunkBear

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

FireFox

The Power Of Intel

ThE_MaD_ShOt

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

ThE_MaD_ShOt

RichF

MrGenius

Jetster

GreiverBlade

Jetster

twilyth

Jetster

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

Mr.Scott

FIXED I.T.

FIXED I.T.

Trekkie4

micropage7

GreiverBlade

Trekkie4

GreiverBlade

System Name	Juliette // My HTPC
Processor	Intel i7 9700K // AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z390X-A // ASRock B550 ITX-AC
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12 Black // Stock
Memory	Corsair DDR4 3600 32gb //G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3600
Video Card(s)	ASUS RTX4070 OC// ASUS RTX 4060 OC
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 1Tb, Intel 665p Series M.2 2280 1TB // Samsung 1Tb SSD
Display(s)	ASUS VP348QGL 34" Quad HD 3440 x 1440 // 55" LG 4K SK8000 Series
Case	Seasonic SYNCRO Q7// Silverstone Granada GD05
Audio Device(s)	Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 // HDMI to Samsung HW-R650 sound bar
Power Supply	Seasonic SYNCRO 750 W // CORSAIR Vengeance 650M
Mouse	G903 and a Master Mouse MM710/No mouse, MS game copntroller
Keyboard	EVGA / Logitech K400
Software	Windows 11 Pro // Windows 10 Pro

System Name	main/SFFHTPCARGH!(tm)/Xiaomi Mi TV Stick/Samsung Galaxy S23/Ally
Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X3D/i7-3770/S905X/Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/Ryzen Z1 Extreme
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk/HP SFF Q77 Express/uh?/uh?/Asus
Cooling	Enermax ETS-T50 Axe aRGB /basic HP HSF /errr.../oh! liqui..wait, no:sizable vapor chamber/a nice one
Memory	64gb DDR4 3600/8gb DDR3 1600/2gbLPDDR3/8gbLPDDR5x/16gb(10 sys)LPDDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	Hellhound Spectral White RX 7900 XTX 24gb/GT 730/Mali 450MP5/Adreno 740/Radeon 780M 6gb LPDDR5
Storage	250gb870EVO/500gb860EVO/2tbSandisk/NVMe2tb+1tb/4tbextreme V2/1TB Arion/500gb/8gb/256gb/4tb SN850X
Display(s)	X58222 32" 2880x1620/32"FHDTV/273E3LHSB 27" 1920x1080/6.67"/AMOLED 2X panel FHD+120hz/7" FHD 120hz
Case	Cougar Panzer Max/Elite 8300 SFF/None/back/back-front Gorilla Glass Victus 2+ UAG Monarch Carbon
Audio Device(s)	Logi Z333/SB Audigy RX/HDMI/HDMI/Dolby Atmos/KZ x HBB PR2/Moondrop Chu II + TRN BT20S
Power Supply	Chieftec Proton BDF-1000C /HP 240w/12v 1.5A/4Smart Voltplug PD 30W/Asus USB-C 65W
Mouse	Speedlink Sovos Vertical-Asus ROG Spatha-Logi Ergo M575/Xiaomi XMRM-006/touch/touch
Keyboard	Endorfy Thock 75% <3/none/touch/virtual
VR HMD	Medion Erazer
Software	Win10 64/Win8.1 64/Android TV 8.1/Android 13/Win11 64
Benchmark Scores	bench...mark? i do leave mark on bench sometime, to remember which one is the most comfortable. :o

System Name	octo1
Processor	dual Xeon 2687W ES
Motherboard	Supermicro
Cooling	dual Noctua NH-D14
Memory	generic ECC reg
Video Card(s)	2 HD7950
Storage	generic
Case	Rosewill Thor

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Master
Processor	Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3
Motherboard	SR-2 Classified
Memory	12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX680
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750

System Name	HOTROD
Processor	PHENOM 2 555
Motherboard	V6-M4A3000E LE
Cooling	Standard AMD
Memory	8.0GB
Video Card(s)	Onboard 3xxx
Storage	250 Gb Seagate 7200 sata
Display(s)	19" ASUS
Case	barebones
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	onboard
Mouse	Logitech wireless
Keyboard	StarKey Cheapy + onscreen qwerty
Software	Win 7 x64 Ultimate
Benchmark Scores	Polished out with sandpaper

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
Processor	Intel Pentium II, 350MHz
Motherboard	Chaintech 6BTM, Slot 1
Cooling	SECC Cartridge
Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
Video Card(s)	ATI Rage IIc AGP, Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB
Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
Display(s)	LG StudioWorks 57M
Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster 128
Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Keyboard	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Software	Microsoft Windows 98