TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[MaxiPro800]

Hmm, not sure I understand which post you're referring to here, is it that last one about making a Celeron build? But you're right, I've been wondering about PS units & how much load would they be able to handle, if I make a system that's packed up with hardware My guess would be around 300W... I was thinking of something like this:

It's the one you've got back,and wondered how much life does it have in it,the Shuttle AK75. Forgot mentioning that...

 

[Trekkie4]

Ah, gotcha! Thanks

 

[GreiverBlade]

Just got this ol' big Xbox over here.

Mobile Celeron 733MHz anyone? It's been upgraded a bit by me - HDD will be replaced with 200GB Hitachi Deskstar (current one is a 80GB IDE Maxtor - it's unlocked) and then cloning with Chimpanzee Linux
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Trekkie - I've got two PSUs,both Deer,that went through a lot of torture from me,and both still work fine to this day. I'm going to admit,one of them was rebuilt by me. The other one,however,I got it packed up with components.

RYUKO MATOI!!!

 

[MaxiPro800]

RYUKO MATOI!!!

I've actually got a dashboard skin for that Xbox which uses the same splash screen. In fact,the whole theme has Ryuko over it.
(did it myself,it was a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ARSE to change the menu color text because they use some weird 8-bit hex to define each channel - I know that the first byte is alpha channel (transparency) and the rest are just RGB. This means that instead of being RGBA,it actually uses ARGB.

 

[Silvertigo]

Heres a Coolit Freezone Elite v2 cooling a C2 Extreme QX 6850

Mobo is a Maximus Formula BIOS modded to a Maximus Rampage (lga 775 / x38)

Thanks again @Dia01 for kindly giving me the Freezone Elite !

The 120mm fan is needed to cool the very hot northbridge heatsink while I have this rig @ 3.6

though its currently upside down as I was taking it on and off for photos

 

[Trekkie4]

In progress of finding the ATX case for upcoming (and most likely the last one for now) build, featuring lots of unique details & specs. Still missing the PSU (which I'll eventually find, sooner or later and HDD - aiming for approx. 10GB)

All my previous Voodoo1 Windows 95 builds have been AT styled Pentiums with MMX support (Pentium 233 to be exact), but that's about to change. This time I'm going to do something different - I'm going to use S370 board from around 1998/9 with Celeron 433 and 64mb of RAM. The alternative to this would be iWill BD100 Slot-1 mobo, paired up with an old Pentium 2, 266MHz. Frankly, I still can't make up my mind about this, but what I DO know is that it's going to run Windows 95, along with previously mentioned SIS 6326 AGP video card, paired up with both Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1) and DVD MPEG accelerator for watching DVD movies. The idea is to make a really old (and slow) system that's packed up with hardware components, just like you'd expect to see in the old days when ppl used to "upgrade" their old rigs to something better & more useful.

Overall speaking, this rig here will be the 1st (and only) one in my collection to feature:

Voodoo1 card on ATX system
Windows 95 on ATX system
DVD drive on Windows 95 system
DVD (MPEG) accelerator in ANY system
ISA network card with coaxial interface jack
SIS-based graphics card
The slowest specs among ATX builds, except maybe Celeron 333 which has Voodoo Rush

EDIT
While I'm waiting for the previously mentioned ATX case to arrive, I was offered something else. A set of Pentium 2 + Slot-1 mobo & a 486 build in working condition. Pentium board is free, all I have to do is go pick it up, but the 486 rig is on sale for 4$ (roughly 3,5€)

No details on Pentium board (brand name, CPU speed and/or other specs) but according to owner, the 486 system has 80MHz CPU, 128mb RAM (wow!), floppy, CD-ROM & external dial-up modem. No mention of sound card, but (considering it has CD drive), I'm guess it must be there... Comes with Windows 95 and Office 95, the system has been in service up until 2008 when it got decommissioned and now it's about to get recycled at the e-waste. Shall I pick it up?

 

[Retrorockit]

I'l just throw my Old Dell Dimension E520 into the discussion and see what anyone thinks of it.
Built December 2006 BTX Mini Tower.
Core 2 Extreme QX6800 @ 3.72Ghz, 8GB DDR2 @800, GTX750Ti O/C 2GB DDR5
http://valid.x86.fr/bg4n0r

 

[Retrorockit]

In progress of finding the ATX case for upcoming (and most likely the last one for now) build, featuring lots of unique details & specs. Still missing the PSU (which I'll eventually find, sooner or later and HDD - aiming for approx. 10GB)

All my previous Voodoo1 Windows 95 builds have been AT styled Pentiums with MMX support (Pentium 233 to be exact), but that's about to change. This time I'm going to do something different - I'm going to use S370 board from around 1998/9 with Celeron 433 and 64mb of RAM. The alternative to this would be iWill BD100 Slot-1 mobo, paired up with an old Pentium 2, 266MHz. Frankly, I still can't make up my mind about this, but what I DO know is that it's going to run Windows 95, along with previously mentioned SIS 6326 AGP video card, paired up with both Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1) and DVD MPEG accelerator for watching DVD movies. The idea is to make a really old (and slow) system that's packed up with hardware components, just like you'd expect to see in the old days when ppl used to "upgrade" their old rigs to something better & more useful.

Overall speaking, this rig here will be the 1st (and only) one in my collection to feature:

Voodoo1 card on ATX system
Windows 95 on ATX system
DVD drive on Windows 95 system
DVD (MPEG) accelerator in ANY system
ISA network card with coaxial interface jack
SIS-based graphics card
The slowest specs among ATX builds, except maybe Celeron 333 which has Voodoo Rush

EDIT
While I'm waiting for the previously mentioned ATX case to arrive, I was offered something else. A set of Pentium 2 + Slot-1 mobo & a 486 build in working condition. Pentium board is free, all I have to do is go pick it up, but the 486 rig is on sale for 4$ (roughly 3,5€)

No details on Pentium board (brand name, CPU speed and/or other specs) but according to owner, the 486 system has 80MHz CPU, 128mb RAM (wow!), floppy, CD-ROM & external dial-up modem. No mention of sound card, but (considering it has CD drive), I'm guess it must be there... Comes with Windows 95 and Office 95, the system has been in service up until 2008 when it got decommissioned and now it's about to get recycled at the e-waste. Shall I pick it up?

My first computer was a 486 33sx (no FPU). I had to add 32kb cache chips to the MB. Then an Evergreen "586" 133mhz AMD CPU adapter. 16mb DRAM (not even SD), and a 2mb STB ISA bus video card! Windows 95a couldn't address the whole 2GB hdd. It sure could play that frtactal screen saver though.

My favorite Socket7 chip was the AMD K6-3+ (400-550mhz) 2 level cache on die, so tri- level cache with up to 2mb on the motherboard. The 400 had a 4X100 setting for "Super7" boards, but a 6X66 setting for older Intel boards. So a 50% O/C was just a jumper away. It was built on Athlon process so needed secret low voltage jumper settings, and BIOS tweaks to work. It was never offered retail. It was made for laptop manufacturers who needed to continue with Socket7 designs. The only thing I still have from back then is a Voodoo 5500. The K6-3+ would run clock for clock with a Pentium3.

 

[Trekkie4]

Oh wow, I'd really, REALLY love to get my hands on one of those Voodoo5 cards! Alas, those are becoming more & more expensive day after day... And not just Voodoo5, I've noticed that ALL the Voodoo cards got more expensive than what they used to cost

Anyhow, regarding 486... My very first PC was 486 DX2 with 66MHz and 4 (or maybe 8) mb of RAM. It didn't had a CD & sound card at first (those two were bought & installed later on), and the HDD was around 600MB. Give it or take it, don't really remember the exact details. But overall speaking, it was a great little system and yes, it also had Windows 95 at some point. But that was later on (I was still running Windows 3.11 & DOS 6.22 at the time), couple of months before we sold 486 & bought brand new Pentium 2 350. Actually, I remember Win95 struggling a bit on 486 - the biggest issue was the HDD which was barely large enough to host the Windows & couple of games.

 

[Retrorockit]

On the 486 I added the HDD, I think it was 140MB originally. Added CD player and Sound Blaster ISA also. Some people actually tricked the Evergreen to run 166mhz. Wahoooooooooo!
I have a friend who has a Voodoo3 PCI still in the shrink wrap.

 

[Trekkie4]

On the 486 I added the HDD, I think it was 140MB originally. Added CD player and Sound Blaster ISA also. Some people actually tricked the Evergreen to run 166mhz. Wahoooooooooo!
I have a friend who has a Voodoo3 PCI still in the shrink wrap.

Awww man! I don't suppose you could talk your friend into joining TPU?

 

[Retrorockit]

She earns her living working phones/online, so blogging isn't high on her list of things to do.

 

[Trekkie4]

Okie dokie. If she ever decides to join & share her collection with the rest of us here, I'd love to see some of her stuff

 

[Retrorockit]

No collection. Just 1 unused GPU. She thinks the graphics on the box are creepy!

 

[Trekkie4]

No collection. Just 1 unused GPU. She thinks the graphics on the box are creepy!

Hahaha, well yes - creepy is one way of describing 3dfx products

 

[Retrorockit]

It's still under warranty!

 

[Trekkie4]

It's still under warranty!

Wait, what? You mean the Voodoo3?!

 

[Retrorockit]

I don't think it matters, 3DFX was out of the GPU business shortly after they bought STB and started making their own video cards. I was referring to the 10 year warranty claim on the box. It may be even older than that, I'm not sure. Voodoo made GPU chips for everybody at first, and became an industry standard like SoundBlaster, or Adobe Acrobat. Their Glide API was better than D3D back then and game developers used it a lot. But then they bought STB (3Dfx) and quit supplying anyone else with chips. It didn't work out for them and Nvidia bought them in a hostile takeover and buried SLI, and dual GPUs for a few years. At one time Radeon was producing SLI alongside Nvidia using their Voodoo license for it. But they got sued and had to come up with Crossfire.

 

[Trekkie4]

I don't think it matters, 3DFX was out of the GPU business shortly after they bought STB and started making their own video cards. I was referring to the 10 year warranty claim on the box. It may be even older than that, I'm not sure. Voodoo made GPU chips for everybody at first, and became an industry standard like SoundBlaster, or Adobe Acrobat. Their Glide API was better than D3D back then and game developers used it a lot. But then they bought STB (3Dfx) and quit supplying anyone else with chips. It didn't work out for them and Nvidia bought them in a hostile takeover and buried SLI, and dual GPUs for a few years. At one time Radeon was producing SLI alongside Nvidia using their Voodoo license for it. But they got sued and had to come up with Crossfire.

Well yes, I know all that. What I was referring to was the actual warranty ... I just don't see how. Voodoo3 was marketed & produced in 1999 right? So, even if the card had a 10 year warranty, it would only be up to 2009, certainly not 2016! In fact, Voodoo3 will celebrate its 20th bday in only 3 years.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Oh wow, I'd really, REALLY love to get my hands on one of those Voodoo5 cards! Alas, those are becoming more & more expensive day after day... And not just Voodoo5, I've noticed that ALL the Voodoo cards got more expensive than what they used to cost

What...these?

 

[Trekkie4]

Yes, those two! Pretty awesome that you have both PCI & AGP version

 

[Mr.Scott]

I was lucky. Found one in a used dealers junk bin. Asked him what he wanted for it and he said "I know what that is and what it's worth.........I need $20 for it." lol
The other I had since long long ago.

 

[Trekkie4]

I was lucky. Found one in a used dealers junk bin. Asked him what he wanted for it and he said "I know what that is and what it's worth.........I need $20 for it." lol
The other I had since long long ago.

Yeah, I had kinda similar story myself. Except I scored the entire system for 7$. It was an old Pentium 3 (Slot-1) rig with Voodoo2 card inside. I believe it also had ATI Rage 128, SB Live and few other goodies but the guy who sold it to me didn't seem to care about any of that Instead, he removed (what it appears to be) DVD RW drive, which was originally in the picture(s) but when I actually picked it up, there was just a hole in the case. Apparently he valued DVD-RW more than he did 3dfx & SB Live, otherwise this thing would have been 2, or 3 times as expensive! Oh well, his loss is my gain

Here's the pic, after I already stripped everything apart. And yes, both mobo & CPU were completely operational, someone just dumped this thing because it was too old

 

[Retrorockit]

Wait, what? You mean the Voodoo3?!

Yes it is under warranty! I just visited her and the box says limited lifetime warranty. I took a couple pics. I'll post them when I get back to my computer.

 

[dorsetknob]

Try convincing Nvidia who bought 3dfx and presumably 3dfx asset's and liability's to honour the Warranty