TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Norton]

Check out the socket 939 motherboard in the link:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAEEN6B84047

Can anyone spot the problem?

 

[dorsetknob]

Can anyone spot the problem?

Not that familiar with 939 boards
but to me it looks like your have problems finding a case to accept that board due to its awkward layout
the Rear panel IO layout seems wrong along with the riser slots

 

[Norton]

but to me it looks like your have problems finding a case to accept that board due to its awkward layout
the IO layout seems wrong along with the riser slots

Look at the condition of the board up close

Spoiler: Take a look

EDIT- I do agree that it's a strange layout

 

[dorsetknob]

No cannot see what your seeing
OMG those bulging Caps (2 by the CPU Carrier)

to me this board looks like it will not fit a standard AT/ATX Case

 

[Norton]

No cannot see what your seeing
OMG those bulging Caps (2 by the CPU Carrier)

to me this board looks like it will not fit a standard AT/ATX Case

Should be shipped with a free fire extinguisher

 

[Trekkie4]

Look at the condition of the board up close

Spoiler: Take a look

EDIT- I do agree that it's a strange layout

No cannot see what your seeing
OMG those bulging Caps (2 by the CPU Carrier)

to me this board looks like it will not fit a standard AT/ATX Case

It does look pretty weird, but that's probably just a standard BTX motherboard with bulging caps... Saying probably, as I don't have any BTX hardware for comparison, but I do remember all the promotional hype from early 2000s & BTX diagrams.

 

[biffzinker]

Looks like a highly proprietary motherboard pulled from a OEM case to me.

BTX moved the CPU down behind the plastic front panel right where the front intake fan. PCI/PCIe slots are up top, and DIMM slots were in the middle (near to the CPU.)

BTX showed up during the Pentium 4 era.

 

[Frick]

Looks like a highly proprietary motherboard pulled from a OEM case to me.

I'm thinking Shuttle.

Found this. Look at all those bent pins, will be a bitch to straight out.

 

[_JP_]

Not Sure what to think of these desktops... Generic office design, could be just about anything really. Probably a Slot-1 Celeron. The optical drive is DEFINITELY a CD-ROM, kinda like resembles that Teac of mine.

They look like Olivetti to me, although the logo is brother's, their desktop business is defunct for a loooong time now

EDIT: And if you search for anything brother industries-related, you get sewing machines and printers, their main focus now...so, "needle in a hay stack"

 

[Trekkie4]

They look like Olivetti to me, although the logo is brother's, their desktop business is defunct for a loooong time now

EDIT: And if you search for anything brother industries-related, you get sewing machines and printers, their main focus now...so, "needle in a hay stack"

Good to know that I'm not the only one who's researching (and documenting) old computers from the virtual environment I went back into the game & found this:


It turned out to be yet another AT system... Probably for the sake of sharing texture files with another model, "tower" one. But now that I think about it, I do remember seeing Slot-1 AT systems, so maybe I wasn't that far from the truth, after all!


Windows 95, probably! Either 95 of Millennium Edition for sure

 

[DR4G00N]

Came across another Ultra-D a little bit ago, Rev. AB0.
Had an A64 4000+, 2x512MB OCZ EL Platinum V1.1 (Samsung TCC5) & a Thermalright XP-120 with it.

 

[agent_x007]

Do a pencil mod to SLI-D version

 

[DR4G00N]

Haha, that may happen. Chipset heatsink is pretty much fused to the chip though.

 

[Bungz]

Been playing with a V2 1000 SLI set up, all alien to me.

Some games work spot on, some not so much.

 

[Bungz]

Aaaaand back to more familiar stuff

Been after one of these for a while, friend at uni had a 6800GT. Always loved the huge heavy cooler.

Only a boggo 6800 but still pleased with it, bought it from a local listing from a rough as hell area thought I was handing cash over for scrap!

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Aaaaand back to more familiar stuff
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Been after one of these for a while, friend at uni had a 6800GT. Always loved the huge heavy cooler.

Only a boggo 6800 but still pleased with it, bought it from a local listing from a rough as hell area thought I was handing cash over for scrap!

I have always loved the design of the cooler on the old 6800 ultra. Back in the same era I bought the X850XT PE, R481 AGP die of course!

 

[GreiverBlade]

Should be shipped with a free fire extinguisher

do want.... even without extinguisher ... i love oddboard ... and that would not be my 1st with bulging caps on my shelf


grrhhhh i want to fix my LanParty NF4 UT .... ooorrr i can try the MSI K8N Neo2 ... the XFX 650i Ultra + Asus 8800 Ultra + MK-26 + C2D E8500 is boring well the NF4 UT could use my dual 6600GT while the K8N is AGP and would get the Xvi X1950GT super AGP

on a second thought .... i still need to test my Asus A9800XT, the HIS HD3870, the XFX 8800 GTX and should probably fire up the SuperMicro H8DCE and see if the 2 Opteron 275 work with it ... (i know they do not work on the Arima HDAMA-i, only the 246/248/250 do )

i really need to find some time to tinker with the old hardware ... damn my Dell Dimension 5150 is calling me ... he says "P4-630....P4-630!!! give me a new graphic card ... that HD2600 OEM is ... rubbish!" too bad the only PCIeX single slot i have are non functional (a HP 9800GT, and 2 Acer 9600GT ) wait a minute .... i have a HD3650, i always thought it was a AGP (probably because i did put it near my X800GT agp)




edit ....

Came across another Ultra-D a little bit ago, Rev. AB0.
Had an A64 4000+, 2x512MB OCZ EL Platinum V1.1 (Samsung TCC5) & a Thermalright XP-120 with it.


View attachment 91721

argh! now i really have to work on my NF4 UT

 

[AsRock]

Saved these today, t6he guy had just phoned the recycliers to pick the stuff up but beat them to it.

3 PQ5 Deluxe boards, some eVga board and a standard PQ5, a LinkSys 2016 1Gbit 16 port, a IBM Thinkpad R61i and some crappy Asus eeePC Seashell BS, a bunch of low end video cards ( one of them have caps popping ).

 

[Bungz]

Those P5Q boards are some of the best 775 made.

Good save!

 

[dorsetknob]

Those P5Q boards are some of the best 775 made.

they sure are
still have one myself (from new)
Been asked if i will sell it but so far Resisted the Temptation
still have it installed as a working crossfire system

 

[AsRock]

Those P5Q boards are some of the best 775 made.

Good save!

And to think the guy was just throwing them out all wrapped up nicely in static bags and most of the other goody's that came with the boards.

Apparently he does the crunching for cancer and has 6 PCs running at this time, as him being a real nice person to know i did drop a hint about TPU, but my accent and all don't help HA.

Once i have checked them out see if they all working they be sold more likely, not 100% sure though as a quad core is cheap and would surly make a reasonable running PC(s).

 

[Mr.Scott]

Once i have checked them out see if they all working they be sold more likely,

Message me when you're ready to sell one.

 

[agent_x007]

Sad news :
My trusted A8N32 SLI Deluxe MB died suddenly
MCH/South Bridge fried itself :

Luckily, my CPU/GPU survived (FX-60 + GTX 780 Ti), don't know if RAM did as well (but I think it should, since CPU is OK).
Now I have to buy another one, but should I go for exact same board ?
OR maybe I should buy A8R32-MVP instead ?
Thoughts ?

I want a board with ECC Registred support.

 

[Bungz]

That sucks.

Commiserations

 

[stinger608]

My trusted A8N32 SLI Deluxe MB died suddenly

Damn bro, that does suck!!!!! Sweet boards.