TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Robert B]

The BOOT message made me smile

***Good News PC Healthy*** - Good news indeed! I was like what's going on? Are you talking to me?

 

[Bungz]

That feeling when a old board posts for the first time

Picked this up, will make a good home for a couple of X1900pros I have at some point

Works but is typically a bit flakey to boot/restart.

 

[micropage7]

Finally got some FB-DIMM's! Board works like a charm. Nice to have another dualie in my collection.

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what about those capacitors?
you recap them or something?

 

[DR4G00N]

what about those capacitors?
you recap them or something?

All the caps are original AFAIK. Or at least if they've been done before it wasn't by my hand.

 

[HUSKIE]

taken last year (2017) before 6800k die...

 

[Komshija]

taken last year (2017) before 6800k die...

Overvoltage?

 

[emissary42]

 

[GreiverBlade]

ANNNNDDDD here they are .... they? yep they, i got a little extra for 7chf ....

9800GX2 (Zotac but without the shroud more beautiful !)


09 and 10 bios revision

the status LED on the power connector (1x6 and 1x8)



EXTRA! Creative labs CT6610 Graphics Blaster EXXTREME. (3Dlabs Permedia 2) PCI



mmhhh a wire? from the C50 to a ram chips?


well too bad it's not the one with the 3Dlabs marking instead of Texas Instrument but whatever (or one with the add on vRAM connector) for the price ... nothing to complain

 

[Ruru]

Oh damn. I'm getting an Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA* to my retro rig, and that supports AM3 CPUs (no Phenom II X6:s tho) for a very noice price, 18 eur including shipping. Including Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 4x1GB DDR2-800 and Xigmatek cooler.

Of course I'll be getting a Phenom II X4 965BE (or 955BE), and the best part is that I'm going to put that Radeon 9700 Pro to it. It would be interesting to see how it performs when the CPU is everything else than a bottleneck. Last time when I've benchmarked 9700 Pro, I had an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice) @ 2.7GHz and 2x256MB DDR400 @ DDR540 2-2-2-5-1T

*nForce 3 250, AM2 (supports up to Phenom II X4 970BE with updated bios), 4x DDR2, AGP! etc

edit: Aaaaaand I just paid that.

 

[agent_x007]

Nice.
What test you want to perform on it ?
3DMarks, Quake ]I[, Doom 3... Crysis ?

 

[Ruru]

Nice.
What test you want to perform on it ?
3DMarks, Quake ]I[, Doom 3... Crysis ?

3DMark 2001SE, 3DMark03 at least, dunno about Doom 3 since I don't have that older Doom 3 on Steam, just the BFG Edition, which is a lot demanding AFAIK. But why not Crysis, I tried that on Pentium 4 & 9800 SE back in the day.

But why not Far Cry, Dreamfall, CS: Source, HL2 etc.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Oh damn. I'm getting an Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA* to my retro rig, and that supports AM3 CPUs (no Phenom II X6:s tho) for a very noice price, 18 eur including shipping. Including Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 4x1GB DDR2-800 and Xigmatek cooler.

Of course I'll be getting a Phenom II X4 965BE (or 955BE), and the best part is that I'm going to put that Radeon 9700 Pro to it. It would be interesting to see how it performs when the CPU is everything else than a bottleneck. Last time when I've benchmarked 9700 Pro, I had an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice) @ 2.7GHz and 2x256MB DDR400 @ DDR540 2-2-2-5-1T

*nForce 3 250, AM2 (supports up to Phenom II X4 970BE with updated bios), 4x DDR2, AGP! etc

edit: Aaaaaand I just paid that.

Nice board. I have two.
If you're doing heavy overclocking, you'll find it needs a vdimm and vcore mod. Neither supply enough from the factory.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Last time when I've benchmarked 9700 Pro, I had an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice) @ 2.7GHz and 2x256MB DDR400 @ DDR540 2-2-2-5-1T

me it was on a MSI KT6V with a Athlon XP (barton) and 1gb DDR 400... oh wait i only have a 9700 standard (although a Hercule with the fancy original box and bundle ) but i benched a 9800 Pro on it and the last card that build saw was a HIS X1600Pro IceQ 2... talk about a bottleneck

i just realised i have a Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice) and well, aside my DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra which only handle PCIex, i also have a MSI KT8 Neo 2 that has AGP only ... out of the 8 board in my collection only 2 of them have AGP and are working.

my highest AGP card would be, i guess, my Xvi X1950 SuperAGP 512mb

well i am happy that my GPU/mobo/CPU collection is able to grow after a few month stalling hehe ...

 

[Ruru]

me it was on a MSI KT6V with a Athlon XP (barton) and 1gb DDR 400... oh wait i only have a 9700 standard (although a Hercule with the fancy original box and bundle ) but i benched a 9800 Pro on it and the last card that build saw was a HIS X1600Pro IceQ 2... talk about a bottleneck

i just realised i have a Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice) and well, aside my DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra which only handle PCIex, i also have a MSI KT8 Neo 2 that has AGP only ... out of the 8 board in my collection only 2 of them have AGP and are working.

my highest AGP card would be, i guess, my Xvi X1950 SuperAGP 512mb

well i am happy that my GPU/mobo/CPU collection is able to grow after a few month stalling hehe ...

I guess I'll be hoarding also some Socket A and 478 hardware later.. A HD 3850 AGP would be a nice card to try out also.

Nice board. I have two.
If you're doing heavy overclocking, you'll find it needs a vdimm and vcore mod. Neither supply enough from the factory.

Ah. Well, I'll just search for guides, and then let the soldering iron get hot..

 

[Mr.Scott]

A HD 3850 AGP would be a nice card to try out also.

Like this one?

 

[agent_x007]

Here are 3DMark 03/06 scores for my HD 3850 : LINK/LINK (I used OP setup )
Oh, and my 3850 AGP looks like this :

"Other new stuff" I got recently :

Both are "Hot cookies" :
HD 3870 x2 (paste/pad exchange required) :

http://imgur.com/pppsxB7

HD 4870 x2 (paste/pad done, still hot af, but I do have high ambient temp in room [30C+]) :

http://imgur.com/Dcp3XeS

Not sure if I can drop VRM temps on 4870 x2 much more... any suggestions ?
FYI : 100% Fan get's me 10C lower on every temp sensor in it's case.

 

[Mr.Scott]

My 3850 3D03.
Ironically, ran on AM2NF3-VSTA board. The AMD version of your 4core Dual Sata2 board.

 

[agent_x007]

4,4GHz... Nice OC
AMD version of my 4CoreDual-SATA2 is called ALiveDual-eSATA2
Your board, is AMDs twist on ConRoe865PE.

 

[Ruru]

Pretty nice clocks for a Phenom II X2

I guess that AM2NF3-VSTA doesn't support core unlocking?

 

[agent_x007]

It can't support it.
It's based on nForce 3 chipset/platform, and core unlocking requires SB700/SB750 south bridge.

 

[Ruru]

Weird, IIRC my old M3N78D (NForce 720D) supported core unlocking.


Edit: Going to get some AGP cards, I think that I'll make a larger review sometime. I just need a Phenom II X4 955BE or better CPU first.

 

[dieselcat18]

Weird, IIRC my old M3N78D (NForce 720D) supported core unlocking.


Edit: Going to get some AGP cards, I think that I'll make a larger review sometime. I just need a Phenom II X4 955BE or better CPU first.

This Ebay seller ships Int'l from the US....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Phenom...586?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0

Just a thought.

 

[Trekkie4]

Hey guys, long time no see

Right after that last restoration project, I kinda gave up on computer hardware altogether. Not saying I won't deal with computer hardware in the future of course, I might still do something eventually if it's interesting enough ... Such as 3x86, 4x86, 5x86 &/or early Pentium builds for example, those are always welcomed In the meantime, I got some vintage & nostalgic stuff to share, if it's OK with everyone?

And the best way to start is with this nVidia GeForce2 MX card ... remember this one? I'll admit, I didn't have the patience to plug it in & see if it works (I do remember testing it initially, when I first picked it up & it seemed to be working fine), so I put one of these cheap GPU coolers onto it & saved the card for another occasion & second chance


And then, only couple of days later, I came across this Sony HiFi, from around 1997, 1998... It was in terrible condition, both CD & tape decks were seized up, but long story short I got them working. Pretty impressive specs, 5.1 surround system with 75W per channel but at the time I was missing a pair of speakers which made it completely useless.


So I bought a pair of these ... Sony SS-H771. Again, same year - these are really impressive speakers for the price! Powerful enough to keep all my neighbors around me seriously annoyed


And then, there's this Shure cart here... You might have heard the news, right? Shure decided to close down the phono cartridge/styli production & focus mainly on microphones, sound cards & similar hardware, which made me want to own a vintage Shure... I already got M94 mounted on my LP120 turntable, but that's not exactly "vintage", as it was made in Mexico, around early 2000s. Sooo, I got one of these instead


M75 of course is a serious thing, designed in 70s and (unlike M94), it was proudly made in USA!


The idea is to (eventually) assemble a complete head around it, with (probably) N75ED/T2 elliptical stylus over the original, N75B one which would be 0.6mil conical one. With everything put together & fully assembled, it should look something like this, a true (and vintage) piece of art IMO! I got some phono mounting screws & nuts leftover from M94 project, which gives me a head start & will (hopefully) keep the cost down to acceptable level


Speaking of cartridges, I also picked up cheap (brand new) Audio Technica, for approx. 8$ on AliExpress. Model number is AT 3600L, with genuine stylus. Kinda makes you wonder just how cheap these can get?! Had one on my old Akai table & quite frankly, it sounded better than twice as expensive AT 95E! And it seems I'm not the only one to feel that way, as there's a whole bunch of folks out there buying these & they are all happy with it. My recommendation to anyone, looking for a cheap MM cartridge ... you can't go wrong at this price!

 

[Robert B]

FRESH!!!

 

[DR4G00N]

FRESH!!!

Oooh, which is it? 3850x2 or 3870x2?