TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

agent_x007 · Nov 15, 2018

^New old stuff

ATI's best DX9c (SM3.0) cards (complete collection)

lexluthermiester · Nov 15, 2018

phill said:
I'm not sure if these are right here but...

I'd say most of it fits, even the Floppies, because they are hardware. :peace:

agent_x007 said:
ATI's best DX9c (SM3.0) cards (complete collection)

The one that has the "Connect3D" sticker on the fan needs a cleaning. Looks like it been in a smokers house with all that tar in the shroud.

What is the make on the HIS IceQ3 card?

Ruru · Nov 15, 2018

That HIS seems to be a HD 3870 by a quick google search.

So much dust in those coolers.

phill · Nov 15, 2018

Trekkie4 said:
Captain Picard messaged me earlier & said he wants his Galaxy-Class exhaust manifold back!

I'm going to have to pleed a bit of ignorance because I'm guessing your on about the CPU cooler?? But I'm not sure!! :laugh:

Many apologises!!

lexluthermiester said:
I'd say most of it fits, even the Floppies, because they are hardware.

I'm glad it wasn't posted in the wrong section.. I think I have a few more things here I could show but I'll have a sort out first

agent_x007 said:
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ATI's best DX9c (SM3.0) cards (complete collection)

I still have my GTX 580's

Is that one the 1.5Gb version or the 3Gb version??

I sold all 3 I had to a friend, then ended up buying them back with full cover water blocks on! :laugh:

That HIS card reminds me of one I used to have, X1900 XT

I loved that card!!

Such lovely hardware here!!

agent_x007 · Nov 16, 2018

Yeah. Colorfull is tinted and it needs a better cleaning...
Cards are GTX 580 3GB, HD 3870 IceQ3 and X1800 XT.
I cleaned X1800 XT after I already took the pics.

Ruru · Nov 16, 2018

My X99 motherboard may be broken, won't post..

Writing this post with Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 3.8GHz, 4GB, GTX 980(!!), SB Audigy 2 ZS (with Daniel_K drivers) :toast:

https://valid.x86.fr/jng0vk

lexluthermiester · Nov 16, 2018

Chloe Price said:
My X99 motherboard may be broken, won't post..

That sucks. Do you know why?

Chloe Price said:
Writing this post with Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 3.8GHz, 4GB, GTX 980(!!), SB Audigy 2 ZS (with Daniel_K drivers)

Decent system with potential. A few inexpensive upgrades(CPU & RAM) and you can do a healthy amount of modern gaming on it!

Ruru · Nov 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
That sucks. Do you know why?

I have a wild guess that few drops of coolant could've spilled..

Decent system with potential. A few inexpensive upgrades(CPU & RAM) and you can do a healthy amount of modern gaming on it!

Yeah, the CPU is going to be in my "console killer" HTPC, I have that GTX 780 on my shelf already. Just need to have a PC, so I took the parts for my gaming pc's case and I use its 980.

lexluthermiester · Nov 16, 2018

Chloe Price said:
I have a wild guess that few drops of coolant could've spilled..

Oh that really sucks. That is one of the main reasons I use mineral oil for liquid cooling. Even if there's a leak, the fluid won't hurt anything.

phill · Nov 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
Oh that really sucks. That is one of the main reasons I use mineral oil for liquid cooling. Even if there's a leak, the fluid won't hurt anything.

I use distilled water in mine.. I've had one or two leaks over the 10 years I've been water cooling but thankfully, no hardware killed or lost because of leaks

Ruru · Nov 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
Oh that really sucks. That is one of the main reasons I use mineral oil for liquid cooling. Even if there's a leak, the fluid won't hurt anything.

I'll let the RVE dry for this weekend.. if it's busted, I'll get a R5 2600 and a B450 mobo. :rolleyes:

I guess that I'd get 100eur or something as "it may work" bundle from those.

edit: Alphacool CKC coolant, I need to check is it conductive..

Trekkie4 · Nov 16, 2018

phill said:
I'm going to have to pleed a bit of ignorance because I'm guessing your on about the CPU cooler?? But I'm not sure!! Many apologises!!

Yes, sorry! I know I'm kinda late, but I was referring to the CPU cooler/heatsink. It has that out-of-this-world, aka "future" look, so I couldn't resist

phill · Nov 16, 2018

Trekkie4 said:
Yes, sorry! I know I'm kinda late, but I was referring to the CPU cooler/heatsink. It has that out-of-this-world, aka "future" look, so I couldn't resist

That is fine, I was more interested in the board when I saw it and for £30 with a X2 6000+ ram and the cooler with the board, I couldn't resist!!

Ruru · Nov 17, 2018

Lowered the multiplier, raised the bus and HT Link & uncore got from 1600MHz -> 2432MHz. Feels significantly faster. The slow HT link is a terrible bottleneck when running an AM3 CPU in AM2+ platform.

https://valid.x86.fr/x97prf

Mr.Scott · Nov 17, 2018

Chloe Price said:
Lowered the multiplier, raised the bus and HT Link & uncore got from 1600MHz -> 2432MHz. Feels significantly faster. The slow HT link is a terrible bottleneck when running an AM3 CPU in AM2+ platform.

It's not the HT, it's the uncore.

No performance improvement in anything when running high HT.
Huge improvement when the uncore (NB frequency) is increased.

lexluthermiester · Nov 17, 2018

Mr.Scott said:
It's not the HT, it's the uncore.
No performance improvement in anything when running high HT.
Huge improvement when the uncore (NB frequency) is increased.

I always thought it was a balance between them that was key to better performance..

agent_x007 · Nov 17, 2018

HTT, like BCLK, doesn't do anything. Multipliers do the heavy lifting.
However, bus speed is critical to get all multpliers to "play nice" with eachother.
In short, in most cases we have four multipliers to worry about :
CPU Core, CPU "UnCore", Memory/DRAM and QPI/HyperTransport.

The trick to best performance is to set best multiplers for all, without losing stability on any one of the parts being OC'ed. BUT since everything has to be somewhat sync with eachother (like UnCore and DRAM Clock on Nehalem, or CPU Frequency with Memory Frequency on K8 CPUs).
"Best" - does not usually mean "the highest".
Then there are hard limits like max Vcore for CPU Frequency (and temp), VTT/UnCore/"QPI/DRAM" safe Voltage limitations, DRAM max. stable frequency adjusting by timings, HyperTransport/QPI limits, etc.

Ruru · Nov 18, 2018

Mr.Scott said:
It's not the HT, it's the uncore.
No performance improvement in anything when running high HT.
Huge improvement when the uncore (NB frequency) is increased.

Yeah but this Asus M3N78 SE doesn't have adjustments for uncore, goes in hand to hand with HT.

Vcore adjustments, +50mV, +100mV... great.

havli · Nov 19, 2018

Great stuff you have there guys!

Now it's time to add a few pieces of mine:

GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E
Wasn't POSTing at first, but BIOS flash fixed that. No time for more testing at the moment, but there is a good chance it will work.

Radeon HD 4850
Classic, reference cooler. I really like the design... even though it is running rather hot and noisy.

GeForce GTX 260 192sp
I've been looking for this one for a very long time. It is actually very difficult to find this original version of GTX 260. They look exactly the same as GTX 260 216... which is much more common. Well, I got lucky, this was sold as "pile of scrap" with no details given.

GeForce GTX 280
Unfortunately this one reboots the PC a second after fullscreen 3D is launched. Perhaps I can find out what is wrong and fix it later.

GeForce GTX 580 SOC
One of the better GTX 580 variants, fits nicely to my Fermi 5xx collection... in line with GTX 560 Ti SOC and GTX 570 SOC.

It will show up in my benchmarking project at some point. I'm curious to see how it performs against HD 6970 in somewhat modern games.

dorsetknob · Nov 19, 2018

havli said:
GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E
Wasn't POSTing at first, but BIOS flash fixed that. No time for more testing at the moment, but there is a good chance it will work.

Funny that i got one

as well mine is fully working

lexluthermiester · Nov 19, 2018

havli said:
Radeon HD 4850
Classic, reference cooler. I really like the design... even though it is running rather hot and noisy.

I'd put a custom cooler on that card.

havli · Nov 19, 2018

I don't plan to use it outside of my benchmark suite.... which is just a few hours of action. And for that reference cooling is sufficient. For actual retro gaming I can use non-reference Sapphire HD 4850 which runs much cooler and quieter.

Ruru · Nov 20, 2018

Those NV (and ATI) Silencers were great, had a X800 XT PE (AGP) and 6800 GS (PCIE) with those back in the day. Also had one in my GF 4 Ti 4200, though it's bearing broke pretty fast.. had to ghetto mod a normal fan for its heatsink.

hat · Nov 20, 2018

XFX 6800XT would be really nostalgic for me... or maybe not. I remember having wild power supply issues at the time. I do remember using it, though... and it was finally a decent graphics card.

Ruru · Nov 21, 2018

When something nostalgic (Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 3.8GHz, Asus M3N78 SE (AM2+) and 2x2GB DDR2) gets into my main PC's case..

My X99 motherboard busted so this is a temporary solution. An overclocked GTX 980 is more than an overkill for this.

System Name	BOX
Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,26GHz (1,28V)
Motherboard	X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F23c + bifurcation mod)
Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
Video Card(s)	Titan V (~1650MHz @ 0.77V, HBM2 1GHz, Forced P2 state [OFF])
Storage	WD SN850X 2TB + Samsung EVO 2TB (SATA) + Seagate Exos X20 20TB (4Kn mode)
Display(s)	LG 27GP950-B
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Audio Device(s)	Motu M4 (audio interface) + ATH-A900Z + Behringer C-1
Power Supply	Seasonic X-760 (760W)
Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	4K-gaming / media-PC
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero / Asus Z170-A
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50 / Thermaltake Contac 21
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3080 10GB / RX 6700 XT
Storage	3.3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni BT speaker
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	BOX
Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,26GHz (1,28V)
Motherboard	X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F23c + bifurcation mod)
Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
Video Card(s)	Titan V (~1650MHz @ 0.77V, HBM2 1GHz, Forced P2 state [OFF])
Storage	WD SN850X 2TB + Samsung EVO 2TB (SATA) + Seagate Exos X20 20TB (4Kn mode)
Display(s)	LG 27GP950-B
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Audio Device(s)	Motu M4 (audio interface) + ATH-A900Z + Behringer C-1
Power Supply	Seasonic X-760 (760W)
Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	4K-gaming / media-PC
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero / Asus Z170-A
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50 / Thermaltake Contac 21
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3080 10GB / RX 6700 XT
Storage	3.3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	Acer 27" 4K120 IPS + Lenovo 32" 4K60 IPS
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni BT speaker
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

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Ruru

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phill

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Ruru

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lexluthermiester

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lexluthermiester

phill

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Trekkie4

phill

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Ruru

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Mr.Scott

lexluthermiester

agent_x007

Ruru

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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

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

Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	Asus Prime X570-P
Cooling	Scythe Ninja 4
Memory	32 GB DDR4 3000 CL14 (Corsair)
Video Card(s)	Gainward RTX 3080 @ 1620 MHz @ 0.7V
Storage	Crucial MX500 500 GB, SanDisk 3.84 TB SSD, Toshiba X300 6 TB
Display(s)	Acer XF270HU, Philips 252B9
Case	Corsair Carbide 300R
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar DX
Power Supply	Corsair RM850i
Mouse	Logitech G604
Keyboard	Cherry Stream 3.0
Software	Windows 10 x64

System Name	Starlifter :: Dragonfly
Processor	i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400
Motherboard	ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus
Cooling	Cryorig M9 :: Stock
Memory	4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400
Video Card(s)	PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630
Storage	Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5
Display(s)	Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p
Case	Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None
Power Supply	FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550
Software	Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly
Benchmark Scores	>9000