TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

biffzinker · Mar 26, 2019

Artex said:
Thanks all!

If anyone would like to take a look at the entire collection, you can find my OneDrive link here: https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArbMcC8Eb2J6gtshYn4vgvG29c5lQA

Enjoy all!

I'll take you up on the offer when I get home from work.

Artex · Mar 26, 2019

biffzinker said:
I'll take you up on the offer when I get home from work.

Awesome! If anyone has any questions or thoughts they'd like to share, I'm game! I'm passionate about this retro stuff and keeping the community alive. Clearly, the nostalgia bug bit me HARD and I've never been the same since. If the doorbell rings and you feel giddy like it's Christmas time when the postman comes, then you're in the right spot!

Athlonite · Mar 26, 2019

AMD_4life said:
I can't find that Asus crosshair iii fórmula Most blogs say that these are the best mobos for my cpu I apreciate any suggestions

https://www.ebay.com/p/ASUS-Crossha...of-Gamers-Socket-AM3-AMD-Motherboard/77556897

AMD_4life · Mar 26, 2019

Athlonite said:
https://www.ebay.com/p/ASUS-Crossha...of-Gamers-Socket-AM3-AMD-Motherboard/77556897

It's a crear mobo but ir doesn't support my cpu :/ thanx any way for the link

I have a phenom X3 8650 cpu and a gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P mobo if anyone can help me choose a good GPU and a good power supply it would be great

Bones · Mar 27, 2019

Brand new in the box: Socket 754 DFI NF4X Infinity.

This one goes in the closet until needed.

Trekkie4 · Mar 28, 2019

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but HERE you can fine "tech demos" for all the ATI/AMD Radeon cards from 2001 to 2009.

biffzinker · Mar 28, 2019

Trekkie4 said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but HERE you can fine "tech demos" for all the ATI/AMD Radeon cards from 2001 to 2009.

Nivida's oldest (Geforce 256) to newest demos can be found at this link (click me). No demos were made for the Riva TNT/TNT2?

Trekkie4 · Mar 28, 2019

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Hopefully @stinger608 will add these to the original post

As for TNT/TNT2, I have no idea... *shrug*

biffzinker · Mar 28, 2019

Nothing I was able to find except 3DMark 2000 as tech showcase.

Edit: Hopefully he's alright since March 17th last sign in.

Athlonite · Mar 29, 2019

Or 3DMark 99 if you can get it to run was always a fun bench to run on my old TNT2 M64 back in the day or FR08 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221 from and early demo party oh and it still runs on todays hardware too

Trekkie4 · Mar 29, 2019

biffzinker said:
Nothing I was able to find except 3DMark 2000 as tech showcase.

Edit: Hopefully he's alright since March 17th last sign in.

Indeed... Probably due to personal reasons, I didn't want to intrude his privacy with unnecessary questions.

Ruru · Mar 29, 2019

Finally I got over my laziness and put the S462 rig together. Burning WinXP now, can't even remember when I burned a disc last time.

e: Now installing drivers and benchmarks. Also it has an optical drive so I can install some old games.

biffzinker · Mar 29, 2019

https://hackaday.com/2019/03/29/teardown-of-a-50-year-old-modem/

Deleted member 24505 · Mar 29, 2019

These are on FB marketplace in my city, £20 each.

BOXED JETWAY N2PAP-LITE 462 A ATX MOTHERBOARD
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/339836850210031/

BOXED ECS K7S5A 462 A ATX MOTHERBOARD
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2316807365266082/

Both look like new

biffzinker · Mar 29, 2019

tigger said:
BOXED ECS K7S5A 462 A ATX MOTHERBOARD
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2316807365266082/

Is that the famous ECS K7S5A?

I got distracted looking at this site, https://soggi.org/ Has anyone heard of this site? Seems like a helpful resource for Windows XP and older hardware.

Trekkie4 · Mar 30, 2019

£20 for a Socket A motherboard?! Wow, seems I'm way behind on my value estimation... I mean, I know it's boxed & all, but still... :eek:

Edit
Not sure what model it is exactly, but I have a dark blue/purple ECS Socket A mobo somewhere. It was going to be another project, which then became "the spare" eventually.

Ruru · Mar 30, 2019

I need to get a good S462 mobo myself, something like NF7-S, AN7 or Lanparty NF2 Ultra B.

That VIA KT400A ASRock which I have, isn't good. Only +5% and +10% overvoltage choices and doesn't have the multiplier selection on bios. Well, at least my Athlon 1GHz AXIA clocks fine at 1.4GHz via FSB. It also doesn't like ATI cards (tried 9700 Pro and X800 Pro), 3DMarks crash in some point. With GeForce 6600 GT, no problems at all.

edit: It's this board: https://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K7VT4A PRO/

Mr.Scott · Mar 30, 2019

Yes, you need a NF2 board for sure.

SniperHF · Apr 1, 2019

Had a K7S5A, purchased in one of those Fry's Electronics bundles.

Bricked it while trying to do a BIOS update :roll:

MaxiPro800 · Apr 2, 2019

SniperHF said:
Had a K7S5A, purchased in one of those Fry's Electronics bundles.

Bricked it while trying to do a BIOS update

If you still have it, you can hotflash the BIOS in another board

TOMCAT · Apr 4, 2019

OK, let me say something to the "famous" K7S5A (pro).

I would say "well known" for driver issues and not very stable in running windows.
Kept two boards for SD-RAM testing, but did not use them at least 5 years.
The pro version 5.0 in a K7S5A non-pro box

and the regular non-pro Version with bad caps.

and a picture dedicated to Artex' collected Ageia PhysX card by BFG.

Trekkie4 · Apr 4, 2019

I really need to dig out that ECS of mine one of these days & see what I actually have... Think it COULD be "N2U400-A", but I'm not sure - it's been far too long.

biffzinker · Apr 4, 2019

Trekkie4 said:
I really need to dig out that ECS of mine one of these days & see what I actually have...

Have any luck finding out what you've got on hand?

Trekkie4 · Apr 4, 2019

biffzinker said:
Have any luck finding out what you've got on hand?

No, not yet. I know where it is (I think), I just need to take some time to actually do it. Been having crapload of problems ever since 2019 started, so I just need to wait for that right moment ... hopefully!

phill · Apr 4, 2019

Artex said:
I've moved since then!

Just a whole load of awesome right there... Man that is massively impressive!! I'm loving the Voodoo cards, I've struggled to see any boxed cards.. Such a shame I have no money

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