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[Darmok N Jalad]

The socket A chips had some issues related to heatsinks failing, lol.

I remember this “scandal” back in those days. Toms started that one. I remember the debates raging about how big of an issue this was. Personally, I thought it was ridiculous, until one day my cheap CompUSA copper cooler broke the lug off the socket and came crashing down. In perhaps the biggest twist of irony, the system was in sleep mode and somehow correctly shut down. I lost nothing in the accident. The CPU? Athlon 900! A7N8X was the mobo, I think.

 

[Ruru]

I remember this “scandal” back in those days. Toms started that one. I remember the debates raging about how big of an issue this was. Personally, I thought it was ridiculous, until one day my cheap CompUSA copper cooler broke the lug off the socket and came crashing down. In perhaps the biggest twist of irony, the system was in sleep mode and somehow correctly shut down. I lost nothing in the accident. The CPU? Athlon 900! A7N8X was the mobo, I think.

I found it hilarious when people said that the infamous FX chips were toasters and they posted this video from the early 2000s...

Yeah, FXs were toasters, but what the hell does old Thunderbirds & Pentium III/P4s relate to 2010s hardware..

 

[freeagent]

FX chips weren't that hot.. Not that I had one, but I had a Sandy 3700 and Toledo 4400 that I ran at FX speeds.. Temps weren't limiting overclocks back then, it was genuinely the silicon. Those days you were lucky to get 400-500mhz even if temps were excellent. You just slammed into a wall even if volts were lowish, Even socket A wasn't so bad. I had a 2600 and mobile 2500 and the both loved voltage, heat was there but mostly because of the volts you needed to use.

Edit:

I used Thermalright back then too

 

[Grog6]

...A7N8X was the mobo, I think.

I have one of those mobos; it's bretty nice, but slow by todays standards.
It has a XP-M 2500 running 13.5 mul and 200FSB.

It was a nice off the shelf low power OC.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I need a IDE beige DVD ROM. Anyone want to trade something ?

I will look in my pile for you.

EDIT-
Sorry. No beige IDE DVD's. All in beige are IDE CDRW's.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I have one of those mobos; it's bretty nice, but slow by todays standards.
It has a XP-M 2500 running 13.5 mul and 200FSB.

It was a nice off the shelf low power OC.

Yeah, it was a nice (and popular) board for its time. The dual channel part wasn’t very helpful since the K7 couldn’t handle that much bandwidth.

My A7N8X board died in transit. I had given it to my brother, and when he had some problems with the system he had UPS pack and ship the tower to me. I don’t know what they did to it, but they completely mashed the box, obliterating the case. I’m surprised they delivered it to me anyway! The employee that boxed it up couldn’t believe it either.

 

[The Egg]

Yeah, it was a nice (and popular) board for its time. The dual channel part wasn’t very helpful since the K7 couldn’t handle that much bandwidth.

My A7N8X board died in transit....

Blah. Yeah, looks like a decent board — even has a couple SATA ports and an onboard Gigabit NIC. If it makes you feel any better, that was during the height of the capacitor plague, which was likely what caused problems for your brother prior to being damaged in shipping. Likely would’ve required manually soldering in replacements to keep it running.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Blah. Yeah, looks like a decent board — even has a couple SATA ports and an onboard Gigabit NIC. If it makes you feel any better, that was during the height of the capacitor plague, which was likely what caused problems for your brother prior to being damaged in shipping. Likely would’ve required manually soldering in replacements to keep it running.

Yeah, I was hoping to find out what was bad and then just reuse the rest. I think I was able to save a few parts, but the delivery man really did a number on it.

 

[Jism]

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Nice. I think a small vendor bulk buying 7000 chips and assembling their own 2 in one, graphics card for multi-screen purposes. 7000 series is old, lol. But for basic 2D it's sufficient.

FX chips weren't that hot.. Not that I had one, but I had a Sandy 3700 and Toledo 4400 that I ran at FX speeds.. Temps weren't limiting overclocks back then, it was genuinely the silicon. Those days you were lucky to get 400-500mhz even if temps were excellent. You just slammed into a wall even if volts were lowish, Even socket A wasn't so bad. I had a 2600 and mobile 2500 and the both loved voltage, heat was there but mostly because of the volts you needed to use.

Edit:

I used Thermalright back then too

Correct. With C&C turned on they where pretty cool even on stock coolers. It changed when you started to OC, and reached for speeds above 4.8Ghz and running a IBT stress load. I think i saw over 230 watts being pulled through my board for the CPU alone.

 

[Deleted member 185158]

FX chips weren't that hot.. Not that I had one, but I had a Sandy 3700 and Toledo 4400 that I ran at FX speeds.. Temps weren't limiting overclocks back then, it was genuinely the silicon. Those days you were lucky to get 400-500mhz even if temps were excellent. You just slammed into a wall even if volts were lowish, Even socket A wasn't so bad. I had a 2600 and mobile 2500 and the both loved voltage, heat was there but mostly because of the volts you needed to use.

Edit:

I used Thermalright back then too

FX was hot once overclocked. The misconception about FX and temps is a little backwards if people didn't know about them.
The FX cpu simply liked cold temps better, after 5ghz it's more voltage and they'd run hotter and the yields hit the floor.

The Toledo core would have been a cold bugged chip like many s939 and AM2 Athlons where (including s754), was just the nature of the chip. In fact, some of those chips would clock FSB better running warm and the chipset cold. I recently found that out and even got me a PR out of the deal. I always though cold Cpu, turns out that's not always the case.

For most all Athlons, it was really luck of the silicon. Had one s754 chip that didn't mind being -35c or so and clocked rather well too.
3.2ghz on a 130nm Paris core. https://valid.x86.fr/show_oc.php?id=2606835 That was a lucky cpu I had there!! All the rest cold bugged around 5-10c give or take. Some at 0 on the dot.

 

[Jism]

I reached 4.2Ghz with a Sempron 2800+ on a S754 using a chiller. At idle -45 and load -25. I think the voltage almost reached up of over 2 volts or so. Those chips really where fast at 4.2Ghz clocks.

 

[Apocalypsee]

I reached 4.2Ghz with a Sempron 2800+ on a S754 using a chiller. At idle -45 and load -25. I think the voltage almost reached up of over 2 volts or so. Those chips really where fast at 4.2Ghz clocks.

That's extremely fast! I got 2500+ s754 that clocked to 2.5GHz stock voltage with stock cooler, the stock clock is 1.4GHz. That was plenty fast for me at the time.

 

[Jism]

Yes, i think i used a gigabyte board that at least had the capacity to reach FSB's of over 300Mhz or so. And DDR2 with latency's of 3/3/3/9

 

[erek]

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[Bungz]

Ran rather hot like that

 

[phill]

Those 3870 X2's ran warm at the best of times, that's certainly not going to help

 

[Bungz]

Handy room heater this time of year kicks out some warmth now

 

[biffzinker]

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Ran rather hot like that

Last three photos belong over in this thread.

The Filthy, Rotten, Nasty, Helpdesk-Nightmare picture clubhouse

This is not the sexy pic clubhouse. This is where you post the nasty pics you took when working on some chumps PC. Stuff like this: All the same PC :(

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[phill]

Handy room heater this time of year kicks out some warmth now

I can vouch for that!! When I run FAH on my two 1080 Ti's, you can definitely feel the heat Even more so when the other rigs are on as well!! Warm!!

 

[Ruru]

FX chips weren't that hot.. Not that I had one, but I had a Sandy 3700 and Toledo 4400 that I ran at FX speeds.. Temps weren't limiting overclocks back then, it was genuinely the silicon. Those days you were lucky to get 400-500mhz even if temps were excellent. You just slammed into a wall even if volts were lowish, Even socket A wasn't so bad. I had a 2600 and mobile 2500 and the both loved voltage, heat was there but mostly because of the volts you needed to use.

Edit:

I used Thermalright back then too

Well, I mean that FX's are slow and still consume much more power than Phenom IIs or Intels from that era..

Back in the day I had an awesome 3000+ Venice, ran @ 2.7GHz 24/7, it was stable even at 2.8GHz. A 50% (or a gigahertz) OC is always nice.


edit: You guys are talking about heat from a GPU? I'm sure that my Radeon R9 290 is the winner here!

 

[phill]

Well, I mean that FX's are slow and still consume much more power than Phenom IIs or Intels from that era..

Back in the day I had an awesome 3000+ Venice, ran @ 2.7GHz 24/7, it was stable even at 2.8GHz. A 50% (or a gigahertz) OC is always nice.

edit: You guys are talking about heat from a GPU? I'm sure that my Radeon R9 290 is the winner here!

I was tempted to mention the 7970's but I'm not sure they are the worst ones out there

 

[Bungz]

I think the R290 is the worst.

I had four different cards all with the same blackscreen at idle due to some weird power management issue when they downclocked the idle voltage.

Was fine as long as I didn't stop gaming

 

[Ruru]

I had a reference on about 3 years and had similar problems. This Asus DCUII at least works like a graphics card should

 

[phill]

I think the R290 is the worst.

I had four different cards all with the same blackscreen at idle due to some weird power management issue when they downclocked the idle voltage.

Was fine as long as I didn't stop gaming

#1stworldproblems having to game 24/7 I wish I had that chance

I had a reference on about 3 years and had similar problems. This Asus DCUII at least works like a graphics card should

I know what you mean The custom coolers are a brilliant thing with the AMD cards...

 

[Bungz]

If there was a Speed 3 I would like to think it would involve Keanu Reeves a R290 and some sort of bomb triggered by a blackscreen.