TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ruru]

If you turn off or down the CPU heavy stuff, it's a great CPU.

One user from the Finnish io-tech's forum tests a LOT of older hardware, here's his 2600K test from last year:

 

[Retrorockit]

I was buying something else and saw this. Maybe somebody here could use one.

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He has a K6-2 500 also. No K6-3 I looked.

 

[DR4G00N]

Slapped this together today. Should be a nice Crysis crusher.

It's a bit of a mess though, alas what can you do with a top mount psu with fixed cables.

2x Xeon X5460's
D5400XS
asetek 120x38mm Dual pump/block AIO
2x1GB DDR2 FB-DIMM (Going to get more )
PNY GTX 295
Rosewill Xtreme 750W
Old Rosewill Blackbone case which was hacked up to make the board fit.
Temp 40GB hdd

I reused a stock cooler from an R9 295X2 and adapted it to fit the board, haven't done any real tests yet but it should work pretty well.

And ignore the Evga card I was planning on running both but it's having issues so I took it back out. Probably needs to be baked, one of the gpu's doesn't work most of the time, but occasionally it starts working again if I fiddle with it enough.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Slapped this together today. Should be a nice Crysis crusher.

Nice! That could do some recent gaming to if you're willing to turn down some FX.

It's a bit of a mess though, alas what can you do with a top mount psu with fixed cables.

You could still do some creative cable management. You're right though, it works.

 

[Ruru]

Wait, wut, Skulltrail? Now that's hella awesome!

That setup NEEDS to be put in a modern case with proper cable management!

 

[Retrorockit]

That supports 400FSB, I would try a pinmod and see if you can get 3,66GHz out of it. 1333 to 1600 is a tapemod just like the old Q6600 3GHz mod, but you tape a different pin.
It doesn't look like enough radiator for 2x Xeons. I would go 2x big air heatsinks and a Delta AFC1512DG intake fan.

 

[DR4G00N]

Wait, wut, Skulltrail? Now that's hella awesome!

That setup NEEDS to be put in a modern case with proper cable management!

Trying to just use parts I have kicking around for the most part. A new SSI EEB sized case would be 3/4 the cost of everything else.
I'm going to put the 5.25" cage back in after I make some modifications which should allow me to hide the cables somewhat better instead of just stuffing them above the dvd drive.

That supports 400FSB, I would try a pinmod and see if you can get 3,66GHz out of it. 1333 to 1600 is a tapemod just like the old Q6600 3GHz mod, but you tape a different pin.
It doesn't look like enough radiator for 2x Xeons. I would go 2x big air heatsinks and a Delta AFC1512DG intake fan.

The board is fully overclockable, no need for mods. Currently running them at 3.8GHz 1.3V, but I should be able to get them up to 4GHz provided the NB stays cool enough.
The cpu cooling should be fine, these cpu's don't get very hot. But worse case scenario I can swap the rad out for a 280x25mm unit I have lying around and mount it up top.

Edit: Did some Prime95 testing and the cooler seems plenty adequate, hottest cores on both cpu's topping out around the mid to high 50's.

 

[E-Bear]

That supports 400FSB, I would try a pinmod and see if you can get 3,66GHz out of it. 1333 to 1600 is a tapemod just like the old Q6600 3GHz mod, but you tape a different pin.
It doesn't look like enough radiator for 2x Xeons. I would go 2x big air heatsinks and a Delta AFC1512DG intake fan.

link for that q6600 mod please. Thats what I got in my system right now.

 

[TheMadDutchDude]

Maaaaan. I have been searching for a DX5400 forever! Awesome to see one in use.

 

[Robert B]

Extremely HOT video memory heatsinks, very HOT VRM area, massive COIL NOISE but I wouldn't like any other way. Now an ULTRA is in order but I'm not holding my breath just yet as I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Mercury Geforce FX 5800 128MB DDR2 AGP. KOB N5800TE-128MD
http://www.mercury-pc.com/product/324

 

[Retrorockit]

BSEL mod from 266 to 333. The 2nd photo is the mod.

Tape mod/BSEL mod intel q6600

ive been looking to see if i can boost the speed of this, and found this mod. I have an intel oem motherboard, so no overclocking. i wouldve much rather done that. Anyway, while reading up on doing this ive seen where you cover one pin, 2 pins, connect 2 pins, connecct 4 pins, and a bunch of...

forums.tomshardware.com

This works on the G0 stepping, The B3 not so much. The E7500 Core2Duo 45nm is better for single thread.
This is valid for other 266 CPUs if you can raise the Voltage to support the new speed. Q6700 are all G0.

There are also VID pinmods. But they're kind of a lost art because the starting point varies from one CPU to the next, and the Voltage tables are not only more complex, but vary from one generation of CPU to another. Then throw in LGA771 where the map is the same but turned 90* ( just draw the LGA775 notches in to fix it) and there is lots of fun to be had with this. Some drawings are from the socket side, and some from the CPU side, so photos are prefered.

Some PLL have a TIM function that locks the FSB to a fixed maximum value. It's very common for a MB that supports the Q6600 mod to also support the 3GHz Q9650 which will give about 10% better CPU score. But the E7500 @ 3.66Ghz for 1-2 thread apps is still hard to beat.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Extremely HOT video memory heatsinks, very HOT VRM area, massive COIL NOISE but I wouldn't like any other way. Now an ULTRA is in order but I'm not holding my breath just yet as I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Mercury Geforce FX 5800 128MB DDR2 AGP. KOB N5800TE-128MD
http://www.mercury-pc.com/product/324

If I may be so bold?

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Got one very similar(different brand) for an FX5950 BITD. Worked very well and was much less noisy.

Ignore that suggestion if you're restoring and giving it your "factory fresh" treatment.

 

[biffzinker]

Here's a video everyone should enjoy.

 

[agent_x007]

New AGP card that is my collection
6-pin is so overkill on it...

 

[Mr.Scott]

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New AGP card that is my collection
6-pin is so overkill on it...

That's the good 7300 GT. Overclocks like a champ.
It's needs the extra power. 6 pin is better than a 4 pin molex.

 

[agent_x007]

We shall see when I get XP on my AGP test platform
Side question : What "ns" is this rated at ?

 

[Mr.Scott]

No idea but, Qimonda memory typically doesn't overclock worth a damn. You should be able to scream the core clocks though.

 

[Ruru]

A fully loaded HP Compaq nx7000, it was with Pentium M Banias 1.4GHz & 512MB RAM..

 

[Retrorockit]

The board is fully overclockable, no need for mods. Currently running them at 3.8GHz 1.3V, but I should be able to get them up to 4GHz provided the NB stays cool enough.
The cpu cooling should be fine, these cpu's don't get very hot. But worse case scenario I can swap the rad out for a 280x25mm unit I have lying around and mount it up top.

I'm glad to hear that cooling is working for you.
The Tapemod thing is stuck in my head because I wanted to do a Skulltrail clone with a Dell T7400 workstation. But someone was buying them all up locally, and freight would be a deal breaker on one of those monsters. Another theory I had was a reverse LGA775/771 swap. Use the Xeon adapter to convert a QX9650 to an unlocked LGA771. Electrically it's correct. If the BIOS or microcode can be managed IDK. Whether this would access dual CPU support is unknown. But dual X5470 with a 400fsb tape mod would be a 4GHZ 8 core clone anyway. Getting the Voltage for it on a Dell would be whole separate project.

 

[agent_x007]

@lexluthermiester @Chloe Price
I was wrong about AGP NVMe, my NVMe Optane drive simply refused to cooperate
Samsung didn't have this issue :

PS. Validation : https://valid.x86.fr/sdt9th

 

[HUSKIE]

Found this evga 775 with Cpu and ram lying around.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Found this evga 775 with Cpu and ram lying around.

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Slap a quad in there and make a retro XP gaming system.

my NVMe Optane drive simply refused to cooperate

Optane is a bit of an odd duck.

 

[agent_x007]

@Mr.Scott "Pretty good" OC
42,5% on GPU and 60% on memory.
Valid : https://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6544352

 

[Ruru]

What sucks about these 6000+ and 6400+ chips is that they're already running so damn high clockspeeds, that they had little to none OC headroom. :/ My 6000+ (Windsor) goes ~3.2GHz.

 

[biffzinker]

@agent_x007
I had a board with the Nforce3 250 chipset however the one I had was from Gigabyte. It was also the only board I've had pop one of the CPU VRM MOSFETS almost off the board. What a loud pop it was. I may of took the overclocking too far.

The one circled in red popped.