TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Apocalypsee]

I miss that simple heatsink and fan. Inno3D wasn't a good brand, I have one Inno3D TNT2 M64 PCI that I used for Dell Optiplex GX100 (it only have PCI slots). The card died because overheating MOSFETs. It looks something like this (I take this from VGA museum site). You see that tiny black heatsink on the MOSFET? That is the one that runs hotter than the GPU and burnt

 

[MaxiPro800]

A few of my upcoming projects

"Anubis"

Basically an "all freebie" build. All of the parts were mostly from friends who upgraded their PCs or trashpicks.

Specs:

Core 2 Quad Q9400
MSI G41T-P26
ASUS Radeon HD4850 512M GDDR3
3GB DDR3-1333 RAM
160GB WD AV series HDD SATA
HKC 430W PSU
JNC case from ~2004
Windows 8.1 Pro

"K7 is the new Core 2 Duo"

An laptop I picked up recently, more exactly the ASUS posted earlier. Don't let the nVidia/Pentium stickers deceive you! It sports a T9400 Core 2 Duo (2.53GHz/1066FSB), though it originally came with a T4300 Pentium. The GPU it came with turned out to be dead as a nail - a Geforce GT220M (aka rebranded 9600M GT) with about 1GB DDR2 of RAM. I already ordered a HD4570 out of a K70AB (same as my K70IC but with AMD CPU instead of Intel) and will update once it works properly.

"sixty-five-thirty-gee"

Probably the thing that will make me have white hair early in my life. Acer Aspire 6530G, and this is probably the 3rd mobo I'm installing. First one had bad NB, the other had a bad LVDS port, hope this one works fine. Specs are a Turion ZM-80, about 2GB of RAM, probably a HD4650 once I get the board working fine, and maybe 2 HDDs as well since why not.

Will come back with updates once I get the 6530G board I ordered as well as the HD4570.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Confirmed. That happened a while ago.

Are you sure? I've recently activated a copy of XP Home online.

Can anyone confirm that the XP activation servers have finally snuffed it?

Phone activation doesn't seem to work either.

Hmm.

If Scotty is right, there's always preactivated versions(this suggestion is not a promotion of piracy as legitimate license owners have the ethical, legal and moral right to continue using the OS). I personally have never used any version that is not preactivated. However, many of my clients have retail copies and require activation, which rarely fails.

 

[Bungz]

I have a clean reactivated iso that works but on full builds have always used genuine keys.

Just says server isn’t there but I’m connected to the net, what made me think it was nerfed was phone activation doesn’t work either.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Are you sure? I've recently activated a copy of XP Home online.

It's been almost a year since I could activate any of my retail copies.
I have valid keys for all of them.
No server and no phone activation.

 

[agent_x007]

^King of Garbage.

 

[Ruru]

Why GPU-Z reports it as a fake? With a quick look it looks just as it should be

 

[Mr.Scott]

GPUz error.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's been almost a year since I could activate any of my retail copies.
I have valid keys for all of them.
No server and no phone activation.

I just tried testing that myself, looks like you're right.
It seems that we are all down to self-activation, which is now perfectly lawful as Microsoft is effectively denying us all access to our own software. And people wonder why I don't trust Microsoft....

 

[agent_x007]

Why GPU-Z reports it as a fake? With a quick look it looks just as it should be

GPU-z claims it's GT216, that's why "FAKE" because it think it's half of GT216 (which, it clearly is not).
BTW : This card has too slow bandwidth to take advantage of 4 ROPs, in reality only around 2 ROPs can be used... sometimes.

 

[Ruru]

Haven't seen a card with 32-bit bandwith in a while, I remember having a GF 7300 SE (or LE) with 32-bit and oh boy that was slow. Still ran CoD4 playable with everything set to minimum though.

 

[agent_x007]

Not often seen together these days

 

[Ruru]

Not seen everyday together these days

I have these boring looking ones

 

[agent_x007]

Fastest of the turtles (325MHz/650MHz [GPU/VRAM])

 

[Apocalypsee]

5200 Ultra is quite rare, would love to have that and 5600 Ultra. That copper color looks great too. (look at the box) I got Tomb Raider AoD with Powercolor 9600XT Bravo, still have the DVD too.

 

[agent_x007]

Mine came with all stuff in BOX (game included) :

I got this Yuan 9600 Pro from the same guy too :

Doesn't clock to 9600 XT level sadly (470-ish MHz on GPU is it's max).

 

[Mr.Scott]

5200 Ultra.
Very nice.
I do not have one of those.

 

[Ruru]

5200 Ultra is quite rare, would love to have that and 5600 Ultra. That copper color looks great too. (look at the box) I got Tomb Raider AoD with Powercolor 9600XT Bravo, still have the DVD too.

I had a Creative (well, MSI with Creative's stickers) FX 5600 Ultra about 11 years ago, what's weird that I got about 40 Euros from it when I sold it, I thought that if I get 20EUR I'm happy. I remember that it ran Far Cry with medium settings fine.

e: Typo

 

[lexluthermiester]

5200 Ultra.
Very nice.
I do not have one of those.

They were ultra rare. I think only 50,000ish of them were ever made.

 

[zanca.racing]

Hi boys.

The coronavirus give me the time to make what I had to do for a long time.

So I'm glad to present you my entire collection!

Today two sister motherboards:

Asus A7V:

I found installed on this an Athlon Thunderbird 1400 Mhz 133 FSB. I find out the right maximus Thunderbird that A7V can carrier: 1400 Mhz 100 FSB!

Asus A7V133:

A copper spacer for CPU!

 

[zanca.racing]

And also for today the queen of Rimm technology!

Asus P4T533:

Upgrade to 2 x 512Mb 232 Rimm

Happy Easter!

:-D

 

[hat]

It's been a while since I've heard of Orthos...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Upgrade to 2 x 512Mb 232 Rimm

Wow! Only two RIMM slots. Every RDRAM board I've ever seen had 4. Back then I bought 4x512MB 1066mhz for mine and OC'd the P4 to 3.2ghz. It was pretty pimp for a while.

 

[zanca.racing]

Hi and good Easter Monday!

Today I show you two beast:

Abit IC7-MAX3:

Upgraded the first one with the Extreme Edition 3,4Ghz P4!

With the original cooler.

Original brand new package with full bundle!

And the second IC7...

Upgraded with 3,4 Ghz Northwood P4.

The first board came from Las Vegas (United Stated of America). Fortunately I have a cousin that live there. The original Extreme Edition cooler came from Osaka (Japan). I have a big friend that live there.

The second board came from Italy near me....not tested, It came without all fans. I bought them from ebay, cleaned, work perfectly. In total I spent 21€!!!!!!!!!

It's been a while since I've heard of Orthos...

For all motherboards I have installed a new copy of Windows...I know that all my hardware works but I want to show you!

So Orthos or prime95 for 2 minutes for me it's the same :-D

Wow! Only two RIMM slots. Every RDRAM board I've ever seen had 4. Back then I bought 4x512MB 1066mhz for mine and OC'd the P4 to 3.2ghz. It was pretty pimp for a while.

lexluthermiester I'm sure that your motherboard can install 184 pin RDRAM

My P4T533 support only 232 pin RDRAM!!

 

[Ruru]

Hah, the Emergency Editions were ~1000EUR/USD and they came with a cheap stock cooler like that?! At least AMD had the better heatpipe cooler in their high-end CPUs back in the day; the cheap aluminium cooler was bundled with the cheaper CPUs.