TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Bungz]

4600

I like boards on odd coloured pcbs

 

[Radical Vision]

I didn't realise the 5200 Ultra Fan club was so exclusive

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Remember as a student ( a long time ago!) seeing one on sale in Game for £129.99 with my geeky mates and laughing at the price of it. We all rocked 9800 Pros naturally

Love the corsair LED stuff, I have a few pairs but not the LL stuff

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Managed to get hold of a beige computer, cant turn them down these days. Awful photographs in the advert but I have got quite good at identifying a 17 year old graphics card from a quarter view of its rear side now.
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Everything stripped down and repurposed for a Kyro 3 Build I wanted to do for a while.

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Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.

Interesting Creative Video card on the GEforce 5 series, i did think they did end up making video cards after GEforce 3, seems this was the last they did...
Corsair LED memory yeah nice stuff, i have pair of these too. The more rare XMS Expert, with the programable LED screens is even better, sadly they are only x2 512MB, i dont think 2GB kit exists..
Crucial BalistiX is also LED, but have a kit of DDR800, not DDR400..



That GF4 look like Plit Daytona or ECS

4600

I like boards on odd coloured pcbs

Same, so u will like AOpen boards, Soltek, Soyo Platinum Dragon, ABIT casper...

 

[biffzinker]

What's that purple card, GF4 Ti but which one?

Looks the same as this except for the purple dye PCB.

Creative?

 

[Ruru]

Looks the same as this except for the purple dye PCB.

Creative?

That's a Nvidia reference board, the purple one had just a purple PCB but still a Nvidia logo

and remember, Creative cards = rebranded MSI

e: This Triplex Ti 4600 is so pretty

Triplex GeForce4 Ti 4600 Millennium Silver Specs

NVIDIA NV25, 300 MHz, 4 Pixel Shaders, 2 Vertex Shaders, 8 TMUs, 4 ROPs, 128 MB DDR, 324 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Radical Vision]

That white PCB GPU will be great match with this Soyo Dragon platinum, or the Slotek or the ABIT Casper


And a modern one AM2..


This looks great, but there are no pink colored video cards or memory to match it...


This have options



And these video cards look insane, sadly the PCB is not the same color as the metal parts, or at least black, bt they are still very good looking...

 

[Apocalypsee]

What's that purple card, GF4 Ti but which one?

That is an MSI card, you can see the number 8872 on its PCB. From what I remember ASUS made purple Ti 4600 board too

 

[Bungz]

It’s a pny

Another company that used msi pcb, it has a msi bios on it even

I have a ecs board I’m sure that it will match...

Have a few solteks in odd colours too.

 

[Apocalypsee]

It’s a pny

Another company that used msi pcb, it has a msi bios on it even

I have a ecs board I’m sure that it will match...

Have a few solteks in odd colours too.

Yeah ECS almost always use purple colored PCB on all its motherboard including budget ones. Beats boring brown PCB used by ASUS or green by everyone else.

 

[agent_x007]

Purple 4400 Ti (128MB) :

^Not sure if I posted this... I got original cooler too, but it's too loud for me and this one lookes better (at least to me).

Edit : Original cooler

 

[Ruru]

That is an MSI card, you can see the number 8872 on its PCB. From what I remember ASUS made purple Ti 4600 board too

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Yeah I remember that Asus had those V model numbers. I remember also that GF 6800 AGP cards were the last, V9999 lineup.

I had a V9999LE (6800 LE) softmodded to 6800nu and it OC'd hella lot, 375/940 (DDR).

 

[Mr.Scott]

My Insperon 6000
circa 2005
Upgraded CPU to a Pentium M 760
Upgraded to 2 gig of ram
Everything still works as new.

 

[Ruru]

Are those media buttons in the front?

 

[Apocalypsee]

Yeah I remember that Asus had those V model numbers. I remember also that GF 6800 AGP cards were the last, V9999 lineup.

I had a V9999LE (6800 LE) softmodded to 6800nu and it OC'd hella lot, 375/940 (DDR).

I chucked when I hear the V9999 back then because ASUS ran out of numbers to use

Funny I used to have 6800LE as well, Gainward with red PCB. It unlocks to full 16 pipes and AFAIR core clocks reach 6800U speeds. Here is the pics using old 02 Xphone, blurry as hell because no autofocus. I remove the red plate on the cooler.

This is how it looks like at high resolution, I found the pics on ebay

 

[GreiverBlade]

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i own a Leadtek Winfast A350 128mb TDH MyViVo (it was my fist FX "high end" card at the time, well not a Ultra but a 5900 nonetheless ) i gave it to a friend and took his Radeon 9200SE in exchange (yeah i am quite generous) and when he upgraded his gears he gave it back to me, since then she's in my GPU collection shelf, insane by the amount of metal used for the whole heatsink, shroud and fan flow/placement

but those Pixelview PDF/PDFII, iirc a FX 5700 and FX 5900 XT, are quite nice (the LCD is about the only original thing that look insane, the shrouds aside material and color are a bit generic ) on the inside they are a bit "meh" compared to the A350,

 

[Mr.Scott]

Are those media buttons in the front?

Yes they are.

 

[MaxiPro800]

My 6920G came in and I managed to hose up the BIOS somehow.

I managed to find a pretty beaten up 6935G but with a working motherboard and am waiting for it to arrive. At least it's quite an considerable upgrade over the PM965 chipset the 6920G had, and nearly every part can be reused from 6920G. (except the PATA DVD drive since 6935G is SATA, and same goes for the RAM since 6935G uses DDR3, much like my 8930G does.)

 

[lexluthermiester]

My Insperon 6000
circa 2005
Upgraded CPU to a Pentium M 760
Upgraded to 2 gig of ram
Everything still works as new.
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I had one just like that! Good little notebook.

 

[MaxiPro800]

A few changes of plans:

-6935G is on it's way seems it's as powerful as my 8930G - same 9600M GT, but 1GB VRAM instead of 512MB

-6920G I have talked with a seller on a classifieds site (OLX since that's where I find my stuff on ) and have managed to find a pretty good one w/ the rare FullHD panel. The only issue is a dead board (said to be chipset), but it's better for me, as I can just transplant the BIOS chip on my fixed one (no more NEC-Tokin for my 6920G!) and then use the board with the FHD panel. A nice win. Said he has the whole week busy and will send next week, will call him then and set up the postage.

-will prolly save my 8930G for sometime when I can visit my dad after all this isolation is lifted (hopefully traveling will be restored to an extent) and swap his P8700 w/ my P7350, and maybe snag a 4GB stick when possible.

-5920G will get a GF8600M GT 512 (rebranded as 9500M GT) probably, as much as I am not keen on using these crappy G84 chips. I still wonder why did they not use a cut down G96 chip like the desktop counterpart does.

 

[biffzinker]

Came across this combo at Computer Renaissance that I bought for $49. It says it has a Q9200 with 8GB over four sticks of DDR2 on a XFX Nvidia? mobo. I tried looking for a Q9200 but nothing came up so I'm wondering what's under the CPU heatsink now. The XFX mobo was more interesting to me.


Core 2 Quad 9400 after removing the heatsink, and cleaning off the compound.

Posting from this old build in Windows XP. The hoops you have to jump through though.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Came across this combo at Computer Renaissance that I bought for $49. It says it has a Q9200 with 8GB over four sticks of DDR2 on a XFX Nvidia? mobo. I tried looking for a Q9200 but nothing came up so I'm wondering what's under the CPU heatsink now. The XFX mobo was more interesting to me.
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Core 2 Quad 9400 after removing the heatsink, and cleaning off the compound.
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Posting from this old build in Windows XP. The hoops you have to jump through though.

That is a solid purchase! Mild OC to 3.2ghz(which it will handle) and you have a C2Q winner!

 

[Caring1]

Nice, now get the system to recognize the rest of the Ram and make use of all those sticks.

Guide to enable windows XP to use more than 3.25GB ram

I don't know who to give credits to but the earliest this was found was from a chinese tech forum http://bbs.pediy.com/showthread.php?t=137830 Note: You need not apply this tweak if you are using windows XP SP1 OR you only have 3gb ram to begin with This fix should work on Windows XP SP3, I...

www.xpforums.com

(just in case)

 

[micropage7]

That white PCB GPU will be great match with this Soyo Dragon platinum, or the Slotek or the ABIT Casper
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And a modern one AM2..
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This looks great, but there are no pink colored video cards or memory to match it...
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This have options

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And these video cards look insane, sadly the PCB is not the same color as the metal parts, or at least black, bt they are still very good looking...
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White and purple soltek are my fav, recalling when i was in college

 

[Radical Vision]

Well i dont think Soltek did an white motherboards, the white ones are Soyo Dragon Platinum series, and ABIT Casper. Soltek on other hand have gold PCB boards and 2 differend purple PCB boards dark purple, and light purple.. For sure the coloful boards look great, and whole colored setup is very good looking custom PC.. One of the possible very old setups are GIGABYTE BX2000+ blue slot 1 mobo, GIGABYTE IDE blue cables, some blue GPU like Gigabyte FX5900, or some Hercules blue card, memory will be goood to be blue PCB or at least the headsinks to be blue, bue Audio card such as yamaha Miro Sound ISA, blue CPU cooler, a blue EnermaX PSU like noisetaiker or something similar... And there you go a great old all in blue system... For some flavor there can be added 3Dfx Voodoo Pro video blue. Black one is also possible if u find AOpen - AX6BC PRO II and use some black PCU GPU like POV FX5900...



Ofc a blue lighted pipe will be good to add here too..
But on other hand i prefer Slot A system, as is more rare and interesting then Slot 1, still nothing can beat the color of that Gigabyte BX2000+....

These days i found the holy grail of the mechanical keyboards, IBM Model F AT, but sadly someone did buy it before me...


Not very happy at all, but at least founded an AMD K6-III...



And a guy that have IBM 365 dual Pentium Pro system with only 1 CPU installed...

 

[MaxiPro800]

Soltek actually did make a white skt 478 mobo.

 

[micropage7]

Soltek actually did make a white skt 478 mobo.

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