TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Robert B]

A minty fresh Zalman VF700-AlCu.

 

[xkm1948]

A minty fresh Zalman VF700-AlCu.

I had a set of those on my Radeon 9700. Makes the overclocking to 350MHz core much more stable.

 

[Ruru]

Heh, the VF700Cu didn't fit on the GF3, I guess I should remove the ramsinks..

I had a set of those on my Radeon 9700. Makes the overclocking to 350MHz core much more stable.

My 9700 Pro OC'd past 9800 XT clocks back in the day with a Zalman cooler (and the shim removed)

 

[xkm1948]

Heh, the VF700Cu didn't fit on the GF3, I guess I should remove the ramsinks..


My 9700 Pro OC'd past 9800 XT clocks back in the day with a Zalman cooler (and the shim removed)

Damn nice.

Sadly for me those ram heart sink fell off after about 2 years. My dad was using the computer at that time and has lots of blue screens due to the OC i applied without heatsink on ram

 

[Ruru]

Damn nice.

Sadly for me those ram heart sink fell off after about 2 years. My dad was using the computer at that time and has lots of blue screens due to the OC i applied without heatsink on ram

I ran my 9700 Pro without RAMsinks IIRC, the Zalman cooler kept the GPU side cool and I had a good airflow on the backside. 9700 Pro was a BEAST! ^^

 

[Ruru]

Fire Strike with Q9500/GTX 950, 6K is so close that I'll hit it!

I scored 5 963 in Fire Strike

Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9500, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 x 1, 8192 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

 

[Apocalypsee]

I just found out there is a local shop near me that sells Asrock 939Dual-SATA2. Very tempting....must....resist....need to buy new monitor first as my current one have two vertical lines

 

[xrror]

I just found out there is a local shop near me that sells Asrock 939Dual-SATA2.

(old geezer voice in rocking chair)
"Now there's a name I haven't heard in awhile..."
(grins wide)

Some good memories with that board

EDIT ADD: (added last pic to show why the southbridge heatsink fins were bent the way they were)

 

[Robert B]

I just found out there is a local shop near me that sells Asrock 939Dual-SATA2. Very tempting....must....resist....need to buy new monitor first as my current one have two vertical lines

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!

 

[MaxiPro800]

These came from the trash yesterday evening.

Conner CFA270A 270MB
Fujitsu M1606TAU 1GB
S3 ViRGE DX (Sparkle SP-325A)
3Com "Parallel Tasking II" 3C905B-TX.

Haven't fully tested them. Conner spins but I don't hear any seek test (may very well be the same issue as some older WDs I have - won't seek until you change the jumper to secondary or CS), the Fujitsu hesitates a bit but completes seek test successfuly (that, or that's its normal seek procedure, never had a Fujitsu or Conner drive so idk.)

The next thing I'd need is just a PCChips mobo (I know how to deal with these so that they work as I LIKE) and it would be just nice.

 

[Dinnercore]

Expanding my DDR2 collection. Gonna compare these with some OEM micron sticks that carry the same ICs.

 

[TheEndIsNear]

This probably doesn't go here but here is some pics of the mainframe I used to work on as a contractor plus some shrink wrapped copies of windows 2000 at work lol.

 

[basco]

men those vitesta i loved. better then my yellow crucial

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

CPU-Z Validation Checker (by canardpc.com)

valid.x86.fr

 

[Dinnercore]

men those vitesta i loved. better then my yellow crucial

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

CPU-Z Validation Checker (by canardpc.com)

valid.x86.fr

Do you remember what voltage you used for that speed? I have not tested the sticks above yet, but so far my best one is a G.Skill GBHZ that arrived broken and I torched it with 400°C hot air to revive it.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3114.31 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[ugy0cn] Validated Dump by Osmium-OC (2020-07-15 23:16:43) - MB: Gigabyte EP45-EXTREME - RAM: 1024 MB

valid.x86.fr

It does the 692MHz @ 2.3V but my hot-air reflow was not a good fix as it still has trouble to boot at voltages below 2.1V

 

[Retrorockit]

I've started something "oldish" in the Throttlestop overclocking forum. Too new for this thread. But It's OEM, Locked BIOS, BTX, overclocking. Dell XPS420. No photos yet. But if anyone is interested. Post#946

Throttlestop overclocking Desktop PCs

Hey everyone, Sorry to intrude in the middle of any conversations that might be going on. No worries at all! I am new to the forum but not this page as I have read literally all 37 pages of this thread to help me with achieving the best performance out of my T3500. Welcome to TPU, and we hope...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Mr.Scott]

but so far my best one is a G.Skill GBHZ that arrived broken and I torched it with 400°C hot air to revive it.


It does the 692MHz @ 2.3V but my hot-air reflow was not a good fix as it still has trouble to boot at voltages below 2.1V

My HZ's are no better than yours.

 

[basco]

i think up to 2,35 volt above that no gain without getting colder.
i had good luck with the first batch cellshocks 800c4 more then with the 1000mhz ones and the red ones i never had but just looked awesome.

 

[Apocalypsee]

As I waited for my X700 to arrive, I found a seller on local carousell selling NOS Powercolor X800! It only have 128MB RAM and 12 pixel pipes, but damn the card is virgin! The only thing that's missing is DVI to VGA adapter but I don't need that. The guy say he buy it as a backup card but never use it because he have another one

Just look at this, its brand new!

 

[Ruru]

X800 with 128MB GDDR? Definetly not an usual memory configuration.

 

[basco]

always thought x800 has a 4 pin molex connector

 

[Ruru]

always thought x800 has a 4 pin molex connector

AGP ones do, PCIe versions had a 6pin PCIe connector. Didn't even realize that this card didn't have a connector at all. Though some lower end GF 6800 cards also didn't have a PCIe connector, probably they have TDP with in the PCIe 75W limit so the slot's power is enough.

 

[GreiverBlade]

AGP ones do, PCIe versions had a 6pin PCIe connector. Didn't even realize that this card didn't have a connector at all. Though some lower end GF 6800 cards also didn't have a PCIe connector, probably they have TDP with in the PCIe 75W limit so the slot's power is enough.

the X850GT 256mb AGP i have has a molex, nonetheless it's one of my shame... that card has the selector for NTSC/PAL knocked off



usually X800 non Pro or GT/GTO, probably following reference design, do not have any connector but sometime oddities, or rather AIB innovation, can happen (although all i could find of them, when i wanted to get one for my collection, were reference design compliant... thus i ended with a X850GT)
without
Standard:

SE:

with
Pro AGP:

XT AGP:



now i just noticed that my Xpertvision X1950GT Super AGP8X 512mb DDR3 has a 6pin and the HIS X1600Pro IceQ AGP 512mb DDR2, which was my first "performance" card after a long time with some SIS 6326, GF 2MX and co, has a 4 pin Floppy


mmhhhhh SIS 6326 .... nostalgia ... i need to find one sooner or later ...

it was a p.o.s but it was all i could afford in 1997 ...

 

[Apocalypsee]

always thought x800 has a 4 pin molex connector

This one is based on 110nm instead of 130nm, and IIRC the 12 pixel pipeline is the maximum the card have (can't unlock anymore pipes) and was meant to fight midrange cards like 6600GT because ATi can't get decent yield from X700 die to make X700XT

 

[Ruru]

This one is based on 110nm instead of 130nm, and IIRC the 12 pixel pipeline is the maximum the card have (can't unlock anymore pipes) and was meant to fight midrange cards like 6600GT because ATi can't get decent yield from X700 die to make X700XT

110nm R430 was used also in X800 XL which has 16 pipelines

 

[hat]

Back then even the high end cards only needed 4 pin Molex, or 6 pin PCI-E. Now we have dual 8 pin PCI-E connectors, or worse, a new 12 pin connector? Sad really...