TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[phill]

When you will rediscover the Non-Plug and play world , do not forget to take a selfie , the expression of your face will be interesting.

I'm sure things will fly out the window just as well as they do when they are meant to be plug and play!!

I'm pretty sure that 95% of those babies are still alive and kicking. We'll keep in touch if they might need some fixing.

I also found at the flea market a MS-6570 MSI K7N2 Delta L but even after extensive repairs, MOSFETS, capacitors, etc . it proved to be dead.

I know that overwhelming feeling when you already have a huge stash and new residents arrive in big number. You start to scratch your head and ask yourself where the heck am I'm going to put all of them? Don't worry you'll find a box/place to stash them.

Over the last two years my inventory has more than doubled and I'll have to do a thorough head count soon. I still have loads of space but sometimes I just watch at all those boxes with all their gems inside and I just know I'm past what it is the "normal" limit whichever it might be. The thing is that I consider that I don't have any problems myself so I keep gathering and fixing them one by one. I can stop any time I want I just choose not to. This is something above dedication it is a part of me. Each and one of us are addicted to something.

In the future I'll post an episode with the not so glamorous world of restoring PC components.

I find with this, I'm the same. I could stop buying hardware I mean, it's not like I can use them altogether but as I say to my children, when I'm dead, there's a bit more money or memories whichever way they want to go. Whatever happens, it's going to help them or make them smile when they see it there and where I would more often than not be

It's not just the PC hardware I have here but the retro consoles, Amiga's and whatever else I might end up with by that point.. It's all for them

 

[Retrorockit]

Lines up with what I've read about this board, 1600MHz FSB is a no-go, thanks for proving it for certain.

Bummer the X38/X48 don't support the LGA771 mod. And I doubt there is any LGA771 motherboards that can overclock other then the dual socket Intel Skulltrail board - and good luck with that $$$$$!

Actually the Dell T7400 supports 400fsb and dual LGA771. I wanted to try it but someone was buying up all the LGA771 workstations locally. I wanted to pinmod a couple X5470 to 4GHz for a Skulltrail clone. I was working on a MB Voltmod but didn't understand the instructions at the time. The T5400 doesn't support 400fsb officially. No idea if the pinmod will bring it out or not. Not worth buying this stuff to try it. But if you already had one it could be fun. That's where I got the X5470 for the Opti 380. I had 2 for the T7400 project.

 

[stinger608]

Let me know when you're ready. I can always use another.

Shoot me an offer via PM @Mr.Scott

 

[Caring1]

OK, I read about that pin mod and wanted to try it but I'm too lazy to figure out which pin it would be on my LGA771 Xeon as it's rotated in the socket compared to a standard LGA775 CPU.

Same pins beside the top slot on the CPU adjacent to the plastic tab in the CPU socket. Socket 775 CPU shown.

Pin mod location on 771 CPU.

 

[Retrorockit]

Working from the triangle in the upper left corner (in the prvious post) it's the same way in the socket. But the notches are in a very different location.

LGA771
Part of the LGA771 swap is either removing the tabs from the LGA775 socket, or adding the LGA775 notches to the Xeon.
The pins where the notches go are unused "reserved" on both CPUs. But the mod is to the same pins relative to the triangle corner marking. You can just draw the notches in to make it easier to find the pins.
The only difference in the pinout are the 2 pins that get swapped by the Xeon tape adapter. But the chipset must be compatable., and the BIOS must recognize both the CPUID#, and the platform number which is also different between the 2 sockets.

Delidded.com is the resource for LGA771 swaps. Chipsets,CPUID, tested mother boards.

LGA 771 to 775 Adapter (MOD) - Run faster Xeon CPUs in a Core 2 Quad motherboard

Learn how to MOD your LGA 775 motherboard to support faster LGA 771 Xeon CPUs. Also covers: the adapter, motherboard compatibility, and troubleshooting.

www.delidded.com

Not 100% accurate. They show 95W CPU limit for Optipex 380 when it's 120W. So go to userbenchmark.com to see what others are running.

 

[Robert B]

ATI 1986 - 2008 These are the oldest and the newest ATI cards in my collection.

Quite an evolution don't you think?

 

[budget_Optiplex]

Pin mod location on 771 CPU.

Perfect, picture saved for future reference! Thanks.

I have done this mod probably fifty times or so by now. I use a Harbor Freight needle file set and carefully file notches in the CPU, as I'm not a fan modding the LGA775 socket itself, too easy to slip and bend pins. After notches are filed I clean CPU well using IPA and low pressure compressed air, then install the adapter sticker.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yeah Intel mother board pins are a sad joke aren't they.
Seems x299 were really crappy.

 

[budget_Optiplex]

Hi,
Yeah Intel mother board pins are a sad joke aren't they.
Seems x299 were really crappy.

Yeah, not a fan of LGA sockets. I use the current old Intel stuff I have as it's dirt cheap (and very old AMD quads are missing SSE 4.1 which games like Far Cry 5 need). Give me pins on the CPU any day......hence why my next build when I can afford it will be AMD Ryzen. I'm an AMD fan at heart as I like the underdog. I have fond memories of my various K6-2/K6-2+ systems back when everyone else was running Pentium II/Celeron Mendocinos! And my later Athlon XP systems offered way more bang for the buck then the over-priced P4. I started building PCs in 1990 or so, and was all AMD until the Core 2 Duo (was my first Intel system lol).

 

[ThrashZone]

Yeah, not a fan of LGA sockets. I use the current old Intel stuff I have as it's dirt cheap (and very old AMD quads are missing SSE 4.1 which games like Far Cry 5 need). Give me pins on the CPU any day......hence why my next build when I can afford it will be AMD Ryzen. I'm an AMD fan at heart as I like the underdog. I have fond memories of my various K6-2/K6-2+ systems back when everyone else was running Pentium II/Celeron Mendocinos! And my later Athlon XP systems offered way more bang for the buck then the over-priced P4. I started building PCs in 1990 or so, and was all AMD until the Core 2 Duo (was my first Intel system lol).

Hi,
Posted before but micro center has another build sub going on for August 1st-31st for 500-100.00 gift cards
PC Build Showcase Contest – Enter to win $500 gift card! — Micro Center

 

[budget_Optiplex]

Hi,
Posted before but micro center has another build sub going on for August 1st-31st for 500-100.00 gift cards
PC Build Showcase Contest – Enter to win $500 gift card! — Micro Center

I'll enter my old junk and see if they get a laugh lol. Right now a gift card would be the only way I could afford new hardware. And honestly my system runs fine, so I'm not any hurry for new stuff.

 

[ThrashZone]

I'll enter my old junk and see if they get a laugh lol. Right now a gift card would be the only way I could afford new hardware. And honestly my system runs fine, so I'm not any hurry for new stuff.

Hi,
Yeah mine is already up

Old timer Q9550 on custom loop - Micro Center Build

Bored really had a entertainment center project with no gpu for an x99 mother board so decided to wake up an old 2009 Acer aspire AX3800 mother board with on board graphic's to play with on a test benchUpgrades, well everything lolAlso has been installed

www.microcenter.com

 

[Retrorockit]

Yeah, not a fan of LGA sockets. I use the current old Intel stuff I have as it's dirt cheap (and very old AMD quads are missing SSE 4.1 which games like Far Cry 5 need). Give me pins on the CPU any day......hence why my next build when I can afford it will be AMD Ryzen. I'm an AMD fan at heart as I like the underdog. I have fond memories of my various K6-2/K6-2+ systems back when everyone else was running Pentium II/Celeron Mendocinos! And my later Athlon XP systems offered way more bang for the buck then the over-priced P4. I started building PCs in 1990 or so, and was all AMD until the Core 2 Duo (was my first Intel system lol).

AMD K6III+400 for me with a Voodoo 5500 AGP. Full speed 256k on CPU L2 cache and kept the 1MB MB cache as L3 cache. Only sold to OEMs for mobile computers. Hard to find in the wild back then. The lower Voltage makes me think it was a die shrink. Outran the PII and early Athlons too. Could run at 6x100fsb also.

I wonder how Micro Center would like one of my BTX builds with almost none of their aftermarket parts in it?

 

[Apocalypsee]

My X700Pro arrived, the card looks in good condition!

 

[lexluthermiester]

My X700Pro arrived, the card looks in good condition!

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Ah, one of the very first Radeon PCIe cards that performed well and didn't run too hot or noisy. Thing of beauty!

 

[Robert B]

Acorp 5TX29 + AMD K6 la 200MHz AMD-K6-200ALR.

If the motherboard isn't something out of the ordinary, the AMD K6 CPU is the first to enter my ever growing collection. The K6 is minty fresh! I was filled to the brim with Pentium!

Officially I'm on summer holiday! 2 weeks of glorious free time! 3 or 4 days will be diverted towards RETRO HW and the many boards that are waiting to be GREAT AGAIN!!!

 

[F-Zero]

So i built myself a Windows XP gaming machine with a:

Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ HT sock.478
Zalman CNPS7000B-ALCu
ASrock P4i65G
2 GB DDR 400
MSI GeForce FX 5900XT 128 Mb DDR ( got it new still in the box with all the bundle )
WD Blue 1Tb 7200
ASUS DRW-24D5MT
LC POWER 600W

Playing some NOLF 1 & 2, D00M 3 & ROE, Quake 3 & 4, SOF 1 & 2, Half Life 1 OPFOR BS Half Life 2. Love every minute i play with it

 

[Apocalypsee]

Cool rig @F-Zero, gotta love that FX 5900XT

I done 3DMark01 comparison between X700Pro and X800 both stock clock, I stick with X800 for the time being. The card is cooler than X700Pro and quieter too.

I ran ATiTool too to see the fuses, sadly it cant be unlocked further

 

[Mr.Scott]

Nice.......but, you couldn't do any better than a LC PSU?
That could cost you your whole rig.

 

[Ruru]

Damn, it's finally clear that my Q6600 which I bought some time ago from ebay is toast. Tested it with two boards (Asus P43 and P45), no POST with either one. At least I can upgrade my keychain from P4 2.66 to Q6600.

 

[MaxiPro800]

That LC-Power should be fine.

LC-Power similar to his unit are made by Huntkey. The other kind of LC (LC-A/B/CxxxATX) however, is made by Deer.

Chloe Price - Guess I'm not the only one who might think Q6600s are sensible. I have at least 2 dead chips, while my Q9400 POSTs fine in almost anything I throw at it.

 

[Ruru]

Chloe Price - Guess I'm not the only one who might think Q6600s are sensible. I have at least 2 dead chips, while my Q9400 POSTs fine in almost anything I throw at it.

Yea, dunno what's the problem with it, externally it looks totally fine. Not a bad loss since it cost just about 6EUR on ebay and I was too lazy to refund it.

 

[biffzinker]

Any recommendations on a mobo for a Q9400? I'd prefer a mobo without a nForce chipset.

 

[Ruru]

Any recommendations on a mobo for a Q9400? I'd prefer a mobo without a nForce chipset.

With Asus P5Q series you can't go wrong.

 

[MaxiPro800]

ASUS P5QD Turbo if you want DDR2. Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R if you want DDR3. And if you can find one, EP45T-Extreme for maximum crazy.