TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[debs3759]

Some advanced Reaper technology:

I've got a couple of sets of them, but only PC2-8500. Only 9600 I have were designed for water cooling. Both sets are untested so far.

 

[Dinnercore]

I've got a couple of sets of them, but only PC2-8500. Only 9600 I have were designed for water cooling. Both sets are untested so far.

The 9600 Flex work just as well with air cooling. Super beefy heatsinks and if they still work they could fly. My 2x1 set is among the best I have.

I do also have some Reaper in 9600 but sadly I received them dead.

 

[QuietBob]

Any controller fans in here? Still in use in my daily - after I inadvertently fried the one on my video card

 

[Dinnercore]

Any controller fans in here? Still in use in my daily - after I inadvertently fried the one on my video card
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Oh I love controllers for the front bay. And I use a lot of fan controllers in general because of my excessive use of 180mm fans for radiators. Mainboards can't power them all.

This is my most precious of them all:


The dials are so nice. And it has enough power for most of my setups

 

[QuietBob]

The dials are so nice

Now THAT is retro!

 

[kiriakost]

In the past six years something when totally wrong regarding such DC fan controllers.
No one made any Four Chanel PWM with manual adjustment and digital display .
There is no electronic design limitation involved, I believe that the recent Trent of PC gaming case with out bays for optical drives this discouraged electronic engineers at designing one.

 

[Dinnercore]

Further expanding my DDR2 pool:



I'm on a mission. And I will not stop until I got there.

 

[ThrashZone]

Oh I love controllers for the front bay. And I use a lot of fan controllers in general because of my excessive use of 180mm fans for radiators. Mainboards can't power them all.

This is my most precious of them all:


The dials are so nice. And it has enough power for most of my setups

Hi,
Yeah I have a couple lamptron's too not that model though FC-2

 

[QuietBob]

Yeah I have a couple lamptron's too not that model though FC-2

Pics please?

 

[Dinnercore]

So I delidded an E7300 and polished bottom + top of the IHS.

I like to think that I made a difference but I'm not sure since I failed to test it before. Anyway, this is what it does right now:

Watercooled using paste instead of LM under the IHS. 73°C under load is a lot, but running a voltage of 1.77V with ambient cooling.

It does run nice but probably not for too long. Did my benches at 1.7+ Vcore and it survived all of them so far.




I might just buy another one to compare. I really wonder if it helps at all, since these draw little power even at high voltages.

 

[Ruru]

I may get my old 6800 Ultra back... lets just hope for the best

 

[68Olds]

I have a 6800 Ultra, and somewhere I have a 1.44 floppy with a modded 6800 GT BIOS that made the Ultra bench much faster than the stock BIOS. Fun card to play with. Here's a pic of it sitting in my Abit AI7.
Good luck getting yours back.

 

[kiriakost]

So I delidded an E7300

When I got my quad Q6600, I had a major issue with a used motherboard that I got for it.
I was unaware of what was causing the issue, and I was in need of one other CPU so to troubleshoot.
Here is my E7500 almost unused still in the box, this still waiting to become useful.

Two years ago I got also one Q8200 , I was originally aiming to get and another ASUS P5QC as spare board (German auction lot of parts).
A thunder stroke my building , UPS was connected due USB with the PC, USB subsystem at the motherboard was fried, the motherboard still usable no other damage.

Previously some one from UK he sold me a damaged ASUS P5QC (burned USB ports), I kept it with partial refund.
Now I have one good ASUS P5QC (German auction) and another two ready to be send of south bridge replacement.
I got also two south bridge chips ( ready reballed from Asia) and they are ready to be soldered, but the special tool for the job this is at the capital of Greece, and I am sort at funding the repair for now.

ASUS P5QC this is so wonderful that I do not care to own three of them.

 

[micropage7]

Oh I love controllers for the front bay. And I use a lot of fan controllers in general because of my excessive use of 180mm fans for radiators. Mainboards can't power them all.

This is my most precious of them all:


The dials are so nice. And it has enough power for most of my setups

one of my fav when i was in college, and for now it looks (still) pretty good, but too bad today cases have limited 5.25 inch tray

 

[ThrashZone]

Pics please?

Hi,
Old image I don't have any rgb fans up there anymore I'm using 3 knobs and 2 fans on each for push/ pull on my rads
I give the mother board 2 fans just to keep it happy
I have mine in my top rad box I added to my case so it's not seen both builds the same x299 & z490
Six knob version had to add some tape... so I could see the position they were in

 

[Dinnercore]

I'm done testing all of the DDR2 kits I got ( https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/page-403#post-4369005 )

Best one runs DDR2 1300 CL 5 @2.28V stable for SuperPI 32m.


Two other kits can do ~1290 at the same voltage. All of the others run 1200+ but worse and only the Teamgroup do not work at all. Got one of them to boot and its not very good.

In my book thats decent. I have only a few sticks in my pool that I tested higher and they only passed 1M.

Tested them in pairs. Maybe if I bin each stick individually I find an even better combination.

 

[QuietBob]

Not sure if this channel has been featured here. Pure nostalgia. The videos tend to be a little on the long side, but you can't beat the lo-fi aesthetic

 

[The Foldinator]

Oh I love controllers for the front bay. And I use a lot of fan controllers in general because of my excessive use of 180mm fans for radiators. Mainboards can't power them all.

This is my most precious of them all:


The dials are so nice. And it has enough power for most of my setups

HARDware dial pron

 

[Jetster]

Scored on some IDE Drives. I'll make you a great deal shipping plus $5
This weekend I will see how many work
Also curious what software is left inside

 

[Mr.Scott]

So I delidded an E7300 and polished bottom + top of the IHS.

I like to think that I made a difference but I'm not sure since I failed to test it before. Anyway, this is what it does right now:

Watercooled using paste instead of LM under the IHS. 73°C under load is a lot, but running a voltage of 1.77V with ambient cooling.

It does run nice but probably not for too long. Did my benches at 1.7+ Vcore and it survived all of them so far.




I might just buy another one to compare. I really wonder if it helps at all, since these draw little power even at high voltages.

You madman. 1.7v on ambient.

 

[budget_Optiplex]

Any controller fans in here? Still in use in my daily - after I inadvertently fried the one on my video card
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I dig your old CoolerMaster CM 690 case! I built a Core 2 Quad system for a friend back in 2008 with the Nvidia version of this case that is still in service to this day with only a video card, additional 4GB memory, and SSD upgrade. We intend soon to build a new Ryzen system in this case.....might be little contradictory lol!



Also I finally got around to taking a picture of the internals of my low budget Socket 423 retro gaming PC mentioned here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/page-384#post-4321658



I haven't made any changes to it as it plays all the old stuff I enjoy just fine. Currently playing through an old DOS game called Chasm the Rift which is basically a Doom/Quake clone that was mostly overlooked when it came out, but yet really is pretty decent.

And lurking in this thread enjoying seeing peoples current projects!

 

[stinger608]

I've always wanted one of the CM690 cases. Had an opportunity a couple of weeks ago to get one cheap...........However the damn shipping was going to be twice the price of the case!!!
Had to pass on it.

 

[QuietBob]

I dig your old CoolerMaster CM 690 case! I built a Core 2 Quad system for a friend back in 2008 with the Nvidia version of this case

That is one handsome box! I never knew CoolerMaster made an Nvidia-branded one. Mine is actually the CM 690 II Advanced USB 3.0. What I really love about this series is that it lets you mount an 80mm fan in the right panel. Cooling the PCB round the CPU socket area does wonders for VRM temps. I wish we could see more case designs with a similar feature.

We intend soon to build a new Ryzen system in this case.....

That's exactly what I have in mind!

 

[stinger608]

I never knew CoolerMaster made an Nvidia-branded one

Yeah, and they were insanely expensive when they released them. If I recall, they were close to $400 for the case.

 

[QuietBob]

Yeah, and they were insanely expensive when they released them. If I recall, they were close to $400 for the case.

Apparently, they made another one of these. Found the 690 II on my local auction site (seller's photos):