TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[QuietBob]

Anyways, just ordered today another HP, this time it's a DV7-1214el, w/ Turion RM-74 (wonder if it takes a ZM-82?)

Should be no problem with the same generation CPU and socket revision. Let us know how the upgrade ends up.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Just to be safe, I found some more S1G2 CPUs.

In order: Athlon X2 QL-64, 2x Turion Ultra ZM80, and of course, the ZM82.

And for worst case scenario, I'll also reflow the CPU socket:

 

[Robert B]

After last week I got my old PC back(AXP 2800+ Abit NF7-S v2.0) I also got THE BOX!!! - the kit is almost complete. It is missing only the floppy disk and the manual. The rest is all there. Cables, the Serillel adapter. The cardboard frame for the inside of the box. The lot!

13 years after I sold my baby I got to retire her too. Now she's mine and she ain't leaving my eye 4 ever! The box is in awesome shape. I told my cousin to take care of it and he did. I'm soooooo glad!

I bought the motherboard in 2003 or 2004 I don't remember exactly.

 

[Ruru]

Got some nice LGA775 freebies

Celeron D 341 (2.93GHz)
Pentium 4 524 (3.06GHz)
Pentium 4 541 (3.2GHz)
Pentium 4 630 (3GHz)
Pentium D 830 (3GHz)

Now I have few LGA775 chips to play around after I get my benchmarking PSU

The delidded one is E4300, top left is an unmodded LGA771 one and the Q6600 is dead. Still 12 CPUs to OC the crap out

 

[MaxiPro800]

DV7 came in! Completely untouched inside. Seller said it had some 160GB HDD, got really surprised seeing a 320GB WD Black!

Anyways, reflowed the IGP (main source of the problem, GPU was fine!) and it came back to life! Gonna have to replace the thermal pad for the GPU though as it's horribly brittle, and might add paste on the IGP so it runs cooler (a bit).

EDIT:

The Black Scorpio might be bad though

EDIT 2: Black Scorpio is definitely dead. Replaced with a standard 5400RPM 320GB Seagate out of a CQ57. Oh, and the GPU is actually a 512MB 3470, not a 256MB 3450.

@QuietBob the upgrade went just fine! It booted up on first try (after reflowing) although about twice I got a checksum error with a new CR2032 plugged in, but I don't really mind that. The only thing left is flash a whitelist-free BIOS so I can drop a newer card (IIRC I still have some AR5B95 cards left from ASUS machines), swap in a better LCD (this one's CCFL is pretty yellowed) and it's pretty much done.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Got some nice LGA775 freebies

I see a Q9500 in the top row. That would be worthy of a retroXP build.

Oh, and the GPU is actually a 512MB 3470

That's a nice system. What are you going to do with it?

 

[Ruru]

I see a Q9500 in the top row. That would be worthy of a retroXP build.

I'd probably go for the Xeon X3230 for the ultimate XP rig as it has MOAR L2 (Q6700 equilent)

Did I mention about the GPU part of my LGA 775 test session?

 

[Trekkie4]

After last week I got my old PC back(AXP 2800+ Abit NF7-S v2.0) I also got THE BOX!!! - the kit is almost complete. It is missing only the floppy disk and the manual. The rest is all there. Cables, the Serillel adapter. The cardboard frame for the inside of the box. The lot!

13 years after I sold my baby I got to retire her too. Now she's mine and she ain't leaving my eye 4 ever! The box is in awesome shape. I told my cousin to take care of it and he did. I'm soooooo glad!

I bought the motherboard in 2003 or 2004 I don't remember exactly.

So let me get this straight... You owned that computer 13 years ago, then you sold it to your cousin & now you got it back? That's a pretty heart-touching story if you ask me!

Reminds me a lot of my Adison story actually, since both of us last saw our "metal friends" around 13, 14 years ago!

 

[Robert B]

Yeah Trekkie4 that is correct.

I saw your Adison PC story and I was so glad that you found the other two cases. That doesn't happen very often!

 

[Trekkie4]

Yeah Trekkie4 that is correct.

I saw your Adison PC story and I was so glad that you found the other two cases. That doesn't happen very often!

3, actually! I also found the smaller, mATX "baby" one Seems to share the internal structure with its bigger brother (especially the power switch, LEDs, and blanking plates), but everything else is unique to this particular model & not compatible with Midi tower design.


Unfortunately, I did not take the smaller one at the time, but since then I've been in touch with the guy who sold these to me, and he agreed to keep the smaller one aside for me to buy, pay for it in couple of weeks. I'm already outside my financial comfort zone as it is, investing quite a lot of money into Adison project so I really can't afford any more additional costs at this time.

But I DID finally get my hands on one of those BTC drives which I asked for... And the other model from the picture, BTC BCD-36XH is on its way from England (not on any of the two pics, but identical to the one on right) Oddly enough I even managed to find yet another "XH" series drive of the unknown speed, that is missing the CD tray front panel (right pic). Meaning that it's going to be used for parts, in case BCD-36XH turns out to be non-working.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'd probably go for the Xeon X3230

I didn't see that one and I'd agree.

 

[Ruru]

One thing fellas..... I want a third HD 4890.

 

[QuietBob]

But I DID finally get my hands on one of those BTC drives which I asked for..

I'm so glad you finally found it! And guess what... I may have found your original keyboard, the BTC 8110W. I could grab it for you from my local auction site.

I'll send it to you just for the price of shipping. I'm in continental Europe so the cost should be very low. Please let me know.

 

[stinger608]

wow, that is a frigging awesome gesture @QuietBob

I'm quite sure @Trekkie4 will jump on that offer!!!!!

 

[lexluthermiester]

One thing fellas..... I want a third HD 4890.

Why? Got a project going on?

 

[Trekkie4]

One thing fellas..... I want a third HD 4890.

Funny that you guys are talking about SLI & Crossfire because (among all these Adison-related items) I was recently donated a pair of identical, passively cooled 8600GTS cards made by Gigabyte, both featuring "Silent-Pipe3" huge heatsink(s) ... exact model is GV-NX86S256H. Now, don't get me wrong because this project is still MILES away from even being started ... not to mention the fact that I'm missing tons of parts, but eventually, I'm going to put together a 8600GTS SLI rig inside that 3rd Adison case, a sleeper build Providing a decent airflow inside one of those towers is going to be a real nightmare, but I really don't see why not. I already got the Adison tower, I got the motherboard (AM2+ or AM3, if I'm not mistaking) and I got the cards + the SLI bridge. So I would only need a decent CPU, loads of DDR2 RAM, decent hard drive and a sturdy power supply to be able to run everything without blackouts or overheating. Sooo yes, eventually! Stay tuned...

I'm so glad you finally found it! And guess what... I may have found your original keyboard, the BTC 8110W. I could grab it for you from my local auction site.
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I'll send it to you just for the price of shipping. I'm in continental Europe so the cost should be very low. Please let me know.

wow, that is a frigging awesome gesture @QuietBob

I'm quite sure @Trekkie4 will jump on that offer!!!!!

Wow!! Yes, YES I will! This one is technically not the identical to the one I had back in a day, as mine didn't have those 3 buttons on the left ("Power Off", "Wake Up" & "Sleep") but they are completely the same otherwise, down to every single detail!

@QuietBob I'll send you PM in a moment, and we can discuss details through there.

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Hmm... Or not, it says "This member limits who may view their full profile", so I can't message you. Send me a msg instead, hopefully it will work other way around?

 

[biffzinker]

One thing fellas..... I want a third HD 4890.

Going for a triple Crossfire setup?

 

[DR4G00N]

Going for a triple Crossfire setup?

On that point, why stop at just three?

 

[QuietBob]

@QuietBob I'll send you PM in a moment, and we can discuss details through there.
Hmm... Or not, it says "This member limits who may view their full profile", so I can't message you. Send me a msg instead, hopefully it will work other way around?

Already bought the keyboard Should arrive this Friday or next Monday. I'll get back to you in a PM, I think I've disabled conversations in my profile settings.

 

[Trekkie4]

Already bought the keyboard Should arrive this Friday or next Monday. I'll get back to you in a PM, I think I've disabled conversations in my profile settings.

No prob, don't worry about it. I answered you back

 

[Ruru]

Going for a triple Crossfire setup?

Exactly

 

[lexluthermiester]

On that point, why stop at just three?

Were there any mobos made that support 4way crossfire?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Were there any mobos made that support 4way crossfire?

Quite a few actually.

 

[Trekkie4]

My powder-coated Adison case is back from the body shop, and it looks absolutely gorgeous! To be perfectly honest, better than it looked brand new, back in 1998!

Planning to take & upload couple of pics later today, when I find some free time!

 

[Ruru]

Were there any mobos made that support 4way crossfire?

Now hold on a minute, the board doesn't even have more than two PCIe x16 slots dammit!