TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[agent_x007]

 

[MaxiPro800]

I remember seeing a crazy mod (and OC) years ago on YouTube ... or maybe it was someplace else, I honestly don't remember. Someone OCed their S7 Pentium MMX to the absurd level and used the liquid nitrogen to keep the temperature down!

Think I've seen that, and it was either 420MHz (no pun intended) or 450Mhz, forgot which.

 

[stinger608]

In the original post I included a link that @agent_x007 posted in this thread:

Project: The Ultimate AGP System (PC-A05FNB/HD3850)

The P4P800-VM can be flashed with the SE bios for full FSB control. If you don't want to flash the bios SetFSB worked fine on mine.

www.techpowerup.com

Here is the link:

NVIDIA: Optimized nForce Driverpacks for Win7-10

@ all users with a NVIDIA nForce chipset mainboard: Preliminary notes Many users with an nForce chipset mainboard, who are running or going to install Vista, Win7, Win8 or Win10 (32/64bit), are searching for nForce chipset drivers, which are suitable for their special chipset and will give...

www.win-raid.com

This is for NForce drivers that support Vista and Windows 7

 

[agent_x007]

It's based on newest one for Win XP 64-bit, and is signed to make Win Vista/7 installer "happy".
It may NOT work for all NF AGP boards/configurations out there (like author states in it's post, so keep that in mind when using it).

 

[lexluthermiester]

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Wait, were the Tualatin's multi-unlocked?

 

[agent_x007]

Not really.
What's so weird about it ?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Not really.
What's so weird about it ?

Nevermind, I saw the clocks you got, but didn't see that it was a Celeron. Tunnel-vision.... For a moment it looked like the multi had been changed instead of the FSB. Still, that's an impressive OC!

 

[biffzinker]

Wait, were the Tualatin's multi-unlocked?

No, looks like FSB overclocking +33 MHz from 100 MHz.

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%201300%20-%20RK80530RY013256%20(BX80530F1300256).html

 

[lexluthermiester]

No, looks like FSB overclocking +33 MHz from 100 MHz.

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%201300%20-%20RK80530RY013256%20(BX80530F1300256).html

Right... see above..

 

[68Olds]

I had an old PII Toshiba that I upgraded years ago. I pulled the CPU & got a Power Leap s370 slocket & a 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron. I was able to use SetFSB to increase the FSB to 112MHz. That was about 1.56GHz on the CPU. I don't miss the Toshiba, but I wish I still had that slocket and Celery.

 

[agent_x007]

Side note : This board doesn't support Fast Write - which SUCKS for 3D tests

 

[Mr.Scott]

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Side note : This board doesn't support Fast Write - which SUCKS for 3D tests

Nice.

My EB 800

 

[DR4G00N]

Hmm looks like my Abit BH6 1.01 bit the dust, tried a bunch of cpu's and mem's and reflashed the bios but no luck. Oh well, time to find another board, the clockgen was limited to 133MHz so I was looking around anyway.

My favorite run on it; Katmai 550 on chilled water @ 2.8V core via VID pin mod. Likely has more in it.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Hmm looks like my Abit BH6 1.01 bit the dust, tried a bunch of cpu's and mem's and reflashed the bios but no luck. Oh well, time to find another board, the clockgen was limited to 133MHz so I was looking around anyway.

My favorite run on it; Katmai 550 on chilled water @ 2.8V core via VID pin mod. Likely has more in it.

Too bad about the board. Likely caps. It was of that era.
Good OC on that. My 550 will only do 700.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hmm looks like my Abit BH6 1.01 bit the dust

Too bad about the board. Likely caps. It was of that era.

I have to agree, likely the caps. That board would very much be worth a recap job!

 

[DR4G00N]

I have to agree, likely the caps. That board would very much be worth a recap job!

Could be. I poked around on it with my dmm, all voltages and resistances looked good so idk.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Could be. I poked around on it with my dmm, all voltages and resistances looked good so idk.

Weird. Is the chipset bare or does it have a heatsink?

 

[Trekkie4]

I've been going through some of my old photo albums yesterday & found something relevant for this thread, to share with you guys...

Starting off with what appears to be 1996 - Siemens Nixdorf CRT, that's been hooked to a Intel 486 (66), DX2. The printer that's just outside the frame (above the monitor) was Epson FX-85


Followed by more familiar sight...


We are now in the year 2000 (or maybe even early 2001), and this is what my Adison setup used to look like... Shamrock CRT monitor (which I still own today, but it needs a replacement flyback transformer), Primax Colorado 1200p flatbed scanner, Epson Stylus Color 580 (it was brand new at the time, and only just recently replaced the old HP DeskJet 610C), Primax Raptor 3D joystick (still owned today, in fact I'm looking at it as I'm typing this), BTC keyboard (8110?), the one @QuietBob kindly offered to me, and most likely a Primax Navigator PS/2 mouse. Oh, and there's also that Logitech Quick Cam, which I STILL own today, unfortunately it yellowed quite badly to the point where it's orange and not bright white, as seen on the picture.

I can actually tell that it's a "late" picture and not the one from 1998/1999 due to the position where my desk used to be (I rearranged my room around mid-2000) and also because of the LED on that BTC CD-ROM drive, on the blurred picture. The LED is on the far left side, meaning that the original CD drive was already replaced for BTC BCD-40XH as seen on the picture below.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Followed by more familiar sight...

That speaker setup would have driven me bonkers...

 

[INSTG8R]

That speaker setup would have driven me bonkers...

Same...

 

[Trekkie4]

In a good way, I hope? I didn't really care much for speaker placement back then, neither i had the room on my desk to choose more preferred location... There was also the 3rd one, woofer (it was a 2.1 system)

Edit
Approx. 5 years into the future & here we are in 2005. With the SAME speakers from the picture(s) above, and you can actually see the woofer on this one The system on the left was a S423 Pentium 4, it had that same Primax Colorado 1200p from the earlier pictures, same Logitech QuickCam & same Primax Raptor 3D joystick, but this time it had Epson Stylus C40UX, where the system on the right was PII "Adison" of course, with previously mentioned Shamrock CRT & BTC keyboard


About a year later, and that Epson Stylus color 580 (on the right, and also from earlier set of pics) was decommissioned due to clogged up head and so I gave it away for free.

 

[biffzinker]

Primax Colorado 1200p flatbed scanner

I had a UMAX flatbed scanner back when I had a PowerMac clone. I have no idea where the scanner went come to think of it. It wasn't a high-end expensive model although it had a SCSI interface.

 

[lexluthermiester]

In a good way, I hope?

Oh, hell no. I'm mildly OCD and where speaker placement is concerned, if they're not perfectly symmetrical to each other and equa-distant to the display, it drives me right bonkers.

 

[QuietBob]

Approx. 5 years into the future & here we are in 2005.

How many remotes can you hold in one hand?
And I like the fan controllers! Are those VU meters I see?

Oh, hell no. I'm mildly OCD and where speaker placement is concerned, if they're not perfectly symmetrical to each other and equa-distant to the display, it drives me right bonkers.

I hear ya!

 

[Trekkie4]

I had a UMAX flatbed scanner back when I had a PowerMac clone. I have no idea where the scanner went come to think of it. It wasn't a high-end expensive model although it had a SCSI interface.

Oh yeah, I remember those! My Primax kinda falls into that same category... It was a fairly cheap scanner from what I remember, but it was quite decent. I gave it away around 2006, 2007 mainly because we bought one of those early all-in-one HP machines, which had a flatbed scanner built in. Which is what we have today (Canon one), there's really no need & valid excuse to have a dedicated scanner any longer, unless it is a special unit, designed for special application & purpose.

Oh, hell no. I'm mildly OCD and where speaker placement is concerned, if they're not perfectly symmetrical to each other and equa-distant to the display, it drives me right bonkers.

Oh... I see! Would you believe that I'm OCD myself? But I developed my OCD years later, around 2004-2005. In fact if you take a closer look at that picture from 2004 you will notice that ALL my remotes are sorted from the smallest & shortest to the largest & longest one

How many remotes can you hold in one hand?
And I like the fan controllers! Are those VU meters I see?


I hear ya!

Ha! Well, what can I say... First, small silver remote was for a HiFi system (still owned today), second (black) one was for Hauppauge TV tuner card, in fact you can see the IR receiver mounted on the monitor, where the rest of them (3rd, 4th & 5th remote) were all for VHS VCRs - Daewoo, LG in the middle & big black one for JVC

And yes, I used to be crazy for case mods back in a day. What you see are Cooler Master Aerogate & Musketeer, along with crapload of LED fans & other case accessories ... along with incredibly messy cable management !