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I had an XFX 6800XT once upon a time. I have... bad memories. I had an Intel D865PERL motherboard with 1GB DDR400 Crucial Ballistix and a 3.0GHz P4 Prescott. The 6800XT was replacing my old FX5200 Ultra. It performed quite well, but it came with an Antec Smartpower 2.0 PSU. The power supply was terrible and had coil whine from hell. I was constantly swapping hardware trying to figure out the problem. It would whine with the new 6800XT, but not with the FX5200. Eventually I actually fried the AGP port on that board, probably static electricity or something. I think the motherboard might have got replaced with another D865PERL, or... something... but I did some research and found that the Corsair VX430w would be a fine replacement for that terrible Antec unit.

The hazy thing about it is that this was when I was still a wee lad, and had no money of my own to handle these things. I know the 6800XT and the Smartpower was a Christmas gift, and I also know I made sure on my next opportunity to get something it was that power supply. Pretty sure that was also Christmas time too. Or maybe it was my birthday. Hard to believe I went a whole year with a computer like that. Anyway, I didn't have the 6800XT for very long, because I got a system that used PCI-E soon after. It came with an artifacting ATI x1800XL, but man that was my first system that actually handled games well and without any stuttering or frame dips. I think I replaced the x1800XL with an Nvidia 8500GT, which was barely fast enough to run anything. It was a downgrade for sure, but it kept me in the game until I could get an 8600GTS. It was good enough until I got a 9800GT, which I promptly killed in a foolish overclocking accident. I sold the 8600GTS to somebody, so I went back to the 8500GT until I picked up a 9600GSO. That as an amazing price/performance card. It did a whole 5k PPD in F@H, which was an amazing value for the $34 or so I remember paying for it.
 
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Here's my eVGA 6800 Ultra AGP. I put a Zalman cooler with vRAM sinks on it, but kept the original heatsink/fan. I flashed it to a 6800 GT for a while, made a huge difference in benching scores. It's been flashed back to the original BIOS for years though. This was definitely one of my favorite video cards of all time. I had it paired with a 3.4GHz Prescott running under water at 4.1GHz long past when most were running s478 motherboards. My upgrade from this combo was a Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.6GHz with x1800XTs in Crossfire.
 

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My Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample GLH with period aftermarket cooler. I still have the original cooler but both fans are shot.

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My Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample GLH with period aftermarket cooler. I still have the original cooler but both fans are shot.

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For it's time, that was a bad-ass card! And despite the blower fan, it didn't get all that noisy!
 

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Dug through some old work photos, found a pic of that monstrous Acer 9920G I mentioned earlier(you can see how big it looks next to my old 23" monitor). Don't have any pics after repair. This one was taken along with a bunch of internal pics for the customer, to demonstrate that he bought a dud (GPU baked to crisp, messed up MoBo with several janky "repairs", wrong CPU, semi-alive HDD etc.) But eventually we've managed to bring it back to life and restore factory config with some upgrades. Even found a perfect top case, so he won't have to look at that ugly worn-out spot near touchpad.
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Well that's a result, the Intel D865GBF board boots up! I only say this because I bought it cheap from a bloke in the middle of nowhere following a long ride into the Wild West of BA, where a horse and cart is still a common sight. I kid you not.
I've always liked the Intel 865 socket 478 boards having had excellent experience with a D865PERL and this is the GBF version that came with a Celeron D which I've changed to a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz and a decent copper bottomed heatsink.
I was even more amazed when I found an I/O shield in my bits box with an exact fit. That rarely happens, so I was a bit chuffed at that.
All I need now is a case :D
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Alright well this search was easier than I thought. You are the man, THANKS

So while I got the 1353 Bios successfully installed, it has not resolved my big outstanding issue: I am trying to get this thing to boot from a Samsung 950 Pro NVME SSD, which has the legacy boot rom so it should work. However no matter which PCIE port I have this PCIE-NVME adapter plugged into, the system doesn't get past the Intel bios splash screen. Can't even get into the BIOS with this adapter plugged in (I tried three different ones too).

The motherboard shows debug code A3, which of course is undocumented anywhere. From other boards that have this code it seems to be storage related, but I am pretty stumped here.

This 1353 BIOS lists as having fixed several issues with detecting and running PCIE storage adapters, but no luck for me.
Hi. i have purchase the same board weeks ago.

my config:



Intel D5400XS (Skulltrail) (Bios 1353)
2x Xeon x5482
32Gb Hynix HMP31GF7EMR4C (4x8Gb 4RX4)
Shapphire 5750 Vapor X (weah!)
2X CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (2fans push pull with printed brackets https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1950312)
Deepcool MATREXX 55 V3
Thermaltake 850W Toughpower Cable Management (with custom 2x 8p EPS)
Coolbox PCIE to M2 adapter (https://coolbox.es/cajas-pc-y-componentes/3570-adaptador-nvm-pcie-8436556148866.html)
Kingston A2000 NVME

I can boot the machine if populated the pcie M2 adapter to PCIE_2. (if not, i get E6 error) AND use the Clover loader (https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-G...r-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html) into USB dongle

i hope this work for you

greetings
 
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For the love of Abit. Sure miss them. Their message boards with techs answering questions was an amazing resource. Thread in another forum inspired me to use this KG7-R for my next build - after a good cleaning.

First board I ever bought. All the Nichicon and Rubycon caps look good. Have not put power to it in near 20 years. Moved to Abit KR7A and never looked back. Much better board in my humble opinion.

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I've acquired a nice beige and very solid case and the pervious owner very kindly left all the components inside. It turns out to be a Duron 1200 on an unidentifiable board with no obvious markings, but at least it boots. I'm wondering if it's a PC Chips, because most of those are red. Either way, I'll be using the case for the Intel board and leave this one for later.
What's the best way to ID a board? An old copy of Everest perhaps? Or maybe CPU-Z would pick it up.
Edit:
Everest confirms it's a PC Chips M810LR.

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What's the best way to ID a board?
Maybe you could glean some information from the BIOS, some vendor-specific options? Or try putting the BIOS string into Google.

EDIT: Guess I was too late :laugh:
 
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The P4 is taking shape and after I took this shot I realised that Mr intel was upside down :D . Anyway, it's a good solid case apart from one of the side panels, which is badly dented and rusty.
I plan to put XP on this machine and see if I can get up to 2GB of RAM, but I'm doubtful about the Leadtek 6800GT.
Work in progress...
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The P4 is taking shape and after I took this shot I realised that Mr intel was upside down :D . Anyway, it's a good solid case apart from one of the side panels, which is badly dented and rusty.
I plan to put XP on this machine and see if I can get up to 2GB of RAM, but I'm doubtful about the Leadtek 6800GT.
Work in progress...
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Those heatsinks are reversible. Turn it around man!

EDIT;
That system would also greatly benefit from a SB Live or SB Audigy for one of those bottom PCI slots.
 
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Hi. i have purchase the same board weeks ago.

my config:

Intel D5400XS (Skulltrail) (Bios 1353)
2x Xeon x5482
32Gb Hynix HMP31GF7EMR4C (4x8Gb 4RX4)
Shapphire 5750 Vapor X (weah!)
2X CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (2fans push pull with printed brackets https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1950312)
Deepcool MATREXX 55 V3
Thermaltake 850W Toughpower Cable Management (with custom 2x 8p EPS)
Coolbox PCIE to M2 adapter (https://coolbox.es/cajas-pc-y-componentes/3570-adaptador-nvm-pcie-8436556148866.html)
Kingston A2000 NVME

I can boot the machine if populated the pcie M2 adapter to PCIE_2. (if not, i get E6 error) AND use the Clover loader (https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-G...r-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html) into USB dongle

i hope this work for you

greetings
Swap those CPU's out for a pair of X5470's or X5460's and OC them any D5400Xs will happily run them at 4.0 or 3.8GHz respectively all day long.
My D5400XS runs a pair of X5460's @ 4GHz (9.5*421 FSB) with 16GB's of ram without issue.

Make sure you get a fan on the Northbridge btw, it gets quite hot even at stock and can effect stability when oc'ing.
 
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Hey guys not sure why i have never made an account on here but i am a massive fan of the HD2900 Series have all of them
HD 2900 GT
HD 2900 PRO 256 BIT 256MB
HD 2900 PRO 512 BIT 512MB
HD 2900 PRO 512 BIT 1GB
HD 2900 XT 512MB
HD 2900 XT 1GB
OEM HD 2900 XTX

HD 2900 PRO 1GB is missing from the picture i got it recently
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Hey guys not sure why i have never made an account on here but i am a massive fan of the HD2900 Series have all of them
HD 2900 GT
HD 2900 PRO 256 BIT 256MB
HD 2900 PRO 512 BIT 512MB
HD 2900 PRO 512 BIT 1GB
HD 2900 XT 512MB
HD 2900 XT 1GB
OEM HD 2900 XTX

HD 2900 PRO 1GB is missing from the picture i got it recently
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Wow, that's a nice collection! Thanks for sharing.
 
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Swap those CPU's out for a pair of X5470's or X5460's and OC them any D5400Xs will happily run them at 4.0 or 3.8GHz respectively all day long.
My D5400XS runs a pair of X5460's @ 4GHz (9.5*421 FSB) with 16GB's of ram without issue.

Make sure you get a fan on the Northbridge btw, it gets quite hot even at stock and can effect stability when oc'ing.


Hi

i can ask why? i don't want OC

have you a the NB braket design? for print one

greetings

PS: is a 5870, not 5750 (i can't edit the post)
 
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Alright nostalgia geeks I need some help identifying the origins of this chip.

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So naturally I'd expect this to be some trade show floor sample, or an internal chip, or even a review chip... But it's a pretty late date code for a ClawHammer FX-55, combined with the fact that I can't find any visual reference of any review chips ever carrying a "not for sale" warning. The only AMD chips I've seen with that warning are some older engineering/qualification samples sent to vendors and specifically picked out chips like the Phenom II 42 TWKR.

Anyone have a reference of where this chip may have originated from?
 
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