TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[68Olds]

I got one of those Creative units, myself... Although mine doesn't appear to be something special, in fact it may even be a later BTC drive manufactured by the "TOP-G" corporation.

52X? No no no....
My Creative is a Quad Speed. lol

 

[SenditMakine]

Remember my Win7 min spec project? I purposedly built a rig using the weakest components officially supported by Microsoft. My goal was to create the absolute minimum system able to run the 64-bit version with Aero Glass UI and see how it performs today.
At the time the slowest drive I had on hand was a 120 GB 5,400 rpm laptop HDD. MS's own minimum is 20 GB. I've been trying to source such a small drive for a while. Now I finally got it

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The guy said he'd trade it for a big chocolate. No, I'm not kidding. It's 20 GB and 4,200 rpm, and the only snag is connecting it to an ATX board. It's a laptop drive, so it uses a 2.5" 44-pin IDE connector, rather than the standard 3.5" 40-pin one. Luckily, I was able to procure an appropriate adapter. TBH, I didn't even know they existed.

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The four additional pins on the 2.5" connector carry power, hence the molex.
Windows 7, here I come!

This frankenstein bro ahhahahahahahha

 

[Trekkie4]

52X? No no no....
My Creative is a Quad Speed. lol
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Sweet! I only got one Quad-speed drive, and it's made by Mitsumi (Panasonic)

Definitely fits the environment!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Well for once, it's my turn to add in to the fun!

My USB bus-powered Zip250 drive kicked the bucket some time ago and I found a replacement on Ebay, in mint condition!

The new one is not USB bus powered, but I'm ok with that. Yes, that is a USB floppy sitting next to it. They both have their uses.

While looking, I also found the following;

Unopened for nearly 20 years! One just does not see that very often these days! Had to grab it! As I have plenty of Zip 100 & 250 discs, these will remain unopened.

 

[framebuffer]

nice!
I'm still looking to find one (or maybe two) internal (SCSI) but they seems to be still a little too pricey for some reason

 

[lexluthermiester]

nice!
I'm still looking to find one (or maybe two) internal (SCSI) but they seems to be still a little too pricey for some reason

True. SCSI anything is pricey.

 

[Ruru]

Sweet! I only got one Quad-speed drive, and it's made by Mitsumi (Panasonic)

Definitely fits the environment!

You probably confused it with Matshita/Matsushita, Mitsumi is a different manufacturer.

 

[Trekkie4]

You probably confused it with Matshita/Matsushita, Mitsumi is a different manufacturer.

Interesting... Nope, I had it right ... or at least I thought I did! I know a LOT of brands which are "hiding" Panasonic underneath (Quasar, Technics, National, Matsushita) so I figured that Mitsumi was one of them.

 

[Ruru]

Put better cooling on my HTPC yesterday

Forgot to plug that LED strip, I'll put it later..

Interesting... Nope, I had it right ... or at least I thought I did! I know a LOT of brands which are "hiding" Panasonic underneath (Quasar, Technics, National, Matsushita) so I figured that Mitsumi was one of them.

TBH I wouldn't be surprised if Mitsumi would have been one of them

 

[Splinterdog]

Awesome work by Ricardo Daniel Costa, more pictures and specs are available on his ig/fb

Indeed! He has some remarkable stuff on his Facebook page.

 

[Chomiq]

Put better cooling on my HTPC yesterday

Forgot to plug that LED strip, I'll put it later..



TBH I wouldn't be surprised if Mitsumi would have been one of them

What about this?

 

[Ruru]

What about this?
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On purpose, the backplate is broken so I have the block mounted on two opposite corners. Not something that I missed.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Got a P3 build to show off.

Spoiler: Full specs:

CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz Slot 1
Motherboard: ASUS P3V 4X
RAM: 2x Kingston G2/2048 1GB PC133 SDRAM
GPU: Radeon 9250 AGP 8X, Ageia PhysX PPU (not in system as it overheats due to no fan yet, is coming)
Storage: Samsung SP0842N 80GB (Windows 2000), Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.6GB (storage), Quantum Bigfoot TX 4GB (music)
Floppy drives: 1.2MB 5.25", 1.44MB 3.5"
Ethernet: Intel Pro/100+ 10/100 LAN card
Modem: USRobotics ISA modem
SCSI: Adaptec AHA-2040U(W) PCI SCSI controller
Optical drive: NEC MultiSpin 3xi CDR-500
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! CT4780
PSU: Enermax EG651P-VE 550W
Case: JC Segae (case that my dad bought in 1999, no identifiers other than a JC Segae badge)
Keyboard + mouse: Dell QuietKey SK-1000REW, Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1A
Displays: Samsung S22B350 @ 1280x720 75 Hz, ASUS VS427 @ 1280x720 75 Hz

Spoiler: Pictures

Finished building it last Friday, and finished Driver Hell yesterday.
It's quite a capable machine, though I haven't played any games on it yet since school starts today. Going back full-time.
I get off June 2nd.

 

[Trekkie4]

Case: JC Segae (case that my dad bought in 1999, no identifiers other than a JC Segae badge)

JC, a bomb!

 

[framebuffer]

Got a P3 build to show off.

Spoiler: Full specs:

CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz Slot 1
Motherboard: ASUS P3V 4X
RAM: 2x Kingston G2/2048 1GB PC133 SDRAM
GPU: Radeon 9250 AGP 8X, Ageia PhysX PPU (not in system as it overheats due to no fan yet, is coming)
Storage: Samsung SP0842N 80GB (Windows 2000), Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.6GB (storage), Quantum Bigfoot TX 4GB (music)
Floppy drives: 1.2MB 5.25", 1.44MB 3.5"
Ethernet: Intel Pro/100+ 10/100 LAN card
Modem: USRobotics ISA modem
SCSI: Adaptec AHA-2040U(W) PCI SCSI controller
Optical drive: NEC MultiSpin 3xi CDR-500
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! CT4780
PSU: Enermax EG651P-VE 550W
Case: JC Segae (case that my dad bought in 1999, no identifiers other than a JC Segae badge)
Keyboard + mouse: Dell QuietKey SK-1000REW, Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1A
Displays: Samsung S22B350 @ 1280x720 75 Hz, ASUS VS427 @ 1280x720 75 Hz

Spoiler: Pictures

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Finished building it last Friday, and finished Driver Hell yesterday.
It's quite a capable machine, though I haven't played any games on it yet since school starts today. Going back full-time.
I get off June 2nd.

I'm the absolute king of overkill stuff because I can, so no judging, just out of curiosity: what the hell are you gonna run on a Pentium III 500MHz and a 9250 that can take any benefit from the Ageia PhysX PPU?

 

[WhitetailAni]

I'm the absolute king of overkill stuff because I can, so no judging, just out of curiosity: what the hell are you gonna run on a Pentium III 500MHz and a 9250 that can take any benefit from the Ageia PhysX PPU?

No idea.
I got the PhysX card as a trade for a PS/2 keyboard that I didn't need.
Figured it'd be fun to play around with.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Picture spam incoming. I finally got my intel Q6700 for my 775i655G R3 board I am happy it booted! Why is this board special you asked? This is the last official supported board for windows 98 when boards with this board being able to accept the pentium 4 to pentium D to the first generation conroe intel core2duo to core2quad . It came in a weird time where board are already moving to ddr2. This board supported DDR1 only. I regret not getting another one as spare when it was cheap. My dream of powerful windows 98 coming true except it is not there yet.! Except I don't have windows 98 or an ssd to install now. SSD for windows 98 lmao... Also I probably need an ide based cd drive. I only have external usb cd drive. It detected but no os was detected on my windows xp disc too. Now how could I find an IDE one? If someone here can help with all those and also finding dos games or win98 games I would appreciate alot!

I got an AGP Nvidia FX5500 still unused in it box still. And 10 pieces of 1GB DDR1. I place heatsink at the mosfets I want this rare board to last long. Asrock even have crazy board design back then. I love collecting their crazy boards if I could.

Lifetime warranty. If I could even find this company now with a time machine.

FX5500 Galaxy Gpu.

Sweet core2quad Q6700 replacing my old core2duo E6320!

This is gonna be cooled with a Scythe Fuma version 1. This is a crazy amount of cooling to bring to a 2006 cpu haha. Thank goodness for LGA 775 support until now. I think manufacturer are dropping 775 bracket support nowadays.

I place it all in my GMC eyerobo case. Since the board cpu placement is off centred I can only use an sfx psu. Why not an sfx corsair SF450 platinum that I left from my itx build? Pretty sure this 2006 hardware is happy getting some ultra stable electrical juices that never exist then.

I have no os or hdd now but I tried to overclock. Unfortunately though the board have no voltage controls at all, I can control the FSB but that only max out to FSB 300 giving my Q6700 3.01GHz. I guess there is no point for getting a QX6800 down the road as I cannot adjust the voltage even with unlock multiplier. Maybe I could it I wanted the stock extra 300Mhz clockspeed. Would help in windows xp but windows 98 is overkill....

 

[R00kie]

No idea.
I got the PhysX card as a trade for a PS/2 keyboard that I didn't need.
Figured it'd be fun to play around with.

Thing is, the 9250 isnt gonna be capable of running the games that actually benefit from PhysX.

You're better off finding a card that supports DX9.0c, so it at least runs the games.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Thing is, the 9250 isnt gonna be capable of running the games that actually benefit from PhysX.

You're better off finding a card that supports DX9.0c, so it at least runs the games.

I may end up putting it in my P4/XP build, but currently it's just a motherboard and CPU (and the motherboard needs a new northbridge heat sink since I can't use the waterblock that's on it) and thus it goes in my P3 build.

 

[Ruru]

Picture spam incoming. I finally got my intel Q6700 for my 775i655G R3 board I am happy it booted! Why is this board special you asked? This is the last official supported board for windows 98 when boards with this board being able to accept the pentium 4 to pentium D to the first generation conroe intel core2duo to core2quad . It came in a weird time where board are already moving to ddr2. This board supported DDR1 only. I regret not getting another one as spare when it was cheap. My dream of powerful windows 98 coming true except it is not there yet.! Except I don't have windows 98 or an ssd to install now. SSD for windows 98 lmao... Also I probably need an ide based cd drive. I only have external usb cd drive. It detected but no os was detected on my windows xp disc too. Now how could I find an IDE one? If someone here can help with all those and also finding dos games or win98 games I would appreciate alot!

I got an AGP Nvidia FX5500 still unused in it box still. And 10 pieces of 1GB DDR1. I place heatsink at the mosfets I want this rare board to last long. Asrock even have crazy board design back then. I love collecting their crazy boards if I could.



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Lifetime warranty. If I could even find this company now with a time machine.

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FX5500 Galaxy Gpu.


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Sweet core2quad Q6700 replacing my old core2duo E6320!

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This is gonna be cooled with a Scythe Fuma version 1. This is a crazy amount of cooling to bring to a 2006 cpu haha. Thank goodness for LGA 775 support until now. I think manufacturer are dropping 775 bracket support nowadays.

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I place it all in my GMC eyerobo case. Since the board cpu placement is off centred I can only use an sfx psu. Why not an sfx corsair SF450 platinum that I left from my itx build? Pretty sure this 2006 hardware is happy getting some ultra stable electrical juices that never exist then.

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I have no os or hdd now but I tried to overclock. Unfortunately though the board have no voltage controls at all, I can control the FSB but that only max out to FSB 300 giving my Q6700 3.01GHz. I guess there is no point for getting a QX6800 down the road as I cannot adjust the voltage even with unlock multiplier. Maybe I could it I wanted the stock extra 300Mhz clockspeed. Would help in windows xp but windows 98 is overkill....


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A dream board for a HD 3850 AGP..

 

[QuietBob]

I heard those horror stories but luckily I didn't experience that one.. at 52x, the disc spins at 27500RPM!!!!

Wow, that seems a bit exaggerated. At 52x a CD would rotate at 10,400 rpm. Still, at this CAV the outer edge of a standard 12 cm disk would reach a mind-bending 237 kph / 147 mph

Storage: Samsung SP0842N 80GB (Windows 2000), Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.6GB (storage), Quantum Bigfoot TX 4GB (music)

Nice build you've put together. Those Bigfoots were large mofos!

 

[Ruru]

Wow, that seems a bit exaggerated. At 52x a CD would rotate at 10,400 rpm. Still, at this CAV the outer edge of a standard 12 cm disk would reach a mind-numbing 237 kph / 147 mph

That's what google told me, I've been fooled, dammit.

 

[framebuffer]

No idea.
I got the PhysX card as a trade for a PS/2 keyboard that I didn't need.
Figured it'd be fun to play around with.

Thing is, the 9250 isnt gonna be capable of running the games that actually benefit from PhysX.

You're better off finding a card that supports DX9.0c, so it at least runs the games.

I may end up putting it in my P4/XP build, but currently it's just a motherboard and CPU (and the motherboard needs a new northbridge heat sink since I can't use the waterblock that's on it) and thus it goes in my P3 build.

Here is a list (I guess it's complete) of games supporting PhysX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_hardware-accelerated_PhysX_support
Except few games from 2005, your target are 2006-2008 (PPU) games, so late Athlon64 or Core2Duo/Quad and GeForce 7xxx/9xxx or Radeon X19xx / HD3x00 period

Of course you can try them on a P4/XP and some older video cards, but probably will not be a very smooth experience
but anyway post the results because it's interesting!

 

[MaxiPro800]

Back with some classic stuff, more or less.

Pictured:

Lucky Tech P5MVP3 mobo w/ AMD K6-2 500MHz & 384MB PC133 (recapped)
WDC WD400BB 40GB IDE HDD
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 CT4830 PCI
ASUS V9520 128MB (FX5200) AGP
"450W" noname SFX PSU (recapped + cleaned)

 

[stef]

Picture spam incoming. I finally got my intel Q6700 for my 775i655G R3 board I am happy it booted! Why is this board special you asked? This is the last official supported board for windows 98 when boards with this board being able to accept the pentium 4 to pentium D to the first generation conroe intel core2duo to core2quad . It came in a weird time where board are already moving to ddr2. This board supported DDR1 only. I regret not getting another one as spare when it was cheap. My dream of powerful windows 98 coming true except it is not there yet.! Except I don't have windows 98 or an ssd to install now. SSD for windows 98 lmao... Also I probably need an ide based cd drive. I only have external usb cd drive. It detected but no os was detected on my windows xp disc too. Now how could I find an IDE one? If someone here can help with all those and also finding dos games or win98 games I would appreciate alot!

I got an AGP Nvidia FX5500 still unused in it box still. And 10 pieces of 1GB DDR1. I place heatsink at the mosfets I want this rare board to last long. Asrock even have crazy board design back then. I love collecting their crazy boards if I could.



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Lifetime warranty. If I could even find this company now with a time machine.

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FX5500 Galaxy Gpu.


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Sweet core2quad Q6700 replacing my old core2duo E6320!

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This is gonna be cooled with a Scythe Fuma version 1. This is a crazy amount of cooling to bring to a 2006 cpu haha. Thank goodness for LGA 775 support until now. I think manufacturer are dropping 775 bracket support nowadays.

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I place it all in my GMC eyerobo case. Since the board cpu placement is off centred I can only use an sfx psu. Why not an sfx corsair SF450 platinum that I left from my itx build? Pretty sure this 2006 hardware is happy getting some ultra stable electrical juices that never exist then.

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I have no os or hdd now but I tried to overclock. Unfortunately though the board have no voltage controls at all, I can control the FSB but that only max out to FSB 300 giving my Q6700 3.01GHz. I guess there is no point for getting a QX6800 down the road as I cannot adjust the voltage even with unlock multiplier. Maybe I could it I wanted the stock extra 300Mhz clockspeed. Would help in windows xp but windows 98 is overkill....


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Nice setup. I have several of these rev 2.0 boards. Newer ones support 45nm Wolfdale CPUs. E5800 with 800MHz FSB is perfect for these since it doesn't strain voltage regulation.
Regarding Win98, there's no point in running it on Q since OS can't use more then one core. But Q should be nice for dual boot setup with XP.

BTW, hi guys .