TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[framebuffer]

Great article @framebuffer.
I've looked around, and it's actually easier to find Pro/XT then SE .

Thanks
Uhm yes, they are not very common these days

 

[WhitetailAni]

KME case (I think it's a CX-0853 but I'm not sure)
Pentium 3 500MHz "Katmai"
Acorp 6VIA81P-133 mobo (VIA 693)
Geforce FX5200 128MB
P&O LC-B400ATX 400W PSU
MSI DVD-RW + LG CD-RW
15GB Quantum/Maxtor HDD
384MB RAM
Sound Blaster SB16 PCI CT5803
RTL8139C PCI NIC
Windows 98 SE

Nice! I have the same Katmai P3.
Have you done anything with it yet?

 

[Fouquin]

Thanks to the generosity of a user in one of the Discord hardware servers I have finally, after a decade of watching and waiting, finally have the AM2 upgrade card for my 939Dual-SATAII. 2021 ain't looking so bad.

Fresh caps are ordered and on the way. Just couldn't wait to get pics.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Thanks to the generosity of a user in one of the Discord hardware servers I have finally, after a decade of watching and waiting, finally have the AM2 upgrade card for my 939Dual-SATAII. 2021 ain't looking so bad.

Fresh caps are ordered and on the way. Just couldn't wait to get pics.


View attachment 198146 View attachment 198147 View attachment 198148

What is that?
It looks like an AM2 socket + RAM that goes in an AGP slot, but that doesn't make much sense...

 

[stef]

It's actually expansion slot above AGP.
BTW, nice find @Fouquin . There were also similar expansion cards for s462->s754.

Nice! I have the same Katmai P3.
Have you done anything with it yet?

Well, there are 3 of us now . Got mine few days back. It think it's Compaq edition with huge passive heatsink. It replaced PII 350 on FIC VB-601 (440BX).
Are those things good passive? I might use P4 stock fan and mcgyver it onto the heatsink, it fits perfectly.

 

[WhitetailAni]

Well, there are 3 of us now . Got mine few days back. It think it's Compaq edition with huge passive heatsink. It replaced PII 350 on FIC VB-601 (440BX).
Are those things good passive? I might use P4 stock fan and mcgyver it onto the heatsink, it fits perfectly.

I have no idea. I have the crappy cooler on this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144019151700?hash=item218835db54:g:BGUAAOSwvSJfhNm-
And even with a repaste of MX-4, idle temps are 55C. I'd like to get a better heatsink for it at some point and then strap a 40mm Noctua or two to it.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Well, there are 3 of us now .

4

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

CPU-Z Validation Checker (by canardpc.com)

valid.x86.fr

Been doing slot 1 for a long long time.

 

[WhitetailAni]

4

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

CPU-Z Validation Checker (by canardpc.com)

valid.x86.fr

Been doing slot 1 for a long long time.

That's a high core voltage.
Mine's at 2V.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to get a decent cake when benchmarking.
If you can keep it cool, it works.

 

[stef]

@Mr.Scott
Nice.

@RealKGB
This is how mine looks like:

I tried to re-paste it, but culd not move backplate by 1mm. So, I gave up. It warms up, but not like burning hot.

 

[framebuffer]

4

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

CPU-Z Validation Checker (by canardpc.com)

valid.x86.fr

Been doing slot 1 for a long long time.

I have 7-8 of them, but I guess it still counts for one
Nice overclock btw, no way for 133x5?

@Mr.Scott
Nice.

@RealKGB
This is how mine looks like:

I tried to re-paste it, but culd not move a backplate by 1mm. So, I gave up. It warms up, but not like burning hot.

This is a semi-passive cooling solution, relying on case FAN(s) to have some recycle, usually used in workstation
and yes, some slot1 locking mechanism are crazy stupid to work on and encourage violence

 

[F-Zero]

Hi Falks!
My project regarding the GeForce 6800LE and the Radeon X800SE is online
link: https://framebuffer.io ( https://framebuffer.io/project/project-6800le-x800se )

View attachment 198111

It's not a full review/comparison but more an explorative project to see how much hidden potential the cards have and how much was possible to unlock/overclock them
Any feedback is welcome

Thanks @framebuffer I love this stuff keep it up !

Well, just assembled two retro machines and finished an earlier one done before these two.

First PC (the one I've finished touching up before the second and third PCs):
JNC RJA-52 case
AMD K6-2 500MHz "Chomper XT"
LuckyTech P5MVP3-99X mobo (MVP3, w/ patched BIOS)
3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB w/TV AGP2x
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 CT4830
HKC SZ-430PDR 430W PSU
Realtek RTL8139D PCI NIC
80GB Seagate IDE HDD
NEC DVD-RW
Windows 98 SE

Second PC:

KME case (I think it's a CX-0853 but I'm not sure)
Pentium 3 500MHz "Katmai"
Acorp 6VIA81P-133 mobo (VIA 693)
Geforce FX5200 128MB
P&O LC-B400ATX 400W PSU
MSI DVD-RW + LG CD-RW
15GB Quantum/Maxtor HDD
384MB RAM
Sound Blaster SB16 PCI CT5803
RTL8139C PCI NIC
Windows 98 SE

Third PC:

Linkworld 3210 case
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton"
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ Rev1
ASUS Geforce 6200 128MB AGP8x
ANS LC-B400ATX PSU (recapped)
TSSTCorp SH-222 DVD-RW (similar to my main PC's 224DB but IDE instead of SATA)
74GB WD Raptor WD740
256MB RAM (currently)
Windows XP Pro SP2

Some pictures would be great !

I got myself a Inno3D Tornado Geforce 4 MX 440 64Mb DDR for 3 dollars.

 

[framebuffer]

Thanks @framebuffer I love this stuff keep it up !


Some pictures would be great !

I got myself a Inno3D Tornado Geforce 4 MX 440 64Mb DDR for 3 dollars.

View attachment 198187View attachment 198188View attachment 198189View attachment 198190

Thanks
nice little MX440, love the matt black PCB!

 

[debs3759]

Won an i/o card on eBay today. Listed as unknown VGA card, so no other bidders. Should be good for a 286 or 386 build.

 

[QuietBob]

Won an i/o card on eBay today. Listed as unknown VGA card, so no other bidders. Should be good for a 286 or 386 build.

Nice find, you can never have too many ports in an AT-class machine!

 

[Mr.Scott]

I have 7-8 of them, but I guess it still counts for one
Nice overclock btw, no way for 133x5?

I have more the one also.
133x5 was a no boot into windows. I'm sure it was temp/voltage related though. I was only on air for that validation. Next time around I will clamp the chiller on it.

 

[framebuffer]

took some pcs of an ASUS Radeon X850XT during the cleaning

View attachment 193277View attachment 193278View attachment 193279

also found that has 1.6ns RAM, rated at 625MHz, will see...

Finally found a "time slot" to test it

The good news is that the card can easily do X850 XT Platinum (540/590) frequencies, which is not bad!
The meeh thing is that the 1.6ns GDDR3 RAM were barely able to keep the nominal frequency of 625MHz, so I settled to 621 for the benchmarks.
I also took a look at reviews from 2004 of the X850 XT Platinum, which is the one that usually had these Samsung 1.6ns and found that even then they were not able to go much higher, sometimes not even to reach 1.20GHz, so I guess that 621-625 is still on the lucky side

The GPU managed only 660 stable, lowered to 652 for benchmarks

here is 3DMark 03 (default) and Doom3 (1280x1024 @Ultra Settings)

and here is the card on the bench table

Decided to get rid of the original cooler which was in a very bad shape (and never been a fan of the design anyway)

And here is some new stuff I got recently

- GeForce 7800GS AGP
- GeForce 9500GS 512MB
- Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT)
- Radeon HD5450 PCI edition
- ASUS P5A-B w/ K6-2 450 and accessories
- Crucial BallistiX Tracer 800 4-4-4-12
- XFX GeForce GTX 260
- ASUS 8800 GTS

ah and the this DELL Latitude

It's very special for me because has a Pentium4 Northwood at 1.40GHz (slowest Northwood ever, second slowest Pentium 4 ever) so I'm very curious to see how it performs versus the Pentium III Tualatin 1.40.
The VGA is also interesting, it's a GeForce4 440 Go and from a first quick test with 3DMark2001SE I got a very strange result

This is the same result I've got with a Pentium4 3.0@3.43GHz and a GeForce2 GTS, so I'm not sure why a crappy Pentium 4 1.40 and a Geforce4 Go (which has half of the Pipelines/TMU of the GTS), scores the same.
I need to check how they compare in games...

 

[Splinterdog]

Don't accept poor imitations of the legendary Chip's Challenge. (can also be played on Windows 10 with DosBox portable)

 

[Mr.Scott]

Finally found a "time slot" to test it

The good news is that the card can easily do X850 XT Platinum (540/590) frequencies, which is not bad!
The meeh thing is that the 1.6ns GDDR3 RAM were barely able to keep the nominal frequency of 625MHz, so I settled to 621 for the benchmarks.
I also took a look at reviews from 2004 of the X850 XT Platinum, which is the one that usually had these Samsung 1.6ns and found that even then they were not able to go much higher, sometimes not even to reach 1.20GHz, so I guess that 621-625 is still on the lucky side

The GPU managed only 660 stable, lowered to 652 for benchmarks

here is 3DMark 03 (default) and Doom3 (1280x1024 @Ultra Settings)

View attachment 198274View attachment 198275

and here is the card on the bench table

View attachment 198276View attachment 198277

Decided to get rid of the original cooler which was in a very bad shape (and never been a fan of the design anyway)

And here is some new stuff I got recently

View attachment 198278

View attachment 198280

View attachment 198281

View attachment 198282

- GeForce 7800GS AGP
- GeForce 9500GS 512MB
- Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT)
- Radeon HD5450 PCI edition
- ASUS P5A-B w/ K6-2 450 and accessories
- Crucial BallistiX Tracer 800 4-4-4-12
- XFX GeForce GTX 260
- ASUS 8800 GTS

ah and the this DELL Latitude

View attachment 198283

It's very special for me because has a Pentium4 Northwood at 1.40GHz (slowest Northwood ever, second slowest Pentium 4 ever) so I'm very curious to see how it performs versus the Pentium III Tualatin 1.40.
The VGA is also interesting, it's a GeForce4 440 Go and from a first quick test with 3DMark2001SE I got a very strange result

View attachment 198284

This is the same result I've got with a Pentium4 3.0@3.43GHz and a GeForce2 GTS, so I'm not sure why a crappy Pentium 4 1.40 and a Geforce4 Go (which has half of the Pipelines/TMU of the GTS), scores the same.
I need to check how they compare in games...

Does the 7800GS work? They're getting hard to come by. Most have been cooked by previous users.

 

[Ruru]

Does the 7800GS work? They're getting hard to come by. Most have been cooked by previous users.

Yeah, mine seems to be dead. Though I did the stupid thing of repasting it before trying it, but I doubt that I broke it.

 

[framebuffer]

Does the 7800GS work? They're getting hard to come by. Most have been cooked by previous users.

yes, luckily it works
although is missing a screw from the heatsink cover for some reason...

also have this one, brand new

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Does the 7800GS work? They're getting hard to come by. Most have been cooked by previous users.

My Nvidia experience, such as it is, only goes back to 9000-series. Was there something special about the 7800GS?

 

[framebuffer]

My Nvidia experience, such as it is, only goes back to 9000-series. Was there something special about the 7800GS?

GeForce 7xx0 is the latest nVidia card serie that had AGP
( https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?generation=GeForce+7+AGP&sort=generation )

 

[Pupo]

I finally managed to acquire "nvidia" edition case. Its not in great shape but it will suffice.
I have WD raptor boxed somewhere so I will swap disk and power supply is not historically acurate, but I dont want to fry components with bad PSU.

 

[Caring1]

I finally managed to acquire "nvidia" edition case. Its not in great shape but it will suffice.
I have WD raptor boxed somewhere so I will swap disk and power supply is not historically acurate, but I dont want to fry components with bad PSU.

Is that top GPU an E.S.?