TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Pupo]

Is that top GPU an E.S.?

If it is, I am not aware of it. Why do you think that this is E.S?

 

[Ruru]

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.

Why two SLI bridges? I'd understand it for the looks if they were identical.

 

[Caring1]

If it is, I am not aware of it. Why do you think that this is E.S?

The sticker on the back resembled one that states engineering sample, not for sale. They are usually yellow or green.

 

[Retrorockit]

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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Go for the QX6800 SLACP. Throttlestop can get control of Voltage in Windows on the unlocked CPU.

 

[Ruru]

My HD 7850 seems to be a somewhat good overclocker:

At least Superposition @ 1080p/med ran without any problems.

 

[Caring1]

Go for the QX6800 SLACP. Throttlestop can get control of Voltage in Windows on the unlocked CPU.

Are you sure about that?
I tried it in a laptop with an i7 and because of it's age ThrottleStop wouldn't work with that CPU.

 

[Toothless]

Are you sure about that?
I tried it in a laptop with an i7 and because of it's age ThrottleStop wouldn't work with that CPU.

Worked with my i7 620m. Chip had to "load" to get to full speed without TS.

 

[framebuffer]

My HD 7850 seems to be a somewhat good overclocker:

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At least Superposition @ 1080p/med ran without any problems.

wow 30% it's not bad at all!
is this the limit? because looks like this GPU could do even 1200+

Club3D HD 7850 Royal Queen 1 GB Review

Club3D's HD 7850 RoyalQueen comes with a modest 1 GB of memory, which is half that of a typical HD 7850. Nevertheless we got some interesting results in our testing. The card is just as fast as the 2 GB HD 7850, at full HD resolutions and below. Coming at a more than reasonable $195, the card is...

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PowerColor HD 7850 PCS+ 2 GB Review

PowerColor's HD 7850 PCS+ is the highest clocked HD 7850 card you can buy at this time. Thanks to its GPU clock speed of 1 GHz it provides excellent performance and the PCS+ cooler keeps everything cool and quiet. With just $20 over the AMD reference design, the price increase is also reasonable.

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Received yesterday these two little beasts, launched exactly 10 years ago.
Will be perfect for an X58 Quad SLI setup

 

[WhitetailAni]

Received yesterday these two little beasts, launched exactly 10 years ago.
Will be perfect for an X58 Quad SLI setup

Ooh, quad-SLI Fermi! Predictions on temperatures?
How much did they cost you?

Also, any thoughts on where to find GTX 690s for $75-100 (other than r/hardwareswap because they don't have any)? I'd like to get one to avoid the GK106 memory leak bug (and to get a GPU upgrade) but don't have $150.

 

[Ruru]

wow 30% it's not bad at all!
is this the limit? because looks like this GPU could do even 1200+

Not the limit, haven't tried more yet. I'll try out later if I can push it even further.

 

[framebuffer]

Ooh, quad-SLI Fermi! Predictions on temperatures?

yes!

How much did they cost you?

$70

Also, any thoughts on where to find GTX 690s for $75-100 (other than r/hardwareswap because they don't have any)? I'd like to get one to avoid the GK106 memory leak bug (and to get a GPU upgrade) but don't have $150.

I'm looking for one too, but they are still a bit too expansive, maybe because they are still seen as "not-so-old" and usable.
Also the thing that they are "Founders Edition" cards is keeping the value a bit higher, I think

 

[WhitetailAni]

I'm looking for one too, but they are still a bit too expansive, maybe because they are still seen as "not-so-old" and usable.
Also the thing that they are "Founders Edition" cards is keeping the value a bit higher, I think

There was one on eBay for $90 but I didn't have that much then.
I was planning to offer $70 the next day, but someone bought it before then.

 

[debs3759]

Just bought a Miro Crystal 10SB VLB for my collection. No idea yet what it'll be like in DOS (obviously it's just a 2D card). It'll be the oldest S3 card in my collection when it arrives.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just bought a Miro Crystal 10SB VLB for my collection. No idea yet what it'll be like in DOS (obviously it's just a 2D card). It'll be the oldest S3 card in my collection when it arrives.

You should find some RAM chips to fill in those empty sockets. IIRC that would double the VRAM.

 

[debs3759]

You should find some RAM chips to fill in those empty sockets. IIRC that would double the VRAM.

It's one of many cards that need a memory upgrade. Not sure whether I already have chips for this card, or whether I need to scour suppliers and eBay You are right that it will double the memory.

 

[Ruru]

Still no problems, let's try more

edit: 1200MHz crashed, 1190MHz is fine. Now let's fine tune the VRAM OC.
edit: And that 1300 seems to be the maximum.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Clint did a review of a card I once had. He more or less had the same experience. Granted I had a 486DX4-100...

 

[Ruru]

Clint did a review of a card I once had. He more or less had the same experience. Granted I had a 486DX4-100...

Is it just me but I'm feeling bored that it's always DOS games with those good retro youtubers... why never Win95?

Kinda nothing to complain but feels like that when you've watched one video of the topic, u've seen them all.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Is it just me but I'm feeling bored that it's always DOS games with those good retro youtubers... why never Win95?

Kinda nothing to complain but feels like that when you've watched one video of the topic, u've seen them all.

Must be either what he's into right now, or what's getting the clicks/views. LGR did a bunch of Win32 stuff back in the day.

 

[Ruru]

Must be either what he's into right now, or what's getting the clicks/views. LGR did a bunch of Win32 stuff back in the day.

I mean by overall, almost every retro youtuber has always only DOS stuff... maybe I'm just too young (31 next month) but that's just boring as they all run the same tests etc.


And usually not even Wolf 3D but Doom, dammit.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is it just me but I'm feeling bored that it's always DOS games with those good retro youtubers... why never Win95?

In 1995 Windows gaming was still getting up to speed. DOS was the preferred platform for games on PC. It wasn't until 1998/1999 that devs almost completely switched over to Windows from DOS. That's just how it was back then.

 

[Ruru]

In 1995 Windows gaming was still getting up to speed. DOS was the preferred platform for games on PC. It wasn't until 1998/1999 that devs almost completely switched over to Windows from DOS. That's just how it was back then.

Ah, my point is that they should just show hos different 486s etc. run Win95 with typical usage.

Some early Win95 days gaming would be interesting too, like Diablo I etc.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Ah, my point is that they should just show hos different 486s etc. run Win95 with typical usage.

Some early Win95 days gaming would be interesting too, like Diablo I etc.

No argument there. It does feel like YT is the most trend-driven platform out there right now. Maybe when viewers get bored with DOS stuff we'll see more W32 content.

Bonus hypothesis: W32 is, UX-wise, too similar to W64, so DOS content is more "interesting"? Or it's the middle-aged-nostalgia sweet spot. Probably that.

 

[Hemmingstamp]

2011 DELL XPS L720x Benchmarks and front shot.

A family member passed this laptop to me a couple of days ago. A little beaten up, no charger and a dead battery.

Ordered a charger from the Bay. plugged it in to find the battery wouldn't charge. Booted to Windows 7 and had a tinker.
Pulled the thing apart and renewed the CPU, GPU thermal paste and cleared out all debris and dust.
Slapped an SSD in it and installed Windows 10. Downloaded a modded bios which solved the battery not charging and a few other things.

Works fine and sounds like a mobile disco. A few of the keys don't work but I'll have a look at those later.
This thing weighs a ton and was built to last

 

[Ruru]

2011 DELL XPS L720x Benchmarks and front shot.

A family member passed this laptop to me a couple of days ago. A little beaten up, no charger and a dead battery.

Ordered a charger from the Bay. plugged it in to find the battery wouldn't charge. Booted to Windows 7 and had a tinker.
Pulled the thing apart and renewed the CPU, GPU thermal paste and cleared out all debris and dust.
Slapped an SSD in it and installed Windows 10. Downloaded a modded bios which solved the battery not charging and a few other things.

Works fine and sounds like a mobile disco. A few of the keys don't work but I'll have a look at those later.
This thing weighs a ton and was built to last


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Yayyy I can whack u with my Xeon 3230 & HD 7850!