TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Robert B]

New HW found!

1. Micropolis ST506 - 85MB - 1985 - 5.25" MFM HDD - full height. 900435-01-7B - Rated Input Power 32W!!! Someone opened the HDD for who knows what reason. The top platter is scraped a little but there is no r/w head there, so the chances are that it is still ok. I found some case screws that fit perfectly and after I gently used an air compressor to clean it, I put the lid on, never to be opened again. Ideally I would've needed some screws with a sunken head but these are good too and they also look the part. At first I thought that some exotic screws would be needed but in the end it was a case of regular chunky threaded screws. Well, a beast like this doesn't need flimsy stuff bolted to it.
2. MagTron Inc MT-4170S - 170MB - 5.25" SCSI HDD - half height. 2 pieces
3. Gainward Silent Copper nVIDIA 6800GT PCI-E
4. Shuttle Spacewalker AK32V2.1 - VIA KT266 - The "good" chipset! Who in their right mind would prefer the KT266A?!?!??!
5. Finally an ASROCK 4CoreDual-SATA2 REV. G/A 2.00

I tested the HDDs and they powered up nicely. For the SCSI HDDs I have a suitable motherboard and add-on cards to test them, but for the MFM HDD I have nothing to try it on. Read write heads activity could be heard.

After 30 minutes of running the sound they made became better and once they were "hot and toasty" I enjoyed them so much more. Music to my ears. Imagine running something like this every day.

 

[basco]

love the gainward copper cooler and card !
and the asrock mobo

 

[Ruru]

I had a 6800U AGP with the same cooler, love that one

 

[QuietBob]

1. Micropolis ST506 - 85MB - 1985 - 5.25" MFM HDD - full height.

That sure is an odd find! This drive is massive, look at how thick the case is. I've looked up the specs:
transfer rate 625 KB/s
weight 2.6 kg
acoustic noise 51 dB

 

[lexluthermiester]

1. Micropolis ST506 - 85MB - 1985 - 5.25" MFM HDD - full height.

Had one of those! Monster of a thing. It was a Micropolis 1374a 127MB but still. It was a SCSI unit instead of MFM, so it was much faster(for the time).

 

[stef]

New toy. Category: "modded and un-original". Best kind .
Actually, it came with busted cooler so I took the liberty to pimp it up.

And some scores.
First take with default clocks 250/512. Second with 290/550.

Temps: 46°C under load, 42°C when idle.

 

[WhitetailAni]

I went to a friend's house to take care of their cat and it turns out they have:
- A Commodore 128 (they still have the original box)
- Pentium II system
- NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii
- PS2, PS3
- 2x Sega somethings
According to him, anything he owns that can be modded is modded.
Here's some pictures I took (cat pictures too!):

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Cat

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I know the pictures are bad, my iPhone 6S isn't great in low light

 

[lexluthermiester]

New toy. Category: "modded and un-original". Best kind .

Nothing wrong with that.

Actually, it came with busted cooler so I took the liberty to pimp it up.

And your work looks good! Well nice this!

 

[F-Zero]

So the fans on the Voodoo 5 5500 are going to drive me insane and that is a fact So to remedy the situation I ordered some Noiseblocker BlackSilentPro fans 40mm. Now this would be a strait forward DIY but it seems people don't know how to count these days so I got only 7 rubber spacers instead of 8.

This is very easy to fix don't get me wrong but the fans were pricey and I want it to look good. I contacted Blacknoise and are now waiting for a response. Here are some pictures of the DIY

 

[Robert B]

Thicc!!!



On the V5 5500 I'd mount a couple of Noctua (puke edition) https://noctua.at/en/nf-a4x10-5v/specification 5V version. They come in 10mm and 20mm thickness. I preffer the 10mm.

I have a 12V 40x40x10 on my 5x86 and it is pretty silent.

3dfx Voodoo 5 5550 PCI Fan Replacement

The bearings in the fans on my Voodoo 5 were shot, and they didn't respond to being greased. As I use this card, they needed replacing. Starting point; Off with the stock fans; It uses Aavid 1447122 0.13A 5V 40mm fans that are around 8mm high. I couldn't any like for like replacements...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

Also I would mod them with the wires from the old fans to keep everything tidy or I would buy new fan headers and wires that plug into the existing ones that are on the board.

Just my 2 cents.

Anyway. Both of these methods, yours and what I would do if I'd use a V5 5500 in a build, accomplish the same thing. Keeping cool and quiet a great card.

The NB fans that you bought are 12V.

 

[F-Zero]

Thicc!!!



On the V5 5500 I'd mount a couple of Noctua (puke edition) https://noctua.at/en/nf-a4x10-5v/specification 5V version. They come in 10mm and 20mm thickness. I preffer the 10mm.

I have a 12V 40x40x10 on my 5x86 and it is pretty silent.

Also I would mod them with the wires from the old fans to keep everything tidy or I would buy new fan headers and wires that plug into the existing ones that are on the board.

Just my 2 cents.

Anyway. Both of these methods, yours and what I would do if I'd use a V5 5500 in a build, accomplish the same thing. Keeping cool and quiet a great card.

The NB fans that you bought are 12V.

You know I was looking at Noctua fans but I just couldn't get over the brown color. I wanted something black and industrial looking and they are really quiet. The best part is that I didn't have to mod anything I just screwed the fans in the exact same spots so no additional screw damage to the original passive heatsinks. Thanks !

 

[erek]

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[Trekkie4]

With those few bits & pieces of what's left to do on my Adison systems, I'm actually working on something modern, which doesn't quite fit into this thread ... but depending on the overall interest, I may (or may not) document everything & make it a project of its own.

Long story short, I'm finally stepping up from Q6600 and upgrading to Core i5. Both the mobo, CPU (i5, 760) and 8GB of DDR3 RAM have been kindly donated to me by someone from TPU (I already asked him, and will gladly credit him in public unless he prefers to stay anonymous)

So, with that being said ... I bought all the remaining bits & pieces and now I'm slowly putting everything together. Still waiting on SSD drive, I/O Shield plate & CPU cooler (Hyper 212 EVO), but otherwise I'm good to go

What I've been given for free:
CPU: Core i5 760 (Socket 1156) ... in addition to 760, I was also kindly given i5 750 & i5 661
MBO: Gigabyte P55M-UD4
RAM: 2x 4GB HyperX Beast 2400 CL11

What I already have in stock & will recycle, re-purpose from the existing Q6600 setup:
GPU: Gigabyte GTX760
PSU: CoolerMaster 600W
Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos
ODD1: Philips ATA DVD/DVD-RW
ODD2: Philips ATA DVD/DVD-RW
HDD: Western Digital 320GB

What I bought in addition to all the previously-mentioned components:
RAM: 2x 4GB HyperX Fury 1866
SSD: Western Digital Blue SSD 500GB (+ mounting bracket conversion kit)
HDD: Western Digital Gold 2TB (Enterprise)
Other: Hyper 212 cooler/heatsink, L-Shaped SATA cables

Meanwhile, my existing Q6600 system (MSI P43 Neo) will replace yet another Q6600 in another case, where the motherboard (Gigabyte P31-ES3G) is being limited by the amount of DDR2 modules (2x DDR2) ... vs the MSI board, which supports of up to 4x and therefore 8GB of DDR2 in total.

Furthermore, the existing, Gigabyte Q6600 system is being cooled by Hyper TX3 vs the MSI rig, which already has 212 EVO, identical to the one which I bought for i5. So, by swapping out the entire assembly I'm going to upgrade in more ways than one ... or at least that's the plan

At the same time, the old Gigabyte Q6600 will be stripped for parts & repurposed elsewhere. 2x 2GB of DDR2 will be given to a family member, P31-ES3G will be safely stored inside the original box, Q6600 will be mounted inside the Adison "sleeper" (replacing the existing Core2 Duo) along with the cooler, Cooler Master Hyper TX3, because I'll have to upgrade the existing cooling to match the new requirements for Q6600.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Remember how I said back in post #9027 that I'd be getting white hair early in my life until I will see an Acer 6530G that still works perfectly as it should? Well, I still have my brown hair, but I finally live to own a working 6530G.




The smallest issues with it were a HD3470 that was about to go bad (thankfully I had a spare one) and a long dead small CMOS battery (which in shortage of such small batteries (it's way smaller than a 2032, about half its size.) I replaced with a normal wired 2032 size battery) which were solved fast enough. I'll probably up the GPU to a 3650 though, and maybe go for Win10 LTSC.

EDIT: Found out the type of the old battery, it's a CR1220.

 

[stef]

Arrived yesterday, "new old stock" FireGL X3:

Card was unlockable to 16 pipelines:

D3D games work as good as on standard Radeon with Catalyst.
OpenGL should be problematic on FireGL, I didn't test it yet. But, there are scripts to patch the driver via Riva Tuner. I need to look into it.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Arrived yesterday, "new old stock" FireGL X3:

Card was unlockable to 16 pipelines:

D3D games work as good as on standard Radeon with Catalyst.
OpenGL should be problematic on FireGL, I didn't test it yet. But, there are scripts to patch the driver via Riva Tuner. I need to look into it.

Do let me know, I'm kinda wanted to buy this card before because its the last arch to support Truform, but ever since dgVoodoo support Truform emulation I don't need it anymore For those who wanted to see how Truform looks like can download it here. Its supported since WIP80, it only work for DirectX games I believe since OpenGL games like RtCW doesn't work.

 

[MaxiPro800]

This "gem" came in yesterday.



PCChips M726MRT. Slot1+370 in AT format, ALI Aladdin Pro chipset.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This "gem" came in yesterday.

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PCChips M726MRT. Slot1+370 in AT format, ALI Aladdin Pro chipset.

WOW! That takes me back... I had a bunch of those boards BITD. They were great for upgrading old AT PC's! People could keep their old cases and upgrade to some new-hotness. That board and a similar one from Epox made me a TON of money. My shop was one of the only places in town that did in-case upgrades from 486 CPUs to Pentium 2/3 CPUs. They were good boards as well.

 

[Robert B]

I'm on a roll baby!

Fresh loot! Untested but who cares! The mobos need some caps but I'm not worried. Latelty Sk. A stuff has come in big numbers. My stash of KT133/A boards is growing fast.

1. AOpen AK73(A) - S462 - VIA KT133A + Duron 1.4GHz
2. ASUS A7N8X Ver 2.0 DELUXE Gold - S462 - nForce 2 Ultra 400 + AXP 2000+
3. ASRock P4AL-800 - S478 - ULi® A800N chipset - needs caps
4. Intel i7-860 - SLBJJ + H57 Mobo + 4GB DDR3
5. QDI KinetiZ 7T - QDI K7V8363A/K7E-A - VIA KT133 - needs caps
6. MSI MS-6318, MED 2000 VERL2 - S370 - VIA Apollo Pro133A + CPU (I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
7. AOpen MX46 U2 - SiS 650GX SIS 962L + CPU ( I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
8. Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB TV-OUT - Kyro II
9. AMD K6-2/300AFR
10. Intel Q6600 x2, Q8300, Q8400
11. Cyrix 486 DX4 100MHz - Cx486DX4-100GP
12. AXP 2000+ Palomino
13. Creative Labs – Creative Labs ct2290 Sound Blaster 16 SB16IDE - CT2291 - FCC ID:IBACT-SB16IDE
14. OCZ Platinum Edition PC2 8500 2x2GB 5-5-5@2.2V
15. OCZ PC2 5400 2x2GB
16. Labway Audio Sound Card LWHA151A00 A151-a00 16-bit ISA - YAMAHA YMF719E-S
17. MSI MS-8818 VER:10B - Geforce 2 MX
18. MSI 8800GTS - Zalman Cooler
19. ATI Mach64 VT4 PCI
20. AIW ATI 3D Rage PRO + VRAM ext.
21. Logitech C7-3F-9F mouse
22. Sealed NIB Iomega zip 250 - 3.5" internal
23. CD-ROM Plextor PX-54TA
24. Mushkin Enhanced 2x1GB PC6400
25. 10 MFM HDD cables - the wider ones. I still need to find the pair. (the slim one)
26. AXP 2400+ https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon XP 2400+ - AXDA2400DKV3C.html 2GHz/266
27. No name ISA FDD/SER/PARALEL/IDE controller
28. Future Domain TMC-850MEX 8-BIT ISA SCSI CONTROLLER 01-00850-043-00 PC or Apple

 

[Audioave10]

I'm on a roll baby!

Fresh loot! Untested but who cares! The mobos need some caps but I'm not worried. Latelty Sk. A stuff has come in big numbers. My stash of KT133/A boards is growing fast.

1. AOpen AK73(A) - S462 - VIA KT133A + Duron 1.4GHz
2. ASUS A7N8X Ver 2.0 DELUXE Gold - S462 - nForce 2 Ultra 400 + AXP 2000+
3. ASRock P4AL-800 - S478 - ULi® A800N chipset - needs caps
4. Intel i7-860 - SLBJJ + H57 Mobo + 4GB DDR3
5. QDI KinetiZ 7T - QDI K7V8363A/K7E-A - VIA KT133 - needs caps
6. MSI MS-6318, MED 2000 VERL2 - S370 - VIA Apollo Pro133A + CPU (I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
7. AOpen MX46 U2 - SiS 650GX SIS 962L + CPU ( I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
8. Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB TV-OUT - Kyro II
9. AMD K6-2/300AFR
10. Intel Q6600 x2, Q8300, Q8400
11. Cyrix 486 DX4 100MHz - Cx486DX4-100GP
12. AXP 2000+ Palomino
13. Creative Labs – Creative Labs ct2290 Sound Blaster 16 SB16IDE - CT2291 - FCC ID:IBACT-SB16IDE
14. OCZ Platinum Edition PC2 8500 2x2GB 5-5-5@2.2V
15. OCZ PC2 5400 2x2GB
16. Labway Audio Sound Card LWHA151A00 A151-a00 16-bit ISA - YAMAHA YMF719E-S
17. MSI MS-8818 VER:10B - Geforce 2 MX
18. MSI 8800GTS - Zalman Cooler
19. ATI Mach64 VT4 PCI
20. AIW ATI 3D Rage PRO + VRAM ext.
21. Logitech C7-3F-9F mouse
22. Sealed NIB Iomega zip 250 - 3.5" internal
23. CD-ROM Plextor PX-54TA
24. Mushkin Enhanced 2x1GB PC6400
25. 10 MFM HDD cables - the wider ones. I still need to find the pair. (the slim one)
26. AXP 2400+ https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon XP 2400+ - AXDA2400DKV3C.html 2GHz/266
27. No name ISA FDD/SER/PARALEL/IDE controller
28. Future Domain TMC-850MEX 8-BIT ISA SCSI CONTROLLER 01-00850-043-00 PC or Apple

Hey, that's a great haul of cool hardware. I've got a few pairs of that OCZ Ram - nice stuff! I have 2 of the 8800GTS Nvidia cards w/640MB RAM (one is the MSI)
- nice cards
that have lasted forever.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm on a roll baby!

Fresh loot! Untested but who cares! The mobos need some caps but I'm not worried. Latelty Sk. A stuff has come in big numbers. My stash of KT133/A boards is growing fast.

1. AOpen AK73(A) - S462 - VIA KT133A + Duron 1.4GHz
2. ASUS A7N8X Ver 2.0 DELUXE Gold - S462 - nForce 2 Ultra 400 + AXP 2000+
3. ASRock P4AL-800 - S478 - ULi® A800N chipset - needs caps
4. Intel i7-860 - SLBJJ + H57 Mobo + 4GB DDR3
5. QDI KinetiZ 7T - QDI K7V8363A/K7E-A - VIA KT133 - needs caps
6. MSI MS-6318, MED 2000 VERL2 - S370 - VIA Apollo Pro133A + CPU (I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
7. AOpen MX46 U2 - SiS 650GX SIS 962L + CPU ( I don't know the model yet) - needs caps
8. Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB TV-OUT - Kyro II
9. AMD K6-2/300AFR
10. Intel Q6600 x2, Q8300, Q8400
11. Cyrix 486 DX4 100MHz - Cx486DX4-100GP
12. AXP 2000+ Palomino
13. Creative Labs – Creative Labs ct2290 Sound Blaster 16 SB16IDE - CT2291 - FCC ID:IBACT-SB16IDE
14. OCZ Platinum Edition PC2 8500 2x2GB 5-5-5@2.2V
15. OCZ PC2 5400 2x2GB
16. Labway Audio Sound Card LWHA151A00 A151-a00 16-bit ISA - YAMAHA YMF719E-S
17. MSI MS-8818 VER:10B - Geforce 2 MX
18. MSI 8800GTS - Zalman Cooler
19. ATI Mach64 VT4 PCI
20. AIW ATI 3D Rage PRO + VRAM ext.
21. Logitech C7-3F-9F mouse
22. Sealed NIB Iomega zip 250 - 3.5" internal
23. CD-ROM Plextor PX-54TA
24. Mushkin Enhanced 2x1GB PC6400
25. 10 MFM HDD cables - the wider ones. I still need to find the pair. (the slim one)
26. AXP 2400+ https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon XP 2400+ - AXDA2400DKV3C.html 2GHz/266
27. No name ISA FDD/SER/PARALEL/IDE controller
28. Future Domain TMC-850MEX 8-BIT ISA SCSI CONTROLLER 01-00850-043-00 PC or Apple

Is it strange that the three items that stand out to me the most are the Cyrix 486DX4-100, the Geforce 8800GTS with Zalman cooler and the Zip250 drive?

 

[Robert B]

Much of the stuff above will be repaired, cleaned, tested and sold. I won't keep it all.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Much of the stuff above will be repaired, cleaned, tested and sold. I won't keep it all.

I think most of us knew this. There's only so much stuff one person can collect.

 

[Trekkie4]

Is it strange that the three items that stand out to me the most are the Cyrix 486DX4-100, the Geforce 8800GTS with Zalman cooler and the Zip250 drive?

Same here, except for Cyrix DX4. Both 8800GT and Iomega drive in retail package got my immediate attention

 

[lexluthermiester]

Cyrix DX4

Those CPUs were uncommon BITD. They're flat-out rare now..