TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[lexluthermiester]

Ah, GF4 Ti. Those were great cards. Need to source one too, funny how they used those external temperature sensors back in the day, as an internal sensor came into play in NV30.

Talk about reusing older, smaller drives in a second PC.

3x 120GB SSD, 2x 128GB SSD, 2x 2.5" 250GB HDD, 250GB 3.5" HDD, 500GB 3.5" HDD

Nice case! Holy drives Batman! 5 SSDs & 4 HDDs. Is this your Xeon X5680 system or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[Keullo-e]

Nice case! Holy drives Batman! 5 SSDs & 4 HDDs. Is this your Xeon X5680 system or am I thinking of someone else?

X5650* but yeah. Got that Define XL for free few years ago and it was missing parts, but as it has a closed side panel, it's not that bad. I got the Corsair 4000D for that system but I liked it that much that I put my main system to it.

 

[stef]

What voltage are you running it on (for 4GHz)?

 

[Keullo-e]

What voltage are you running it on (for 4GHz)?

For 4GHz, a little above 1.3V is enough. For 4.2, it needs more. Talking about it, I'll boot it up and put prime95 running (and play PS3 while prime is running)

 

[lexluthermiester]

Talking about it, I'll boot it up and put prime95 running (and play PS3 while prime is running)

For proper stablity testing, you only need a 10 to 15 minute run.

 

[Keullo-e]

For proper stablity testing, you only need a 10 to 15 minute run.

Well, I still concentrate of beating one superboss so I'll just check that has it crashed. I'll do some "real-use" testing with some demanding games later.

 

[stef]

For 4GHz, a little above 1.3V is enough. For 4.2, it needs more.

You got great chip there.

 

[Keullo-e]

You got great chip there.

Trying to get 4.2 stable with minimum voltage needed. It's actually easy to check as I have the rad outside of the case, if it's not hot then it has crashed. No need to switch the source from TV.

 

[stef]

That's what I was going to post as well. Though could be from factory but those are pretty rare situations.

GDDR4 was pretty rare. IIRC only X1950 XTX, 2600 XT, 2900 Pro/XT and 3870 used it (and their FireGL counterparts).

Missed HD4670 512MB. Sapphire had GDDR4 version with Accelero cooler and blue memory heatsinks. Nice looking card. I managed to find one, looking for another ... for CF .

 

[Retrorockit]

I'm looking or a program that used to exist but seems to be extinct. C2D Vmod Calculator.xls
It's a spreadsheet that takes your original Core2Duo Volatge and calculates the pinmod to a higher setting.
Great for bsel tapemods. Does anyone know where to find this?

 

[TheKingGamerBr]

I'm looking or a program that used to exist but seems to be extinct. C2D Vmod Calculator.xls
It's a spreadsheet that takes your original Core2Duo Volatge and calculates the pinmod to a higher setting.
Great for bsel tapemods. Does anyone know where to find this?

Try this:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 M0 Stepping CPU Review - Madshrimps Forum Madness

When Geeks Computer Parts lists Intel E4300, E4400, and E4500 within $1 difference in price ($124), I could not help to request the E4500 for a spin. Intel

www.madshrimps.be

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

E4500 M0=That was literally an upgrade I got in August, 2009, which was a pull from a 2007 Acer! In 2009, I popped that 2007 E4500 M0 into my 2008 Asus P5QL Pro. The Pentium E2180 got popped into that Acer, so I still have a backup. The ECS-based Acer, IIRC, was my backup PC. That was given to me in August, 2009, that's how I got the CPU upgrade. It had a very low VID of 1.20 V!

 

[Retrorockit]

I came across an interesting tool while looking for something else. It's for a VRM hardmod that isn't well known except to some GPU overclockers.
The mod is kind of simple.
The VRM controller chip has a VSENSE pin. This reads the CPU Voltage and the controller maintains it at the specified value.
If you install a resistor to GRD there it will pull down the Voltage the regulator senses, and the VRM will add more power until it senses the proper value again.
The actual Voltage supplied will be higher due to the spoofed feedback signal. You can install a potentiometer to make it adjustable. In the past a V. gauge was added to know the actual Voltage produced.
Now there is an app that calculates the Voltage change with various potentiometers.
You input the existing CPU Voltage in mV, and the resistance to GRD at the VSENSE feedback pin. The app produces a chart with the resulting mV each potentiometer ( or resistance) setting will produce at the CPU.

vMod Calculator - Apps on Google Play

Easy calculation to choose you potentiometer and predict voltage output

play.google.com

You could use a resistor to overshoot some and pull it back down with Throttlestop software.

Try this:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 M0 Stepping CPU Review - Madshrimps Forum Madness

When Geeks Computer Parts lists Intel E4300, E4400, and E4500 within $1 difference in price ($124), I could not help to request the E4500 for a spin. Intel

www.madshrimps.be

That's the program. But reading there it only runs on older MS Office versions. I get the sample page but not the app itself. Maybe digging up Office 2003 is the way to go. Thanks for the link.
I have the download, now I just have to get it to run.

 

[agent_x007]

You know you can figure this out with VID pin table and this image, right ?

^PDC 45nm

 

[Retrorockit]

Thank you for posting that. I've never seen it before. It's much better than working from the drawing of the socket that needs to be reversed to make the nod on the CPU.

 

[Greenslade]

Comodo still has a version that supports XP for retro XP users;

Windows XP Antivirus | Instantly Remove Virus and Spyware

Windows XP Antivirus from Comodo instantly removes virus and spyware thereby offering 100% complete threat protection for devices. Download Today!

antivirus.comodo.com

Can someone give me a link on here about the latest XP download i know it is on here somewhere but i can,t find it.Not having luck getting XP in here i keep getting a message asking special pack four.

 

[Ahhzz]

Can someone give me a link on here about the latest XP download i know it is on here somewhere but i can,t find it.Not having luck getting XP in here i keep getting a message asking special pack four.

is this what you're after?

Windows XP Antivirus | Instantly Remove Virus and Spyware

Windows XP Antivirus from Comodo instantly removes virus and spyware thereby offering 100% complete threat protection for devices. Download Today!

antivirus.comodo.com

or this?

Download Windows XP Service Pack 4 Unofficial - MajorGeeks

Windows XP Service Pack 4 Unofficial is a cumulative update rollup for Windows XP (x86) English as well as security enhancements not addressed by Microsoft....

www.majorgeeks.com

 

[stinger608]

There are a couple of links to XP with SP3 in the original post @Greenslade

 

[Greenslade]

is this what you're after?

Windows XP Antivirus | Instantly Remove Virus and Spyware

Windows XP Antivirus from Comodo instantly removes virus and spyware thereby offering 100% complete threat protection for devices. Download Today!

antivirus.comodo.com

or this?

Download Windows XP Service Pack 4 Unofficial - MajorGeeks

Windows XP Service Pack 4 Unofficial is a cumulative update rollup for Windows XP (x86) English as well as security enhancements not addressed by Microsoft....

www.majorgeeks.com

I downloaded service pack 4 put it in Easy2Boot but it still asked for the CD for it It asks where it is?That message comes up whatever ISO i use.I can,t even find the the origanal dvd o burned to get It on my PC in the first place. I put it on as dual boot with Windows7 when i did i lost XP and not been able to get it back on there.There is a full version in this forum.That one worked but i could not get the network for it .How can i get a network driver for XP?.I downloaded Intel drivers but of course would not let them
be installed they wanted to know where they came from.Ir can,t be done without an internet connection.

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There are a couple of links to XP with SP3 in the original post @Greenslade

Can you give me the link to the full version you have in this forum.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Can you give me the link to the full version you have in this forum.

Windows XP SP3 ISO Download | Get into PC

Windows XP SP3 Professional ISO 32 Bit Free Download. It is Genuine Bootable Windows XP Pro SP3 ISO 32 Bit updated until Nov 2013 having all SATA drivers.

getintopc.com

 

[stef]

You can get it here also. Seems legit Microsoft according to SHA1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40

 

[Greenslade]

You can get it here also. Seems legit Microsoft according to SHA1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40

I have tried tried that one, i have tried most of them with Easy2boot with Rufus 2.5 and dvd Rufus did not boot Easy2boot got to the point of checking my PC it never moved on from there.There is another one on this forum which did work with Easy2Boot.Over 500 pages to check on here.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You can get it here also. Seems legit Microsoft according to SHA1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40

I can confirm that one works. You need to provide your own CDKey and you need to call the Activation center on an actual phone, but yes, that will work.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Something you're doing wrong then. All of these work for me. I use them all the time.
The one I linked you even provides the key.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have tried tried that one, i have tried most of them with Easy2boot with Rufus 2.5 and dvd Rufus did not boot Easy2boot got to the point of checking my PC it never moved on from there.There is another one on this forum which did work with Easy2Boot.Over 500 pages to check on here.

XP never had the support to boot and install from anything but CD. Easy2Boot is not 100% perfect. If it's not working, you'll need a CD/DVD drive and to burn the XP ISO to a blank CD. Alternatively(if you don't have a drive or blank disks), you can open the ISO in 7Zip and copy all the files there in to a spare hard drive, boot from a USB drive formatted with a WinXP or Win2K boot floppy and run Setup from the command line.