TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[stef]

Pic of the card?

 

[Dinnercore]

I got lucky and found another decent DDR2 set.

For me this was a weird find, first time I have seen this style heatspreader on a Kingston 9600 kit. Also the SPD has no profile relating to the sticker, it just reads standard 4-4-4 667 and 5-5-5 800.

It does perform fine, just a little worse compared to my other KHX9600 kit. On another note, I love my DFI JR P45-T2R. Just that E8400 is a bad sample.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Pic of the card?

That would have been nice, right?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Windows Intergral both the may and the September Editions

What I want to know is where you find your newer version of Integral? I newest one I can find is May of 2021. But you've mentioned both Sept and Dec. Where are you finding them?

BTW, I acquired a VooDoo 4500 in PCI flavor the other day out of a box of junk.

That is a great card for system with no AGP! One of the best!

That would have been nice, right?


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Yeah, pics can be nice.

 

[stef]

That would have been nice, right?


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Great looking card. I missed my oportunity at Amibay about a year ago. Prices are crazy unreal today. Brand spanking new cards from "russian" guy are cheaper then 20y old ones. And he's doing like batch of 10s maybe with all the bells and whistles (silent coolers, working HDMI and double the VRAM).

One new card from me (Radeon X1950 Pro Ultimate):

I like simplicity and functionality of it. Very cool card temperature-wise (46°C max during UT3).
What do you think would be best platform for it, LGA775 or s939 .... pure PCIe or ambidexterous (AGP + PCIe)?

 

[Yukikaze]

I have a thing for old small form-factor systems, and I always wanted a Pico-ITX one. This one was rescued off ebay from a seller in Romania for peanuts. It stunk of cigarettes to high heaven, but is otherwise functional. It is a Via Artigo A1150, powered by a 40nm Via Eden x2 U4200 CPU with two cores running at 1Ghz. In this photo it sits on top of a Mac Mini. It is pretty tiny:

After a good cleaning of everything that could be cleaned and replacement of all (extremely old, and extremely stinky) thermal pads and paste, I plugged in a KingDian H100 32GB SSD (don't ask why I have that piece of crap in the first place, but its good enough to run Linux on) and fired it up.

I had Win10 from another tinkering session on that SSD, and amusingly enough it booted just fine. Don't try this at home, since it is slow as hell, but boots!

The permanent, and much more sane, OS is going to be Ubuntu Mate but a CPU-Z screenie is fun to have

 

[Greenslade]

Has anyone. tried this

i will try it on VM Fusion on my 27 IMac.This guy does good Videos on Retro stuff

 

[lexluthermiester]

The permanent, and much more sane, OS is going to be Ubuntu Mate but a CPU-Z screenie is fun to have

Mint XFCE would be a better choice as XFCE is a much more lean desktop UI. Only a suggestion though...

 

[Greenslade]

I have a thing for old small form-factor systems, and I always wanted a Pico-ITX one. This one was rescued off ebay from a seller in Romania for peanuts. It stunk of cigarettes to high heaven, but is otherwise functional. It is a Via Artigo A1150, powered by a 40nm Via Eden x2 U4200 CPU with two cores running at 1Ghz. In this photo it sits on top of a Mac Mini. It is pretty tiny:
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After a good cleaning of everything that could be cleaned and replacement of all (extremely old, and extremely stinky) thermal pads and paste, I plugged in a KingDian H100 32GB SSD (don't ask why I have that piece of crap in the first place, but its good enough to run Linux on) and fired it up.
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I had Win10 from another tinkering session on that SSD, and amusingly enough it booted just fine. Don't try this at home, since it is slow as hell, but boots!
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The permanent, and much more sane, OS is going to be Ubuntu Mate but a CPU-Z screenie is fun to have

KingDian SSD,s get good reviews on Amazon, I did not see a 32gb one though.Here is a review of it on yourube

only one review of it on Amazon 32gb.

 

[MachineLearning]

Mint XFCE would be a better choice as XFCE is a much more lean desktop UI. Only a suggestion though...

Xubuntu (also XFCE) and PeppermintOS are also good alternatives

 

[68Olds]

Great looking card. I missed my oportunity at Amibay about a year ago. Prices are crazy unreal today. Brand spanking new cards from "russian" guy are cheaper then 20y old ones. And he's doing like batch of 10s maybe with all the bells and whistles (silent coolers, working HDMI and double the VRAM).

One new card from me (Radeon X1950 Pro Ultimate):
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I like simplicity and functionality of it. Very cool card temperature-wise (46°C max during UT3).
What do you think would be best platform for it, LGA775 or s939 .... pure PCIe or ambidexterous (AGP + PCIe)?

I would pair it with a first or second gen Core2Duo. It would be a great match with an E6600 or E8500.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Xubuntu (also XFCE) and PeppermintOS are also good alternatives

True!

 

[Retrorockit]

Looking further into the SSE4 question, I found Intel SDE.

Intel® Software Development Emulator

Learn more about the emulator, including a product overview, installation instructions, and instructions for running emulator tools and modes.

www.intel.com

It appears to add SSE4.2 and AVX support to ANY x64 CPU. AMD, P4, whatever. At least that's what I think it says.
Some AMD guys at Steams say it gives them SSE4 support. Spoofs the CPUID to show the change too.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I have a thing for old small form-factor systems, and I always wanted a Pico-ITX one. This one was rescued off ebay from a seller in Romania for peanuts. It stunk of cigarettes to high heaven, but is otherwise functional. It is a Via Artigo A1150, powered by a 40nm Via Eden x2 U4200 CPU with two cores running at 1Ghz. In this photo it sits on top of a Mac Mini. It is pretty tiny:
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After a good cleaning of everything that could be cleaned and replacement of all (extremely old, and extremely stinky) thermal pads and paste, I plugged in a KingDian H100 32GB SSD (don't ask why I have that piece of crap in the first place, but its good enough to run Linux on) and fired it up.
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I had Win10 from another tinkering session on that SSD, and amusingly enough it booted just fine. Don't try this at home, since it is slow as hell, but boots!
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The permanent, and much more sane, OS is going to be Ubuntu Mate but a CPU-Z screenie is fun to have

Interesting. I have something similar.

VIA's EPIA-M10000 platform

techreport.com

 

[pavle]

Last part of my AA on GeForce's research - here are some pics of my "new" Gainward GTX 275.

 

[Greenslade]

I am after an XP 32 bt GPU benchmark tester , Unigine Heaven Benchmark is 64bt.

 

[68Olds]

I am after an XP 32 bt GPU benchmark tester , Unigine Heaven Benchmark is 64bt.

Lots of old Future Mark benches you can download.

Futuremark Legacy Benchmarks

Download legacy versions of 3DMark, PCMark, and other Futuremark benchmarks for free.

benchmarks.ul.com

 

[Mr.Scott]

I am after an XP 32 bt GPU benchmark tester , Unigine Heaven Benchmark is 64bt.

For XP 32bit I would suggest 3D06

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lots of old Future Mark benches you can download.

Futuremark Legacy Benchmarks

Download legacy versions of 3DMark, PCMark, and other Futuremark benchmarks for free.

benchmarks.ul.com

And they're not gimped in any way.

 

[MachineLearning]

I got this beauty in a few days ago, but only today did I refresh it with some Arctic APT2560 pads & MX-4. I managed to get it for way cheaper than most other 4870x2's, at least what I saw on eBay, so I assumed there had to be something wrong with it. Of course, there was, luckily easy to repair and not a dead GPU. The fan's bearing had just begun to go and was quite loud and obnoxious. I don't mind fan noise, but bad bearing noise is terrible. For some reason it was hard for me to find a new 1.0A fan that would fit in there online, most were twice the price of say a HD5870 fan (0.8A and red). Luckily I had a spare new FirstDo 0.8A ATI fan laying around, and that spun right up no problem. This is an oddball now, it's supposed to be a black fan and HIS branded

Also grabbed an actually sealed V8600, I think I'm gonna leave it in there for now! A present for a few years from now, I have a different V8600 which will whet my curiosity for the time being.

May follow up with my 4870x2 overclocking efforts, as long as the VRM doesn't try to nuke itself like the HD5970 I think it'll be okay

 

[68Olds]

I was playing with my AMD APU A10-6800k & ran 3dMark03 at stock. Then I added in an HD 7750 & set up hybrid Xfire. Otherwise, everything was still stock and I was a little surprised with the result! Planning to see what kind of overclocks I can get with a meh motherboard & a meh APU cooler.

 

[Greenslade]

Lots of old Future Mark benches you can download.

Futuremark Legacy Benchmarks

Download legacy versions of 3DMark, PCMark, and other Futuremark benchmarks for free.

benchmarks.ul.com

Thanks very much.hope your day is going well.

 

[Dinnercore]

Grabbed a few more E8500s. I'm not sure yet how many Wolfdales are enough for me, but it can't hurt to have another tray.

And also got some new old stock DDR heatsinks:

Not sure what it is about RAM heatsinks in particular that I love, but I'd take these over any CPU cooler for my collection.

 

[basco]

hey dinner i hope these are all stepping E0 for high fsb clocking.
C0 does not even come close from my experience.

aahhh good times when stepping meant something !

 

[68Olds]

Well my Hybrid Xfire quit working, not sure why. I need to reinstall Win10 anyway - I found an inexpensive SSD to replace the spinner HHD.