TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Dinnercore]

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 !

Yeah I know, I was a bit nervous about that. Source did not specify the stepping but in the end I got 19 E0 and only 2 C0 stepping.

 

[basco]

i wish ya a 700 fsb chip if ya have the mainboard for it

 

[Dinnercore]

i wish ya a 700 fsb chip if ya have the mainboard for it

Thats a goal on my list. But it's also depending on my RAM too, since I'm weird and like DDR2.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4763.3 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[kxabjw] Validated Dump by Osmium-OC (2020-08-04 18:51:42) - MB: Gigabyte EP45-EXTREME - RAM: 1024 MB

valid.x86.fr

This is how far I've gotten in the past.

 

[Retrorockit]

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.

The E7600 is R0 stepping. The E7500 will BSEL tapemod to 3.67GHz. But not all of the E7600 will make it to 3.83GHz on stock Voltage.. Now that would be a good reason to buy a tray of them!

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.

I got some feedback on Intel SDE at OCN X58 Xeon club. A user there (The OP of X58 Xeon Club) says he used it and it's terribly slow for gaming.

 

[Greenslade]

The E7600 is R0 stepping. The E7500 will BSEL tapemod to 3.67GHz. But not all of the E7600 will make it to 3.83GHz on stock Voltage.. Now that would be a good reason to buy a tray of them!


I got some feedback on Intel SDE at OCN X58 Xeon club. A user there (The OP of X58 Xeon Club) says he used it and it's terribly slow for gaming.

The E7600 is R0 stepping. The E7500 will BSEL tapemod to 3.67GHz. But not all of the E7600 will make it to 3.83GHz on stock Voltage.. Now that would be a good reason to buy a tray of them!


I got some feedback on Intel SDE at OCN X58 Xeon club. A user there (The OP of X58 Xeon Club) says he used it and it's terribly slow for gaming.

The E7600 is R0 stepping. The E7500 will BSEL tapemod to 3.67GHz. But not all of the E7600 will make it to 3.83GHz on stock Voltage.. Now that would be a good reason to buy a tray of them!


I got some feedback on Intel SDE at OCN X58 Xeon club. A user there (The OP of X58 Xeon Club) says he used it and it's terribly slow for gaming.

If you lived in the UK you could get an E7600 for 10p from Cex.

 

[fec32a4de]

Got this old beauty up and running.

Glad I got the "mystery machine" achievement because of it.

GPU validation: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/bvrn9
CPU: http://valid.x86.fr/95s0hk
Userbench: https://www.userbenchmark.com/userrun/49968549 less than 1fps avg!

 

[68Olds]

Ivan, what's a little box like thats main use? Is it basically a little web browser?

 

[Retrorockit]

I'm doing a VID and BSEL tapemod project on an E7600 right now. VID tapemod was always a complicated pain in the ass. But I've simplified it. So now it's just a PITA
I may need to try a thicker copper material. I wanted to do an E5800 at the same time but I can't find it. Maybe it's stuck in a MB somewhere. Maybe I gave it away with some old P4 stuff.
It didn't interest me much when I first got it. Pulled it out of my Opti 380 for the X5470 Xeon swap. Didn't think I'd ever want to put it back in.

Just ordered a couple Pentium E5300 (SLGTL) 13x200fsb CPUs. to continue the Tapemod Madness. The E5800 would have Gone 16x266 for 4.26GHz But 13x333fsb =4.33Ghz I have to give up SSE4 support to do this. But I won't be happy until I have 4+Ghz Dell Optiplex.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Ivan, what's a little box like thats main use? Is it basically a little web browser?

Pretty much. Even that is slow though.

 

[Greenslade]

To everyone on here ,who has a youtube channel?You guys know your stuff.They would be interesting watching.

 

[Retrorockit]

VID tapemod was always a complicated pain in the ass. But I've simplified it. So now it's just a PITA

Well.... first try- No smoke,but no computer either. I'll fire up a 2nd rig to get the bugs out. My daily computer is a good candidate for this. But R&D needs to be done on something else.
I'll see how much abuse a MIL Spec. Otiples XE (Extrme Environment) can actually take.

 

[fec32a4de]

Ivan, what's a little box like thats main use? Is it basically a little web browser?

Mostly light browsing and some classic or low requirement games (Undertale/Deltarune).

More pics, of the PCB this time.

 

[68Olds]

Mostly light browsing and some classic or low requirement games (Undertale/Deltarune).

More pics, of the PCB this time.

Here's a little blast from the past.

SkiFree

classicreload.com

 

[Trekkie4]

To everyone on here ,who has a youtube channel?You guys know your stuff.They would be interesting watching.

I got YouTube channel, but trust me you wouldn't be interested

The real question you should be asking is who's making (retro) reviews and tech discussions? Because I'd seriously like to know the answer to that one, myself!

 

[Greenslade]

I got YouTube channel, but trust me you wouldn't be interested

The real question you should be asking is who's making (retro) reviews and tech discussions? Because I'd seriously like to know the answer to that one, myself!

I see what you mean if that is the best you can do.Keep the day job.Yes that is it Retro reviews and discussions.I am also in to Retro HifI Quad etc.

 

[Trekkie4]

I see what you mean if that is the best you can do.Keep the day job.Yes that is it Retro reviews and discussions.I am also in to Retro HifI Quad etc.

Ha, not quite "the best I can do", no ... but back in a day it served its purpose

I had a weird tonearm resonance issue while playing LP album "The Wall", which couldn't be explained through common sense or hardware/tech components themselves. So I messaged Audio Technica representatives who asked me to make a video on the issue ... which is why & how the video was made. Oddly enough, the problem disappeared over time which makes me think that it may have been related to (then) brand new AT-95EX cartridge & its stylus suspension. At the time, it was still very rigid & apparently couldn't handle all the warps & wrinkles on the record, so the stylus assembly plowed through all of them & picked up every single vibration.

Think of it as shock absorbers on your car. Every car has suspension system so that it could drive over bumps & potholes without transferring all those vibrations onto the passengers inside. Thus, on a "normal" stylus assembly, you will have a rubber suspension system which allows the stylus to track bumps & vibrations without transferring any of them to the tonearm. However, since the suspension was too firm, it experienced resonance which made the whole tonearm shake out of control. No harm done, although in more severe situations resonance CAN destroy records and/or even the stylus itself.

So there, hopefully this answered your question(s)

 

[MachineLearning]

Got this EVGA 750i SLI board off eBay (where else...) and just cleaned it up. Previous owner definitely dusted their PC once a decade at most, so there was a good amount of buildup. But no permanent damage, so I don't mind. Gave it the ol' Arctic MX-4 and APT2560 0.5mm treatment I always wanted an nForce board so I'm super excited to finally have one.

 

[Trekkie4]

Speaking of modern-day SLI setups... What do you guys think of 8600GTS in SLI mode? Any idea how fast this combo would perform and/or would it be a match against 8800GT?

 

[MachineLearning]

Speaking of modern-day SLI setups... What do you guys think of 8600GTS in SLI mode? Any idea how fast this combo would perform and/or would it be a match against 8800GT?

Last screenshot is from the perspective of 8600 GTS. The 8800 GT should be 325% faster so I don't think even 4 in SLI would surpass it (if that's even possible?)

edit: I'd guesstimate like 40-70% scaling depending on how well SLI is implemented on these cards and also on the game. So probably around GT 220 levels

 

[Trekkie4]

Too bad... I got two of those 8600GTS cards laying around & considered to put together my very first SLI system (apart from Voodoo2 in SLI which of course isn't the same).

Gigabyte GV-NX86S256H, just a basic passively-cooled 8600GTS with the SLI interface. The only thing I'm missing is SLI-capable motherboard.

 

[Athlonite]

Too bad... I got two of those 8600GTS cards laying around & considered to put together my very first SLI system (apart from Voodoo2 in SLI which of course isn't the same).

Gigabyte GV-NX86S256H, just a basic passively-cooled 8600GTS with the SLI interface. The only thing I'm missing is SLI-capable motherboard.

If it's at all anything like running XFire on 2 x HD2600XT's then you could expect anything upto 1.65~1.75x the single GPU's perf

 

[68Olds]

If it's at all anything like running XFire on 2 x HD2600XT's then you could expect anything upto .75~1.75x the single GPU's perf

Fixed that for you. This is coming from some who Xfired the x1900, 3780, 4870, and 6950 cards.
Even though it didn't work consistently, it was still a lot of fun to play around with. @Trekkie4 if you have the mobo & a pair of cards, try it out IMO.
I'd be interested in seeing some 3dMark (03, 05, 06) comparisons with SLI on & off.

 

[MachineLearning]

The only thing I'm missing is SLI-capable motherboard.

What platform / era do you have in mind? It's surprisingly easy to find quality SLI-capable mainboards for <$100, as long as you don't mind P55 / Z68 / Z77 platforms (or X58 + X5675 if you're lucky). For P55 grab a Xeon X3470 / X3460 for $20, or on 1155 a i7-2600k for $60. It's not pocket change but if you want an SLI mobo for benching it's a good way to go.

 

[Mr.Scott]

X5675's are in the 20 buck range now too.
X58 boards still ain't cheap though.

 

[Retrorockit]

X5675's are in the 20 buck range now too.
X58 boards still ain't cheap though.

Don't forget the faster 4c/8t X5687.

Xfire is reported to have issues with "micro stutter". An annoying phase shift between the frames. The only known solution-

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachments/trifire-001-jpg.99712/

Trifire!