TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[INSTG8R]

Oh, I remember that one. That was truly a dope case in the mid-2000s!

2007. weighs a metric crap tonne and has zero cable management. Over the years I have just updated the CPU block.

 

[Ruru]

2007. weighs a metric crap tonne and has zero cable management. Over the years I have just updated the CPU block.

There's some reviews from 2005 but anyway, from somewhere around that era. The original pump still works?

 

[Trekkie4]

Aww now you can just hush with that nonsense.. I'm not even 50 yet..


Ebay and thrift stores. I see them all the time when I go treasure hunting.

Excuses, excuses...

 

[Greenslade]

Aww now you can just hush with that nonsense.. I'm not even 50 yet..


Ebay and thrift stores. I see them all the time when I go treasure hunting.

I did asume you were older than that Lex. Of course we have no idea how old people are on here.I can safely say no one is in there early years on this particular forum.I love all those Goodwill stores you have over there, from watching LGR thrifting videos. i was thinking how old this guy is ,this is from 2014. I have come to the concision.He must be in his early 40,s with all the stuff he used when he was a kid.There seems a lot Tut in there.

. That particular store seems a bit gross, with all stuff in those plastic units

 

[Trekkie4]

I did asume you were older than that Lex. Of course we have no idea how old people are on here.I can safely say no one is in there early years on this particular forum.I love all those Goodwill stores you have over there, from watching LGR thrifting videos. i was thinking how old this guy is ,this is from 2014. I have come to the concision.He must be in his early 40,s with all the stuff he used when he was a kid.There seems a lot Tut in there.

Not necessarily, Green. Take me for example, I'm 36 ... Most people probably wouldn't guess that, considering my state of mind which almost always revolves around retro & vintage technology. Sometimes I even find myself completely disconnected from other people of my age, who either have entirely different way of life, or culture - or both!

But from my point of view, "older" equals "more experience" and "more experience" equals "better performance". So, to put it simply - why fix it, if it ain't broken?

 

[INSTG8R]

The original pump still works?

Yes which is why I've never retired it. It's always kept everything I've put under it cool, it whiny AF tho....

 

[MachineLearning]

I did asume you were older than that Lex. Of course we have no idea how old people are on here.I can safely say no one is in there early years on this particular forum.I love all those Goodwill stores you have over there, from watching LGR thrifting videos. i was thinking how old this guy is ,this is from 2014. I have come to the concision.He must be in his early 40,s with all the stuff he used when he was a kid.There seems a lot Tut in there.

. That particular store seems a bit gross, with all stuff in those plastic units

Don't be so sure... I turned 21 last month
I grew up in a weird period where I often used VHS tapes, cassettes, had exposure to records from my grandparents, yet I also had an iPhone and PC at a young age. I'm not one of those weird cassette hipsters of my generation to be "cool" [read: cringy], I just appreciate the old tech, how it used to work, and how it evolved to now. I'm sure I'm not the only one Also, seeing a CD or a vinyl record spinning, and knowing that's what is playing back music with high fidelity, is still amazing to me and always will be.

Love LGR, I've been following him since around 2015.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Don't be so sure... I turned 21 last month
I grew up in a weird period where I often used VHS tapes, cassettes, had exposure to records from my grandparents, yet I also had an iPhone and PC at a young age. I'm not one of those weird cassette hipsters of my generation to be "cool" [read: cringy], I just appreciate the old tech, how it used to work, and how it evolved to now. I'm sure I'm not the only one Also, seeing a CD or a vinyl record spinning, and knowing that's what is playing back music with high fidelity, is still amazing to me and always will be.

Love LGR, I've been following him since around 2015.

CDs are peak consumer audio if you ask me. They're basically as ideal an intersection of relevant properties (fidelity, play count, density, robustness) as one could hope for.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I did asume you were older than that Lex.

A lot of people guess that. Thing is, I got my start in tech and computers very early, 6years old. By 12years old, I was as experienced as most people 3 times my age.

That particular store seems a bit gross, with all stuff in those plastic units

I LOVE LGR thrifts!! He inspired my regular "treasure hunting" trips to my local thrift stores.

Take me for example, I'm 36 ... Most people probably wouldn't guess that

I would have guess early 40's.

So, to put it simply - why fix it, if it ain't broken?

This! Absolutely this!

CDs are peak consumer audio if you ask me.

I would say SaCD's, but that's only because they sound wonderful. They just never caught on as they were so expensive and the world was changing. However, I agree with you, Audio CD's are excellent!

 

[stinger608]

Ah hell, then your just a pup @lexluthermiester

 

[Greenslade]

Don't be so sure... I turned 21 last month
I grew up in a weird period where I often used VHS tapes, cassettes, had exposure to records from my grandparents, yet I also had an iPhone and PC at a young age. I'm not one of those weird cassette hipsters of my generation to be "cool" [read: cringy], I just appreciate the old tech, how it used to work, and how it evolved to now. I'm sure I'm not the only one Also, seeing a CD or a vinyl record spinning, and knowing that's what is playing back music with high fidelity, is still amazing to me and always will be.

Love LGR, I've been following him since around 2015.

Seems i have opened up a can of worms That sounds cool to me. Never had or used a VHS or Beta my self player myself.Had a lot of cassettes back in the day only because i got them cheap.I have never had a iphone.
I started late on this to.I can.t think any one in 2022 would want cassettes anyway.You must be the you the youngest on here by far..Nothing cool about cassettesI am new To this Retro Tech myself.I myself am a vinyl Junkie myself.LGR is great

 

[Ruru]

Never had or used a VHS or Beta my self player myself.

I remember having a 14" CRT + VHS combo which my mom got me in my pre-teens in the early 2000s. Played hundreds and hundreds of hours of PS1/PS2 with that. Sold that to my friend's dad later.

 

[Dinnercore]

I have a Kenwood KX-600 that came with my Kenwood amp and tuner as a set. Some artists still release on cassette, a while ago I got these e.g.: https://amdiscs.com/product/nmesh-collectors/

I wouldn't really consider it a 'hipster' thing, for me it is not about owning things that are special or odd to someone else, I simply collect things that are interesting to me. Something that simply exists and that I can get some enjoyment out of. I dunno. I'm a dragon, I hoard random things that I like. No nostalgia involved.

 

[Greenslade]

A lot of people guess that. Thing is, I got my start in tech and computers very early, 6years old. By 12years old, I was as experienced as most people 3 times my age.

I would have guess early 40's.

This! Absolutely this!

I would say SaCD's, but that only because they sound wonderful. They just never caught on as they were so expensive and the world was changing. However, I agree with you, Audio CD's are excellent!

I LOVE LGR thrifts!! He inspired my regular "treasure hunting" trips to my local thrift stores.

WowHe has not been on for some time for .Thrifting that is .I do prefer vinyl especially the 180gram ones.But they cost an arm and leg.Yes CD,s were over priced.I wish there were stores like Goodwill here in the uk.Plus you have so many Garage sales on the US.

it seems like they are every where in the US.

 

[Trekkie4]

I have a Kenwood KX-600 that came with my Kenwood amp and tuner as a set. Some artists still release on cassette, a while ago I got these e.g.: https://amdiscs.com/product/nmesh-collectors/

I wouldn't really consider it a 'hipster' thing, for me it is not about owning things that are special or odd to someone else, I simply collect things that are interesting to me. Something that simply exists and that I can get some enjoyment out of. I dunno. I'm a dragon, I hoard random things that I like. No nostalgia involved.

That's a REALLY nice deck! Kinda reminds me of dad's old KX50 MK2, except yours is higher class, a real thing!

Unfortunately no, the one I got at the moment is nowhere near KX50 and/or especially your KX-600. Model number is KX-W4080. A fairly modern unit, mostly made out of plastic. Unlike some of the (even) cheaper Sony decks, it has two separate mechanisms & motors, I'll give him that much ... but other that it is a lower end "consumer" grade unit. You know, "Set & forget" type of deck, where you play the tape & enjoy music indefinitely, since it has auto-reverse & will play tape(s) over & over again. Which is why I said so in one of my earlier posts, it required a lot of TLC to get it up & running again, to the point where it made me wonder if it was worth the money invested in all the parts & cleaning materials.

I also got couple of other decks laying around (Dual CC8010) along with Aiwa AD-F550 which used to be my main deck up until I got CT91a. Both are fully operational ... or at least they've been fully operational last time I used them. It's been couple of years ever since, so there's no way of knowing for sure, not without hooking them up & testing.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Continuing from this post;
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/post-4706123

The Q9550 and Radeon R7-250 2GB GPU arrived.

They are installed and running perfectly. They both raise the performance of this system well about what I need from it for the task needed.

I'm glad I chose the Q9550 instead of the Q9500/Q9505. The extra 6MB of L2 cache made a difference in the games I wanted to run.

GDDR3 version! Heck yeah!

At full load they both run surprisingly cool. All totaled, I'm into this PC just $200. That was even after over-paying for the base system. Not bad these days!

 

[Trekkie4]

IDK about Q9550 & Radeon card, but I love that background with TDK SA90

 

[lexluthermiester]

IDK about Q9550 & Radeon card

? Why? Those are the best the system could take.. I mean I could have gone with a Q9650, but it wasn't worth the extra $30. However, the R7-250 was the best low-profile card that could both physically fit into system and has XP drivers support.

but I love that background with TDK SA90

Here you go. Disclaimer, I didn't make it and don't know who did. I make no claims of ownership as I found it on a Wallpaper website. I did resize and rework the colors, saturation and gamma a bit.

Enjoy!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Regarding streaming, count me out. One "thing" with streaming is that you never own a copy of album, or a song. It's not like you can play it anywhere you like, at any moment. Where on the other hand, having a physical copy allows you to keep your investment & enjoy music EVEN when there is no internet ... or streaming license, for that matter.

When you think about it, that's not really any different than the radio.

Oced the 1045t this afternoon.

I eventually caved and gave up on ocing with the 890fx board. It was giving me weird issues when I was pushing the fsb, plus I was in constant fear of vrm ignition, so I just decided to use the 990fx sabertooth r2.0. Didn't need to core unlock so it was a better choice.

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Nothing really remarkable or record breaking, but it did valiantly.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Nothing really remarkable or record breaking, but it did valiantly.

4ghz is not shabby for 2.7ghz baseclock CPU!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

I believe it may be possible to send it a bit further with some more time invested into it, but the silicon is pretty much at its limits there. The memory controller does not like pushing very fast frequencies at all. Kit used was a 2x8 kit of 2400mhz CL11 Hynix BFR but even 1866 CL11 is not working properly so I settled in at ~1600 8-8-8-24 as you see above. I managed to get it working in 1t mode too. Uncore was ~2950mhz, pretty good.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I believe it may be possible to send it a bit further with some more time invested into it, but the silicon is pretty much at its limits there.

4ghz is damn decent for that CPU. I would call it good and be happy with such a solid OC, as long as it's stable.

 

[Courier 6]

That's a REALLY nice deck! Kinda reminds me of dad's old KX50 MK2, except yours is higher class, a real thing!

Unfortunately no, the one I got at the moment is nowhere near KX50 and/or especially your KX-600. Model number is KX-W4080. A fairly modern unit, mostly made out of plastic. Unlike some of the (even) cheaper Sony decks, it has two separate mechanisms & motors, I'll give him that much ... but other that it is a lower end "consumer" grade unit. You know, "Set & forget" type of deck, where you play the tape & enjoy music indefinitely, since it has auto-reverse & will play tape(s) over & over again. Which is why I said so in one of my earlier posts, it required a lot of TLC to get it up & running again, to the point where it made me wonder if it was worth the money invested in all the parts & cleaning materials.

I also got couple of other decks laying around (Dual CC8010) along with Aiwa AD-F550 which used to be my main deck up until I got CT91a. Both are fully operational ... or at least they've been fully operational last time I used them. It's been couple of years ever since, so there's no way of knowing for sure, not without hooking them up & testing.

I have this one Sony TC FX 510R

Sony TC-FX510R Stereo Cassette Deck

Sony,TC-FX510R Stereo Cassette Deck,Auto Reverse,Dolby-C NR,Full Logic Control,Metal Tape,Stereo,Digital Meters

www.cassettedeck.org

 

[MachineLearning]

Wolfdale C0 stepping C2D E8300, ES...

And a Conroe M0 stepping C2D E4600, ES.

The E8300 ES didn't OC well - as expected, being early and C0. Still, I got it to 3.9GHz stable. It booted 4.0GHz, but wasn't stable at ~1.5v vCore.

The E4600, however, set a new low. I watched it degrade before my very eyes. The board I'm using is an IP35 Pro from Abit, and it has some vDroop: about 40-50mv with dual cores and ~70mv with quad cores. So I started by setting a voltage of 1.550v in BIOS to get it at minimum 1.50v. This apparently was a mistake, I remember overclocking this a little while ago (don't recall the results) and while I did get somewhere, I didn't spend much time with it. Either I did some really stupid settings then or >1.5v was too insane this time, because now it will not POST with this CPU even after clearing CMOS. POST code sometimes gets stuck on a different code (C3, 2b, 2a) but never FF, and most often C1. So I'm assuming it can't even do stock clocks anymore Visibly it's had a hard life so I wouldn't be surprised if the person(s) before me ran it into the ground.

Oh yeah, and this has become my favorite LGA775 overclocking board by a country mile. The VRM isn't nearly as good as on the P5Q Turbo, but uGuru BIOS settings make up for it. As well as the POST code (largest one I've seen), VRM temp + voltage readout in HWiNFO (all of them. not kidding), and 45nm CPU compatibility on the latest beta BIOS (v20).

 

[Dinnercore]

@MachineLearning
Maybe you set the VTT to high? The codes hint more towards FSB/RAM problems. The E4600 is a 65nm chip, believe me you will not have instantly killed that with just 1.5V core. I tried once... for eh science? I had some grudge against this particular E4300 sample which had a super low FSB wall. I ran it ambient cooled at 2.0V.

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3068.56 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[2nkcvi] Validated Dump by Osmium-OC (2020-01-03 19:53:54) - MB: Asus P5Q-E - RAM: 2048 MB

valid.x86.fr

This thing refused to die. I mean it probably would have died within a few hours but I did not want to wait. Its still alive after all and boots/runs stock settings.

To sum it up, 65nm C2Ds are short term very voltage tolerant on Vcore. But I think there are stories where high VTT has been a quick killer.