TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ruru]

That Striker Extreme for example makes me think that why the hell many X570 boards have a fan, back in the day motherboards had way more aggressive cooling..

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

That Striker Extreme for example makes me think that why the hell many X570 boards have a fan, back in the day motherboards had way more aggressive cooling..

It's not as impressive as it looks.

The mile long heatpipes are not the greatest for efficiency. Even with this much copper, 680i runs hot enough to melt into the center of the earth, plus they like to fail often. There was a fan included in the box from the factory. I put it on the Northbridge.

 

[Ruru]

It's not as impressive as it looks.

The mile long heatpipes are not the greatest for efficiency. Even with this much copper, 680i runs hot enough to melt into the center of the earth, plus they like to fail often. There was a fan included in the box from the factory. I put it on the Northbridge.

680i was a nuclear reactor... even 650i SLI was!

It does throttle..

 

[lexluthermiester]

My name is Harris! 80286 Harris!

THAT is uncommon! Such a good find!

 

[Ruru]

4.66GHz crashes even with 1.7V This seems stable though

I scored 2 730 in Time Spy

Intel Xeon Processor X5650, AMD Radeon HD 7970 x 1, 18432 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

 

[lexluthermiester]

4.66GHz crashes even with 1.7V This seems stable though

I scored 2 730 in Time Spy

Intel Xeon Processor X5650, AMD Radeon HD 7970 x 1, 18432 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

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That is likely just a silicon lottery clock ceiling thing... Still, 4.5ghz is great!

 

[Ruru]

That is likely just a silicon lottery clock ceiling thing... Still, 4.5ghz is great!

4.55 to be exact.

 

[QuietBob]

4.66GHz crashes even with 1.7V This seems stable though

I scored 2 730 in Time Spy

Intel Xeon Processor X5650, AMD Radeon HD 7970 x 1, 18432 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

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Nice clock on the 7970, mine shows artifacts over 1135 MHz in some games. And very respectable oc on your Xeon, though that temp

 

[Robert B]

I think that my EPROM problems are over, at least for a while. 200+ pcs of 16K, 32K, 64K and 128K EPROMS have been rescued. DIP 28 DIP 32 DIP 40 plus a few Z80 class CPUs

I also found a sealed TANDON TM848E 8" FDD - A true monster! I am unable to test the monster as I do not have floppies or a suitable system. Anyway, this will go to a loving home and someone who can use it. An S100 class computer would be great for it.

By the looks of it I also scored 2x4MB 30 pin SIMMS. Untested.

 

[freeagent]

That Striker Extreme for example makes me think that why the hell many X570 boards have a fan, back in the day motherboards had way more aggressive cooling..

They were marketed as top OC'ing boards, that's why the beefy coolers. My Rampage Formula X48 has beefy cooling too, but not like the Extreme. My R3F had an awesome cooling setup too, loved that board.. I thought my Strix -F had decent coolers compared to the dead TUF board I bought from Newegg. That board literally felt like a frisbee.. for a moment it almost became one.. The sinks on my XE are much beefier than on the -F, at least on the VRM's, and the chipset too I guess...

 

[onemanhitsquad]

Your pics aren't showing..

I know..for some reason it is hung up...I cant even get into the website on my PC...gonna have to ask the mods for some help clearing it

On my phone now...never had a problem like this

 

[Greenslade]

Our friend Clint's new abode

Plenty of room in there .

 

[Ruru]

Nice clock on the 7970, mine shows artifacts over 1135 MHz in some games. And very respectable oc on your Xeon, though that temp

It's an Asus Matrix card so I guess that it's more or less a binned chip... not Matrix Platinum though.

I had Platinum's bios on that card but had to go back to the original as its RAM doesn't clock to Platinum's speed (6600MHz effective).

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

It's still giving me issues with core based CPUs It will post once, freeze and then not post again. It works ok with netburst tho.

I used to have the "little brother" of that board, a P5N32-E SLI, and it always sucked...all my 775 Asus Nvidia SLI boards were kind of "jank", now that I think of it. I loved Asus back then, but all my P5N SLI boards weren't great. It was a long time ago, but I remember liking the XFX boards a lot more. I do remember that P5N32-E just always acted weird...like, certain multipliers wouldn't work, overclocking sucked...they were pretty though. I also had P5N-E, and P5N-T Deluxe, and they all gave me headaches. I still love all those Nvidia chipset boards though. I ran them for years, and once the jank was sorted out, they ran fine. I think they honestly just had a lot of issues in general, in their production, in the BIOS or whatever. If I started collecting PC hardware again, I'd probably start with these old Nvidia chipset SLI 775 boards. Get all the ones I used to have and all the ones I didn't, even the OEM. There aren't that many, and they are the best looking boards of their time, IMO. I really hope you can get that thing fully working again, the Striker Extreme. Have you tried removing and re-inserting that BIOS chip thing? If you are completely spent on fixes, one last thing to even try is replacing that chip...I'd go ham cleaning some more first, use something "heavier duty" than isopropyl on the CPU and RAM sockets...but I found a BIOS chip thing for your board after a quick search, probably many more options out there, but here's a link if you want to try it - https://picclick.com/BIOS-Chip-ASUS-Striker-Extreme-381117382769.html - there's likely some on Ebay and other places too, that's just the first that came up for me and seemed reasonably priced.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

I used to have the "little brother" of that board, a P5N32-E SLI, and it always sucked...all my 775 Asus Nvidia SLI boards were kind of "jank", now that I think of it. I loved Asus back then, but all my P5N SLI boards weren't great. It was a long time ago, but I remember liking the XFX boards a lot more. I do remember that P5N32-E just always acted weird...like, certain multipliers wouldn't work, overclocking sucked...they were pretty though. I also had P5N-E, and P5N-T Deluxe, and they all gave me headaches. I still love all those Nvidia chipset boards though. I ran them for years, and once the jank was sorted out, they ran fine. I think they honestly just had a lot of issues in general, in their production, in the BIOS or whatever. If I started collecting PC hardware again, I'd probably start with these old Nvidia chipset SLI 775 boards. Get all the ones I used to have and all the ones I didn't, even the OEM. There aren't that many, and they are the best looking boards of their time, IMO. I really hope you can get that thing fully working again, the Striker Extreme. Have you tried removing and re-inserting that BIOS chip thing? If you are completely spent on fixes, one last thing to even try is replacing that chip...I'd go ham cleaning some more first, use something "heavier duty" than isopropyl on the CPU and RAM sockets...but I found a BIOS chip thing for your board after a quick search, probably many more options out there, but here's a link if you want to try it - https://picclick.com/BIOS-Chip-ASUS-Striker-Extreme-381117382769.html - there's likely some on Ebay and other places too, that's just the first that came up for me and seemed reasonably priced.

I have a P5N-T Deluxe i got with an e8400 on eBay. The e8400 was shorted and while it just tripped protections on an OEM board I tried it on, it blew out a fet on the P5N-T and now that vrm is shorted. Oh well.

I have done more testing. It boots up perfectly even into an OS with a single core. It works perfectly fine with p4 630, Celeron d 347, and Celeron 450 (Conroe). But duals and quads either get to the splash screen and freeze or don't post at all. I got a pentium d to boot once but after that it wouldn't display again in this board.

I have reflashed the bios to the latest with a pentium 4 installed, but it didn't change anything.

It's a very weird issue. Usually it gives me code 1d on my post card.

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

I am finding "1D - OEM pre-memory initialization codes". So it's possibly still socket or RAM slot issues and not necessarily anything damaged. I assume you've went well over it for any obvious damage? I would personally do a big no-no and use something real heavy, like brake cleaner on the RAM and CPU sockets. And even though you were able to update the BIOS, I would still consider pulling it from its socket and giving it a cleaning too. And I would still consider replacing that BIOS chip as a last resort. If I was still collecting, I'd keep the board even if it wasn't fully functional. Lots of nostalgia for that era of hardware. I am also assuming you've tried a ton on it already and are running out of ideas, but make sure to try some different RAM too, if you haven't already...might be some weird incompatibility there or something, wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Bios chip is soldered on this one.

My other fully working striker extreme has a socketed bios chip but not this one.

Might try cleaning ram slots and socket again.

Have tried a dozen ram sticks and cpus in different configurations.

As far as obvious damage, corrosion. There is a lot of it. Every solder joint looks tarnished etc. I've alcohol scrubbed this board but it really needs a complete reflow with fresh solder. which I lack the ability to do.

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

Bios chip is soldered on this one.

My other fully working striker extreme has a socketed bios chip but not this one.

Might try cleaning ram slots and socket again.

Have tried a dozen ram sticks and cpus in different configurations.

As far as obvious damage, corrosion. There is a lot of it. Every solder joint looks tarnished etc. I've alcohol scrubbed this board but it really needs a complete reflow with fresh solder. which I lack the ability to do.

News to me that they made a version of that board with a soldered BIOS chip! Tells me they may have knew the socketed chips were causing issues on those boards. Or maybe they were just cutting costs once all the issues were "ironed out" lol I assume the board with a soldered one has a later manufacturing date?

 

[Ruru]

News to me that they made a version of that board with a soldered BIOS chip! Tells me they may have knew the socketed chips were causing issues on those boards. Or maybe they were just cutting costs once all the issues were "ironed out" lol I assume the soldered one has a later manufacturing date?

I love old hardware when they had socketed chips..

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

News to me that they made a version of that board with a soldered BIOS chip! Tells me they may have knew the socketed chips were causing issues on those boards. Or maybe they were just cutting costs once all the issues were "ironed out" lol I assume the board with a soldered one has a later manufacturing date?

If I had to guess its more likely to be cost cutting. How would I check mfg date?

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

If I had to guess its more likely to be cost cutting. How would I check mfg date?

It's probably "hidden" in the serial or product number but it was prob on a sticker that may or may not still be there. It might be printed right on the PCB somewhere too. Not important though, was just curious. Also...my theory with BIOS chips and them failing, but still being able to write (update) - ever run into an SD card that lets you put stuff on it, but it's degraded to the point your stuff will just disappear? Or parts of it? Well, those little BIOS chips went through hell being in an SLI "enthusiast" system from back then...a lot of heat output directly in the area of the poor BIOS chip. Add in the fact that it's socketed, and oxidization is naturally going to occur between the points of contact, they weren't set up for longevity. There is a reason you can buy these BIOS chips readily all over the internet with the BIOS for your board already flashed.

 

[MachineLearning]

After realizing that my P5Q Turbo has no BIOS options in a couple key areas (NB GTL, command rate), I decided to get a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P... These Gigabyte boards, what absolute OC monsters. RAM slots kissing the NB. I'll clean it up and have photos for you all once it arrives, although I don't think it's unfamiliar to many.

I do want to ask here, what are the differences between v1.0, 1.1, and 1.6? I see that 1.0 and 1.1 have different heatsink designs, but is there any change to their feature sets or OC ability? I got 1.1, which at least looks better than 1.0 subjectively.

 

[Ruru]

After realizing that my P5Q Turbo has no BIOS options in a couple key areas (NB GTL, command rate), I decided to get a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P... These Gigabyte boards, what absolute OC monsters. RAM slots kissing the NB. I'll clean it up and have photos for you all once it arrives, although I don't think it's unfamiliar to many.

I do want to ask here, what are the differences between v1.0, 1.1, and 1.6? I see that 1.0 and 1.1 have different heatsink designs, but is there any change to their feature sets or OC ability? I got 1.1, which at least looks better than 1.0 subjectively.

What CPU you have to tinker with

 

[Aaron_Henderson]

I forgot about the P5N72-T Premium I ran for awhile as well (780i), and actually found a photo of it from about 11+ years ago. Most expensive board I have ever bought. Yes that is auto heater hose lol CM690 Nvidia Edition, Swiftech Apogee GT I think CPU block...I think this was before I got my second GTX 570 and was running a GTX 460 for Physx lol That Antec Truepower New went though several of my next computers...I'd probably still be running it if I didn't sell the final PC it was in. This was also my first water cooling loop. Those are Scythe Ultra Kaze 3000 fans, too...I think I still have them somewhere.

(don't kill me for the overclock.net decal lol)

 

[Ruru]

I forgot about the P5N72-T Premium I ran for awhile as well (780i), and actually found a photo of it from about 11+ years ago. Most expensive board I have ever bought. Yes that is auto heater hose lol CM690 Nvidia Edition, Swiftech Apogee GT I think CPU block...I think this was before I got my second GTX 570 and was running a GTX 460 for Physx lol That Antec Truepower New went though several of my next computers...I'd probably still be running it if I didn't sell the final PC it was in. This was also my first water cooling loop. Those are Scythe Ultra Kaze 3000 fans, too...I think I still have them somewhere.

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(don't kill me for the overclock.net decal lol)

Now that's a sweet build!