TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Veseleil]

If I were you, I'd ditch the ECS for a Gigabyte or ASUS, should you want to go with a Core 2 Duo. I just wouldn't trust ECS with a 10ft pole to make a capable P35 mainboard.

I have a bunch of workable core 2 duo boards and chips, but only this one that supports quads, and it's dead.

 

[Terronium-12]

Nice! That was a golden CPU. Much like the Celeron 300A, one could get generally a 50% OC or better out of them.

BTW, Welcome to TPU!

Thank you!

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More stuff I'm digging up:



Damn BBQ sauce dipping cup photobombing everything.

I had to thoroughly clean and repaste the 1900; I wasn't going to take a picture of it in its original condition. You can still see dirt and nastiness underneath the blower fan because I can't clean that part.

The Sempron still looks great; I don't have any of the mounting hardware for the G-Power; the Athlons are...I have no idea what happened to them, but the 4400 is in a DFI rig downstairs, which I will get around to cleaning the board and showing that off as well.

 

[Audioave10]

fun stuff...

 

[GreiverBlade]

fun stuff...

hilarious build, i hope it's on purpose but he did put the processor HSF on the chipset and the chipset HS on the CPU

 

[Audioave10]

hilarious build, i hope it's on purpose but he did put the processor HSF on the chipset and the chipset HS on the CPU

He gets a little crazy sometimes, but he always checks his temps.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I would like to ask my fellow tech lovers to share their thoughts about this board (if there are any, thoughts):View attachment 271258
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I have it for years, got it from a friend, and he got it from his uncle. His uncle bought it some 20 years ago, and it came like this - giving no signs of life. Tested it many times with different core2 processors, but no luck. I'll probably take it to the electronic repair shop someday.
I would really love to see it come to life. Especially as I've kinda skipped the whole dual core, core 2 era... I was on p4 all that time, and later got a Phenom II X4 965 BE.
Sorry about bad photo quality, my phone camera cover glass broke a while ago, and the dust did its thing.

That is a good board. Doesn't look like is needs any caps and the socket looks good too. Have you tested with an OG C2D? Like an E6400 or E6600? It might need a BIOS update.

 

[Veseleil]

That is a good board. Doesn't look like is needs any caps and the socket looks good too. Have you tested with an OG C2D? Like an E6400 or E6600? It might need a BIOS update.

I think most of my C2D are E6300 or E4300, and the original owner (RIP) was much more tech savy person than myself, so i guess he tried most of the stuff that was available at that time. I can't remember the exact model numbers as i got them at a time they were already considered a junk by their owners.
As I'm getting older, and due to the fact I'm not exactly playing games nor using (any of) my PC for any serious work other than browsing, film and music, i might find a spare time to work on these. I should be able to complete one usable C2D machine, install some old games, and bring back at least a glimpse of the times we feel nostalgic about.
Yeah, and I have so many P4 laying around in parts, but i kinda hate them for the reasons I mentioned in the earlier post.

That is a good board. Doesn't look like is needs any caps and the socket looks good too.

Sorry for the double post, forgot to obviously state a fact about this motherboard. It's brand new. But it didn't work out of the box, and the original owner (RIP) somehow failed to get it fixed or replaced under warranty. It is possible that it didn't have any warranty at all.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think most of my C2D are E6300 or E4300, and the original owner (RIP) was much more tech savy person than myself, so i guess he tried most of the stuff that was available at that time. I can't remember the exact model numbers as i got them at a time they were already considered a junk by their owners.

Sorry, that was my bad. When I said it was a good board, I meant that in a general sense instead of that particular board. ECS is a great budget brand. I've never seen a dead board from them. So this is a first for me.

Yeah, and I have so many P4 laying around in parts, but i kinda hate them for the reasons I mentioned in the earlier post.

Fair enough. I feel ya.

Sorry for the double post

No worries. They auto-merge anyway.

It's brand new. But it didn't work out of the box, and the original owner (RIP) somehow failed to get it fixed or replaced under warranty. It is possible that it didn't have any warranty at all.

That sucks.

 

[Trekkie4]

Just received this explosive monstrosity, earlier today!


Already inside the case, this Riva TNT (Creative 3D Blaster CT6710) will be running on Asus P5A-B Pentium MMX 233 system

 

[80251]

DEC Rainbow, DEC's attempt to enter the PC market. We had one at my work that no one ever used because IBM had already sewn up the PC market by then. RIP DEC, the first company to introduce a GHZ. CPU. My co-workers back then would've laughed at the idea of DEC going under.

 

[Trekkie4]

DEC Rainbow, DEC's attempt to enter the PC market. We had one at my work that no one ever used because IBM had already sewn up the PC market by then. RIP DEC, the first company to introduce a GHZ. CPU. My co-workers back then would've laughed at the idea of DEC going under.

Right, I've seen multiple references to "Digital" and I even owned one myself for quite some time. Celebris to be exact, I believe the model number was GL 6200, Pentium Pro 200. What happened to them & who bought them afterwards?

 

[hckngrtfakt]

I would like to ask my fellow tech lovers to share their thoughts about this board (if there are any, thoughts):

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View attachment 271257
I have it for years, got it from a friend, and he got it from his uncle. His uncle bought it some 20 years ago, and it came like this - giving no signs of life. Tested it many times with different core2 processors, but no luck. I'll probably take it to the electronic repair shop someday.
I would really love to see it come to life. Especially as I've kinda skipped the whole dual core, core 2 era... I was on p4 all that time, and later got a Phenom II X4 965 BE.
Sorry about bad photo quality, my phone camera glass cover broke a while ago, and the dust did its thing.

I don't know if is bad light, but near the VRMs seems like you're missing some cpu pins in the socket.
I have a similar board with a q6600 and can probably take pictures to verify.

 

[80251]

Right, I've seen multiple references to "Digital" and I even owned one myself for quite some time. Celebris to be exact, I believe the model number was GL 6200, Pentium Pro 200. What happened to them & who bought them afterwards?

Compaq (also gone now) bought out DEC. HP bought out Compaq. Back when I started in IT, PC's were considered toys (except for the finance department that made extensive use of PC's for Lotus 1-2-3, one of the first really big business programs tailored to the PC) while IBM mainframers were gods.
I actually met a really smart Korean lady who was on the DEC team who designed the Rainbow.

 

[Veseleil]

I don't know if is bad light, but near the VRMs seems like you're missing some cpu pins in the socket.
I have a similar board with a q6600 and can probably take pictures to verify.

I'll check when I get back from work. Thanks.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don't know if is bad light, but near the VRMs seems like you're missing some cpu pins in the socket.
I have a similar board with a q6600 and can probably take pictures to verify.

Nope, those blank/black spots are the CPU mounting notches. Perfectly normal. You can see the other notch on the other side of the socket in the photo.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Before:

After:

Much improved.

Wasn't as simple as it should have been but I got there in the end. In short my pinecil wasn't able to push sufficient heat into the large power plane on this PCB to melt the solder holding one leg of each capacitor in. I resorted to a 1500w heat gun which was enough heat to do so. The replacement capacitors are a little larger than the originals but they fit in well enough.

Board works just fine. Probably need to repaste the chipsets, but I'll put that off for some other day since I don't intend to use this board any time soon since I'd rather use my striker extreme.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Before:
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After:
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Much improved.

Wasn't as simple as it should have been but I got there in the end. In short my pinecil wasn't able to push sufficient heat into the large power plane on this PCB to melt the solder holding one leg of each capacitor in. I resorted to a 1500w heat gun which was enough heat to do so. The replacement capacitors are a little larger than the originals but they fit in well enough.

Board works just fine. Probably need to repaste the chipsets, but I'll put that off for some other day since I don't intend to use this board any time soon since I'd rather use my striker extreme.

Nice job!

 

[Audioave10]

Phil is so very RETRO ... nice!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Phil is so very RETRO ... nice!

Yeah, he really is! Phil is next level retro!

 

[80251]

Socket 7, what do you do if your baby-AT PSU fails?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Socket 7, what do you do if your baby-AT PSU fails?

Find another one.

 

[Trekkie4]

Socket 7, what do you do if your baby-AT PSU fails?

What @Mr.Scott said above ... OR grab one of these:

 

[framebuffer]

Does anyone remember if there is a difference between Socket A, Barton based Semprons and Barton based Athlon-XPs? (except PR rating / frequency)
They seems to have same amount of cache and supporting same features

 

[Mr.Scott]

There is no difference.
The Sempron 3000+ Barton's were very good chips.

 

[framebuffer]

There is no difference.
The Sempron 3000+ Barton's were very good chips.

Ah cool, I was gathering some info about the Barton-Sempron because I just got a nice little system with a Sempron 3000+, ASUS A7V600-X and a single stick of HyperX KHX3200 (non A or AK) so it should be BH-5
Guess he's stock-freq. times are ending... now