TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Audioave10]

LGR tries an Intel A380 video card with Retro games...and a weird case.

Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC...

 

[Greenslade]

Are old mate Phil about SD cards on 98. v HDD and SSD.

LGR tries an Intel A380 video card with Retro games...and a weird case.

Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC...

Clint gets some weird stuff ,who in the right mind would buy that crap.I am glad he did not put any fish in it.It certainly was not his day.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Repasted the chipsets on the ROG Commando today. Took awhile, paste was harder than a rock.

Wanted to tinker with my Pentium D 925. Didn't do anything exotic to cool it, and am not doing suicide runs or anything.

Multiplier is a fixed 15 on this board. It got to about 295 fsb before it didn't really want to go further.

With some tinkering and a lot more voltage I did get it to 305 fsb. Windows 8.1 does run a good bit faster at 4.575ghz rather than the default 3.0ghz, and cinebench shows a pretty good improvement as well.

I do feel like I should be able to get more out of this CPU though, I might try a different board and perhaps a different cooling solution tomorrow.

 

[MachineLearning]

Look at this IP45 Pro and IX48 QuadGT... So much potential if Abit had hung around a bit longer. The IP45 Pro is especially impressive IMO with that massive northbridge cooling and 8 power stages (did Abit ever do >5 before??).

CeBIT 2008 Day 1 - New Intel Chipsets, Atom on Display, and lots from AMD/NVIDIA

www.anandtech.com

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

I have been waiting patiently to find another IX48 Max for sale in the wild. Haven't seen one on eBay in almost two years now. Not sure where else to look or ask.

 

[MachineLearning]

I have been waiting patiently to find another IX48 Max for sale in the wild. Haven't seen one on eBay in almost two years now. Not sure where else to look or ask.

One rare board... I wish you luck.

 

[Greenslade]

Repasted the chipsets on the ROG Commando today. Took awhile, paste was harder than a rock.
View attachment 277109
Wanted to tinker with my Pentium D 925. Didn't do anything exotic to cool it, and am not doing suicide runs or anything.
View attachment 277110
Multiplier is a fixed 15 on this board. It got to about 295 fsb before it didn't really want to go further.
View attachment 277111
With some tinkering and a lot more voltage I did get it to 305 fsb. Windows 8.1 does run a good bit faster at 4.575ghz rather than the default 3.0ghz, and cinebench shows a pretty good improvement as well. View attachment 277112
I do feel like I should be able to get more out of this CPU though, I might try a different board and perhaps a different cooling solution tomorrow.

looks like a nice board, there is a lot going on there.

Some people would think it was an ugly case I do myself, I dare say 68olds would agree with me It looks good inside the case though. Showing the temperature on the front cool.

I have been waiting patiently to find another IX48 Max for sale in the wild. Haven't seen one on eBay in almost two years now. Not sure where else to look or ask.

Here is a video about it.

 

[68Olds]

My first opinion of the outside of that case... lol

However, yeah it turned out to be a pretty nice vintage system. I'd definitely put the thermal probe under the back of the GPU heatsink.

 

[MachineLearning]

Repasted the chipsets on the ROG Commando today. Took awhile, paste was harder than a rock.
View attachment 277109
Wanted to tinker with my Pentium D 925. Didn't do anything exotic to cool it, and am not doing suicide runs or anything.
View attachment 277110
Multiplier is a fixed 15 on this board. It got to about 295 fsb before it didn't really want to go further.
View attachment 277111
With some tinkering and a lot more voltage I did get it to 305 fsb. Windows 8.1 does run a good bit faster at 4.575ghz rather than the default 3.0ghz, and cinebench shows a pretty good improvement as well. View attachment 277112
I do feel like I should be able to get more out of this CPU though, I might try a different board and perhaps a different cooling solution tomorrow.

You might be able to reduce the multiplier of Netburst CPUs on your Commando using this trick Antinomy shared:

Antinomy's Low Clock Challenge

community.hwbot.org

My boards don't work with it, they boot just fine but still at the regular multiplier. Haven't tried the AB9 QuadGT yet however.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Here is a video about it.

I've seen that. Earlier days of Youtube. I've collected as much info as I can on them. They're just darned rare, and most were sold in Europe I think.

My IP35 Pro would get jealous if I ever got one though. Big bro X48 would beat up on it.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Restored the most useless card I guess. An 64 bit 512MB DDR2 HD4650.

And yes, that dinky cooler is from a HD3450 no less. It's due for replacement anyways.

 

[Greenslade]

Does anyone know where the Power SW cable goes on this Hp board? I want to know because I want to test an old PSU. I realize some of the caps have gone on there.

 

[68Olds]

The pins in the lower right corner of the board. Bottom row pins 3 & 4 counting from the right seem to be labeled PWR ON.

 

[Ruru]

Repasted the chipsets on the ROG Commando today. Took awhile, paste was harder than a rock.
View attachment 277109
Wanted to tinker with my Pentium D 925. Didn't do anything exotic to cool it, and am not doing suicide runs or anything.
View attachment 277110
Multiplier is a fixed 15 on this board. It got to about 295 fsb before it didn't really want to go further.
View attachment 277111
With some tinkering and a lot more voltage I did get it to 305 fsb. Windows 8.1 does run a good bit faster at 4.575ghz rather than the default 3.0ghz, and cinebench shows a pretty good improvement as well. View attachment 277112
I do feel like I should be able to get more out of this CPU though, I might try a different board and perhaps a different cooling solution tomorrow.

What you use for cooling? I have a D935 which was rock stable @ 4800MHz with custom loop. P5Q Pro as motherboard.

I may try it one day if it can reach 5GHz

 

[Greenslade]

The pins in the lower right corner of the board. Bottom row pins 3 & 4 counting from the right seem to be labeled PWR ON.

View attachment 277335

Thanks for that 680ldsHow many of those caps have gone on there

 

[lexluthermiester]

Restored the most useless card I guess. An 64 bit 512MB DDR2 HD4650.

Not at all useless. It makes for a great spare card for testing and whatnot.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

What you use for cooling? I have a D935 which was rock stable @ 4800MHz with custom loop. P5Q Pro as motherboard.

I may try it one day if it can reach 5GHz

At the moment a Corsair a50 air cooler with a 20w delta 120mm zip tied to it.

I tried the 925 on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe which has some additional overclocking bios features but is also missing a few the commando has. Got to the exact same point before it just walls at 305fsb and will not push past even if I cranked the voltage to the maximum of 1.7v both boards can push.

I might buy another pentium d that hopefully has a higher fsb wall and use some more fancy cooling like I did below chasing records (and not succeeding) with some westmere xeons.

 

[Ruru]

At the moment a Corsair a50 air cooler with a 20w delta 120mm zip tied to it.

I tried the 925 on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe which has some additional overclocking bios features but is also missing a few the commando has. Got to the exact same point before it just walls at 305fsb and will not push past even if I cranked the voltage to the maximum of 1.7v both boards can push.

View attachment 277361
I might buy another pentium d that hopefully has a higher fsb wall and use some more fancy cooling like I did below chasing records (and not succeeding) with some westmere xeons.View attachment 277363

Gotta love that ice cooling

 

[MaxiPro800]

Not at all useless. It makes for a great spare card for testing and whatnot.

I already have a 9500GT 1GB for testing. Not sure what would a 64-bit crippled HD4650 help with, but if so, I guess I can scrounge some parts and patch it up to look good enough.

 

[Greenslade]

At the moment a Corsair a50 air cooler with a 20w delta 120mm zip tied to it.

I tried the 925 on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe which has some additional overclocking bios features but is also missing a few the commando has. Got to the exact same point before it just walls at 305fsb and will not push past even if I cranked the voltage to the maximum of 1.7v both boards can push.

View attachment 277361
I might buy another pentium d that hopefully has a higher fsb wall and use some more fancy cooling like I did below chasing records (and not succeeding) with some westmere xeons.View attachment 277363

Those coolers, look cool but a bit on the expensive side for me.

 

[Ruru]

I already have a 9500GT 1GB for testing. Not sure what would a 64-bit crippled HD4650 help with, but if so, I guess I can scrounge some parts and patch it up to look good enough.

As most HD 4650s have already DDR2 I can just imagine what that 64bit memorybus does to it..

 

[Trekkie4]

My first opinion of the outside of that case... lol

However, yeah it turned out to be a pretty nice vintage system. I'd definitely put the thermal probe under the back of the GPU heatsink.

"Fra-gile ... must be Italian" Cracks me up every time, love that movie!

On a side note, I FINALLY found something which I've been searching for over a decade. This:


The model (and brand name) is BTC 8110W. And yes, the keyboard is indeed yellowed pretty badly, which unfortunately someone tried to address with aggressive chemical at some point. Most likely acetone or paint stripper of some sort, because the plastic is literally polished up in some areas & therefore permanently destroyed.

Long story short, I took the whole thing apart, showered all the chunks of dust & debris and then put the whole thing into dishwasher for a full cycle.


After carefully reassembling everything back together again, the finishing result leaves something to be desired even though it's not THAT bad, as it would seem (and appear) on digital camera.


The keyboard is fully operational, all the keys are working OK so now I can only hope to "Retrobrite" rest of the keyboard at some point OR to merge it with another, non-functional one which doesn't have any cosmetic issues. The only problem is that BTC 8110 (or 8140 for that matter) are both incredibly rare nowdays and highly expensive. No one is willing to just give them away (actually someone in here, on this very forum - and I'm not going to say who, offered me one for "free" long time ago, only to suddenly change his attitude towards me & eventually have me blocked), and finding one on ebay with all the shipping & handling would easily cost over $50, and that's without the customs & other fees.

 

[Ruru]

"Fra-gile ... must be Italian" Cracks me up every time, love that movie!

On a side note, I FINALLY found something which I've been searching for over a decade. This:


The model (and brand name) is BTC 8110W. And yes, the keyboard is indeed yellowed pretty badly, which unfortunately someone tried to address with aggressive chemical at some point. Most likely acetone or paint stripper of some sort, because the plastic is literally polished up in some areas & therefore permanently destroyed.

Long story short, I took the whole thing apart, showered all the chunks of dust & debris and then put the whole thing into dishwasher for a full cycle.


After carefully reassembling everything back together again, the finishing result leaves something to be desired even though it's not THAT bad, as it would seem (and appear) on digital camera.


The keyboard is fully operational, all the keys are working OK so now I can only hope to "Retrobrite" rest of the keyboard at some point OR to merge it with another, non-functional one which doesn't have any cosmetic issues. The only problem is that BTC 8110 (or 8140 for that matter) are both incredibly rare nowdays and highly expensive. No one is willing to just give them away (actually someone in here, on this very forum - and I'm not going to say who, offered me one for "free" long time ago, only to suddenly change his attitude towards me & eventually have me blocked), and finding one on ebay with all the shipping & handling would easily cost over $50, and that's without the customs & other fees.

Normally I'm not interested in retrobrighting but I have one Logitech Internet Keyboard (my uncle's old daily driver) which is so yellowed that it truly needs a treatment

 

[Trekkie4]

Normally I'm not interested in retrobrighting but I have one Logitech Internet Keyboard (my uncle's old daily driver) which is so yellowed that it truly needs a treatment

Same here, this one was just mess. Having somewhat yellowed keyboard wouldn't be an issue, but this one was just asking for wash & complete disassembly.

 

[Terronium-12]

Did some more digging...

I don't have the ZS Gamer anymore. Not sure what happened to it. Maybe it died?

After this I had a Xonar DX and I always enjoyed the sound of the relays clicking when booting into Windows. That also died, then I had the Xonar U7 and I don't remember what happened to that either. Anyway. moving on!

I wonder what this could be...

Apologies for the gore. I wasn't expecting the pad to decay like that in the box for 15 years or however long it's been.

Anyone else have one of the bad boys back in the day?

Autobots, roll out! Sorry but I've never been able to see that as anything other than the Autobots logo.