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Outback Bronze · Sep 26, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
To be honest no idea, thought it might do SLi due to 2x PCI-E slots

Pretty sure it isn't as they were first reserved for nforce chipsets on 775 e.g. 650i, 680i, 750i, 780i and 790i.

MaxiPro800 · Sep 26, 2023

From what I read... it has to do with drivers more than hardware. It seems 975x does unoficially support SLi, and the only thing that has to be done is driver tinkering, if I'm not fully wrong.

Here's a lil' bit I found about SLi and 975x (not my board specifically, but I guess there should be a way to activate it)

Asus P5WDG2-WS: Intel 975X goes to Work

www.anandtech.com

So it is possible after all. Just not officially, I guess, though I haven't checked if any of the newer drivers allow SLi without modding.

Outback Bronze · Sep 26, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
unoficially support SLi

This was my way of thinking from the start. Not officially supported, but looks as though you can make it possible. Cheers for the link!

Ruru · Sep 26, 2023

Let's do some 560 Ti (Asus DCU II) overclocking. I hope this does 1GHz with a slight voltage bump. Currently just going 10MHz increments (factory GPU clock is 830MHz) and running Superposition.

Paired with Xeon X5675 at stock as it has only a stock cooler.

basco · Sep 27, 2023

i think ya should reach 1050mhz plus on asus gtx560ti easy. plz report back !
i would try with no volt increase first. did not do much for mine until you get it colder.

lexluthermiester · Sep 27, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
Old and rusty 360 a gets new life.
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The only think that irks me about it is its loud as all hell Delta fans. I have a Nidec fanned white unit and that thing is barely audible, on par with Sunons.

Dude, your 360 is blue!!

The Krull · Sep 27, 2023

hi again, how tastes a still alive threatripper's 6380 paired with 64gig of ram. lots of cpu power, now looking for mobo.

boomstik360 · Sep 27, 2023

Okay, finally some time to take some decent pics of the 6600GT card and what came in the box. Literally insane. Amazing what they packed into a mid range card even back then. The discs just kept coming with two full games and a bunch of software :laugh:

excuse the excess in photos lol

lexluthermiester · Sep 27, 2023

boomstik360 said:
Okay, finally some time to take some decent pics of the 6600GT card and what came in the box. Literally insane. Amazing what they packed into a mid range card even back then. The discs just kept coming with two full games and a bunch of software excuse the excess in photos lol

Back when MSI was excellent!

boomstik360 · Sep 27, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Back when MSI was excellent!

Haha I have a new MSI board right now and it’s super solid!!!

Outback Bronze said:
My old mate used to run one of those. Clocked his Pentium D 830 pretty hard. It's not an SLI board, is it?

I've been looking for them in their original retail boxes. Haven't come across any yet. I used to run two in Xfire back in the day. Were good cards!

Sheesh. Good times. I had an 820 with either 1 or 2 gigs of Ram. Then of course Core 2 came out what felt like immediately after. Embarrassed it even more than an Athlon 64 X2!

MaxiPro800 · Sep 27, 2023

Another special - my 360 DVD flashing "bench" build:

- Epox EP-4PLAI-A (848P)
- Northwood HT 2.8C
- 512MB DDR400
- 160GB WD1600AVJS SATA HDD
- FX 5600 or Radeon 9550 AGP 8x (depends on which is available on hand at the time I need to flash)
- CWT ISO-500PP PSU
- XP SP3 w/ JungleFlasher
- spare Xenon revision 360 to supply power to drive w/ custom DVD power cable

lexluthermiester · Sep 28, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
Another special - my 360 DVD flashing "bench" build:
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- Epox EP-4PLAI-A (848P)
- Northwood HT 2.8C
- 512MB DDR400
- 160GB WD1600AVJS SATA HDD
- FX 5600 or Radeon 9550 AGP 8x (depends on which is available on hand at the time I need to flash)
- CWT ISO-500PP PSU
- XP SP3 w/ JungleFlasher
- spare Xenon revision 360 to supply power to drive w/ custom DVD power cable

This is impressive on sooo many levels. If I may make a suggestion? A desk, table or even a piece of plywood would be a better working surface...

MaxiPro800 · Sep 29, 2023

Had some fun with a Skt423 1.5GHz Willy P4.
Took me more hours to get every game in there than the actual install (which took about a hour tops) and driver installation (which took another hour because I had to find the "sweetspot- nVidia driver version) but the whole games took like 4 hours or so to install.

boomstik360 · Sep 29, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
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Had some fun with a Skt423 1.5GHz Willy P4.
Took me more hours to get every game in there than the actual install (which took about a hour tops) and driver installation (which took another hour because I had to find the "sweetspot- nVidia driver version) but the whole games took like 4 hours or so to install.

Dang blast from the past! Such a short lived socket! Obviously it was manufactured for a while but it only lasted but a year before 478 was released. I never really saw a whole lot of these!

MaxiPro800 · Sep 29, 2023

I got mine as some sort of "478 surplus" build.

IIRC, it had an 478-to-423 adapter in place of the 1.5, along with what I think was a Northwood Celeron, an ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI (strange GPU choice considering the AGP slot was just above it).

The rest were a standard 8139 NIC, an Lite-On DVDRW burner that would have a stuck tray no matter what belt I used, and I think there was yet another 80GB Maxtor 6Y or 6L series (the chunkier Diamondmax 9/10, not the slim 6E that loved failing like flies) and a broken LC-8460BTX PSU.

I also have a 478SDR board - the Aopen AX4BS, made on the same chipset as the MSI.

basco · Sep 29, 2023

i think XFX was the only who did this version number thingy but i don´t know if they really changed something ? someone knows moar ?

and just some reference HIS 5870:

boomstik360 · Sep 29, 2023

basco said:
i think XFX was the only who did this version number thingy but i don´t know if they really changed something ? someone knows moar ?
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and just some reference HIS 5870:
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Are you talking about the 666M part? I assume that’s just for the 666Mhz core clock.

Audioave10 · Sep 29, 2023

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boomstik360 · Sep 29, 2023

Audioave10 said:
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Of course now I know about this

natr0n · Sep 29, 2023

boomstik360 said:
Okay, finally some time to take some decent pics of the 6600GT card and what came in the box. Literally insane. Amazing what they packed into a mid range card even back then. The discs just kept coming with two full games and a bunch of software excuse the excess in photos lol

I have that card. Remember it like it shows and was blown away with amount of discs.

MaxiPro800 · Sep 29, 2023

Have the same 6600GT... unfortunately it died with artefacts. No amount of repair techniques managed to get it back.

And my X1950 AGP also joined it unfortunately, so quite a double whammy for me.

basco · Sep 29, 2023

@boomstik360
no i meant the v.8.3 part on the gtx 260 and i had the same cards telling me v.3.1 or v.5.1 and so on

or like this on a XFX 5770 version C.1:
under made in china

Greenslade · Sep 30, 2023

Retro new ware from our old mate Clint

boomstik360 · Sep 30, 2023

basco said:
@boomstik360
no i meant the v.8.3 part on the gtx 260 and i had the same cards telling me v.3.1 or v.5.1 and so on

or like this on a XFX 5770 version C.1:
under made in china
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Ohhhh I see. That is interesting. Somebody probably knows exactly here!

Macro Device · Sep 30, 2023

Allow me to present a victim of my hardcore violence.

PSU: about a couple decades old refurbished FSP Epsilon 700 W.
Motherboard: H61 from Gigabyte with faulty VRM.
GPU: suddenly completely intact, yet it is HD 7850 of ONE GB VRAM. Yes, one, not two.
The game (CP2077, ver. 1.61) has been installed on an HDD for further memes.

System Name	Raptor Baked
Processor	14900k w.c.
Motherboard	Z790 Hero
Cooling	w.c.
Memory	48GB G.Skill 7200
Video Card(s)	Zotac 4080 w.c.
Storage	2TB Kingston kc3k
Display(s)	Samsung 34" G8
Case	Corsair 460X
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	PCIe5 850w
Mouse	Asus
Keyboard	Corsair
Software	Win 11
Benchmark Scores	Cool n Quiet.

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 43 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	ASUS RoG Cerberus mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

System Name	Raptor Baked
Processor	14900k w.c.
Motherboard	Z790 Hero
Cooling	w.c.
Memory	48GB G.Skill 7200
Video Card(s)	Zotac 4080 w.c.
Storage	2TB Kingston kc3k
Display(s)	Samsung 34" G8
Case	Corsair 460X
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	PCIe5 850w
Mouse	Asus
Keyboard	Corsair
Software	Win 11
Benchmark Scores	Cool n Quiet.

System Name	4K-gaming / media-PC
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero / Asus Z170-A
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50 / Thermaltake Contac 21
Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	RTX 3080 10GB / RX 6700 XT
Storage	3.3TB of SSDs / several small SSDs
Display(s)	27" 4K120 IPS + 32" 4K60 IPS + 24" 1080p60
Case	Corsair 4000D AF White / DeepCool CC560 WH
Audio Device(s)	Creative Omni BT speaker
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro / Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	They run Crysis

System Name	ibuytheusedstuff
Processor	5960x
Motherboard	x99 sabertooth
Cooling	old socket775 cooler
Memory	32 Viper
Video Card(s)	1080ti on morpheus 1
Storage	raptors+ssd
Display(s)	acer 120hz
Case	open bench
Audio Device(s)	onb
Power Supply	antec 1200 moar power
Mouse	mx 518
Keyboard	roccat arvo

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Processor	Always changing
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Cooling	Always changing
Memory	Always changing
Video Card(s)	Always changing
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Audio Device(s)	Always changing
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System Name	Main W10
Processor	i7 2700K
Motherboard	Gig Z77 HD4
Cooling	Xigmatech Tower Cooler
Memory	16 GB G-Skill 1600Mhz
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 1080ti 11GB
Storage	WD Gold 2 TB HD
Display(s)	Acer 27" 1440P
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Pro
Audio Device(s)	JDS Labs Element DAC/AMP
Power Supply	Rosewill Hive 650 watt
Mouse	MX 518
Keyboard	Cherry 3000 with Blues

System Name	natr0n-PC
Processor	Ryzen 5950x-5600x \| 9600k
Motherboard	B450 AORUS M \| Z390 UD
Cooling	EK AIO 360 - 6 fan action \| AIO
Memory	Patriot - Viper Steel DDR4 (B-Die)(4x8GB) \| Samsung DDR4 (4x8GB)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 3070ti FTW
Storage	Various
Display(s)	Pixio PX279 Prime
Case	Thermaltake Level 20 VT \| Black bench
Audio Device(s)	LOXJIE D10 + Kinter Amp + 6 Bookshelf Speakers Sony+JVC+Sony
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex III ARGB 80+ Gold 650W \| EVGA 700 Gold
Software	XP/7/8.1/10
Benchmark Scores	http://valid.x86.fr/79kuh6

System Name	DLSS / YOLO-PC
Processor	i5-12400F / 10600KF
Motherboard	Gigabyte B760M DS3H / Z490 Vision D
Cooling	Laminar RM1 / Gammaxx 400
Memory	32 GB DDR4-3200 / 16 GB DDR4-3333
Video Card(s)	RX 6700 XT / R9 380 2 GB
Storage	A couple SSDs, m.2 NVMe included / 240 GB CX1 + 1 TB WD HDD
Display(s)	Compit HA2704 / MSi G2712
Case	Matrexx 55 / Junkyard special
Audio Device(s)	Want loud, use headphones. Want quiet, use satellites.
Power Supply	Thermaltake 1000 W / Corsair CX650M / DQ550ST [backup]
Mouse	Don't disturb, cheese eating in progress...
Keyboard	Makes some noise. Probably onto something.
VR HMD	I live in real reality and don't need a virtual one.
Software	Windows 10 and 11

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