TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[lexluthermiester]

Which is the best heatsink cooler for a 754 motherboard"

Spire SP804S3-1 / Socket 940 / 939 / 754 / AM2 CPU CoolerView attachment 334115Or​

Akasa AK-861CU AMD Low Noise Cooler Socket AM2 754 939 940 Copper Base New Boxed​

Both are new and the same price £7 but the Spire is make an offer.Or are they about the same? Only 3 reviews for the Akasa on Amazon​

*Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2015
Poorly Machined unusable
Its badly machined. The copper base appears to be help on by four brass(?) studs. Three of these are machined flush with the copper surface. The fourth one site a little proud, so the heatsink doesn't make proper contact. Temperatures are way up. 60 degrees C at idle.

My one came from MicroDirect, so may be a different batch from these. Its going to go in the bin without ever being used.*
No reviews of the other one though.

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Either one will work if you're not OCing.

 

[Greenslade]

Either one will work if you're not OCing.

Thanks once again for your advice Lex.

Thanks once again for your advice Lex.

I got this one for £6 after making a offer it was £6.99 .it is always worth making an offer. Its not the one i put on here Akasa AK-860SF it had some good reviews on Amazon
*I did not expect too much from this cooler in view of the modest price, but my quad core CPU now sits at 38C instead of heading towards gas mark 6 with the previous cooler. The fan is not too noisy either. Overall great stuff.*

 

[lexluthermiester]

*I did not expect too much from this cooler in view of the modest price, but my quad core CPU now sits at 38C instead of heading towards gas mark 6 with the previous cooler. The fan is not too noisy either. Overall great stuff.*

Nice! Good value then.

 

[Greenslade]

Cint back Thrifting.

. That was a waste of time,adult dipersVery little in there it seems.

 

[SPDIF]

Another one for this thread that can't be forgotten... ATI Radeon X1950XTX-512MB GDDR 4 from 2006. With heat-pipe cooling, very heavy weight. Cooling element is in full copper!

 

[Mr.Scott]

Which is the best heatsink cooler for a 754 motherboard"

Spire SP804S3-1 / Socket 940 / 939 / 754 / AM2 CPU CoolerView attachment 334115Or​

Akasa AK-861CU AMD Low Noise Cooler Socket AM2 754 939 940 Copper Base New Boxed​

Both are new and the same price £7 but the Spire is make an offer.Or are they about the same? Only 3 reviews for the Akasa on Amazon​

*Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2015
Poorly Machined unusable
Its badly machined. The copper base appears to be help on by four brass(?) studs. Three of these are machined flush with the copper surface. The fourth one site a little proud, so the heatsink doesn't make proper contact. Temperatures are way up. 60 degrees C at idle.

My one came from MicroDirect, so may be a different batch from these. Its going to go in the bin without ever being used.*
No reviews of the other one though.

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find a AM4 Wraith.

 

[lexluthermiester]

find a AM4 Wraith.

Yeah, those are nice and should work perfectly with 939/AM2/AM3

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Another one for this thread that can't be forgotten... ATI Radeon X1950XTX-512MB GDDR 4 from 2006. With heat-pipe cooling, very heavy weight. Cooling element is in full copper!


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I miss that kind of card aesthetic tbh. Modern ones are either too plain or too much RGB.

 

[Greenslade]

Yeah, those are nice and should work perfectly with 939/AM2/AM3

The board is 754.plus the fact i have bought the one shown.I see you can get a mounting plate so it can fit a 754 socket.

• The mounting hole pattern of Socket AM4 is a little bit different from the old AMD Sockets (754, 939, 940, AM2(+), AM3(+),FM2(+)), meaning the old Supremacy EVO mounting plate is not compatible with Socket AM4! We now offer redesigned Mounting plate and updated Supremacy EVO Backplate that is required for complete AM4 compatibility!

 

[Veseleil]

I miss that kind of card aesthetic tbh. Modern ones are either too plain or too much RGB.

And less and less copper. The stuff is expensive.

 

[SPDIF]

This one also deserves it's place in the Hall of Fame; Creative labs, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 with 12MB EDO Ram from the year 1998.

 

[stinger608]

Creative labs, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 with 12MB EDO Ram

Had a Diamond Monster version of this. First time I was able to play Quake in 3Dfx!!!

Awesome memories.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Yeah, those are nice and should work perfectly with 939/AM2/AM3

754 also

This one also deserves it's place in the Hall of Fame; Creative labs, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 with 12MB EDO Ram from the year 1998.

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Sell now while it's worth a million dollars.

Sold all my Voodoo's in the last couple months.

 

[SPDIF]

This one came equipped with a cooling block on the frame buffer processor.

 

[68Olds]

This one also deserves it's place in the Hall of Fame; Creative labs, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 with 12MB EDO Ram from the year 1998.

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Nice!

Had a Diamond Monster version of this. First time I was able to play Quake in 3Dfx!!!

Awesome memories.

I still have my Diamond 8MB PCI card & patch cable.

754 also


Sell now while it's worth a million dollars.

Sold all my Voodoo's in the last couple months.

What? What kinda money could I reasonably expect to get for it?

 

[Bones]

Ok, can/have you tested it?


Which stepping though? There's two on that IHS. Weird stuff.

UPDATE:
Fixed the board and tried it - It works!
Just had to replace a bad cap and clean it up a little, that did the trick. The system BIOS shows it as being a 3.2 chip so the info to the side of the lid is correct.

 

[SPDIF]

With the external pass-through VGA cable hooked up from the 2D card into the Voodoo 2 card’s pass-through VGA port. Here with an S3 Virge DX video card equipped.

 

[TASOS]

Hi everybody
I see familiar nick-names and avatars in here.

Interesting thread.

 

[stinger608]

Hi everybody
I see familiar nick-names and avatars in here.

Interesting thread.

Welcome to TPU @TASOS

 

[SPDIF]

I love this thread, a Hall of Fame full of goodies where the water comes in your mouth...

Brings back the good old times in my head as a movie... Playing Duke Nukem 3D...

 

[MSDOS Retro]

My Pentium 200MMX (case + inside) which was the last computer i got from my parents around 30 years ago?


Mainboard: Asus TXP4 (Info: CLICK HERE)
CPU: Intel Pentium 200MMX (CPU overclock to 250MHz FSB 83MHz x 3 multiplier)
RAM: 256MB RAM (2x128MB PC-133)
Videocard: Genoa Phantom S3 Trio64/DX 2MB
HDD: Quantum Firefall EX6.4GB
ODD: CDROM 52x/AKH
Floppy: 3,5 Inch. 1.44MB
Audio: AW35/PRO (Crystal CS4237)
Mouse: PS2 & Serieel
OS: Microsoft Windows ME (Millenium Edition) (Last Installation date 18-11-2003)

 

[lexluthermiester]

The board is 754.plus the fact i have bought the one shown.I see you can get a mounting plate so it can fit a 754 socket.

• The mounting hole pattern of Socket AM4 is a little bit different from the old AMD Sockets (754, 939, 940, AM2(+), AM3(+),FM2(+)), meaning the old Supremacy EVO mounting plate is not compatible with Socket AM4! We now offer redesigned Mounting plate and updated Supremacy EVO Backplate that is required for complete AM4 compatibility!

I might be forgetting but I thought that the interoperability was near perfect. My bad, I'm sorry.

UPDATE:
Fixed the board and tried it - It works!
Just had to replace a bad cap and clean it up a little, that did the trick. The system BIOS shows it as being a 3.2 chip so the info to the side of the lid is correct.

Badass! So what's the story behind it? Factory reject batch or something? Or do you know it's history?

Sold all my Voodoo's in the last couple months.

Wow, really? Why?

 

[LabRat 891]

I might be forgetting but I thought that the interoperability was near perfect. My bad, I'm sorry

The mounting pattern for the bolt-thru backplate/cooler, differs.
However, the 'toolless' levering bracket and coolers are (effectively) inter-compatible.

I have a S939 copper heatpipe "AMD Opteron stock Cooler" on my R5 5600 in my media capture build.
I do notice that it's slightly a 'tighter fit' so, I'd assume an AM4 cooler clamped onto 754/939/940/AM2 *might* be slightly loose.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Nice!

I still have my Diamond 8MB PCI card & patch cable.

What? What kinda money could I reasonably expect to get for it?

For that card? $150 ish

I have a S939 copper heatpipe "AMD Opteron stock Cooler" on my R5 5600 in my media capture build.
I do notice that it's slightly a 'tighter fit' so, I'd assume an AM4 cooler clamped onto 754/939/940/AM2 *might* be slightly loose.

Nope. nice and tight. I do it all the time.

Wow, really? Why?

A thousand bucks just sitting in a drawer.
Take advantage of the inflated pricing.

 

[Bones]

Badass! So what's the story behind it? Factory reject batch or something? Or do you know it's history?

I don't know the system's history at all so can't say to that end.
It's a chip that was rebinned after being marked the first time and that's why it's double marked the way it is.

The system it came out of doesn't look too bad itself.... Aside from it being a Dell.