TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Is this board worth providing it works ,as i have not asked him yet; Asus P7P55D motherboard + i5 + RAM+ CoolMaster cooler for £10 ?

 

[basco]

men i regret selling my athlon 64 x2 3800 with crucial ram
on dfi lanparty it did 3050 on air and i think that was like the 6000ee edition

 

[Greenslade]

men i regret selling my athlon 64 x2 3800 with crucial ram
on dfi lanparty it did 3050 on air and i think that was like the 6000ee edition

So what do you think Basco. should i go for it at £10?Providing it works of course.You have given it a thumbs up so i take it you think i should go for it.

 

[basco]

i like you-you know that and if it´s ten bucks go for it working condition this a system ya can still use for everyday tasks.

but i have enough
give me your address and i will send you stuff for free to play with that for sure works

sounds off but i mean it

 

[Greenslade]

i like you-you know that and if it´s ten bucks go for it working condition this a system ya can still use for everyday tasks.

but i have enough
give me your address and i will send you stuff for free to play with that for sure works

sounds off but i mean it

I don.t want it for everyday tasks.I have quite a few.It would be for Retro stuff .I have three up to date systems.That is very nice of you of you to offer stuff for free.But from you mentioning ten bucks i guess you are from the US.
I am from the UK.I am sure you do but the postage would cost a arm and leg from the US to the UK.Am i right for assuming you are from the US?

 

[Apocalypsee]

I don.t want it for everyday tasks.I have quite a few.It would be for Retro stuff .I have three up to date systems.That is very nice of you of you to offer stuff for free.But from you mentioning ten bucks i guess you are from the US.
I am from the UK.I am sure you do but the postage would cost a arm and leg from the US to the UK.Am i right for assuming you are from the US?

For 10 quid I take it. I like to have those RAM, odds one of the sets still works. Worse come to worse, the heatsink fan is the one that could be used. But I think all of them were fine

 

[Greenslade]

For 10 quid I take it. I like to have those RAM, odds one of the sets still works. Worse come to worse, the heatsink fan is the one that could be used. But I think all of them were fine

That was my felling to just for the ram and the heatsink worth £10.I have some fans anyway.I will get in touch with the guy.If it works i will get it.there is a i5 in there but i have a better one for it x3450.I got in touch with the guy ,i asked if he had the back plate he said he did,I said to him i don,t suppose you have the back plate as you would have said it in the advert advert..The guys polish i think i have only bought something on Gumtree from one english guy.They have all been nice people though. from all over He said it was working last time he used it 2 years ago ,there is no saying it works now of course.

 

[basco]

i am in the middle of europe above italy and yes for 10.- i would take it

 

[Greenslade]

i am in the middle of europe above italy and yes for 10.- i would take it

I am picking it up later today the guy has to get back to me at the latest two hours time .Just as a mater of intrest what have you got that you had in mind of giving me. Basco

 

[MaxiPro800]

Been prepping another build to be sold recently. Intel WS440BX, P2 350MHz and a S3 Savage 4 Pro.

I'm surprised how well the S3 manages to play most of these games, honestly.

 

[Greenslade]

i am in the middle of europe above italy and yes for 10.- i would take it

I waited 40 minutes for him and he never turned up i have never had that before He did not give me his number i asked for it.I told him i don,t want it after that.Ge said he was there he did not tell me what he looked like. Apparently he was there but got involved with a old chap who was having problems he said he thought the old boy had dementia which is what i thought.As i was standing next to them i did not think of asking the guy who was helping the old boy if he was the one selling the board.And he was to wrapped up helping the old boy.

I waited 40 minutes for him and he never turned up i have never had that before He did not give me his number i asked for it.I told him i don,t want it after that.Ge said he was there he did not tell me what he looked like. Apparently he was there but got involved with a old chap who was having problems he said he thought the old boy had dementia which is what i thought.As i was standing next to them i did not think of asking the guy who was helping the old boy if he was the one selling the board.And he was to wrapped up helping the old boy.

I got to give it to the guy for helping the person out, he was from Poland, i don,t know if a english person would have done it.

 

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Bought a SCSI Controller. Adaptec AHA 2940W/2940UW

 

[Apocalypsee]

Bought a SCSI Controller. Adaptec AHA 2940W/2940UW

I never use SCSI or SAS drives I wonder how it performs in desktop environment.

 

[Caring1]

Bought a SCSI Controller. Adaptec AHA 2940W/2940UW

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Damn, I threw one out and cables not long ago, brand new and in bags still.
I had them for a project that never eventuated that involved a drive cage with back plane and four drives in it.

 

[Ruru]

I finally got an AM3 mATX board. Not a high-end one, but if that works, I finally can have a mATX Phenom II rig.

edit: Also got some other stuff. Didn't even remember that BGA SDR SDRAM does exist as there was a 512MB PC133 SODIMM in the box. Last time I've seen BGA SDR was like 20 years ago

 

[lexluthermiester]

I never use SCSI or SAS drives I wonder how it performs in desktop environment.

BITD, SCSI320 was excellent! It was great for Windows9X! 9GB 10kRPM IBM Goodness was just speedy!

 

[Ruru]

BITD, SCSI320 was excellent! It was great for Windows9X! 9GB 10kRPM IBM Goodness was just speedy!

Did SAS (Serial attached SCSI) ever became as popular thing as the older SCSI in workstations/servers/etc?

I remember that normal SATA was much more widespread?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Did SAS (Serial attached SCSI) ever became as popular thing as the older SCSI in workstations/servers/etc?

I remember that normal SATA was much more widespread?

SAS never caught on in the consumer sector like SCSI did. SATA was fast enough for everyone's needs.

 

[Ruru]

SAS never caught on in the consumer sector like SCSI did. SATA was fast enough for everyone's needs.

I mean also in the business sector, I know that SAS controllers and drives exist but I guess that SATA was fine for most cases (pun intended as well)

Time capsule, work in progress. Though not perfectly accurate, I had a Phenom II X4 965BE, GTX 470 & 16GB 11 years ago, now there's 955BE, GTX 570 & 12GB.

 

[Ruru]

Now this is CRAP. Probably some incompatibility or something but that GTX 570 doesn't want to co-operate. Luckily I have a GTX 660 which seem to be pretty much identical what it comes to performance. Just running Superposition and finding the max OC for the videocard. Then it's time to find the max stable OC for the CPU with that stock cooler.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Now this is CRAP. Probably some incompatibility or something but that GTX 570 doesn't want to co-operate.

Weird. A 570 should work no issues..

Luckily I have a GTX 660 which seem to be pretty much identical what it comes to performance.

It runs at a lower wattage and makes less heat. So there are those benefits.

 

[Ruru]

Weird. A 570 should work no issues..


It runs at a lower wattage and makes less heat. So there are those benefits.

And has 768MB more VRAM.

 

[Ruru]

Some GT 640 overclocking as I'm testing the Z170 platform again, so far no problems but I'll test this for few days before putting the parts back to the case.

Seems to overclock pretty fine and I haven't even raised its voltage yet, +180 on the core and Superposition ran without problems. Let's try some more. The card is an Asus GT640-2GD3 (yeah, DDR3... damn)

 

[Greenslade]

Some GT 640 overclocking as I'm testing the Z170 platform again, so far no problems but I'll test this for few days before putting the parts back to the case.

Seems to overclock pretty fine and I haven't even raised its voltage yet, +180 on the core and Superposition ran without problems. Let's try some more. The card is an Asus GT640-2GD3 (yeah, DDR3... damn)

The z170 is the one i was given with the bent pins. I don,t know weather i when i will get around to doing it, as i am not confident at doing it.

 

[Ruru]

The z170 is the one i was given with the bent pins. I don,t know weather i when i will get around to doing it, as i am not confident at doing it.

I had a small spill of water when putting a loop on it so I've had some problems with it after that. Later I washed it and let it dry for days, I hope that it did help.

edit: Now running Unigine Valley. Even with that tiny old 7600 GS's cooler, the card reaches max 72C even when overclocked (1161/971) and overvolted (+50mV).

edit 2: you know that the board is dope when it says TPU on it.