TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Ruru · Nov 4, 2024

Benched practically all of my PCIe GPUs (excluding RTX 3080 & RX 6700 XT which are in use) in my collection. For some cards, Win10 wasn't the best OS as you can see from the scores.

agent_x007 · Nov 4, 2024

Ruru said:
Benched practically all of my PCIe GPUs (excluding RTX 3080 & RX 6700 XT which are in use) in my collection. For some cards, Win10 wasn't the best OS as you can see from the scores.

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About GCN not having 3DMark 01 scores :
You probably have to decrease max. number of CPUs for 3DMark01SE bench thread to 1 (doesn't matter which one) for program to start. But I'm just assuming it was the issue though.

PS. You have to change it before program loads to certain point (when RAM usage keeps increasing, you are good - however when it stops and you still didn't change it, you failed).

Ruru · Nov 4, 2024

agent_x007 said:
About GCN not having 3DMark 01 scores :
You probably have to decrease max. number of CPUs for 3DMark01SE bench thread to 1 (doesn't matter which one) for program to start. But I'm just assuming it was the issue though.

Good to know in the future, I also thought that it must be GCN issue because on both cards, 2001SE didn't even launch (the process was just hanging on task manager doing nothing)

Put together a X58 mATX box

just need to put more RAM, this 3x2GB kit is just for testing.

lexluthermiester · Nov 5, 2024

Ruru said:
Good to know in the future, I also thought that it must be GCN issue because on both cards, 2001SE didn't even launch (the process was just hanging on task manager doing nothing)

Put together a X58 mATX box just need to put more RAM, this 3x2GB kit is just for testing.

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I thought you got a 6core for that system, or am I thinking of someone else?

Ruru · Nov 5, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
I thought you got a 6core for that system, or am I thinking of someone else?

I have that Xeon X5675 on an another X58 board. Just wanted to put the fastest non-X quad i7 to this setup.

lexluthermiester · Nov 5, 2024

Ruru said:
I have that Xeon X5675 on an another X58 board. Just wanted to put the fastest non-X quad i7 to this setup.

Ah ok.

RyzenMaster.sys · Nov 5, 2024

My R9 Nano was looking a little lonely so I decided to buy it a friend.

Got this R9 Fury X from an eBay auction. The rubber coating degraded and was all sticky. All of the Styrofoam in the box it was thrown into stuck to it, and got in the radiator and under the shroud.

Took some work and alcohol but I got all of the degraded rubber coating completely removed, removed the shroud and got the Styrofoam out, and cleaned up the radiator.

Card appears to work well. Ran fire strike just fine. May try and CF this and the R9 Nano.

wolf · Nov 9, 2024

GPU test bench coming together, next to find the appropriate PSU cables, dig up a 120/240gb SSD, some DDR2 667 and get XP installed on it.

Then perhaps the most challenging part, finding a place for it to live in the house all set up so I can spend my nerdy nights in enjoying a drink and testing / benching old GPU's. I could probably stand to get rid of a few that are duplicates or don't work, that or at elats store them separately for any useful parts, like coolers.

agent_x007 · Nov 9, 2024

4CoreDual-VSTA ?

wolf · Nov 9, 2024

agent_x007 said:
4CoreDual-VSTA ?

That's the one, should let me test basically everything I own (at least to show it works) except very early AGP cards that are keyed differently.

Greenslade · Nov 9, 2024

Clints back with *Mouldy old dough a smash from 1970

His first video since the big storm

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lexluthermiester · Nov 10, 2024

Greenslade said:
His first video since the big storm

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Saw that. So depressing...

remixedcat · Nov 10, 2024

I was going thru my junk room/guest room and I found a DELLLL DIMENSIONNN 4100 system that has a pentium 3!!! I trited with my nvidia geforce 440mx card and it went to the sillicon heaven so I got a geforce fx5200 for only 15 dollars

installed it and off we go!

there's the specs in bios!

here's it booting

had to reinstall the windows version that was allready on there last night cuz this used to be my sister's and I think she may have gotten a virus or something a buncha dll files werte missing and no repair operations worked not even live linux distros! most of those couldn't even view system32 so that was a buncha war last night and I was up till 5:30 am, gave up got some shut eye and woke up and installed a slick vista look alike build of xp that I am so glad I still had the iso for!

and it finally installed and here's the desktop and some specs

QuietBob · Nov 10, 2024

remixedcat said:
I was going thru my junk room/guest room and I found a DELLLL DIMENSIONNN 4100 system that has a pentium 3!!! I trited with my nvidia geforce 440mx card and it went to the sillicon heaven so I got a geforce fx5200 for only 15 dollars

Nice find! Played any games on it yet?

remixedcat · Nov 10, 2024

QuietBob said:
Nice find! Played any games on it yet?

not yet but Imma prolly play simcity 2k on it tomorrow and I found half life and expansions and age of empires so far my hubby has a lot of old games i'll be going thu and playing..

AUTOEXEC.BAT · Nov 10, 2024

Spent some time fixing 2 of my 486 PC's. Mini tower runs Win3.11, the big tower Windows 95.

RJARRRPCGP · Nov 10, 2024

remixedcat said:
I was going thru my junk room/guest room and I found a DELLLL DIMENSIONNN 4100 system that has a pentium 3!!! I trited with my nvidia geforce 440mx card and it went to the sillicon heaven so I got a geforce fx5200 for only 15 dollars

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installed it and off we go!

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there's the specs in bios!

here's it booting
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had to reinstall the windows version that was allready on there last night cuz this used to be my sister's and I think she may have gotten a virus or something a buncha dll files werte missing and no repair operations worked not even live linux distros! most of those couldn't even view system32 so that was a buncha war last night and I was up till 5:30 am, gave up got some shut eye and woke up and installed a slick vista look alike build of xp that I am so glad I still had the iso for!

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and it finally installed and here's the desktop and some specs

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Looks like the only thing to worry about, are bad caps on the motherboard or in the PSU. Usually bad secondaries.

remixedcat · Nov 11, 2024

RJARRRPCGP said:
Looks like the only thing to worry about, are bad caps on the motherboard or in the PSU. Usually bad secondaries.

It's working good so far

Greenslade · Nov 11, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
I used this as a standard part of every XP install I did BITD.

As mentioned in the video, anyone wanting to try this out on their XP machines can follow the link below;

Download XPize - MajorGeeks

XPize is a GUI enhancer for Windows XP and above. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, avis and bmps that Microsoft has always overlooked....

www.majorgeeks.com

Shout-Out to MajorGeeks for being one of the THEE best program and file repositories on Earth!

Did you add this to the Integral XP that you gave me a link to ?Or did you do it on a non Integral one?

OMORES said:
Yesterday I connected a 32-year-old 125MB Western Digital Caviar 3.5-inch hard drive to a modern socket 1700 motherboard, and it still works perfectly. I was able to access the data on it. It was manufactured in 1992 and last used in 2002.

Wow that,s amazing ,that something like a old hard drive of that age still works

AUTOEXEC.BAT · Nov 11, 2024

Greenslade said:
Wow that,s amazing ,that something like a old hard drive of that age still works

I have a 8088 XT with 21MB MFM from Kalok that still works like new.

jak_2456 · Nov 11, 2024

AUTOEXEC.BAT said:
I have a 8088 XT with 21MB MFM from Kalok that still works like new.

I would love to hear a "sound test" of that HDD spinning up and running a defrag or something. People do that with keyboards these days, so why not HDDs?

RJARRRPCGP · Nov 11, 2024

Greenslade said:
Wow that,s amazing ,that something like a old hard drive of that age still works

Hard drives from pre-1998=TMK, SMART didn't even exist! It was of course normal for the OS to also see bad blocks, if any.
Also, we're likely talking about a hard drive that's PIO-mode-only! As it's from 1992, which will be the days of Windows 3.1! Likely that MS-DOS 6 wasn't even released yet. So unless DOS was upgraded, it probably has MS-DOS 5x. And of course, years away from FAT32, there would be FAT16. (unless FAT12, but that's for floppies, IIRC)

remixedcat · Nov 11, 2024

Lil fun on simcity 2k!! Works good

Full setup pic with the guest or whatever optiplex which that rig is a core 2 duo

QuietBob · Nov 11, 2024

remixedcat said:
Full setup pic with the guest or whatever optiplex which that rig is a core 2 duo

I see AoE II is next! And what are the other two machines?

lexluthermiester · Nov 11, 2024

remixedcat said:
I was going thru my junk room/guest room and I found a DELLLL DIMENSIONNN 4100 system that has a pentium 3!!! I trited with my nvidia geforce 440mx card and it went to the sillicon heaven so I got a geforce fx5200 for only 15 dollars

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installed it and off we go!

View attachment 371187

there's the specs in bios!

here's it booting
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had to reinstall the windows version that was allready on there last night cuz this used to be my sister's and I think she may have gotten a virus or something a buncha dll files werte missing and no repair operations worked not even live linux distros! most of those couldn't even view system32 so that was a buncha war last night and I was up till 5:30 am, gave up got some shut eye and woke up and installed a slick vista look alike build of xp that I am so glad I still had the iso for!

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and it finally installed and here's the desktop and some specs

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Nice! Custom Windows ISO?

Greenslade said:
Did you add this to the Integral XP that you gave me a link to ?Or did you do it on a non Integral one?

No, I'm using Integral Edition. It the easiest to install and use.

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	BOX
Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,26GHz (1,28V)
Motherboard	X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F23c + bifurcation mod)
Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
Video Card(s)	Titan V (~1650MHz @ 0.77V, HBM2 1GHz, Forced P2 state [OFF])
Storage	WD SN850X 2TB + Samsung EVO 2TB (SATA) + Seagate Exos X20 20TB (4Kn mode)
Display(s)	LG 27GP950-B
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Audio Device(s)	Motu M4 (audio interface) + ATH-A900Z + Behringer C-1
Power Supply	Seasonic X-760 (760W)
Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

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	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

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
Motherboard	AsRock B550M Pro4
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 34 Esports One
Memory	32GB (4x8) Team Group DDR4 3600 CL18
Video Card(s)	ELSA RX5700XT w/ 2x Arctic P12 MAX fans
Storage	Sabrent Rocket Q 1tb NVME 3.0
Display(s)	Dual Monitors: 27in Sceptre 1440p 165hz IPS (Main) + 27in MSI 1080p 144hz (Left) on monitor arms
Case	I don't want to talk about it
Audio Device(s)	Logitech X530 5.1 Spearkers + Sennheiser HD58X Jubilee
Power Supply	Corsair HX850i 80+ Platinum
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Leopold FC750R Cherry MX Brown
Software	Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

agent_x007

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

lexluthermiester

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

lexluthermiester

RyzenMaster.sys

wolf

Better Than Native

agent_x007

wolf

Better Than Native

Greenslade

lexluthermiester

remixedcat

QuietBob

remixedcat

AUTOEXEC.BAT

RJARRRPCGP

remixedcat

Greenslade

Download XPize - MajorGeeks

AUTOEXEC.BAT

jak_2456

RJARRRPCGP

remixedcat

QuietBob

lexluthermiester

System Name	MightyX
Processor	Ryzen 9800X3D
Motherboard	Gigabyte X650I AX
Cooling	Scythe Fuma 2
Memory	32GB DDR5 6000 CL30
Video Card(s)	Asus TUF RTX3080 Deshrouded
Storage	WD Black SN850X 2TB
Display(s)	LG 42C2 4K OLED
Case	Coolermaster NR200P
Audio Device(s)	LG SN5Y / Focal Clear
Power Supply	Corsair SF750 Platinum
Mouse	Corsair Dark Core RBG Pro SE
Keyboard	Glorious GMMK Compact w/pudding
VR HMD	Meta Quest 3
Software	case populated with Artic P12's
Benchmark Scores	4k120 OLED Gsync bliss

System Name	RemixedBeast-NX
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9Ghz (8C/16T)
Motherboard	Dell Inc. 08HPGT (CPU 1)
Cooling	Dell Standard
Memory	24GB ECC
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Nvidia RTX2060 6GB
Storage	2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD//2TB WD Black HDD
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster P2350 23in @ 1920x1080 + Dell E2013H 20 in @1600x900
Case	Dell Precision T3600 Chassis
Audio Device(s)	Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 // Fiio E7 Amp/DAC
Power Supply	630w Dell T3600 PSU
Mouse	Logitech G700s/G502
Keyboard	Logitech K740
Software	Linux Mint 20
Benchmark Scores	Network: APs: Cisco Meraki MR32, Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR and Lite Router/Sw:Meraki MX64 MS220-8P

Processor	5800X3D -30 CO
Motherboard	MSI B550 Tomahawk
Cooling	DeepCool Assassin III
Memory	32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V @ 3800 CL14
Video Card(s)	ASRock MBA 7900XTX
Storage	1TB WD SN850X + 1TB ADATA SX8200 Pro
Display(s)	Dell S2721QS 4K60
Case	Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced USB 3.0
Audio Device(s)	Audiotrak Prodigy Cube Black (JRC MUSES 8820D) + CAL (recabled)
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime TX-750
Mouse	Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave
Keyboard	Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	KHR-1
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita (UEFI-BIOS P3.40)
Memory	32 GB G.Skill RipJawsV F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6750 XT
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF OLED-ASRock PG27Q15R2A (backup)
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2

System Name	Sim Racing PC/Dell XPS 15 7590
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800x/Intel Core i7-9750h
Motherboard	ASUS TUF B450-Plus II/Dell Laptop MB
Cooling	Arctic Freezer A35 CO/laptop cooling
Memory	28 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200/28 GB Crucial DDR4-2666 SO-DIMM
Video Card(s)	XFX SWFT309 RX 6700 XT/Laptop GTX 1650
Storage	1 TB Crucial 3400 PCIe Gen 4 SSD/Ediloca EN605 512 GB PCIe Gen 3 SSD
Display(s)	77" LG OLED TV (4K@120Hz)/15" Dell integrated panel (1080p@60Hz) and 30" Dell U3011 (1600p@60 Hz)
Case	Cougar MX330-G Air / XPS 15 7590 chassis
Audio Device(s)	Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro via Yamaha HT receiver/Integrated speakers or Creative Pebble Plus
Power Supply	EVGA 600 BA / Dell 130W laptop brick
Mouse	Logitech K400+ / Cherry MW 4500
Keyboard	Logitech K400+ / Drop ENTR or E-YOOSO Z-686 or integrated keyboard
VR HMD	Meta Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 Home/Windows 11 Pro (meaning to try Linux)

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

S.T.A.R.S.

S.T.A.R.S.

S.T.A.R.S.

Better Than Native

Better Than Native

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