TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[silentbogo]

Getting some cool VGAs tomorrow. Don't know for sure what's in the box, but I'm pretty sure I saw some 8800GTs in there.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I got an 8600gt card somewhere that card serve me well for so long. Will dig up some nostalgia stuff later as clean the room.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I started cleaning a bit. I have my found my mp3s it serve me so well in my younger school days. I remember how that time mp3 was such a craze. Many of my friends just go listen to music with their Nokia or Sony Ericsson, I don't have a phone then and the flash memory card in phones are expensive.

I was creative fan then. The zen neon mp3 the smaller one is not mine. My one is the bigger one the zen vision m, this thing is over 10 years old. Poor thing have so age on it. Sad to say this person typing also have aged too and not in the way I wanted like my hearing is not as sharp. I take a listen to the mp3 and it does not sound as detail when I first hear it, I probably lost my higher frequency hearing from ageing. I took care of my ears the best I could already.

The zen vision m was so expensive. During that time I always wanted it, I was comparing with other creative mp3 player, their players look very good! Thinking hard I decide I wanted the capacity and the video playback! Back in mid 2000s video playback on a mobile device is very advance stuff! I remember showing my friend when I played a video on the zen vision, he was amazed as it looked so HD. It is dvd compressed quality resolution at 720x640. Impressive stuff running on just an arm processor on this mp3 player clock at 60MHz! I was super impressed by the shear sharpness of the video. I finally bought this after waiting long and found the creative Headquarters selling it. Went to queue for it in the morning to buy it. In my place during that time creative used to have a sale at their HQ.

The first time I got it, it was very shiny. It feels so good in the hand and I like the plastic smell lol. I keep smelling it xD. I wish I can store the new plastic smell. I don't know how to say it Creative mp3 have its distinctive plastic smell. My heart was filled with joy holding this crazy amount of capacity in my hand a whopping 30GB! Flash cards at that time maxed out around 1GB for the highest end. I had the most advance mp3 player among my friends, they used mobile phones with just 512MB of space haha. I was still using payphones lol with a wallet filled with coins and a phone card. I load all my music into the mp3.

I am charging it now, it works, though the body plastic is peeling like crazy. The forward button don't work so well. Gonna charge it until full and clean it with alcohol and then start listening to my old songs again. Mp3 players was a big fascination of mine then.


I feel sad reliving this nostalgia typing this now...feel time past so fast and I wish I aged slowly.

 

[Trekkie4]

With all due respect to later GF6, 7 & 8 series, they sure don't make 'em any better than this! Top of the line GF4 model, as fast & powerful as you can get! What more can a geek ask for?!



EDIT



Don't know if I have already mentioned this before, but 4800 went into a P4 build running @ 2000MHz (S478), which would be my most powerful retro build so far. Yes, I do have Core2 Duo & Quad builds, but I just don't see them as "retro"... Maybe in 5 years from now Anyhow, 4800 successfully replaced its older low-end counterpart, MX440

I didn't even have to install the new drivers, as the leftover ForceWare installation (from MX440) automatically recognized & adapted itself to 4800Ti...



As soon as I had 4800 up & running, I've tried several games including heavily modified Vice City. It all works perfectly fine, except Vice sometimes lags due to the increased traffic & (only) 512mb of RAM



NFS Underground is totally maxed out, as you can probably tell from the pics down below. And yes, it runs perfectly as you'd expect from 4800Ti!



Just like Half-Life 2, I wouldn't be surprised if 4800 could handle even higher settings! I'll have to give it a try at some point FPS is around average I guess, 30-35 at most & without any noticeable lags.



Overall, quite interesting card! Never had this one back in a day, but it would definitely kick nVidia FX series from back in day... Used to have FX5600 in 2003, 2004 and I can safely say that it was one of the most unreliable cards I've ever had

 

[STIG_ZA]

Got a whole bunch of old stuff. Currently building up a k6 super socket 7 system.
specs:
Amd k6-2+ 500mhz
256mb pc100 sdram(64 x2, 1x 128)
Gigabyte GA-5AX(rev 5.2)
Gigabyte 9200SE 128mb
3com 10/100 Ethernet
Creative Sound blaster 16
20Gb Seagate u6
Windows 2000 pro sp4
300w psu

 

[Trekkie4]

Got a whole bunch of old stuff. Currently building up a k6 super socket 7 system.
specs:
Amd k6-2+ 500mhz
256mb pc100 sdram(64 x2, 1x 128)
Gigabyte GA-5AX(rev 5.2)
Gigabyte 9200SE 128mb
3com 10/100 Ethernet
Creative Sound blaster 16
20Gb Seagate u6
Windows 2000 pro sp4
300w psu

Awesome stuff! Very nice & tidy cable management, too! Usually I would recommend 3dfx card, but seeing you already have Radeon 9200SE, I'd say this one is all ready to be used as gaming rig! (even though your 500MHz CPU will most likely bottleneck the GPU)

 

[STIG_ZA]

Awesome stuff! Very nice & tidy cable management, too! Usually I would recommend 3dfx card, but seeing you already have Radeon 9200SE, I'd say this one is all ready to be used as gaming rig! (even though your 500MHz CPU will most likely bottleneck the GPU)

Thanks!
Yep, have a similar card in a P3 system and that's easily twice as fast in games like quake 3. Would like a nice geforce 2 for this pc though even if its still going to be bottlenecked

Have two of these boards and k6 2s ranging from 266 to 533Mhz....and then this k6-2+

 

[Trekkie4]

Thanks!
Yep, have a similar card in a P3 system and that's easily twice as fast in games like quake 3. Would like a nice geforce 2 for this pc though even if its still going to be bottlenecked

Have two of these boards and k6 2s ranging from 266 to 533Mhz....and then this k6-2+

Yes, people seem to think that I have weird taste for video cards (yeah, riiiight lol ), when it comes to building older gaming rigs, but in fact I'm always trying to pair up the equal performance, to take the advantage of both GPU(s) and CPU. Which is why I always paired Pentiums (P1) with Voodoo1 and/or S3 & Matrox cards, Pentiums 2 with Voodoo2 and ATI Rage (IIC, 128), nVidia GeForce2 and similar. Pentium 3 is always paired up with Voodoo3, GeForce4, Riva TNT2 and similar, you get the point. Of course, I had few exceptions every once in a while, just to make things more interesting, but otherwise I followed the previously-established pattern which turned out to be most successful

And no, I don't think GF2 will be much of a problem with P3... In fact, I'd say GF2 is a perfect match!

 

[STIG_ZA]

also upgraded my slot 1 system a bit. previously had a 500Mhz p3 now a 750Mhz coppermine on asus slot 1 to s370 converter

 

[Trekkie4]

also upgraded my slot 1 system a bit. previously had a 500Mhz p3 now a 750Mhz coppermine on asus slot 1 to s370 converter

P3B-F? Not a fan of "Slocket" adapters, as you can easily go with S370 nowdays, for pretty much the same price as Slot-1 but overall nice system you got there What's the GPU?

 

[STIG_ZA]

P3B-F? Not a fan of "Slocket" adapters, as you can easily go with S370 nowdays, for pretty much the same price as Slot-1 but overall nice system you got there What's the GPU?

Gigabyte bx2000. Gpu is gigabyte ati 9250 have e few 9200 series cards, work well for older systems

 

[Trekkie4]

Gigabyte bx2000. Gpu is gigabyte ati 9250 have e few 9200 series cards, work well for older systems

Aaaah, sorry My mistake, I misunderstood the Asus Slocket for Asus mobo...

 

[Tuna Yücer]

I got factory OC'd 7100GS. Seriously its clock speed was 400 MHz. We bought this card (2006) when i was 4. I was playing Spongebob games with that card. My old systems specs:

Pentium 4 641 LGA 775
Palit NVidia Geforce 7100GS Factory OC* 256MB DDR2 + Xigmatek CLF Series 80MM Blue LED Fan
Foxconn P4M9007MB-8KRS2H (this Mobo is now dead.)
2.5GB (2GB+512MB) DDR2 RAM (2gb stick works, 512mb doesnt.)
Samsung HD80HJ 80GB HDD (Still works!)
HEC 350AR-TZ 350W PSU (I destroyed this PSU)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit

Here's TF2 test video!

Here's GPU-z screen!
View attachment 59351
Here's My old thread about OCing my 7100 GS.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/how-can-i-o-c-my-gpu.205643/

 

[Athlonite]

Got a whole bunch of old stuff. Currently building up a k6 super socket 7 system.
specs:
Amd k6-2+ 500mhz
256mb pc100 sdram(64 x2, 1x 128)
Gigabyte GA-5AX(rev 5.2)
Gigabyte 9200SE 128mb
3com 10/100 Ethernet
Creative Sound blaster 16
20Gb Seagate u6
Windows 2000 pro sp4
300w psu

I used to have the same cpu and mobo you'll find it quite easy to oc it to K6 2 550 speeds

 

[rodneyhchef]

Got a whole bunch of old stuff. Currently building up a k6 super socket 7 system.
specs:
Amd k6-2+ 500mhz
256mb pc100 sdram(64 x2, 1x 128)
Gigabyte GA-5AX(rev 5.2)
Gigabyte 9200SE 128mb
3com 10/100 Ethernet
Creative Sound blaster 16
20Gb Seagate u6
Windows 2000 pro sp4
300w psu

How well does that super socket 7 board handle AGP? Had a few SS7 motherboards over the years and none had a proper implementation of AGP (stuck at 1.0x, theoretically 2.0x supported, but never worked) I had an FIC VA-503+ until recently which was supposed to be the top dog but I couldn't get it to run stable. In the end I chucked it.

my hacked VX PRO system still works, but thinking about switching to an early k7 setup I was given recently. So at least then I have USB functionality and something that'll run AGP, so I'm not limited to dodgy PCI cards or voodoo2s

Or maybe just ditching everything? I seem to spend more time tinkering than actually using it to play any old games.

My old rigs are way back on page #40 if anyone wants to take a look linky

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

can u do some 3dmark01SE runs with it within HD3850?

I did a run and got a disappoint score of almost 28k (3850 stock clocks) SL7CH @ 17*217MHz 1:1 (sub 35s super pi 1M) On the other hand I will easily break 30k on 3DM2003 (3850 stock)... I may post some screen shot and some pics of the rig later on. I am waiting for a set of PC4000 ballistix tracer, hopefully will get a better oc on the cpu!

 

[dorsetknob]

Just Acquired a sapphire hd 3650 512m/b AGP from fleabay
in rig for testing at moment ( it works thank god )
will take it out later and post pics here
Could not find a hd 4670 1 gig AGP which is what i wanted but they are hard to find and not cheap

 

[agent00skid]

Had a few GPU's come my way:

 

[Mr.Scott]

Had this out benching today. Would make a nice retro gamer.

K7D Master
2x MP2800+'s w/ Volcano 7's
Voodoo5

 

[stinger608]

Oh that is frigging awesome @Mr.Scott

 

[GreiverBlade]

Oh that is frigging awesome @Mr.Scott

seconded ...

 

[Athlonite]

warp factor 9 Mr.Scott

 

[Tuna Yücer]

What are these slots? Sorry I know nothing about nostalgic hardware but i want to learn!

 

[PHaS3]

What are these slots? Sorry I know nothing about nostalgic hardware and i want to learn!

PCI-X Slots - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X

Mostly for servers / workstations, PCIE basically killed it.

 

[Tuna Yücer]

Thanks a lot. Wikipedia also thinks like you.