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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Nah, I've been keeping it for a reason... :p

I also have Win 7 pro box retail version.
I remember back when I had a Dell Optiplex 110 I used to borrow a 98SE CD. Much to my amazement it was the original disc, not a burnt CD-R.
 
Well, this turned out to be real bummer... Both nVidia 7600GT AND the 2 gig of DDR400 memory turned out to be defective, except none of them were showing "obvious" signs of malfunctioning hardware up until I tested 1st couple of games.

AGP card was working fine throughout the Vista installation & beyond, up to the 1st benchmark now that I think about it. Then it started having random "holes" in the models/textures & misaligned polygons. The same problem showed up in Half-Life 2, and was still there regardless of updating the drivers and/or tinkering with AGP fast-write feature in BIOS, so I'm pretty sure it's hardware issue and not a software one. Oh well, now I have to source a replacement AGP card for this thing!
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The RAM issue(s) were more harder to find & diagnose however. Everything worked perfectly fine up until I did a memory test, that's when MemTest86+ showed me tons of warnings :p So I did the obvious thing, I removed the other module & tried to start up the machine with only just one module, but the system hanged upon boot & wasn't responding to keyboard or showing signs of disk activity. So I tried with 2nd module instead, and it worked up OK until the memory test when I (once again) ended up with error during the memory test. It was only just one error though, but still error nevertheless. So I gave up & ordered a matching pair of two DDR400 modules online, 1GB each & will advise here once they arrive. In the meantime, I'll see if there's anything I can do about the video card, maybe even swapping out the PSU.
 
It's possible the 7600GT might be fine but the flaky DDR sticks were responsible for the corrupt texture issue. Should give it another try with a new set of DDR sticks before declaring the 7600GT kaput.
 
True, except I already tried with another (random) RAM module, 256MB (which slowed down Vista to a crawl) and the problem was still there... Soooo *shrug* I was hoping it would be that simple, since replacing DDR is much easier than finding a decent AGP card :(
 
Found some old pics of my still working socket 939 system. msi nforce 4 ultra chipset, decapped x2 3800 2.9 ghz, 2gb ballistix ram, 9600gt, I had this special psu for gpus that was dvd drive form factor.
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That bottle was crystal light apple. Not piss or beer fyi...:laugh:

I'm still using that keyboard as we speak.
 
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Same thing basically. There were a bunch of different one's. Example:
Epower
FSP
Ultra
Corsair
 
Maxx & V2SLI
Rage Fury MAXX, and two Voodoo2 in Scan Link Interleave?

Haven't seen or heard of the Rage Fury MAXX since 1999/2000.
 
Speaking of video cards, I'm facing yet another dilemma... Radeon 9600 PRO (256mb) or nVidia 6600GT (128mb)? I'm probably going to end up taking both, but only one of the two will end up inside that Asus unit as a replacement for 7600GT ;)
 
Geforce 6600 GT would be the better pick between the two.
 
i do have a 7600GT in my box of bits
Mine turned out to be corrupt. Either the VRAM (even though I tested it & checked out fine) or the actual GPU. One way or another it's showing "holes" in the models & textures & has misaligned polygons.

Very similar to this pic here, if not identical...
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In fact, I uploaded couple of screenshots from Half-Life 2, in case you missed them?

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Here it is:
 
Here's my Fury Maxx. Still pretty new. Still have the CD and literature

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Mmmm! Gotta love that twin-turbo engine ;):D
 
Are you asking me or @Mr.Scott ? To be quite honest, I don't know, never had one of these before! But with that being said, I'll see if I can pick one up, some day :)

I might have just an ordinary Fury though, not sure. As I recall, it said "Fury" on the sticker, but the system recognized the card as "Rage128", which didn't quite head up. By the time I got it, I already had two of them (different revisions, apparently) and neither of them look similar to the one I'm talking about.

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Nevermind, found what I was looking for. It didn't say Fury on the card itself, it was other way around - system detecting the card as ATI Fury, while the actual card claimed to be ATI Rage128. Still different than two of my other, regular R128 models, since this 3rd one is "Pro"
 
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I have a 128 Pro Ultra right here too. ;)

I guess I'm a collector, but I bench everything I own sub ambient at least once so........they're not just closet ornaments either.
 
@Mr.Scott : Past times when small fans were so "fashionable" (Fury Maxx). :D They are, what, 30 mm in diameter?
 
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