TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Ruru · Mar 18, 2021

framebuffer said:
I don't have one
It's on my most wanted list since a while, but anyway this picture has a specific point, let's see if someone can guess it (it's very easy actually)

From the first GeForce Ultra to the last one?

Mr.Scott · Mar 18, 2021

Pretty GF2 Ultra. Looks unused.

Ruru · Mar 18, 2021

Got a R7850 for 10eur incl shipping and I'll get a 650 Ti at 15eur later today. At least older mid-ends are free or cheap.

framebuffer · Mar 18, 2021

Chloe Price said:
From the first GeForce Ultra to the last one?

yees

Trekkie4 · Mar 19, 2021

Status update...

3 of the Adison rigs are pretty much done - minus the obvious things such as missing CD-ROM trim & brightening up the yellowed surfaces.

Pentium II, 350 (Chaintech 6BTM, 1st out of 2)

Pentium III, 550 (Asus P3B-F)

And here's the other Pentium II 350, that's currently still a work in progress (pics are in chronological order)

MaxiPro800 · Mar 19, 2021

Scored another white 17 inch Acer. This time I got pretty lucky and landed on a 7720G, w/ T5750 and a late G86 based 9300M G, and 3GB of RAM. Does need some work though but otherwise it works fine.

Ruru · Mar 20, 2021

Well damn, it was in its original box.

Repasted it and blew most of its dust off already, I'll put it soon to my 2nd rig. :toast:

MaxiPro800 · Mar 20, 2021

You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.

HP Pavilion dv9730ef. One of the few 9000 models that came w/ 512MB of VRAM (most were 256MB usually.). G86-770-A2 chip, unsurprisingly artefacting due to some really shady cooling. Cleaned, reflowed and repasted with MX4 on both CPU and GPU.

Specs:

3GB RAM, borrowed from the Acer above until I can source 2x2GB sticks for that one
Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz (for now)
Geforce 8600M GS 512MB
Toshiba TS-L802B HD-DVD drive
Toshiba MK2555GSX 250GB HDD
Windows 7 Ult. X64 SP1.

Caring1 · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.

HP Pavilion dv9730ef. One of the few 9000 models that came w/ 512MB of VRAM (most were 256MB usually.). G86-770-A2 chip, unsurprisingly artefacting due to some really shady cooling. Cleaned, reflowed and repasted with MX4 on both CPU and GPU.

The early DV series were know for their overheating and failing, they had apparently fixed that by later versions after the DV6 series.
I hope yours is fine.

Ruru · Mar 20, 2021

I got these also for free yesterday

U never know if u need an optical drive with older hardware.

I got these also for free yesterday

U never know if u need an optical drive with older hardware.

MaxiPro800 said:
You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.
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HP Pavilion dv9730ef. One of the few 9000 models that came w/ 512MB of VRAM (most were 256MB usually.). G86-770-A2 chip, unsurprisingly artefacting due to some really shady cooling. Cleaned, reflowed and repasted with MX4 on both CPU and GPU.

Specs:

3GB RAM, borrowed from the Acer above until I can source 2x2GB sticks for that one
Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz (for now)
Geforce 8600M GS 512MB
Toshiba TS-L802B HD-DVD drive
Toshiba MK2555GSX 250GB HDD
Windows 7 Ult. X64 SP1.

HD-DVD?! Nice! :toast:

MaxiPro800 · Mar 20, 2021

Caring1 said:
The early DV series were know for their overheating and failing, they had apparently fixed that by later versions after the DV6 series.
I hope yours is fine.

After the reflow yes, it works fine. And it's surprisingly quiet and cool, but that's kinda expected for using MX4.

Valantar · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.
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HP Pavilion dv9730ef. One of the few 9000 models that came w/ 512MB of VRAM (most were 256MB usually.). G86-770-A2 chip, unsurprisingly artefacting due to some really shady cooling. Cleaned, reflowed and repasted with MX4 on both CPU and GPU.

Specs:

3GB RAM, borrowed from the Acer above until I can source 2x2GB sticks for that one
Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz (for now)
Geforce 8600M GS 512MB
Toshiba TS-L802B HD-DVD drive
Toshiba MK2555GSX 250GB HDD
Windows 7 Ult. X64 SP1.

Ah, I miss the days when laptop CPUs were socketed. I've had some real fun upgrading dumpster dive finds from that era to much more powerful CPUs and giving them a new lease on life.

Splinterdog · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.
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HP Pavilion dv9730ef. One of the few 9000 models that came w/ 512MB of VRAM (most were 256MB usually.). G86-770-A2 chip, unsurprisingly artefacting due to some really shady cooling. Cleaned, reflowed and repasted with MX4 on both CPU and GPU.

Specs:

3GB RAM, borrowed from the Acer above until I can source 2x2GB sticks for that one
Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz (for now)
Geforce 8600M GS 512MB
Toshiba TS-L802B HD-DVD drive
Toshiba MK2555GSX 250GB HDD
Windows 7 Ult. X64 SP1.

Impressive and I've had fun sending laptops away for reballing which only ever worked 50% of the time. Is that the same as reflow?

Valantar · Mar 20, 2021

Splinterdog said:
Impressive and I've had fun sending laptops away for reballing which only ever worked 50% of the time. Is that the same as reflow?

Reflow should mean just (adding some flux and) heating the chip up until the solder between it and the PCB melts (in the hopes that this fixes any cold or broken solder joints). Reballing means removing the chip outright, cleaning it and the PCB of solder, then reapplying new solder balls to the chip (typically requiring solder paste plus a stainless steel solder ball stencil), putting it in place and heating it to solder it down. So they're related, but reballing is an order of magnitude more complex.

MaxiPro800 · Mar 20, 2021

Yeah, the proper way to "permanently" fix it would mean a mix of reballing + changing the G86-770-A2 with a 771. I don't have enough tools for that so I'm going to have to make do with a normal reflow using an automotive heatgun.

Reballing is a waste of time if the chip itself has substrate issues, IMO. You're off better looking a bit into which chips have the fixed substrate, order those and then reball them instead of your original chip. This way you're basically making sure in proportion of about 95% it will survive for a long time.

Trekkie4 · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Scored another white 17 inch Acer. This time I got pretty lucky and landed on a 7720G, w/ T5750 and a late G86 based 9300M G, and 3GB of RAM. Does need some work though but otherwise it works fine.

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OCD triggered!

MaxiPro800 · Mar 20, 2021

Chloe Price said:
HD-DVD?! Nice!

Yeah. Did show its age tho, couldn't use it to install Windows 7. Had to borrow the LG T40N from the Acer to install. Still keeping it because it's an interesting piece of history, and I really haven't seen a laptop to have HD-DVD before. It would be either standard DVDROM or in rare cases, Blu-ray (usually HP DV7-1000s had these, and even then, not all had BD).

Ruru · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Yeah. Did show its age tho, couldn't use it to install Windows 7. Had to borrow the LG T40N from the Acer to install. Still keeping it because it's an interesting piece of history, and I really haven't seen a laptop to have HD-DVD before. It would be either standard DVDROM or in rare cases, Blu-ray (usually HP DV7-1000s had these, and even then, not all had BD).

Getting a Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive is something I've wanted to do for a long time, I guess I should look for one.

Valantar · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Yeah. Did show its age tho, couldn't use it to install Windows 7. Had to borrow the LG T40N from the Acer to install. Still keeping it because it's an interesting piece of history, and I really haven't seen a laptop to have HD-DVD before. It would be either standard DVDROM or in rare cases, Blu-ray (usually HP DV7-1000s had these, and even then, not all had BD).

Might just be a dirty lens, it shouldn't be too difficult to clean that with a cotton swab with some isopropyl alcohol.

QuietBob · Mar 20, 2021

Chloe Price said:
Well damn, it was in its original box.

For EUR 10 I'd say that was an incredible deal. Just checked some local listings, these are selling as "new" :

GT 610 - EUR 40 - 39 sold
GT 710 - EUR 55 - 60 sold
GT 1030 - EUR 105 - 48 sold
GTX 645 - EUR 110 - 21 sold

silentbogo · Mar 20, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Scored another white 17 inch Acer. This time I got pretty lucky and landed on a 7720G, w/ T5750 and a late G86 based 9300M G, and 3GB of RAM. Does need some work though but otherwise it works fine.

Nice.
Which reminds me, I have a pair of 15" variants somewhere in a box. Just need to put them together. I think it's one of my longest delayed projects, which started when these were still relevant )))
Even ordered a pair of brand-new motherboards, but those came in damaged beyond repair (whole corner was broken on both), so I've fixed the old ones (one had a short on SATA power lane, another one had one of standby voltages missing). It's been sitting like that for a few years, totally forgot about it with moving between places.

Ruru · Mar 21, 2021

QuietBob said:
For EUR 10 I'd say that was an incredible deal. Just checked some local listings, these are selling as "new" :

GT 610 - EUR 40 - 39 sold
GT 710 - EUR 55 - 60 sold
GT 1030 - EUR 105 - 48 sold
GTX 645 - EUR 110 - 21 sold

Insane prices.. I sold my GT 1030 (with 1gen Accelero Twin Turbo) for like 30EUR about an year ago.

MIRTAZAPINE · Mar 21, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Scored another white 17 inch Acer. This time I got pretty lucky and landed on a 7720G, w/ T5750 and a late G86 based 9300M G, and 3GB of RAM. Does need some work though but otherwise it works fine.

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I remember this Acer gemstone in late 2000s. I help a friend upgrade this with a corsair 120gb ssd that time and it really flies despite the sata 2 limitation. I think laptop during that time period have rather unique and experimental design that I never see it that much these days.

micropage7 · Mar 21, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
Scored another white 17 inch Acer. This time I got pretty lucky and landed on a 7720G, w/ T5750 and a late G86 based 9300M G, and 3GB of RAM. Does need some work though but otherwise it works fine.

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i found the same laptop several weeks ago on local online shop, actually i want to try it but since i have 3 laptops i skip it, i dunno i should be thankful or sorry for that

Frick · Mar 21, 2021

MaxiPro800 said:
You can never have enough G84/86 based C2Ds.

I would honestly disagree with this. At least in consumer laptops.

System Name	4K-gaming
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ PBO +200 -20CO
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50, EKWB Vector TUF
Memory	32GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-3466
Video Card(s)	Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF OC 10GB
Storage	A pack of SSDs totaling 3.2TB + 3TB HDDs
Display(s)	27" 4K120 IPS + 32" 4K60 IPS + 24" 1080p60
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow White
Audio Device(s)	Asus TUF H3 Wireless / Corsair HS35
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova G2 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 + Asus ROG Strix Edge Nordic
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	It runs Crysis

System Name	Master
Processor	Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3
Motherboard	SR-2 Classified
Memory	12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX680
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750

System Name	4K-gaming
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ PBO +200 -20CO
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero
Cooling	Arctic Freezer 50, EKWB Vector TUF
Memory	32GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-3466
Video Card(s)	Asus GeForce RTX 3080 TUF OC 10GB
Storage	A pack of SSDs totaling 3.2TB + 3TB HDDs
Display(s)	27" 4K120 IPS + 32" 4K60 IPS + 24" 1080p60
Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow White
Audio Device(s)	Asus TUF H3 Wireless / Corsair HS35
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova G2 750W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 + Asus ROG Strix Edge Nordic
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Windows 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	It runs Crysis

System Name	Adison "Open Space" 19
Processor	Intel Pentium II, 350MHz
Motherboard	Chaintech 6BTM, Slot 1
Cooling	SECC Cartridge
Memory	1x 64MB, PC100
Video Card(s)	ATI Rage IIc AGP, Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB
Storage	BTC BCD-40XH, Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series, EX6.4 GB
Display(s)	LG StudioWorks 57M
Case	Adison Midi Tower, ATX
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster 128
Power Supply	Codegen 300W
Mouse	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Keyboard	Genius SlimStar 110, PS/2
Software	Microsoft Windows 98

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 43 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	ASUS RoG Cerberus mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

Mr.Scott

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

framebuffer

Trekkie4

MaxiPro800

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

MaxiPro800

Caring1

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

MaxiPro800

Valantar

Splinterdog

Valantar

MaxiPro800

Trekkie4

MaxiPro800

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

Valantar

QuietBob

silentbogo

Moderator

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

MIRTAZAPINE

micropage7

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

System Name	Lenovo ThinkCentre
Processor	AMD 5650GE
Motherboard	Lenovo
Memory	32 GB DDR4
Display(s)	AOC 24" Freesync 1m.s. 75Hz
Mouse	Lenovo
Keyboard	Lenovo
Software	W11 Pro 64 bit

System Name	Hotbox
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 110/95/110, PBO +150Mhz, CO -7,-7,-20(x6),
Motherboard	ASRock Phantom Gaming B550 ITX/ax
Cooling	LOBO + Laing DDC 1T Plus PWM + Corsair XR5 280mm + 2x Arctic P14
Memory	32GB G.Skill FlareX 3200c14 @3800c15
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Radeon 6900XT Liquid Devil Ultimate, UC@2250MHz max @~200W
Storage	2TB Adata SX8200 Pro
Display(s)	Dell U2711 main, AOC 24P2C secondary
Case	SSUPD Meshlicious
Audio Device(s)	Optoma Nuforce μDAC 3
Power Supply	Corsair SF750 Platinum
Mouse	Logitech G603
Keyboard	Keychron K3/Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M w/DSA profile caps
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Ryzen Monster
Processor	Ryzen 7 5700X3D
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair Hero VII WiFi
Cooling	Corsair H100i RGB Platinum
Memory	Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (4x8GB) 3200Mhz CMW16GX4M2C3200C16
Video Card(s)	Asus ROG Strix RX5700XT OC 8Gb
Storage	WD Black 500GB NVMe 250Gb Samsung SSD, OCZ 500Gb SSD WD M.2 500Gb, plus three spinners up to 1.5Tb
Display(s)	LG 32GK650F-B 32" UltraGear™ QHD
Case	Cooler Master Storm Trooper
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX on board
Power Supply	Corsair RM850X full modular
Mouse	Corsair Ironclaw wireless
Keyboard	Logitech G213
VR HMD	Headphones Logitech G533 wireless
Software	Windows 11 Start 11
Benchmark Scores	3DMark Time Spy 4532 (9258 March 2021, 9399 July 2021)

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	WS#1337
Processor	Ryzen 7 3800X
Motherboard	ASUS X570-PLUS TUF Gaming
Cooling	Xigmatek Scylla 240mm AIO
Memory	4x8GB Samsung DDR4 ECC UDIMM
Video Card(s)	MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio
Storage	ADATA Legend 2TB + ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB
Display(s)	Samsung U24E590D (4K/UHD)
Case	ghetto CM Cosmos RC-1000
Audio Device(s)	ALC1220
Power Supply	SeaSonic SSR-550FX (80+ GOLD)
Mouse	Logitech G603
Keyboard	Modecom Volcano Blade (Kailh choc LP)
VR HMD	Google dreamview headset(aka fancy cardboard)
Software	Windows 11, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

System Name	Fat NCASE
Processor	Ryzen R9 3900X
Motherboard	ASUS TUF GAMING B550M ZAKU (WIFI) Edition
Cooling	Scythe Fuma with 3 SCYTHE Wondersnail 2400RPM + Arctic MX2
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 128GB @3200Mhz Cl16 (32GB X 4)
Video Card(s)	Palit RTX 3060 StormX ITX 12GB
Storage	MX500 4TB SATA + Toshiba MG08 16TB HDD
Display(s)	LG 27UL500 4K monitor
Case	Jonsbo W2 black
Audio Device(s)	Onboard realtek 1200 & Soundblaster G3 usb
Power Supply	ASUS ROG STRIX 850W Gundam Edition
Mouse	Elecom wireless mouse :)
Keyboard	RK100 Royal Kludge
Software	Windows 10 HOME
Benchmark Scores	Don't know any benchmark. It runs good enough for me.

System Name	White DJ in Detroit
Processor	Ryzen 5 5600
Motherboard	Asrock B450M-HDV
Cooling	Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2
Memory	2 x 16GB Kingston Fury 3400mhz
Video Card(s)	XFX 6950XT Speedster MERC 319
Storage	Kingston A400 240GB \| WD Black SN750 2TB \|WD Blue 1TB x 2 \| Toshiba P300 2TB \| Seagate Expansion 8TB
Display(s)	Samsung U32J590U 4K + BenQ GL2450HT 1080p
Case	Fractal Design Define R4
Audio Device(s)	Line6 UX1 + Sony MDR-10RC, Nektar SE61 keyboard
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x v3
Mouse	Logitech G602
Keyboard	Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Brown
Software	Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	Rimworld 4K ready!