TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[MaxiPro800]

Yes they have, its HP-15-ba010ax. Its easier for me to get the drivers that way, at least to me haha. Because sometime just downloading driver via its name doesn't work especially laptops with dual GPUs

HP's dynamic switchable GPU setups are hot garbage by default. I don't think I've ever had so much headaches and ragequits from their G6-1000 and G6-2000 lineage. EVER.

Surprisingly, their older DV6 and DV7s (more exactly DV6-3000 and DV7-4000) were on fixed switching GPU setups and were WAYYY easier to manage.

 

[lexluthermiester]

HP's dynamic switchable GPU setups are hot garbage by default. I don't think I've ever had so much headaches and ragequits from their G6-1000 and G6-2000 lineage. EVER.

Surprisingly, their older DV6 and DV7s (more exactly DV6-3000 and DV7-4000) were on fixed switching GPU setups and were WAYYY easier to manage.

I never wasted any time with that dynamic GPU crap. Wasn't worth the effort.

 

[QuietBob]

Hey @F-Zero, be careful with that card
"Warning: GeForce2 GTS consumes a lot of power"

Little did they know...

 

[F-Zero]

Hehehe

 

[WhitetailAni]

Hey F-Zero, be careful with that card
"Warning: GeForce2 GTS consumes a lot of power"

6800 Ultra with 2 external Molex power connectors be like:

 

[MaxiPro800]

Voodoo 5 6000 wants to know your location

 

[F-Zero]

Here what I got delivered 20 minutes ago

3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

 

[Apocalypsee]

HP's dynamic switchable GPU setups are hot garbage by default. I don't think I've ever had so much headaches and ragequits from their G6-1000 and G6-2000 lineage. EVER.

Surprisingly, their older DV6 and DV7s (more exactly DV6-3000 and DV7-4000) were on fixed switching GPU setups and were WAYYY easier to manage.

That's right, AMD latest driver also unable to change which GPU to use. I resorted to use old driver from 2017. All of this thanks to windows 10 being able to change which GPU via windows settings. But perhaps due to 'unique' way of HP designing motherboard Windows 10 only seeing the integrated ones both for power saving and performance


Look at this driver, it looks modern and functional, even have tabs to switch which GPU to run which apps. The new driver looks poor by comparison.

For Bristol Ridge APUs I found an application similar to k10stat named k15tk that being able to manipulate the APU Pstates. Here is the default voltage. Mind you this is 15W APU with that much voltage because of this its rarely stays boosted.

After some finetuning this is what I got with my limit being 1V for pBoost states. It can be undervolted 0.1V on p0 states. Boosted it runs 0.125V lower while runs at 100MHz higher. AMD bin their APU poorly IMO. I also adjust P1, P2, P3 so it won't drop too much clock.

I managed to overclock the memory of its dedicated GPU via MSI Afterburner. Its rated at 1000MHz but being Samsung module its stable at 1200MHz. GPU-Z seems confused by its capability though It only have like 320 shaders, 20 TMU and 8 ROP according to TPU.

 

[delshay]

Gotta love your nonchalant manner and the maverick way to test throttling behavior!



I wish. Other than the usual fixes, I cut out the plastic grille obstructing the intake and affixed tall rubber feet. I think I showed this earlier:

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Had to replace the battery after the original one died. The oversized pack props the rear even higher, also increasing airflow. Should've posted this in Ghetto Mods

Just upgrade my laptop Acer "Ferrari 1200" again from Intel 9260 to the latest card AX 210. Don't do this as I can't take advantage of it.
I'm just preparing for the future.

 

[F-Zero]

Benches incoming: 3DMARK00, 3DMARK01SE

 

[Ruru]

Building the world's prettiest HTPC tomorrow, waiting for the case, got the mb today

 

[QuietBob]

Benches incoming: 3DMARK00, 3DMARK01SE

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Finally, a worthy opponent! ATI Radeon Xpress 200 says "hi"
3DMark01SE w/ Celeron D 326 2.53 GHz:

EDIT: Uploaded 3DMark00 results by mistake, duh.

 

[Ruru]

Finally, a worthy opponent! ATI Radeon Xpress 200 says "hi"
3DMark01 SE (w/ Celeron D 326 2.53 GHz):

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Should I murder that with GF3

 

[QuietBob]

Building the world's prettiest HTPC tomorrow, waiting for the case, got the mb today

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Solid heatsinks! Whatcha got for the CPU?

 

[Ruru]

Solid heatsinks! Whatcha got for the CPU?

Check my sig - Xeon X5650

 

[Mr.Scott]

Benches incoming: 3DMARK00, 3DMARK01SE

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Nice card.
Here is my 3D01 on the PCI version of VooDoo 5500.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here is my 3D01 on the PCI version of VooDoo 5500.

That was a great version of the card to have! It allowed people who were, at the time, still on Socket 7 boards that wanted to max out their system rather than upgrade their platform. For many it was a solid last hurrah for PCI video cards.

 

[Ruru]

Yo fuck that its booooooring ;(

 

[Mr.Scott]

That was a great version of the card to have! It allowed people who were, at the time, still on Socket 7 boards that wanted to max out their system rather than upgrade their platform. For many it was a solid last hurrah for PCI video cards.

It actually clocked better than my AGP version. I had both. I kept the PCI and sold the AGP a while ago. Got 350 bucks for it.

 

[Ruru]

Almost there! Just need to build the loop and install the PSU

 

[lexluthermiester]

Almost there! Just need to build the loop and install the PSU

Do some wire twisting with those power lines from your pump.
EDIT;
See pics below.

Before:

After:

 

[Ruru]

Do some wire twisting with those power lines from your pump.

Good advice, yeah, I'll do

 

[lexluthermiester]

The lighter is used to heat the plastic sheath of the wire to prevent it from springing back to an untwisted state. You don't want to melt it, so keep the flame moving and never stop in one spot, just warm it up so the molecules in the plastic get set into a new tension state. And bam! Wire management done!

 

[Ruru]

The lighter is used to heat the plastic sheath of the wire to prevent it from springing back to an untwisted state. You don't want to melt it, so keep the flame moving and never stop in one spot, just warm it up so the molecules in the plastic get set into a new tension state. And bam! Wire management done!

I'll try that trick

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'll try that trick

This was perfect timing as I'm doing a system rebuild for a client and needed to do this anyway.