TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ruru]

Yes it is The GPU come out of another PC with no trouble I got ir in my latest PC. The reason i tried to get it out was for the third Sata cablal . if i had smaller hands i might have been able to get it in in the socket.
With the card coming out i was able to do .It is in solid now.
So i want have trouble using it without it?.There was no way of geting it out anyway.

Just secure the card firmly to the case with screws and you shouldn't have problems. If you move your PC around, you might want to check that it's seated properly after that.

Otherwise it's fine without that (sometimes annoying) locking mechanism

 

[Greenslade]

Just secure the card firmly to the case with screws and you shouldn't have problems. If you move your PC around, you might want to check that it's seated properly after that.

Otherwise it's fine without that (sometimes annoying) locking mechanism

Thanks for your advice It seems a lot of people on the internet have had the same problem.It was a right pain for me.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here comes a disaster.

Why, whatever do you mean good sir?!?

I agree on the looks. That's easily the best looking DDR2 I've ever seen. What cooling do you have with that E8500, custom loop?

edit: Bryan put a video of X58 and Xeon. I'll try his bios settings as I have the same motherboard on my X58 rig.

What I find very interesting with this video is that it makes Linus @LTT look like a monkey diddling a football. See the following.

Brian not only proved up with game footage but showed the benchmarks as well. One point he made that I'll disagree with is the parts life span. CPUs and RAM rarely die and motherboards can be recapped.

TechYesCity showing the love!!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Why, whatever do you mean good sir?!?


What I find very interesting with this video is that it makes Linus @LTT look like a monkey diddling a football. See the following.

Brian not only proved up with game footage but showed the benchmarks as well. One point he made that I'll disagree with is the parts life span. CPUs and RAM rarely die and motherboards can be recapped.

TechYesCity showing the love!!

Not that I disagree with your overall point, however on the majority of modern boards electrolytic caps are rare, and usually failures are something not so straightforward.

As an owner of several x58 systems, I can say that while the platform definitely has its woes, it's rather capable, especially when overclocked.

For example, yesterday I was curious if COD Warzone needed avx so I fired up the game on a stock i7 960 with 12gb ram and a 1060 6gb. Not only did it run, but it ran very smoothly and was a very good experience. And that's a 45nm 4 core, westmere would be much better even.

Some time if I ever get a GPU that isn't a potato I would like to bench my 4.5ghz 990x in modern games.

 

[Greenslade]

I just looked at my older Dell as you can see in the photo it has a clip that is not part of the PCIe slot.Why they did not stay with that i don,t know 0422 the one that broke off.Ir seems a backward step to me.I could try and super glue it back on ,even if i could chances of breaking again are high.The all in one design in the one that broke is a stupid design.At least i did not brake any of the plastic bits that that hold the front panal I have done that once before on one of those brittle plastic bits ,i did super glue it back on.Because the PC i took the GPU out of had the Separate clip must have been why it came out with no problem. I suppose it was a cost cutting thing to do.

 

[Ruru]

I just looked at my older Dell as you can see in the photo it has a clip that is not part of the PCIe slot.Why they did not stay with that i don,t know 0422 the one that broke off.Ir seems a backward step to me.I could try and super glue it back on ,even if i could chances of breaking again are high.The all in one design in the one that broke is a stupid design.At least i did not brake any of the plastic bits that that hold the front panal I have done that once before on one of those brittle plastic bits ,i did super glue it back on.Because the PC i took the GPU out of had the Separate clip must have been why it came out with no problem.

Nah, don't waste your time with that stupid clip as it works as fine without it like I said above.

 

[Greenslade]

Nah, don't waste your time with that stupid clip as it works as fine without it like I said above.

Thanks again hope your day is going well.

 

[Ruru]

Thanks again hope your day is going well.

Thanks, overclocking the X5650 and running stability tests

 

[Greenslade]

Just ordered PCI-e to SATA 3.0 Internal 6Gbps Ports Disk Expansion Card from eBay.I need more than the three it has on the PC. Hopefully, the 8 to 24 cabal for the PSU will arrive tomorrow.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

What system is this for?

Just ordered PCI-e to SATA 3.0 Internal 6Gbps Ports Disk Expansion Card from eBay.I need more than the three it has on the PC. Hopefully, the 8 to 24 cabal for the PSU will arrive tomorrow. View attachment 239864

 

[Dinnercore]

I said to myself no more purchases, my pile of 775 hardware is big enough. But for this board I made an exception, because I'm not sure how often I get a chance to grab one.

Two months ago I had put up an offer, searching for one. I offered 250€ for an Asus Maximus II Gene. No one had one or wanted to sell one. Three weeks ago I cancelled the advert as it returned no results. And now on friday last week I did my weekly ebay scan for a few grails and guess what popped up.

Instead of spending 250€, I got it for 50€ including 4x2GB DDR2, an E6750 and the Intel stock cooler. Oh and a fresh battery

I feel complete now that I own both the MIIG and the JR P45.
They share the warm VRM area, and if you don't get any airflow over the heatsink it gets toasty. 45°C - 50°C idle on NB and SB seemed to be common when people tested it after its launch back in 2009. After exchanging the pad and thermal paste (Again I had to fight the dried yellow plague on the NB) mine is not as bad, but still creeps up to 40°C on idle. Small Noctua fan and it drops to 30°C.

I'm running out of time for OC testing, this will have to follow maybe the coming weekend. The bios settings are a pleasant surprise, it has all the OC settings you could ever want. They even included a single toggle for all non-essential onboard devices, so when benching cold you can disable them at once. Things like LAN-controller, audio, IEEE 1394, serial port etc.. That is a feature I'd like to see on a lot of other boards.

 

[stinger608]

I know this doesn't really have anything to do with nostalgic hardware, but also would like followers to take a look at this thread that @neatfeatguy posted yesterday:

Looking for possible donations for a good cause - Sorry, event fell through and it's a no go

**UPDATE** 4/1/22 My friends have been working on trying to get things going again, but they've had troubles getting the venues that normally sponsored the rally, pre-covid, to back it again. Since they can't land enough sponsors to help cover costs of things, like they have in the past, they...

www.techpowerup.com

This is for a really great cause and I thought it might get more attention posting the TPU link here in this thread.

Maybe between all of us we could give this awesome TPU member a hand with some stuff.

 

[Ruru]

Just ordered PCI-e to SATA 3.0 Internal 6Gbps Ports Disk Expansion Card from eBay.I need more than the three it has on the PC. Hopefully, the 8 to 24 cabal for the PSU will arrive tomorrow. View attachment 239864

I have a similar card on my main rig. Sounds funny but I'm hella out of space (thanks to modern games....) so I installed that and put 2x 128GB Toshiba SSDs to that. Though my card supports eSATA (though I haven't ever had any use of such devices).

 

[Greenslade]

What system is this for?

 

[Ruru]

You forgot the reply bro

 

[Greenslade]

I know this doesn't really have anything to do with nostalgic hardware, but also would like followers to take a look at this thread that @neatfeatguy posted yesterday:

Looking for possible donations for a good cause - Sorry, event fell through and it's a no go

**UPDATE** 4/1/22 My friends have been working on trying to get things going again, but they've had troubles getting the venues that normally sponsored the rally, pre-covid, to back it again. Since they can't land enough sponsors to help cover costs of things, like they have in the past, they...

www.techpowerup.com

This is for a really great cause and I thought it might get more attention posting the TPU link here in this thread.

Maybe between all of us we could give this awesome TPU member a hand with some stuff.

Sounds good to me

What system is this for?

Dell 3020 mt it had a i3 4150 in it, i upgraded it with a i5 4570 which i had in a SFF 3020 .I did not realise at the time it could only take a one slot card.As the slot you put the Gpu was right next to the PSU unlike the 7020 and 9020.The Dell 3020 mt only cost 30 pounds and included a Samsung Evo 850 500GB.The seller had two more of them if they had a i5 4570 i would have got them to.

 

[Ruru]

Posted on FB that I want a bench PSU and why not a case; I could build an ultimate LGA 775 rig..

 

[Ruru]

By the way, what is a recommended voltage for the PLL with X58? I have it at 1.88V but does increasing it help with oc'ing?

 

[lexluthermiester]

By the way, what is a recommended voltage for the PLL with X58?

IIRC, default CPU PLL is 1.8v and IOH PLL is the same. The QPI PLL should be 1.10v or 1.15v depending on the board.

I have it at 1.88V but does increasing it help with oc'ing?

No, the PLL voltages will do nothing but dump more heat into the CPU die. It will not help with OCing. My strong advice is to leave those voltage on auto/stock.

What CPU are you wanting to OC and what board do you have for it?

 

[Ruru]

IIRC, default CPU PLL is 1.8v and IOH PLL is the same. The QPI PLL should be 1.10v or 1.15v depending on the board.

No, the PLL voltages will do nothing but dump more heat into the CPU die. It will not help with OCing. My strong advice is to leave those voltage on auto/stock.

What CPU are you wanting to OC and what board do you have for it?

It's my HTPC. Xeon X5650 and Asus P6X58D-E, cooled with Alphacool Eisbaer with 240x45 + 240x30 rads

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's my HTPC. Xeon X5650 and Asus P6X58D-E, cooled with Alphacool Eisbaer with 240x45 + 240x30 rads

With that combo, a bclk OC of 167 or 201 with a bump in CPU voltage and a drop in multiplier. That CPU should get a solid 3.34ghz(167x20) or 3.41ghz(201x17) with about 1.33v or 1.35v, depending on which bclk it can run stable at.

 

[Ruru]

With that combo, a bclk OC of 167 or 201 with a bump in CPU voltage and a drop in multiplier. That CPU should get a solid 3.34ghz(167x20) or 3.41ghz(201x17) with about 1.33v or 1.35v, depending on which bclk it can run stable at.

It's at 4.1GHz (20x205) now and it's rock stable

Just wondering that should we make a X58 thread in the overclocking subforum

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's at 4.1GHz (20x205) now and it's rock stable

Oh, then allow me to shut my cake-hole...

Just wondering that should we make a X58 thread in the overclocking subforum

Maybe. I thought we had one already. Might want to check(search)..

 

[80-watt Hamster]

It's at 4.1GHz (20x205) now and it's rock stable

Just wondering that should we make a X58 thread in the overclocking subforum

Oh, then allow me to shut my cake-hole...

Maybe. I thought we had one already. Might want to check(search)..

I know there's one for X79; not aware of an X58-specific thread. The Xeon Owners' Club has a healthy amount of discussion on X56xx OC-ing.

 

[erek]

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