TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

First things first please blow the dust out of your PC as it's getting rather grubby

You are right there Athlonite i have the air duster ,which i have had for some time i have never got round to using it. I will have to get it out and use it

My old grinder, i did make one EU reckord with super-pi with it. Core 2 Quad.

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That looks cool with all those different colours in there.

Does anyone get there Motherboard to sit in the PC case the first time?I am having a lot of trouble getting mine in This case in a pain in the you know where,Only two of the screws match up the others are way out. Got it all working now after hours trying to get it back in that poxy small case.Had to undo aome cable ties to get thouse front panal cabals in to the motherboard .At lest i have done it.

 

[Apocalypsee]

I upgrade the CPU cooler on my P4 rig since too loud (well if you use Prescott before you know how hot they were even at idle). Some naked shots. Found out this is the fastest 533MHz FSB Pentium 4 too, there aren't any 533MHz FSB higher clocked than 3.06GHz AFAIK. Which means it have the highest x23 multiplier which would be good for one thing...

Look how big the cooler is, still idles at 50C though but load around 60C so its good.

I looked for its PLL and download software CPU overclocking tool called SetFSB which I used it before and I still remember till this day, despite its being Intel board means BIOS locked for overclocking, at least the AGP/PCI speed is locked at 66MHz/33MHz respectively. I thought at most it will do 100-200MHz overclock but oooh no I'm so wrong on that one. Yeah it can run at 3.6GHz with no problem at all, in fact I tried it later it stable at 3.8GHz too, getting 10500 3DMark in the process (stock was about ~9000). Truth be told it can run 4GHz, but the ValueRAM means it will spits PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD when doing anything intensive. Imagine bone stock Intel board with stock volts can do 1GHz overclock. But I won't run it overclock, stock 3GHz is more than enough for the games I run, still its fun seeing this can clock that high. It feels so nostalgic overclocking till it heats up the room

 

[Mr.Scott]

but the ValueRAM means it will spits PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD when doing anything intensive.

Can also be low vcore.

 

[lexluthermiester]

still idles at 50C

It's a Pentium4, that can not be helped. It's the way the tech at the time functioned.

THAT is a nice heatsink for such a CPU! Well chosen!

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

More Phil's goodness:

 

[MaxiPro800]

I upgrade the CPU cooler on my P4 rig since too loud (well if you use Prescott before you know how hot they were even at idle). Some naked shots. Found out this is the fastest 533MHz FSB Pentium 4 too, there aren't any 533MHz FSB higher clocked than 3.06GHz AFAIK. Which means it have the highest x23 multiplier which would be good for one thing...
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Look how big the cooler is, still idles at 50C though but load around 60C so its good.

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I looked for its PLL and download software CPU overclocking tool called SetFSB which I used it before and I still remember till this day, despite its being Intel board means BIOS locked for overclocking, at least the AGP/PCI speed is locked at 66MHz/33MHz respectively. I thought at most it will do 100-200MHz overclock but oooh no I'm so wrong on that one. Yeah it can run at 3.6GHz with no problem at all, in fact I tried it later it stable at 3.8GHz too, getting 10500 3DMark in the process (stock was about ~9000). Truth be told it can run 4GHz, but the ValueRAM means it will spits PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD when doing anything intensive. Imagine bone stock Intel board with stock volts can do 1GHz overclock. But I won't run it overclock, stock 3GHz is more than enough for the games I run, still its fun seeing this can clock that high. It feels so nostalgic overclocking till it heats up the room

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Why not a Cedar Mill? From what I found (assuming your board is the D865GSA), it supports them with a BIOS update.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Can also be low vcore.

Could be that as well, but with so restricted system I might never know.

It's a Pentium4, that can not be helped. It's the way the tech at the time functioned.


THAT is a nice heatsink for such a CPU! Well chosen!

Yep tech at that time don't have idle mode and CPU runs at full speed all the time. Yep its whisper quiet now despite the fan runs at 100%

Why not a Cedar Mill? From what I found (assuming your board is the D865GSA), it supports them with a BIOS update.

I'm aiming for that as well, dunno if I should opt for Pentium D or the 4 is enough. This is early dual core era where both CPU die need to communicate through northbridge, and very early 2000 game didn't require multi core anyway perhaps 4 is more than enough.

 

[MaxiPro800]

I'm aiming for that as well, dunno if I should opt for Pentium D or the 4 is enough. This is early dual core era where both CPU die need to communicate through northbridge, and very early 2000 game didn't require multi core anyway perhaps 4 is more than enough.

For AGP stuff, I consider Cedar Mill P4s to be the best to use if the board supports it.
They're as cool as Conroe chips in that regard, and have the same features as a Prescott, so best of both worlds.
I'd keep Preslers for at least a 945/965/975 chipsetted board.

 

[Greenslade]

I keep on getting a message saying Realtek audio is unplugged?Is ot because the actual case Audeo plug is not conected to the motherboard properly? I thought it was this cabals USB3 side that to seems to have got bent,That was the problem but sadly it is notI still get the message about Realtek audio is unplugged

More Phil's goodness:

Good ole Phil he has the best videos, along with our other mate Clint And talking about our mate. Clint,here is his latest video.

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[Fouquin]

Sharing this here too for those that don't venture out into the main forum page often:

Need some assistance gathering photos and correct core variants for the VIA C3 models. If anyone would like to help, thread is here.

 

[Apocalypsee]

For AGP stuff, I consider Cedar Mill P4s to be the best to use if the board supports it.
They're as cool as Conroe chips in that regard, and have the same features as a Prescott, so best of both worlds.
I'd keep Preslers for at least a 945/965/975 chipsetted board.

I wouldn't worried about that, that is Pentium 4 nostalgia PC so I kept it as is (I can get Pentium D 925 for something like 2 dollar, we'll see whether I will buy that one or not already updated the BIOS and all so its ready for it), my 'dream retro PC' is another rig, this one, Athlon 64 3000+ s939 Venice, Radeon X800 GTO. Its being neglected and full of dust. I will do cleanup next week if I'm not busy, some fan rattling I need to rectify that. Just fired it up to play some games. I forgot how much faster Athlon 64 as compared to Pentium 4

 

[MaxiPro800]

Lil' Mendocino board I found today. LuckyTech/SYE P6VBX7. VIA693/596 + PGA370.

 

[lexluthermiester]

As many of you know, I recently purchased a Nintendo Super Famicom and did some retrobrighting to it's yellowed parts, with solid results.


However, I have discovered something really cool!

On the way and I'll post an update after it arrives and it get's installed.

Am still glad I retrobrighted the controller ports as they are reused for installation.

 

[basco]

good ol 8800 Ultra with voltmod and readout still working fine


and i am shocked how clean my cards are after all this time.
Evga 7950GX2


Asus 3850X2:

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lil' Mendocino board I found today. LuckyTech/SYE P6VBX7. VIA693/596 + PGA370.

I missed this yesterday, was caught up in the excitement on my SFC clear shell. IIRC that was a very solid Socket370 board. LuckyTech was an subsidiary of SoYo if I'm not mistaken. Nice find!

This was weird;

What he was able to do is not only very bizarre, but the results were just crazy!

 

[Apocalypsee]

^Loved that guy, he did something out of the box. It's something I would have done if I got time to spare. I did modified BIOS like that before, heck even I run modded BIOS on my laptop thanks to bios-mods forums, idk why newer laptops unable to manually configured Boost clock and voltages it's not like we can go over the default multiplier limit

 

[MaxiPro800]

LuckyTech was an subsidiary of SoYo if I'm not mistaken.

They weren't though. Soyo's parent company was Soyo Group Inc, while Luckytech's company was Shining Yuan Enterprises (SYE).

A lot of SYE's mobos were sold under the Sector brand, as well as some under the Polaris brand, though not all of them as Polaris usually alternated - some of their boards are SYE/Luckytech rebrands, some are FordLian/Redfox rebrands, with some going deeper (as some of Redfox' mobos were subsequently rebranded Acorp mobos).

I also have the P5MVP3, a really neat and small MVP3 mobo (SYE was famous for making compact mobos), all recapped and running a K6-2+ 550 w/ a V3 3000 (though I might swap the V3 soon, I reckon a socket 370 might benefit from it over a K6-2) and ~256MB of RAM or so.

A few changes have been made since the photo in my first post about it was taken:

- a few of the caps (mainly the critical stuff but I'm trying to source some more caps and do the whole board) were changed to 1000uF 6.3v OST RLX off a useless MSI PM9M-V board, originals being some awfully dry Canicon 1500uF 6.3v caps.
- changed the BIOS chip as it was pretty rotten it seems - original chip was a AMD AM29F002BT, new one is a EoN EN29F002NT
- added a golden DIN5 socket, along with a new fuse, lifted from a long dead Biostar 8500TVX
- replaced the awfully bent PS/2 mouse header with a yellow one I made from a Raspberry Pi Pico kit I had
- dropped in a Celeron 533 for the time being, until I can either find the BIOS for P6VBX7A (which uses 693A and has Coppermine P3 support) or a 693A/596/W977 AT mobo BIOS and drop in a P3 850 or a 1GHz (since the mobo does look up to it, and 693A is simply a 693 w/ 133 support.)

There was also an Octek 430HX (or VX, not sure which) mobo alongside this one... unfortunately that one was in such a dire shape that it was pretty much impossible to repair.

EDIT: My bad, it wasn't an Octek it seems. PCPartner MB500N was actually the one that was there besides the P6VBX7. Trust me though, that one was a total loss.

 

[Greenslade]

The burial of Lisa named afterJobs daughter,

what a waste I bet you guys would have wanted one,or pehaps some of you had one.

 

[basco]

2x 8400gs 256mb
radeon 7000 64mb
msi griffon 512 seems to be oem from HP and x1300 or x1600
asus riva v3400tnt agp


someone knows why i cant find this under gtx 285 in the gpu-database and why there it shows with 1x6pin + 1x8pin andG200-350-B3 and not 351?
sorry pics are not the best. left one should be a BFG gtx 285 ocx

 

[lexluthermiester]

They weren't though. Soyo's parent company was Soyo Group Inc, while Luckytech's company was Shining Yuan Enterprises (SYE).

Oh, my mistake. Wasn't 100%. It's been a long time. I knew there was an "S" & "Y" in the name, thus why SoYo came to mind. Thank You for clarifying!

(SYE was famous for making compact mobos)

And they were good at it!

It has arrived! And it is glorious!

Oh yeah! The ultimate SNES hotness!

 

[Fouquin]

I could use some assistance on a revival project. Got a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI that's missing a few components.

If anyone has the values for R547 and R566 on the back side of the card, I'd love to find some replacements.

 

[Greenslade]

I just bought this

Silent Mini Thin Client FSC Futro S220 RS-232 For Windows 3.1 95 98 Ms-dos TC23. No one on you tube has done any videos on the Fujitsu Siemens Futro S200 or any of there Thin Clients . It looks a interesting design with the PCI slot.I did ask if Phil could review one but he did not reply to meI have looked on Parky Towers the site about thin Client's and got all the info about it.But i wondered if anyone has owned one? I am not sure how to get a OS. on there though.What is TC23? ​

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[Fouquin]

I could use some assistance on a revival project. Got a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI that's missing a few components.

If anyone has the values for R547 and R566 on the back side of the card, I'd love to find some replacements.

Think I got it working. Time to get windows on this abomination.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Moar VIA goodness.

In order:

Pic 1 and 2 - Epox EP-3VCM/Coppermine Celery 1GHz/V3 3000
Pic 3 and 4 - ECS K7VZA rev3 w/ Duron 1600
Pic 5,6,7 - Luckytech P5MVP3 w/ K6-II+ 500MHz/256MB RAM

 

[wolf]

someone knows why i cant find this under gtx 285 in the gpu-database

I have several models I've not found in the GPU database, so it doesn't appear to be all encompassing.

@W1zzard , for the database if we have card models not listed, do you want to know? do they get listed perhaps after uploading a bios?