TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[starred86]

Would be interesting to have such a fast AGP card since it's a G92 card with 128 shaders. GTS 150 is an OEM-only card, so that's why you probably haven't heard of it.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150 OEM Specs

NVIDIA G92, 738 MHz, 128 Cores, 64 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 1024 MB GDDR3, 1000 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Hahahaha, that's what you call a sense of humor. You made me laugh. Thanks!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Dell Precision M6400, in my opinion the ultimate XP era laptop.

This one's not too optioned out, T9400, 2x2gb, no drive, FX2700M, but it has the main option I wanted, the 1200p LED display. It smashes anything with a CCFL panel in the era, quite nice. The LED backlit keyboard is excellent and has great IO. DisplayPort even. OEM battery, unsure of health, but it's not charged.

It's got some scratches and paint damage, but it seems to be in full working order. In limp mode, slow and won't charge because I'm using a HP brick waiting on a 210w dell to arrive. Do plan to upgrade it to 16gb ram (4 slots d3).

 

[Ruru]

Got a soldering station today so finally recapped the Radeon 9550. I just don't have an AGP setup put up now so I'll test that later.

 

[jak_2456]

the 1200p LED display. It smashes anything with a CCFL panel in the era, quite nice.

Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom has an Hg icon.

 

[Ruru]

Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom has an Hg icon.

Probably means the CMOS battery. Did some research and indeed looks it has a LED backlight display.

edit: ah, ryzenmaster meant that he'd want the bigger model with the LED backlidded panel. The smaller one could have CCFL indeed.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Are you sure? The sticker on the bottom has an Hg icon.

The nice thing about Dell is that if you can make out the service tag from listing photos, you can see exactly what it's specifications are and what it's been optioned with. I looked it before bidding on it (was another goodwill buy)to see what I was working with.

Its no modern OLED or IPS panel in terms of viewing angles or colors, but in both aspects this display is far better than anything else I have seen of a laptop from this time. Since it's LED it doesn't have the characteristic CCFL burnt yellow tint coupled with a nearly unusable lack of brightness like my Latitude D620. It's properly bright. In fact, the brightness and black levels are basically on par with a midrange modern IPS display.

It's a treat to use really, although I wish the colors were a bit better, its pretty "cool" in temperature.

Although you don't see this to the naked eye the camera kind of picks up the R G B ness weirdly.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Since we are talking about Nvidia right now. Here are my two 8800 GTX's. Was using them to test out a S939 board I just got. And if I am not mistaken I believe I got one of them from Stinger.

 

[Ruru]

Since we are talking about Nvidia right now. Here are my two 8800 GTX's. Was using them to test out a S939 board I just got. And if I am not mistaken I believe I got one of them from Stinger.
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You don't need two bridges, but I'll admit that it looks better. There's also something special about that old AMD stock cooler, I still have one myself. Used to run a 3000+ Venice @ 2.7 (50% OC) 24/7 with such without any issues.

Also nice to see identical cards, it's actually pretty rare (at least of those multi-GPU setups I've seen), the only time I'd had two identical cards was when I had a Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Crossfire. Even my collection's 2x XFX HD 4890 aren't identical, the other is a reference card (but with 6+8pin instead of just 6+6pin) and the other has a slightly modified PCB and cooler. Looks identical enough though.

 

[stinger608]

And if I am not mistaken I believe I got one of them from Stinger.

I believe that is correct.

Jeez, that's probably been 5 or 6 years ago? LOL

 

[wolf]

Scored a super cool case for my planned SLI build. Thought I was just getting the case, but it has an X58 board, i7 960 and GTX960 too.

 

[stinger608]

Scored a super cool case for my planned SLI build

Wow, how awesome @wolf !!!!

I always wanted one of them, but at the time, they were an insane price.

Of course, I've never had an opportunity to grab one since.

Awesome score man!!!!

 

[lexluthermiester]

Scored a super cool case for my planned SLI build. Thought I was just getting the case, but it has an X58 board, i7 960 and GTX960 too.

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IF it were mine, I'd get a GTX1080/1080ti, throw in 24GB of DDR3-1866, a SoundBlasterZ, a Xeon W3680 or W3690, a 2TB SSD, a MDisc Bluray burner, some green LED fans and call it good!

EDIT: With that setup running Win10(or a patched and bypassed Win11), you'd still have a very solid 1080P gaming machine!

 

[starred86]

GF N6200GE ASUS AGP-N6200GETD 128MB 128bit GAMER EDITION Friends! I came across this video card by chance. This is a 6200 AGP with external power supply 128 bits ... I had never heard of such a beast. Does anyone have any impressions or heard years ago what kind of hybrid it was, given that for more money you can grab a 6600?

 

[wolf]

IF it were mine, I'd get a GTX1080/1080ti, throw in 24GB of DDR3-1866, a SoundBlasterZ, a Xeon W3680 or W3690, a 2TB SSD, a MDisc Bluray burner, some green LED fans and call it good!

I'm yet to land on final hardware, but I was thinking more 4770K, 16GB DDR3 2400, and 2xGTX690 quad SLI I have all that hardware, but yeah theres options, the board that came in the box is great!

 

[DR4G00N]

The inevitable finally happened, caps on my Golden Flame started leaking. Luckily I had some extra on hand from another board I recapped a while ago, not quite enough 3300uf 6.3v ones though but the last two look okay so I'm not going to worry about it for now.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm yet to land on final hardware, but I was thinking more 4770K, 16GB DDR3 2400, and 2xGTX690 quad SLI I have all that hardware, but yeah theres options, the board that came in the box is great!

Ah, ok, fair enough! Those are some choice goodies!

 

[Ruru]

GF N6200GE ASUS AGP-N6200GETD 128MB 128bit GAMER EDITION Friends! I came across this video card by chance. This is a 6200 AGP with external power supply 128 bits ... I had never heard of such a beast. Does anyone have any impressions or heard years ago what kind of hybrid it was, given that for more money you can grab a 6600?

That IS practically a cut-down 6600, try to unlock the pipelines with Rivatuner.

 

[starred86]

That IS practically a cut-down 6600, try to unlock the pipelines with Rivatuner.

Thanks for the idea. This is valuable advice. I will try this idea soon.