TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[freeagent]

Lol I didn't try haha

I am curious if it would work.. I bet it would..

 

[Valantar]

I am curious if it would work.. I bet it would..

I would give it a try. Worst case scenario, you give some customer service rep a good laugh

 

[Greenslade]

I keep on hearing about CPUs, bottlenecking. So I thought I would find out by typing my
CPU i5 2310 and the GPU 7850 about bottlenecking. And came to a site that tells you whether a
Cpu, bottlenecks with your GPU or not. Lucky enough mine both work fine together. How did we manage without the internet? On another subject about CPUs, I was thinking at a later stage of upgrading the CPU to an i5 2500k would I have to upgrade the Dell.s CPU heatsink, or could I use the one on there already?. I don,t suppose I could overclock on the Dell,s motherboard anyway. Not that I would want to anyway.

 

[68Olds]

Yes, the heatsink from the 2310 will work on the 2500k, they are both 95w TDP CPUs. The only way I would do that upgrade would be if someone gave the 2500k for free. The minor speed bump would be imperceptible and no way you could overclock to make it worth a penny. Going from an i3 to i5 or i7 might be worth it because of the increases in threads, but 4 threads to slightly faster 4 threads is not.

 

[Greenslade]

Yes, the heatsink from the 2310 will work on the 2500k, they are both 95w TDP CPUs. The only way I would do that upgrade would be if someone gave the 2500k for free. The minor speed bump would be imperceptible and no way you could overclock to make it worth a penny. Going from an i3 to i5 or i7 might be worth it because of the increases in threads, but 4 threads to slightly faster 4 threads is not.

Thanks for your answer. I realized I would not be able to overclock on the Dell motherboard, Unfortunately, the Dell motherboard want work with the i7,s it only works with Sandy bridge ones, not the i7,s Ivy bridge. I might upgrade to an i5 2500 at a later date, but bearing in mind what you say about threads probably not.
But I am going to use it as an XP Retro system.
Bottleneck Calculator is an excellent site.

 

[freeagent]

Remember these? I kind of want to plug it in to see if it works

 

[stinger608]

Where in the world did you find that drive @freeagent ?

Always wanted one or more of them and never had the chance to grab any.

 

[68Olds]

It's very cool @freeagent, but I've never seen a windowed HDD. What is it?

 

[stinger608]

It's very cool @freeagent, but I've never seen a windowed HDD. What is it?

That's a WD Raptor X. One of the original ones. I think they only had the windowed version on the 150gb drives back in the day.

Here is an old Newegg link:

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10000 RPM 3.5" HDD - Newegg.com

Buy Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

Kind of cool: here is an original review over at Tweaktown:

Western Digital Raptor X - Return of the 10,000 RPM King

Western Digital's Raptor is back in the shape of the Raptor X which builds on the success of the original HDD.

www.tweaktown.com

 

[68Olds]

Thanks stinger. I have several WD 36GB raptors & a few 74GB raptors, but never saw the windowed 150GB. Very nice!

 

[freeagent]

Where in the world did you find that drive @freeagent ?

Always wanted one or more of them and never had the chance to grab any.

It was in my old toolbox that I use for RC stuff lol.. I’ve been wondering where it went for so long I thought I threw it away or something. The tool box just had my soldering stuff, my meter, and some other random stuff like nitro spray, and a brushless Medusa heli motor lol

 

[onemanhitsquad]

Remember these? I kind of want to plug it in to see if it works

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I still have a few raptors...some still in use , some of all sizes...always liked them..I have 2 in raid zero for storage in another machine...use her!

 

[freeagent]

I still have a few raptors...some still in use , some of all sizes...always liked them..I have 2 in raid zero for storage in my AMD Ryzen machine...use her!

Yeah I'm gonna plug her in and see what happens, hoping for the best!

 

[Mr.Scott]

I still have a bunch of 36's and 74's. Always wanted a windowed one.
The 36's run fucking burn your fingers hot.

 

[freeagent]

I used to have two regular 150 ADFD I think they were? I ran all three together for quite awhile using Intel Matrix. They ran good, sounded like a really loud coffee machine.. I did have to have a fan on them.. If I remember, they were faster than first gen SSD from G.Skill and WD.I did plug the drive in, and it just spin up spin down, head smash, over and over. Its a sweet drive though, too bad. I wonder if I can get it fixed.. might have to shoot them an email..

 

[lexluthermiester]

Remember these? I kind of want to plug it in to see if it works

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Glass-top WD Raptor. Very nice. Unless it's damaged it should still work.

I still have a bunch of 36's and 74's. Always wanted a windowed one.
The 36's run fucking burn your fingers hot.

Are yours without the heatsinks? You can run them without them but you have to mount them to metal-wall drive cage to keep them cool.

 

[Trekkie4]

Today's somewhat unexpected score:

Matrox G200, AGP (thought it was G400...)


VLB drive controller/VGA card (I really do need a replacement VLB VGA card, so this worked out perfectly!)


Creative CT4620 SoundBlaster Live!


Asus TUSL2-C


...and yes, it boots up fine!


Acorp 6BX-7X-VIA86 "AT" form factor Slot 1 board


...which again - boots up fine, although it seems to be missing CR2032 battery holder


"J-656VXC" Intel (Socket 7) board ... so far in unknown condition.


and last but not least ... DFI PA61, Slot 1 mobo which has "NO" written all over it.


You'd assume that it doesn't work ... and yes - you would be somewhat right, I guess. That being said, I got the board to boot up by clearing the CMOS, although it hangs during the POST with continuous, short beeps and the keyboard doesn't respond. As if the keyboard circuit is fried or damaged. Oh yeah, and ATX power switch header doesn't appear to work, I had to start the board through CMOS reset jumper

 

[freeagent]

That PA-61 gave me my first taste of overclocking

 

[stinger608]

I still have a few raptors...some still in use , some of all sizes...always liked them..I have 2 in raid zero for storage in another machine...use her!

Yeppers, I still have about 8 or 10 velociraptors. Used to have 5 of them in a Raid system, but now they are just sitting doing nothing.

Well, that isn't totally correct, I do have 1 in each of 2 Windows XP system. Sure makes a big difference in the performance of an ole nostalgic system.

 

[Trekkie4]

That PA-61 gave me my first taste of overclocking

It really is a nice board, I'd love to get it up & running again! Not sure I'll be able to, of course but considering the number of "NO" across the board, I was expecting it to burst up in flames as soon as I power it up or something

By the way ... because I know someone will ask me sooner or later. Yes, I bit the bullet and finally got one of those modern gaming consoles. It looks really nice actually, can't wait to try it out!


It contains the following games:

 

[freeagent]

It really is a nice board, I'd love to get it up & running again! Not sure I'll be able to, of course but considering the number of "NO" across the board, I was expecting it to burst up in flames as soon as I power it up or something

By the way ... because I know someone will ask me sooner or later. Yes, I bit the bullet and finally got one of those modern gaming consoles. It looks really nice actually, can't wait to try it out!


It contains the following games:

My friend gave me the board, and I used it with my very first CPU, the 450 Katmai that I transferred from my HP Pavilion lol.. Later I got a Coppermine and a Tualatin until I checked out AMD for a bit with their NF2 stuff I did have a Soyo Dragon, that was my last board from that era. Boot block error and no floppy drive FTL

 

[Mr.Scott]

Are yours without the heatsinks? You can run them without them but you have to mount them to metal-wall drive cage to keep them cool.

They are sinked. Still hot as hell.

 

[Robert B]

NEW HW FOUND!!!

1. AOpen AX6BC Intel 440BX + Pentium II 400MHzv SL357
2. Supermicro / Super Micro H8DAE REV:2.01 - Dual S940 Opteron - It needs a lot of repairs but nothing too complicated. Lots of missing ceramic caps, a few bent electrolytic caps and some RAM socket clips that are damaged. All fixable. https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/8131/H8DAE.cfm. In any case I have no CPUs to test it. All I have is one FX51 and one FX53 S940 CPUs.
3. Asus A7N8X + AMD Athlon XP 2600+ AXDA2600DKV3D - one missing ceramic cap.
4. MSI ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB - in pretty bad shape, missing the backplate clip. RX9800PRO-TD128
5. 3dfx VooDoo Banshee - ELSA VICTORY II-A16
6. Albatron Gefroce FX 5600XT 128MB - FX5600XTP - it needs a few ceramic caps.
7. Asus A7A266 Rev 1.03 + Athlon 1.4GHz Thunderbird A1400AMS3C - The motherboard it's missing two plastic prongs from the CPU socket and it needs a socket replacement. The Athlon has a massively damaged die but it works flawlessly. I bought the motherboard for spare parts but when I saw that it works, I quickly changed my mind! I even have a devious plan to change the socket without desoldering.
8. AMD Duron 1.3GHz DHD1300AMT1B
9. Pentium 133MHz SK106
10. ASUS P5A SS7 - I wasn't expecting this gem to pop up but it did!!!
11. Creative CT6950 PCI - nVIDIA Vanta 32MB PCI - a Vanta but with a core from a TNT 2.
12. nVIDIA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E - in fully working condition! - A pretty rare sight in this neck of the woods!

 

[Caring1]

For some reason my post about XP was deleted because a mod said i was mentioning about piracy which i was not.

Was that the one with the big picture showing XP Pirate edition?

 

[lexluthermiester]

For some reason my post about XP was deleted because a mod said i was mentioning about piracy which i was not.

Was that the one with the big picture showing XP Pirate edition?

I remember that post and it seems to be gone. TPU can not be seen as promoting piracy, nor can they allow such from their user base.

There is of course a difference between using a custom config Windows installer, which is perfectly legal fair-use and clearly pirated materials(or materials that promote such) which is not fair-use.

Careful in future what you post mates.

For the sake of nostalgia I have taken all of the 3DFX wallpapers I have and remade them into 16:9 2160p images. See attached images or the ZIP file for them all!
Once again, I make no claims to ownership. Just reworked them for everyone's enjoyment.