Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air
Posted on 2016-04-09, 07:01
Whoops, my bad, guess I read too quickly and missed out on a few key points in the post.
Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air
Posted on 2016-04-05, 14:09
- The socket 939 board had one less PCI slot, meaning that the Audigy was bang up against the 8800GTX, restricting its access to precious cool airflow. For the sake of the relatively precious 8800GTX's longevity, you might want to consider switching out your Audigy for a PCIe version so that it can …
Re: P4 build in the works
Posted on 2015-07-04, 18:09
I've a similar board, the 865PE Neo2-PFISR. I did try to populate all 4 RAM slots with 2x1GB and 2x512MB DDR400 sticks and I remembered either it didn't boot or had the ram speeds wrong. In the end I settled for the 2x1GB RAM config. Maybe it also was picky about the RAM configs as mentioned earlier …
Re: Quieter, newer, fans?
Posted on 2015-07-04, 18:00
Scythe Gentle Typhoons are great also. True but probably "wasted" if used as case fans. Their common uses were as heatsink/rad fans, where their high static pressure and low noise made them highly popular for that purpose. Can consider Scythe Slipstreams as case fans if not used behind restrictive …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-05-15, 14:03
That's not a fair comparison... Yours is 875P and Skyscraper asked for 865PE. :wink: Anyway I vaguely remembered seeing a Gigabyte P4 Titan 8PENXP put up for sale in the local forums a couple of years back. I wouldn't have remembered the exact model but I remembered it had 1 distinguishing feature: …
Re: Socket 775 - obsolete for modern games/SW or not?
Posted on 2015-04-16, 12:55
I noticed that too in the local computer forums... My guess is probably because they are still (relatively) relevant for day-to-day computing and that 45nm C2Q were the last of the LGA 775 breed. Late models/high end parts tend to age more gracefully as compared to the high-volume, mass market parts …
Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)
Posted on 2015-01-02, 14:44
Dialling back ~10 years to own a computer in the S478 era is definitely going to feel retro. Well, I'm not sure about that... Especially if you just run Windows 7 on it or such. Then it'd just feel exactly the same as a new machine, only slower. If you missed out on Windows XP, then perhaps running …
Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)
Posted on 2015-01-02, 13:00
I'll say it depends on the era the individual grew up in and the general usability. Imagine someone who grew up in the mobile phone and broadband internet era and owns an i3/i5/i7 system. Dialling back ~10 years to own a computer in the S478 era is definitely going to feel retro. But compare that to …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2014-12-31, 14:29
Hi RacoonRider, in the 3rd pic that you posted, your 2x2GB ram has to be on the same coloured slots for dual channel to be utilised (i.e. DIMM 1 and 3 or DIMM 2 and 4). Right now your current config is running in single channel mode. Just a friendly FYI. :happy: Also interesting is the way your PSU …
Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen
Posted on 2014-12-09, 11:17
I would say that you probably can tell the difference between a sound card and onboard if you plug in a suitably high-end pair of speakers/headphones and listen. Of course, everyone's ears are different. It also depends on the onboard audio of which generation of motherboard. I could tell the …
Re: Where to find discontinued gaming cases?
Posted on 2014-12-05, 05:10
If you're considering the Wave Master/Soprano, do also look at the Thermaltake Tsunami. It looks relatively similar to the Soprano.
Re: OCing Core2 Duo E8500 on ASUS P5B vanilla w/ max ram
Posted on 2014-12-02, 16:05
UPDATE: I found out that I'm stable with my FSB termination voltage set to 1.2. Guess I don't have to worry about cooking my CPU now. ;) That's great. Now you can clock that baby up! :-D Actually the Core 2 platform is not very sensitive to the RAM latency timings, unlike AMD's equivalent and …
Re: OCing Core2 Duo E8500 on ASUS P5B vanilla w/ max ram
Posted on 2014-12-01, 12:32
Is your 5430 C0 or E0? That could have something to do with it. What are your individual core temps? It's an E0. But uhh I usually use Core Temp instead of HWMonitor. You can see they give conflicting temps. How I arrived at Core Temp's values was that from what I've read online, the E54xx TJMax is …
Re: OCing Core2 Duo E8500 on ASUS P5B vanilla w/ max ram
Posted on 2014-11-30, 08:02
Alright, I think I've managed to get it stable at 400MHz FSB with the memory timings you've recommended, as well as a ram voltage bump to 2.1v, and a couple of vcore bumps (~1.1675v right now, with the actual value reading as 1.14, due to vdroop). I'll have to let mprime run a bit longer, and maybe …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-11-27, 14:35
A boxed S478 Preshott? Researching on the net gave me the general consensus to choose Northwood if on S478 and Prescott if on LGA775 due to motherboard VRM capability issues, heatsink choices and other concerns mostly regarding heat/power.
Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals
Posted on 2014-11-27, 14:19
According to http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core%202%20Duo%20E7500%20AT80571PH0773M%20-%20AT80571PH0773ML%20(BX80571E7500).html , the CPUID for your E7500 is 1067A and I don't see that listed in the microcodes that you posted. You might want to try adding that microcode into your modded …
Re: Upgrading a 2008 machine
Posted on 2014-11-20, 13:57
Wait. To reply to myself: http://www.delidded.com/lga-771-xeon-microcode/ It looks like it makes the overall Xeon-having experience far nicer, but is optional unless the system is really unstable. I chose to update the bios it as the CPU was missing instructions such as Speedstep (I used CPUZ to …
Re: Upgrading a 2008 machine
Posted on 2014-11-19, 16:02
First things first: You want a better CPU than that. As you've already said, you wanted a quad core of some description, however I have found the the online prices for Core2 Quads are outrageous for their performance. Interestingly, at that point in time, Intel used a very similar socket for their …
Re: Your favorite hardware generation
Posted on 2014-11-16, 03:39
[The Core 2 era, on the other hand, was bullshit. One only has to read the errata document for them to see that the processor is almost completely broken. Let's render a video... Oh, wait, no, that's going to take a long time, we're back in Athlon 64 territory, why is it slower than my Pentium D? …
Re: Your favorite hardware generation
Posted on 2014-11-15, 15:39
For me, it would be the Core 2 era. Boards were manufactured to take DDR/DDR2/DDR3 and AGP/PCIE, pencil mods became more common, bioses were relatively easy to mod, CPU heatsink varieties really took off due to the number of overclocking enthusiasts. The start of ram coolers and crazy northbridge …
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