Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-09, 18:06

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by gex85

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I am a simple man. I see a cheap Tualatin motherboard, I buy. In this case, a Fujitsu Siemens D1219, seems to be quite sought after. Listed as „Old Motherboard“ for 10€ + shipping. 44DFBEF3-91BE-4D8A-924B-060499DCFC11.jpeg Other good stuff I found recently on the classifieds and on eBay, all for …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 11:31

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by gex85

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Wow, this has gained some traction once again. Great! Since I have a few of the non-functional Northwind PCBs lying around (and one assembled), I might give your suggestions a try. But I currently don't have too much time to spare for retro activities, so it might take a few days. But I have now …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 18:45

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by gex85

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Assembled two more (enough soldersmoke for today). I decided not to use the assembly service at JLCPCB because I found it to be too pricey. Here are some crappy phone pics: 2021-03-29 20.23.20.jpg 2021-03-29 20.24.10.jpg 2021-03-29 20.23.59.jpg I have ordered PCBs and parts for 20 devices. A few of …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 11:00

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by gex85

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Just a quick update: I have received parts and PCBs for the Ninja Micros clone and assembled the first one. Quickly tested it with my 550 MHz Athlon on my EP-7KXA successfully: At 600, 650 and 700 MHz it will POST (the latter with increased VCore), haven't tried anything higher yet because I have to …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 20:48

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by gex85

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I have now ordered a batch of 20 PCBs and all necessary parts. Should be enough to meet the first wave of demand over here in Europe I guess. Just to clarify: I do not intend to make any profit, of course. The price for each GFD will be calculated to cover the cost of parts that I have had for this …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 14:28

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by gex85

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For my last order, the tracking on the JLCPCB website worked perfectly fine (also EuroPacket): 2021-03-17 15_26_27-PCB Prototype & PCB Fabrication Manufacturer - JLCPCB.png Once it had arrived at their EU distribution center, they provided a DHL tracking number. It took 5 days from their facility to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 13:48

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by gex85

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Not quite today, but last week I finally built up the courage to desolder the CPU socket from my (completely working) ECS P6S5AT motherboard. The retention "noses" on one side of the socket had broken off because the seller had decided to ship the board with a heavy copper cooler still mounted... …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 10:14

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by gex85

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Thanks for sharing the gerber, BOM and CPL files :). I tried to order the pcbs via jlcpcb. I used the gerber files which wiretap shared and the BOM / CPL of gbeirn. I chose SMT assembly via jlcpcb and uploaded the BOM / CPL but if i want to proceed i get following failure: "There is no SMD part on …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-11, 11:45

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by gex85

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That looks delicious 😁 Keeping my fingers crossed that it actually works.

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-09, 18:43

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by gex85

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I got my solder stencil today from JLCPCB for the Ninjamicro Freespeed clone. PCB's should show up later this week if the tracking is correct. However, I still don't have a working K7 board to test with. I bought a SD-11 which was completely dead and wouldn't even post, so I had to return it. My …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-05, 14:38

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by gex85

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Today I received a lot consisting of: - An MSI MS-6905 Master Ver 2.0 Slotket (these are pretty hard to find for a reasonable price nowadays) - Various Socket A CPUs, mostly Athlon XPs, one of them being a 3000+ (Barton core), 400 MHz FSB, should be the second fastest XP after the 3200+/400MHz …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-04, 10:34

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by gex85

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I am currently looking into the SMT assembly service at JLCPCB and they don't have the exact diode FDLL4148 available, but only FDLL4150 which is similar, but not identical. Would that one work as well?

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-01, 20:51

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by gex85

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I have now tried pulling pins 7, 29 and 33 to GND with jumper wires as well, but to no avail. Neither board will POST in any of the switch positions I tried. Still, no hardware destroyed due to shorts etc. :D I still don't have a 2.1k Ohms resistor at hand but the 2.2k is still in place, but that's …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-01, 13:14

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by gex85

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I just attached a piece of copper wire as a bridge over the DIP switch pins as suggested. Didn't have time for extensive testing yet, but the problem persists or got even worse . On the FIC SD11, the 600 MHz setting results in 300 MHz. On the EP-7KXA, I couldn't find any combination of settings ( …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 18:16

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by gex85

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Great work guys. I didn't have much time for retro computing activities during the past week, but I had already noticed that the lower dip switch had suspiciously few traces going to it. I think tomorrow evening I'll find some time to apply the fix to the GFD that I have already assembled.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-25, 12:31

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by gex85

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Awesome find! I always wanted one but sadly couldn't afford one. I keep looking but most people want an arm and a leg for one still. Yeah I was browsing the local classifieds for a Lian Li case for another build and saw a case advertised with this display in it. I didn't want the case, but the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 19:36

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by gex85

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I received this beautiful Crystalfontz LCD display with aluminium face plate/bracket, complete with all cables and stuff. Seller even tested it before shipping so I know it works. (Display: SKD204-634 V2.0 / Bracket DBB634LG). Always wanted one of those back in the day, I thought (and still think) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 12:17

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by gex85

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I received this beautiful Crystalfontz LCD display with aluminium face plate/bracket, complete with all cables and stuff. Seller even tested it before shipping so I know it works. (Display: SKD204-634 V2.0 / Bracket DBB634LG). Always wanted one of those back in the day, I thought (and still think) …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 06:55

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by gex85

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wiretap wrote on 2021-02-22, 21:26: Did you set the dip switches both toward each other for ON, and both away from each other for OFF? I think the resistor needed to be 2k ohms. Yes, sure... I set all switches 100% correctly as described in the manual. Will see if I have a 2k resistor at hand...

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 20:47

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by gex85

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Well, the good news first: I didn't destroy any hardware in the process (yet) :D The not-so-good news: It does not work as expected. I tried it on my 550 MHz Athlon on two different boards (EP-7KXA with Award BIOS, FIC SD11 with AMI BIOS). The results are slightly different, but similar: All …

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