Re: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

Posted on 2016-11-18, 20:44

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by kithylin

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Why even bother with 939 for SLI retro building, go AM2, boards are more common, and honestly X2 3800 939 vs X2 AM2 isn't that diffrent, and you can make it excat by just using DDR2 667 instead of 800 lol I -DO- have a AM2 SLI board ordered and on it's way. But for me it's personal. I owned socket …

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Re: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

Posted on 2016-11-18, 20:00

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by kithylin

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Re: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

Posted on 2016-11-18, 19:50

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by kithylin

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Re: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

Posted on 2016-11-18, 19:40

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by kithylin

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Wish I had some 6800 PCI-E cards but finding a pair in romania is not easy. The 7950GT's might be a bit much for the machine but I plan to OC - at least 11x233. It's taken me almost 6 years to find a pair of em in USA at reasonable prices. Everyone all this time thought they had gold bricks when …

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Re: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

Posted on 2016-11-18, 17:27

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by kithylin

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I thought I was responding to "bought these retro hardware" thread.. how did this get in it's own thread and me auto subscribed to it? I'm terribly confused. Anyway............ I found out why my 939 board was so flakey. Some bug of some kind crawled in to the 24-pin ATX power plug on the board.. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-18, 01:01

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by kithylin

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The bottom line here is it seems to be a complete "Grab Bag" and nearly 50/50 chance for anyone to find a working 939 board. Some of you reported you have working ones that work great. That's good and great, good luck to ya and enjoy em while they're in good shape. But me and Ozzuneoj and my other …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-17, 23:48

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by kithylin

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Your the one who bought the last of those Cross hairs that had been up there a month 4 days before my next paycheck............... Sorry? I guess.. shoulda bought it before I did? I'd also like to point out that it's AM2 not AM2+. It can only run up to an Athlon FX (old FX series, not the new FX). …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-17, 19:21

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by kithylin

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someone else confirmed his 3 nforce4 939 SLI systems also do this.. 3 different boards from 3 different vendors. So 939 is just troublesome and not reliable and flakey in general. No. You and this someone are looking at defective boards. I have quite a few 939 boards, including a couple of NF4 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-17, 18:11

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by kithylin

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Wow, I didn't even know such a thing existed. I own an Abit Nforce 4 SLI board for socket 939, but I honestly thought it was a typo when you said yours was 754. Those must have made for some really unbalanced systems back then. 754 didn't leave much CPU head room compared to 939. Lower speed per …

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

Posted on 2016-11-17, 18:02

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by kithylin

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Spent nearly all day yesterday benchmarking my AMD Socket 754 SLI system with my new 6800 Ultra 512MB SLI pair. Only to determine later that it turns out the performance is pretty shitty and I ended up just sitting it aside to sell later and bought a AMD Socket AM2+ nvidia-590 SLI board instead. See …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-16, 19:27

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by kithylin

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I particularly like the AT keyboard plugged into such a "new" setup. :) :D :D :D :D I was using it to work on my 486 last week and too lazy to bother swapping out keyboards so just jammed an adapter on the end to make it PS/2. FYI, these cards were originally $999.99 retail in 2005, each. And most …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-16, 18:59

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by kithylin

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http://www.outfoxed.net/6800U-512-Pair.jpg Second card came in today. Here it is with the other one I bought earlier this year. Pair of nvidia 6800 Ultra 512MB PCI-Express cards together. In an AMD nforce4-SLI socket 754 board from Epox. This system would of been sooooooo expensive in 2005.. :D …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-15, 22:13

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by kithylin

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Jade Falcon wrote: luckybob wrote: I dont know why, but i never liked the skulltrails Yeah it's a odd board. It's dual cpu but noting server related. I would rather have a Z7S WS, but hay it was a good price. Remember you'll probably need a fan on the ram sticks or at least a very good airflow case …

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

Posted on 2016-11-13, 20:12

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by kithylin

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See, this is why I never post pictures of my machines. :) Truth be told, most of them are an electrocution waiting to happen. I've actually shocked myself via my fingers from touching running computers under testing several times.. once was a broken sata cable end/connector. Didn't know it was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-13, 02:45

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by kithylin

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I think I found the ultimate collection. It's a steal for only $585,000US. :lol: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wholesale-Lot-Of-128-651-Computer-Parts-HDD-RAM-Power-Supplies-Processors-Etc-/192007117586?hash=item2cb4841b12:g:zSEAAOSwB09YD2o0 Details about Wholesale Lot Of 128,651 Computer Parts HDD, RAM, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-13, 00:28

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by kithylin

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This site has turned me into some kind of weirdo... Every time I see blurry, shadowy pictures of old ISA cards I start salivating. As if every card could be a long lost sound card that secretly every game developer used to write music, and would bring tears to my eyes if I heard it in action. In …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 19:29

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by kithylin

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luckybob wrote: kithylin wrote: Just a suggestion.... but.. if you resized your pictures to fit into the forums, we could actually see them.. 😁 Or just buy a bigger screen. I'm already on 1080p screens everywhere, that's the standard today. Everything should at least fit that.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 18:23

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by kithylin

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Ok. I've actually had this system for a week but mental health issues have kept me from posting about it. It's a Compaq Deskpro EN with a 933MHz PentiumIII (according to the start up console for American McGee's Alice it's a Copper mine), 128MB PC133 SDRAM (Expandable to 512MB via 3 DIMM slots), …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 08:29

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by kithylin

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I was looking at that board (seller also had a gateway single CPU PPro board for sale) but decided I didn't need another Dual PPro board (Have 2 already). You will need 2 VRMs for that thing and PPro heatsinks are getting harder to find (so are cheap CPU's actually which is what made me not bid). …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-11, 05:42

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by kithylin

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luckybob's head is going to explode when he sees this. only a little. I already have both boards. ^.^ Be careful of these boards, there are 8 (maybe 12) jumpers for memory. One supplies 5v, the other 3.3v. It should be obvious what will happen if you select wrong. Thanks for the heads up. Just a …

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