Re: Best PC the year 2000 could provide.

Posted on 2017-11-14, 15:36

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by slivercr

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Honestly though not sure why 2000 is important, the big years in PC gaming, the two golden years are 1998 and 2004 I'd target those two years, and maybe 1993 and 2007 Did you just pick the release years of Half Life and Half Life 2 for the "golden years" you describe? :P I don't think its a matter …

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Re: Best PC the year 2000 could provide.

Posted on 2017-11-09, 21:58

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by slivercr

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If it's strictly a year 2000 build, I think TBird 1200 is the fastest Athlon available. A 1.5 Willamette doesn't fair bad against it, specially in quake3 😉 In any case, dual p3 would get my vote for best PC at that time.

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-11-04, 18:47

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3. Birthday splurge Small update: as a part of my birthday celebration I spent some cash on a few items for this machine. A used 1 Gb Ethernet card, a brand new USB3 card… 20171104_1-usbLan.JPG …and a PL-P4/W adapter. 20171104_2-plp4w.JPG This adapter was sold with a bundled 1.6 GHz Northwood, but …

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Re: Socket 462 mATX build: modern, silent, and future proof

Posted on 2017-10-30, 22:23

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by slivercr

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OP: I'll keep an eye out for the benches ;) ... You need just good PSU, not 800W for old build. ... For so old machines 30 amps on +5v is ok ... Agreed. The thing is if you want a brand new, store bought PSU with 30 A on the 5 V rail, you'll have to get 750 W unit at least. No modern PSU around the …

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Re: Socket 462 mATX build: modern, silent, and future proof

Posted on 2017-10-30, 15:24

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by slivercr

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OP: Build looks good :) Any desire to run some USB3/SSD bandwidth benchmarks? I would be very interested since I want to try something similar myself. Well nice idea to add modern case, PSU, HDD and others.. But your main hardware the CPU, the Mobo, the video card maybe the memory as well are not …

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Re: Putting a heat spreader on athlon xp

Posted on 2017-10-30, 00:17

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by slivercr

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The thermal conductivity of all thermal pastes is utterly crap... utterly....compared to any metal, it just so happens though that it's 10x better than air, which is what you've got left in there if you don't displace it with thermal paste. However, while one thermal interface is essential, two …

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Re: Putting a heat spreader on athlon xp

Posted on 2017-10-29, 23:15

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by slivercr

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I don't think (s)he'd see a huge increase in temps (if any at all) with a copper heat spreader, provided a good thermal paste is used. You can delid old s478 CPUs and use that, I think the cap is copper and should work with the athlon core's height. Just lap it to get rid of intel markings, I think …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-10-26, 18:08

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… The heatsink was the first to receive a SPA treatment. At one moment it had a prolonged contact with water and the interior, besides being dirty, it was also blackend and corroded. I tried different methods to clean it, isopropyl alcohol 99%, pointed bamboo sticks, metal polish cream and a rag …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-25, 21:15

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by slivercr

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Jade Falcon wrote: I can't recall, are 423 CPU's locked like the Piii? I could be wrong but I think you can lower the multi on 423 P4's. Locked. Unlocked downwards would make troubleshooting much easier, like you say. I'll keep playing with the machine on the weekend and see if I can squeeze some …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-23, 22:01

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by slivercr

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P4, RDRAM, Modern? about 3 differ levels of obsolete in that title :P But I like what your trying to achieve , and will be following this thread :) Yeah, the irony of the title is not lost on me :) Thanks for the interest! Nice work. Not many go this far to OC SK423 systems. Really neat to see such …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-23, 15:35

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2. Modding and overclocking, pt.2 A second experiment with the voltage regulator. This time instead of just getting rid of the resistor going into the FB pin, I put it back in place and created and setup a voltage divider with a 50 kOhm potentiometer I had laying around. The idea: report less …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-23, 06:33

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by slivercr

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I always look at hwbot for guidance and a rough guide on what to expect 😀 Iguess your "max stable" claim comes from superpi and wprime results? No way I'll touch that adapter. It's cheaper to find a 478 board with RDRAM support to "spiritually" continue this project than buying that.

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-22, 18:46

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2ghz is pushing it for such a system. Maybe a 1.9ghz or 2ghz p4 would help? Also there are 423 to 478 adapters out there. True, I am just getting greedy about the OC. I'll try to come up with some other mod to give the CPU even more juice, around 1.9 V or so, and see if it stabilizes. I have also …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-22, 16:52

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1. Modding and overclocking, pt.1 Since recapping didn't help increase/stabilize the voltage going into the CPU, and I need more voltage to overclock, something needed to be done. The first attempt was naive: Willamettes have 5 pins to set voltage, and grounding all of them sets the voltage to 1.85 …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-21, 17:09

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0. Motherboard maintenance I have successfully changed each and every capacitor in the motherboard, even ones from circuits I know I won't use like the audio output. A few pictures… The board before any surgery was performed 20171021_recap-1.jpg 54 capacitors later, here's the board completely …

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Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2017-10-20, 18:09

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by slivercr

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wow, not many caps... Thankfully, makes for easy maintenance (the board of my other project has 54 capacitors to exchange… it made up for this one). The system boots up properly, btw. Since I am currently recapping another board I haven't had time to test more than that, but at least I didn't …

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Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2017-10-20, 10:00

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A recap after all… I recently started a new project and one of the first things to do was recap the whole motherboard. Since I needed to add some extra dollars to the order to get free shipping from mouser (recommended, btw, super-fast shipping and delivery), I figured I'd order new caps for this …

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Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2017-10-18, 19:34

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Thanks a lot, I'll see what I can work out with the shipping. (I'm in Europe but the shipping still costs 50% more then the items). I'm thinking maybe at purchasing 4 of these since I actually have a second AP550 mobo at home (but sadly lacking the VRM for the second CPU, which means more $ …

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Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2017-10-17, 22:01

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by slivercr

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Just read your topic with great interest, as I have a Compaq Ap550 and two 1.4ghz Tualatins waiting to be put to good use. Can you tell me where did you sourced the slotkets and how much did you paid for them? I got them on eBay (EDIT: forum doesn't like the ü , so I'll post as code for copy/paste) …

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Re: A "modernized" P4 with RDRAM

Posted on 2017-10-17, 16:04

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Jade Falcon wrote: A tip for a heatsink for better overclocking. 604 and 771 heatsinks will work out of the box for the most part. What copper monstrosities—thanks for the tip!

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