Radeon X1950 XTX, the best DX9 GPU

Brickpad wrote:

Just bought this board for $25. Never seen a socket 3 board with a COAST slot. I suspect it might be PCChips? Either way, I now have 4 486 PCI motherboards (2x PCI/VLB combo, and 2x PCI/ISA). 😁

Nice board. PCI+VLB, and FDD/IDE integrated too. I gotta get myself one of those if I find one. I have many 486 boards, but not one with both VLB and PCI.

havli wrote:

Radeon X1950 XTX, the best DX9 GPU

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Is that your card in your system with the water cooling setup?

#Bancho:

Nice. Can't go wrong with Asus S370 stuff. And AWE64-Gold's are allways nice for 1995-2000 gaming.

Same here, i had that case as a xmas present as a kid. Loved it to death, until the psu blew, killing 4 harddrives and my asus p3b-f. :p

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Hello all! It's my first post here. I've lurked quite a bit, and now finally have a couple projects going so I wanted to start […]
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Hello all! It's my first post here. I've lurked quite a bit, and now finally have a couple projects going so I wanted to start contributing and sharing.

I found a new in box Chieftec Dragon on craigslist this week! It still had the original packaging slip on the box dated January 2005.

I'm planning on building a Fall 2006 era Windows XP system in this case. I'm gonna to try to get a AMD Quad FX system running with the FX-74 processors and, I believe, two GeForce 7950 GX2s. It's still just in the planning stages, but I do have the ASUS motherboard on the way and I was lucky enough to find this NIB case, so, so far so good!

Here's a little unboxing for you:

Congratulations, great deal, being then really as new and still boxed - I had the same exact case, but without the side window: Chieftec Dragon model full tower. You'll appreciate the quick release system for drives, and its very good sturdiness (and weight)! Watch out, the metallic sidebar can give you some trouble with some big heatsinks - the last one I've inserted in this case is the gigantic Noctua NH D14: little space for my hands into the case, while working in it.

kithylin wrote:

Is that your card in your system with the water cooling setup?

Yes - Asus P9X79 Dlx + Xeon E5-1650 @ 4.8 GHz. Ready for some hwbot benchmarks. 😀

I still use this case for my current (Vishera FX) system but it's a white Antec with one drive bay and it's the model without the door. I think I bought it in 2001. The original PSU literally exploded in 2003.

The fan mounts must go, use rubber posts instead. You can get by with only 2 fans in the rear. On the second build I did in this case I ran an overclocked Venice 3200 with those 2 and a passive Sonic Tower on the CPU.

I love the case. It's got a nice majestic look to it 😀

havli wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Is that your card in your system with the water cooling setup?

Yes - Asus P9X79 Dlx + Xeon E5-1650 @ 4.8 GHz. Ready for some hwbot benchmarks. 😀

And here I thought I was the only one in vogons that did custom water loops for my test rigs. Maybe we should chat sometime.. 😁

Also, 'out for delivery' yay.. my 1200mhz ddr2 kit should arrive today. I'm silently hoping it'll do at least 1300 mhz with some voltage.

Well, I'm not building not water loops, just the one. 🤣 This is my universal benchtable which was air cooling-only for many years but recently I figured water is needed for some serious OC. Low cost was a priority so it is using old D-tek fuzion v2 with custom home made mounting system supporting pretty much every board starting with socket 462 and up 754/939/940, AMx, FMx, G34, 478, 604, 771/775, 1366, 115x and as the photo shows - LGA 2011. Really it is no hiend but can handle the overclocked SB-E (measured power at 12V 8-pin around 240W) quite well and this is good enough for me. 😁

havli wrote:

Well, I'm not building not water loops, just the one. 🤣 This is my universal benchtable which was air cooling-only for many years but recently I figured water is needed for some serious OC. Low cost was a priority so it is using old D-tek fuzion v2 with custom home made mounting system supporting pretty much every board starting with socket 462 and up 754/939/940, AMx, FMx, G34, 478, 604, 771/775, 1366, 115x and as the photo shows - LGA 2011. Really it is no hiend but can handle the overclocked SB-E (measured power at 12V 8-pin around 240W) quite well and this is good enough for me. 😁

That X1950XTX is gorgeous.

Got an MSI K7Pro Slot A motherboard , along with an Athlon 650 (Pluto revision)

Went to my local thrift store and thought I found a long-sought after Gateway G6-200 Pentium Pro system (tower). I've been trying to find one for the longest time to complete my "majestic" Gateway 2000 tower series. I was THRILLED....until I realized the a-hole who donated it cut the ENTIRE side of the case, gutted the entire thing, and put in some crappy Athlon 2000+ motherboard. I was going to go back and pick it up, since it did have some SCSI stuff and a JAZ internal drive...all for $5, but someone else bought it.

The search continues for a non-$800 Gateway G6-200 tower system.

Gotek floppy emulator finally arrived!

Also last week i got:

dirtyass Ps 1 Fat

Manli GTX 285

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for my thinkpad x200

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Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for my thinkpad x200 […]
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Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for my thinkpad x200

Nice, I didn't know anything about this model - for my soundcard-less Thinkpads I'm using a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24bit USB DAC like this one:

Brickpad wrote:

Just bought this board for $25. Never seen a socket 3 board with a COAST slot. I suspect it might be PCChips? Either way, I now […]
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Just bought this board for $25. Never seen a socket 3 board with a COAST slot. I suspect it might be PCChips? Either way, I now have 4 486 PCI motherboards (2x PCI/VLB combo, and 2x PCI/ISA). 😁

I recall this board having issues with the VLB slot. Looking forward to your test results.

Wifes grandfather died > 10 years ago, today I snagged his old pc.

It appears to be a Biostar M7NCG 400 (NVIDIA nForce2 IGP / MCP) its got an 1.2ghz Athlon XP. Also had a maxtor usb 2.0 external 80gb drive.

Working Socket-A are allways good to have. Need new battery though.

Hoo boy aren't I lucky!
I found this in a recycling dumpster along with other junk.
I almost gave up until I saw this thing! The guy who owned the recycler got mad at me 🤣 so I took a quick look at whatever else I could find, unfortunately this was it.
486/early pentium build incoming.... (prolly WinNT)
For some reason all the cables inside were cut and I had to throw out the PSU and other things 😒 have to buy new LED's and connections now.
Oh, the board is an FIC PT-2200 and it's got a Pentium 133 and 32MB ram. The HD's a maxtor, probs 1.5GB and it's not really.. working right.

Start by relaxing your RAM configuration as much as possible.