Ok, on topic, recently i got a NOS dfi x38-t2rb motherboard!

I ordered a lga775 cooler backplate. Because zip ties make a bad retention mechanism.

ODwilly wrote:

I ordered a lga775 cooler backplate. Because zip ties make a bad retention mechanism.

I ben there before. However i tend to make a back plate with some sheet metal or dill holes in the case and mount the heat sink to the case.

Jade Falcon wrote:

Ok, on topic, recently i got a NOS dfi x38-t2rb motherboard!

DFI's are very, very sexy motherboards 😀 I've had a P45 JR T2RS but I sold it as it was very finnicky to booting.
I now have an NF4 DR-Expert, running 4GB of DDR400 RAM and a GeForce 7950GX2. Tried to do Quad SLI but it didn't work.

I've bought these bad boys lately, ASUS Rampage Extreme X48, need to find a QX9770 for it. It also runs on DDR3's making the build pretty expensive...

Intel Bad Axe D975XBX, I've put my Pentium 4 EE 3.73GHz in it. Lovely room heater:

And this one, MSI 975X Platinum v1.0. This one is now rocking a P4 660 3.6GHz. Somehow it's missing the CPU voltage adjustments. I must get to reflashing it some day.

Nice boards, one thing anout dfi LAN party bards that most do not know is that abit engineers made the latter ones.. Shorty before abit was bought out a team of engineers were hired by dfi and put on the lan party team.

True that, shame that they killed off the entire lineup after X58. They only make industrial hardware now.

Purchased a VooDoo3 3000 PCI card with a proper heatsink on it, with everything on Amibay.com (original box, driver CD, and manuals) for a little over $60 after Shipping and Handling, and it'll be used in my K6-2 machine and I'm going to install a fan on the heatsink for better cooling to prevent the artifacts.

dexvx wrote:

Main advantage with CRT isn't black. Plasma had just as good black levels.

Main advantage is refresh rate (now with adaptive sync LCD's, that's moot) and input latency (LCD's are still just a bit higher).

I had a plasma up until 5 months ago. The black level were ass.

I really don't get it what's the thing with black levels...my NEC A927 is gray, not black, our "50 Samsung plasma from 2010/11 is also gray. My Dell U2515H IPS is by far the closest one to black.
I've had trinitrons in the past but the color simply isn't black, it's grey.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

dexvx wrote:

Main advantage with CRT isn't black. Plasma had just as good black levels.

Main advantage is refresh rate (now with adaptive sync LCD's, that's moot) and input latency (LCD's are still just a bit higher).

I had a plasma up until 5 months ago. The black level were ass.

Some plamas are junk, complete junk and only got worse with age.

Also if your crt is gery and not black you have a problem, the tube could just be old snd worn or something needs fixed/repaced. Or the contrast/britness setting are off.

martin939 wrote:

True that, shame that they killed off the entire lineup after X58. They only make industrial hardware now.

DFI was just a industrial baord company to begin with. Before lanparty boards they only made industrial bards.

Just received Roland RAP-10... I' very happy of it!

First P60 after a long time.

Got a HP NetServer LC2000 with a single SECC2 P-III EB@1GHz, without its front bezel. Fully working, Windows 2000 Server installed, 640MB SDRAM. Don't know why I bought it, was dirt cheap, thought it would be my only access to a dual slot-1 motherboard, though it needs a proprietary VRM module if you want to mount a second CPU. Big bummer. Noisy as hell too. Has many SCSI 18GB 10krpm drives on it. If it's stable enough, with some maintainance, I might run it as a home FTP game/app/driver server for retro rigs, just for the sake of it. Win2k or Linux though?

Hm. If I found the VRM module, would I be able to match the Slot 1 with a s370 P3 EB on a slotket?

May have impulse purchased a CT2760 AWE32. It was going for about half what people are trying to sell these things for on eBay, and the seller claims to have tested it.

psychz wrote:

Got a HP NetServer LC2000 with a single SECC2 P-III EB@1GHz, without its front bezel. Fully working, Windows 2000 Server installed, 640MB SDRAM. Don't know why I bought it, was dirt cheap, thought it would be my only access to a dual slot-1 motherboard, though it needs a proprietary VRM module if you want to mount a second CPU. Big bummer. Noisy as hell too. Has many SCSI 18GB 10krpm drives on it. If it's stable enough, with some maintainance, I might run it as a home FTP game/app/driver server for retro rigs, just for the sake of it. Win2k or Linux though?

Hm. If I found the VRM module, would I be able to match the Slot 1 with a s370 P3 EB on a slotket?

Neither, run NT4 Server 😀

Why? 🤣 Won't I have issues with too much RAM?

psychz wrote:

Why? 🤣 Won't I have issues with too much RAM?

Don't think so. By NT4 I think the limits were already in gigabytes. Modern versions can handle terabytes. I think it was the workstation versions that had the limitation. Partially to prevent someone running a workstation as a server.

EDIT: and as for the why. Because NT4 is more retro and fun when networking 95/98 machines.

Awesome, will look into it!

Guys - Why do I keep doing this?? I juuuust got rid of several machines that I didn't want.

But you know how it goes. Saw an ad for a guy selling his son's 3 old beige systems which he doesn't use anymore. $20 for all 3. I didn't need more!

System 1: Compaq Presario 5461, AMD K62-500AXP CPU, 192MB PC100 Ram, onboard video/sound

System 2: Custom Build Slot 1 PIII -600 Mhz, 384MB ram, ATI RagePro 128 video card, Sound Blaster 16 CT4170

System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990.

All 3 post and are in very good condition! No hard drives, so I need to source some appropriate drives and build them out.

Sorry for posting in a hurry - just wanted to share!