I’ll definitely give the cap replacement a go, I’m just concerned that the failure is actually something else causing the caps to pop, rather than the caps popping being the problem.

paradigital wrote on 2023-11-10, 19:01:

I’ll definitely give the cap replacement a go, I’m just concerned that the failure is actually something else causing the caps to pop, rather than the caps popping being the problem.

Its hard to say if they are old caps.

Apparently my ASUS P4T HP OEM version doesnt support the bios from the non OEM version. So, no overclocking.

There is only one way to make Turing/Ampere GPUs work on S423/S478, and aside from PCI-e it's 64-bit capable CPU.

Here is my current 3Dmark2000 score. Everything is at stock settings. No overclocking or tweaking settings yet. Disappointed I cant use a regular Asus P4T bios on this board, but that's life.

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:53:

Here is my current 3Dmark2000 score. Everything is at stock settings. No overclocking or tweaking settings yet. Disappointed I cant use a regular Asus P4T bios on this board, but that's life.

Wow... other than the OS and the socket type (mine was 478), you've basically reconstructed my exact build from late-2001. 1 gig of RDRAM, 1.9GHz Willamette, GF3 Ti500. Impressed that your GF3 Ti500 lived 20+ years, too; mine went bad after less than two years of use...

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:53:

Here is my current 3Dmark2000 score. Everything is at stock settings. No overclocking or tweaking settings yet. Disappointed I cant use a regular Asus P4T bios on this board, but that's life.

Nice ! Will be interesting when I can get mine built, 1.8Ghz with a Gainward GF 3 TI 200/450, will be running on i865 board with DDR (if the manual is correct and is supported) so be interesting to compare....

VivienM wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:57:

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:53:

Here is my current 3Dmark2000 score. Everything is at stock settings. No overclocking or tweaking settings yet. Disappointed I cant use a regular Asus P4T bios on this board, but that's life.

Wow... other than the OS and the socket type (mine was 478), you've basically reconstructed my exact build from late-2001. 1 gig of RDRAM, 1.9GHz Willamette, GF3 Ti500. Impressed that your GF3 Ti500 lived 20+ years, too; mine went bad after less than two years of use...

Its a Canopus Spectra X21! They made quality stuff.

That does look nice, my MSI and I think the other is Gainward, look like they got reference PCBs done at a cheap board house, then sent them off to Loh Fii Bait, Tackle, Dry Clean and wave soldering Co.

The 1.3GHz P4 in my conservatively clocked (1292 MHz) Dimension 8100 obviously wouldn't bring me anywhere near the stars. Fortunately, I found a couple of 478 Willamettes in my drawer of CPUs.

My entry:
P4 1.6GHz @ 2143 MHz on MSI 845PE Max2 motherboard, 512MB single-channel DDR333 @ 2-2-2-6, eVGA 7800GS AGP w/ FW 93.71, XP Pro SP3

Standard Def Steve wrote on 2023-11-11, 04:47:

The 1.3GHz P4 in my conservatively clocked (1292 MHz) Dimension 8100 obviously wouldn't bring me anywhere near the stars. Fortunately, I found a couple of 478 Willamettes in my drawer of CPUs.

My entry:
P4 1.6GHz @ 2143 MHz on MSI 845PE Max2 motherboard, 512MB single-channel DDR333 @ 2-2-2-6, eVGA 7800GS AGP w/ FW 93.71, XP Pro SP3

Nice!!! Its on the board. For fun I just throw my 2.0 wetty in my old Shuttle SS51G.

Great ! Nice seeing a DDR based addition.

Horun wrote on 2023-11-11, 05:09:

Great ! Nice seeing a DDR based addition.

I added the ram type to the score board. Will give us a better idea of what type is really faster.

The little Shuttle SS51G surprised me. Was able to overclock the FSB to 110x20!!

Shuttle ss51g was my backup plan if this Asrock board was dead.

However we have success. A recap has brought it to life, fortunately I had some good Panasonic 1500uF 16v caps in my parts box.

Well so far just in testing which GPUs will and won't even POST.

Will POST:
Geforce GTX 480
Radeon HD 5970

Won't POST:
Geforce 970

Can't remember if I've got a 780 lying around, certainly don't have anything between GTX480 and 780 from nVidia. Have to go hunt around for my other AMD GPUs, pretty sure they are in the garage attic.

Here are my best results so far.
3Dmark 2000: 8183
3DMark 2001: 13362

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-11, 03:50:

VivienM wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:57:

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:53:

Here is my current 3Dmark2000 score. Everything is at stock settings. No overclocking or tweaking settings yet. Disappointed I cant use a regular Asus P4T bios on this board, but that's life.

Wow... other than the OS and the socket type (mine was 478), you've basically reconstructed my exact build from late-2001. 1 gig of RDRAM, 1.9GHz Willamette, GF3 Ti500. Impressed that your GF3 Ti500 lived 20+ years, too; mine went bad after less than two years of use...

Its a Canopus Spectra X21! They made quality stuff.

Mine was VisionTek. They... didn't... make quality stuff, and I think they had a fairly generous warranty. And very aggressive marketing and a resulting big marketshare. All of which is a recipe for hitting financial trouble and going bust.

But by the time my GF3 Ti500 went bad, they had switched from team green to team red, so they sent me a Radeon 9100 as a replacement. Never ended up using it in my Willamette system; I always presumed (though perhaps you guys will tell me otherwise) that the 9100 was a major downgrade from the Ti500?

Awesome results !
I need to try harder. My scores seems low and I want to find out why.

DrSwizz wrote on 2023-11-11, 12:43:

Here are my best results so far.
3Dmark 2000: 8183
3DMark 2001: 13362

Dude. You sunk my battleship.