Reply 27140 of 27549, by ubiq
PcBytes wrote on 2024-03-24, 20:02:Fixed this A7V8X Rev 2.0... again. […]
Fixed this A7V8X Rev 2.0... again.
First off, I gotta thank @Robert B for his socket swapping technique. I have mastered it enough to be able to swap 462 sockets without needing to go through the painful process of desoldering.
Now, onto the board. This A7V8X was saved last year from the school near my apartment. The PC it was in was in rough shape... and so was the board.
I had managed to first swap a working socket plastic from a dead A7V600-X, but that one was way too cheap and didn't last long.
Pictures here is a socket harvested from a dead GA-7VAX... the green socket strikes again, just like @quicknick had on his Soltek 75FRN2-L! It was the only socket that would sit tight when slid on the socket pins from the ASUS.
Stuck a 2000+ in there, OC'd to 2600+, yey. Not sure what would the utility of a KT400 board be (especially when I have an actual Soltek 75FRN2-RL coming through to keep my NF7 some company, 🤣) but given this was quite the iconic board to find here in RO, why not. It's a piece of history, after all. (and at least it has slightly more features than the average A7V8X-X)
Maybe I should take it for a test build sometime and pair it with the free Studioworks CRT I got last week, as well as a nice pair of IBM Infinity speakers.
Sweet!
I have a A7V8X-MX SE with a 2600+ in a system as my most "modern" retro computer. Haven't done much with it yet, as I'm mostly interested in early-mid 90's stuff at the moment, but it'll be there when I get to it. 🙂 I remember a lot of boards from that era had active cooling on the chipset, so I popped a 40mm fan on it even though it is a pretty chonkin' HS.
CPU fan currently on loan to my baby-at 440BX system, which I was messing around with yesterday. Think I'm going to stick with a PIII-750 for now - pairs well with the Voodoo 3. Added a SB-16 because there was room - and since I'm using one of those cd-audio cables with multiple plugs and it lined up nicely with the SBLive... yeah, it seems to work fine to plug 'em both in. 🥴