It's a cute LG monitor. I love those later CRT models from an early 00's.
I don't like flat CRT monitors. They have thicker glass and more glares because of that. And they have geometry distortion because the glass is still curved from the inner side.
Those are fake flat CRTs, but real flat CRTs do exist, and there are also Trinitron (and similar tech from other vendors) monitors that are flat in one direction, but slightly curved in the other.
POPEYE wrote on 2025-03-18, 20:22:I don't like flat CRT monitors. They have thicker glass and more glares because of that. And they have geometry distortion because the glass is still curved from the inner side.
My MAG 996PF was like this for sure, but I still miss it. I seem to recall it was in perfectly good condition when I had to get rid of it due to lack of space. 🙁 Kept it's little brother 786PF.
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Hello
Does early AMD socket 939 high-end AGP system hit different than old beige Intel computers? 😁
Here is my specs:
AMD Athlon x2 4800+
MSI K8N NEO2 PLATINUM
ATI HD3850 AGP
KINGSTON HYPERX DDR1 512MT x4
SOUND BLASTER X-FI ELITE SB0550
devius wrote on 2025-03-18, 21:01:Those are fake flat CRTs, but real flat CRTs do exist, and there are also Trinitron (and similar tech from other vendors) monitors that are flat in one direction, but slightly curved in the other.
I'm just curious to know what those models were? I assume, Sony?
Boomer wrote on 2025-03-19, 11:49:Hello Does early AMD socket 939 high-end AGP system hit different than old beige Intel computers? 😁 Here is my specs: AMD Athlon […]
Hello
Does early AMD socket 939 high-end AGP system hit different than old beige Intel computers? 😁
Here is my specs:
AMD Athlon x2 4800+
MSI K8N NEO2 PLATINUM
ATI HD3850 AGP
KINGSTON HYPERX DDR1 512MT x4
SOUND BLASTER X-FI ELITE SB0550
Very nice system 😀. Clean and very unassuming from the outside.
What temps do you get with Zalman? Did you delid/repaste CPU?
I had in mind few s939 combos:
Abit AV8 (K8T800 Pro) with uGuru "clock"+ Athlon 4400 X2 + Leadtek GeForce 6800
Abit X8 (K8T890)+ Athlon 4000 + Leadtek GeForce 7950GT (or ATI X850XT)
Tyan Thunder K8 (nForce4) + Athlon 4800 X2 + ATI X1800XT
.... keeping main components somewhat period correct.
From all the issues I had with those systems back in the day I tend to pair VIA + Geforce / nForce3 + ATI for AGP systems.
I hate that this is considered "retro" now but I'm in my mid 30s and decided to recreate an idealized version of my first homebuilt PC. I know that most everything on here is from the 80s and 90s era but I figured I'd share it anyway
Monitor and desk are actually my original ones. I owned the G15 keyboard and mx518 back in the day but I had to track those down since mine were long gone.
CASE: Thermaltake Xaser III
Intel Core 2 extreme QX6850 3.0 GHz
4gb Corsair dominator DDR 2 1066 xms2-8500
2x EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT superclocked edition
4x Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM SATA 2 drives in 2 RAID 1 arrays (I should know better but they're refurbs and I have a backup drive just in case)
Logitech MX 518 optical gaming mouse
Logitech gen 1 G15 keyboard
Red Alert 2 mousepad
I've been talking with some Gen Z retro tech guys and windows XP era gear is the new big thing. This must be what it felt like for everyone who grew up in the DOS era responding to the youngbloods on here back in the mid 2000s
My other systems:
Hewitt Rand 386. Windows 3.11, 8mb of RAM, am386 33mhz, surprisingly large 160mb kalok HDD, nothing special but it belonged to my grandfather so I have a sentimental attachment to it. Matching Startech printer
Mac SE/30 in dire need of a recap but otherwise amazingly well documented and original
Apple IIGS. Pretty much stock, has a RAM expansion card and original documentation/boxes since it belonged to my Dad
Random old win95 Gateway tower with a pII that I saved from being used as a door stop (funny story for another time) . I stuck a voodoo III in it years ago but had to sell the peripherals when I moved internationally.
1997 Dell Latitude LM laptop. It's in rough shape but it works.
Sixray wrote on 2025-03-20, 19:44:Red Alert 2 mousepad
nice touch, attention to detail 😀
I've been talking with some Gen Z retro tech guys and windows XP era gear is the new big thing. This must be what it felt like for everyone who grew up in the DOS era responding to the youngbloods on here back in the mid 2000s
maybe XP is now the thing some gen z remember seeing their parents use, and having their first computer experiences on, early gen z is from 1997 so they would have been kids during XP's era. Some later gen z will be wild for windows 8! (or maybe not)
Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, but the CPU temps max out at 50, and once I add another 80mm fan they should go lower. This time - flat cables, rounded cables do not really help with cable management as much as I would expect.
Specs:
Planned upgrade:
GeForce FX5700
P2 300MHz/Matrox Mystique/Sound Blaster AWE 32 Value
Pentium 3 733MHz/3dfx Voodoo 3 3000/Aureal Vortex 2 (Diamond Monster Sound)
Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz/GeForce FX 5500/Creative Audigy 2
Core2 Quad Q9400/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
Here are my retro rigs:
My windows xp machine:
It has a Intel i7 4790S clocked at 4.0Ghz, Msi Gtx 980ti 6gb Golden Edition, 3.5 gb of ram, 500 ssd storage drive and a sound card Creative labs sb0880 Sound blaster X-Fi Titanium, and a MSi mother board a gaming B85-G43 .
And my Windows 98 build:
Intel Pentium 4 at 3.0 ghz, nvdidia Fx 5900xt 128mb, 512 mb ram, 80gb hhd for storage, Asrock motherboard a p4i65g and a sound card Creative Labs sb0060 Sound Blaster live.
I also have MsDos 6.2 and also a Windows 95 machine, but I have those Emulated thru PCEM ver 17 using a gaming latop I have.
songoffall wrote on 2025-03-21, 13:10:Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, bu […]
Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, but the CPU temps max out at 50, and once I add another 80mm fan they should go lower. This time - flat cables, rounded cables do not really help with cable management as much as I would expect.
Specs:
- CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz HT
- Motherboard: MSI 865P Neo
- Memory: 512Mb Samsung PC3200 DDR CL3 @ 400MT/s
- Graphics: GeForce FX 5500 256Mb
- Sound: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (SB0240)
- Network: 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
Planned upgrade:
GeForce FX5700
Nice cable management, mine look embarrasing 😄
bosquetor0602 wrote on 2025-03-22, 20:02:songoffall wrote on 2025-03-21, 13:10:Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, bu […]
Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, but the CPU temps max out at 50, and once I add another 80mm fan they should go lower. This time - flat cables, rounded cables do not really help with cable management as much as I would expect.
Specs:
- CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz HT
- Motherboard: MSI 865P Neo
- Memory: 512Mb Samsung PC3200 DDR CL3 @ 400MT/s
- Graphics: GeForce FX 5500 256Mb
- Sound: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (SB0240)
- Network: 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
Planned upgrade:
GeForce FX5700Nice cable management, mine look embarrasing 😄
Well, after you close the case, it no longer matters 😀) also you could always say - it's not cable management, it's cable anarchy 😁
P2 300MHz/Matrox Mystique/Sound Blaster AWE 32 Value
Pentium 3 733MHz/3dfx Voodoo 3 3000/Aureal Vortex 2 (Diamond Monster Sound)
Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz/GeForce FX 5500/Creative Audigy 2
Core2 Quad Q9400/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.
Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.
A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!
Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01
A quick update to this one as the thermaltake fans were driving me nuts: Noctua edition. Went from frequent thermal failure at anything less than jet engine-sounding max rpm to quiet bliss. Didn’t ruin the look too dramatically either:
And a new Vista64 C2Q/SLi system is taking shape because I apparently just love desperately trying to dial in any stable 4-dimm memory configuration on nForce boards (yikes!). Wish me luck with this new Green Boi:
EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5
2x XFX GTX285 1GB
XFX GeForce 9800GT 512MB (Physx-dedicated)
2x 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10k RPM RAID-0
My system specs (Google Doc)
My game collection (CLZ Games)
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2025-04-08, 13:55:A quick update to this one as the thermaltake fans were driving me nuts: Noctua edition. Went from frequent thermal failure at a […]
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.
Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.
A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!
Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01A quick update to this one as the thermaltake fans were driving me nuts: Noctua edition. Went from frequent thermal failure at anything less than jet engine-sounding max rpm to quiet bliss. Didn’t ruin the look too dramatically either:
And a new Vista64 C2Q/SLi system is taking shape because I apparently just love desperately trying to dial in any stable 4-dimm memory configuration on nForce boards (yikes!). Wish me luck with this new Green Boi:
EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5
2x XTX GTX285 1GB
XTX GeForce 9800GT 512MB (Physx-dedicated)
2x 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10k RPM RAID-0
Nice setup my friend, good luck 😃
songoffall wrote on 2025-03-22, 20:14:bosquetor0602 wrote on 2025-03-22, 20:02:songoffall wrote on 2025-03-21, 13:10:Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, bu […]
Because the cables were getting a bit unmanageable, rebuilt my Pentium 4/Socket 478 rig into a new case. Might not be pretty, but the CPU temps max out at 50, and once I add another 80mm fan they should go lower. This time - flat cables, rounded cables do not really help with cable management as much as I would expect.
Specs:
- CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz HT
- Motherboard: MSI 865P Neo
- Memory: 512Mb Samsung PC3200 DDR CL3 @ 400MT/s
- Graphics: GeForce FX 5500 256Mb
- Sound: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (SB0240)
- Network: 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
Planned upgrade:
GeForce FX5700Nice cable management, mine look embarrasing 😄
Well, after you close the case, it no longer matters 😀) also you could always say - it's not cable management, it's cable anarchy 😁
yep you are right 😄😀
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2025-04-08, 13:55:EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770 4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5 2x XFX GTX285 1GB XFX GeForce 9800GT 51 […]
EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5
2x XFX GTX285 1GB
XFX GeForce 9800GT 512MB (Physx-dedicated)
2x 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10k RPM RAID-0
Looks to be an awesome system, but why 4x1GB and not 4x2GB for Vista64?
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I think it has something to do with the LEDs in those memory sticks. Good luck finding 2GB XMS2 Pro modules (with those awesome LEDs on top)
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Orion 700 | TB 1000 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2025-04-08, 13:55:A quick update to this one as the thermaltake fans were driving me nuts: Noctua edition. Went from frequent thermal failure at a […]
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.
Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.
A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!
Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01A quick update to this one as the thermaltake fans were driving me nuts: Noctua edition. Went from frequent thermal failure at anything less than jet engine-sounding max rpm to quiet bliss. Didn’t ruin the look too dramatically either:
And a new Vista64 C2Q/SLi system is taking shape because I apparently just love desperately trying to dial in any stable 4-dimm memory configuration on nForce boards (yikes!). Wish me luck with this new Green Boi:
EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5
2x XFX GTX285 1GB
XFX GeForce 9800GT 512MB (Physx-dedicated)
2x 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10k RPM RAID-0
Color me envious! I want to do an nForce build myself eventually. Though I'm planning Tri-SLI with the legendary 8800 GTS or possibly Ultra. 😀
dr_st wrote on 2025-04-09, 14:39:Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2025-04-08, 13:55:EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770 4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5 2x XFX GTX285 1GB XFX GeForce 9800GT 51 […]
EVGA nForce 780i SLi FTW
Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770
4x 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro PC2-6400 CL5
2x XFX GTX285 1GB
XFX GeForce 9800GT 512MB (Physx-dedicated)
2x 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10k RPM RAID-0Looks to be an awesome system, but why 4x1GB and not 4x2GB for Vista64?
PD2JK wrote on 2025-04-09, 14:58:I think it has something to do with the LEDs in those memory sticks. Good luck finding 2GB XMS2 Pro modules (with those awesome LEDs on top)
4GB with a 64-bit OS still means actually 4GB, and Vista to me is just the OG 64-bit OS.
And also... PD2JK is correct. I like building very high spec period systems, but I will always compromise outright performance if I can do something ostentatious with memory.
I have been pushing this new system for a couple of days and I have tried out other memory configurations. nForce is a f-ing nightmare for this but I still have fun:
With a 4X2GB set of OCZ Gold 1066 on a 1600MHz FSB and a CPU overclock to 3800MHz, I get a 3DMark Vantage score of 18500
The XMS2 Pro LED DIMMs give me 17300 points. Guess which configuration I am keeping!
Color me envious! I want to do an nForce build myself eventually. Though I'm planning Tri-SLI with the legendary 8800 GTS or possibly Ultra. 😀
Well now's the time, most of it is still quite cheap for now. I did start off with 9800GT but I ultimately prefer to go a couple of GPU generations newer to give them an easier time.
Graphics has been fine, but I've just found nForce so unstable when trying to do anything interesting with CPU, FSB, or memory. It's kind of fun to tune in the stability but boy does it take a lot of digging through old threads form 2008! I think the later gen DDR3 (790i) based boards are a little better in that respect, but I just feel DDR2 is right for Vista.
I Haven't actually tried 3x SLi because I'd rather have dedicated PhysX, and a Sound Blaster but I'm sure it will look awesome.
My system specs (Google Doc)
My game collection (CLZ Games)
Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2025-04-10, 15:07:Well now's the time, most of it is still quite cheap for now. I did start off with 9800GT but I ultimately prefer to go a couple […]
Color me envious! I want to do an nForce build myself eventually. Though I'm planning Tri-SLI with the legendary 8800 GTS or possibly Ultra. 😀
Well now's the time, most of it is still quite cheap for now. I did start off with 9800GT but I ultimately prefer to go a couple of GPU generations newer to give them an easier time.
Graphics has been fine, but I've just found nForce so unstable when trying to do anything interesting with CPU, FSB, or memory. It's kind of fun to tune in the stability but boy does it take a lot of digging through old threads form 2008! I think the later gen DDR3 (790i) based boards are a little better in that respect, but I just feel DDR2 is right for Vista.
I Haven't actually tried 3x SLi because I'd rather have dedicated PhysX, and a Sound Blaster but I'm sure it will look awesome.
I've actually been eying the EVGA nForce 790i Ultra. Has a 1x PCIE slot at the very top of the board, so it would actually let me run a Sound Blaster alongside 3-way SLI.
