Reply 40060 of 53114, by sirotkaslo
This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
That’s it, my bad. Brilliant and bold piece of Frankenstein engineering from ASRock but I doubt it sold very well. If my A8N32-SLI Deluxe board decides not to wake up next time I fire up my 2008 FX-60 build I might look for one of these…
sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.
This arrived today for my Pentium 3 project I have going on right now.
Will not use the Celeron 1.2Ghz as I have a Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4 Ghz incoming.
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.
They're an interesting piece of kit, as the board is a CPU and DDR2 upgrade. I've seen them for sale 3-4 times in the past few years but they must have been a novelty back in the day. Have you benched yours against socket 939? Reviews seem to suggest an upgrade from a high spec 939 (Opteron 185) to AM2 wasn't that much.
rare card, I wonder how good it is.
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.
If you ever decide you’d sell it, pm me 😁
Got a lot of retro hardware the last couple of months but was missing a absolute crucial part: a gamepad. 😜 Went for an Interact PC Propad 4 and after playing with it a bit I think I like it better then the Gravis Gamepad I had back in the day.
I went to buy an old Celeron rig and I expected a VIA board. To my surprise I got Asus CUBX rev 1.02 Intel 440BX board with it. Visually all capacitors seem to be ok and it boots fine. FSB up to 150Mhz, 4xDIMM, AGP, 6xPCI, 1xISA, 4x IDE connectors (also UDMA-66) and no silly AMR. It has the best BIOS setup I have ever seen on 440BX. It's the best 440BX board I have.
Pentium III 900E, ECS P6BXT-A+, 384MB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 128MB, Voodoo 2 12MB, 80GB HDD, Yamaha SM718 ISA, 19" AOC 9GlrA
Athlon 64 3400+, MSI K8T Neo V, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT 512MB, 250GB HDD, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
JidaiGeki wrote on 2021-08-09, 16:06:cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.
I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.
They're an interesting piece of kit, as the board is a CPU and DDR2 upgrade. I've seen them for sale 3-4 times in the past few years but they must have been a novelty back in the day. Have you benched yours against socket 939? Reviews seem to suggest an upgrade from a high spec 939 (Opteron 185) to AM2 wasn't that much.
I haven't benched it yet though I do have the highest speed AM2, which is the Athlon 64 X2 6400+. The S939 CPU I used to run back in the day and still have is the Opteron 175.
Pretty sure the ASRock board I have is the S754 one so I can't directly compare S939 to AM2. Not sure where I have the motherboard stored right now.
Thermalwrong wrote on 2021-08-09, 00:06:[…]
Kapok will have a Pentium Pro laptop out soon. The power requirements (double those of a regular pentium) and heat will be major hurdles.
What a novelty that would've been 😀
Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀
There were a few newsettes appearing in the mags circa 96-97 announcing PPro laptops "for CAD and engineers" at about $15,000 a pop projected, but I don't know if many made it out to the real world.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Anything with "Pro" in the name commands a high price and is usually over hyped...😉
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-09, 21:44:There were a few newsettes appearing in the mags circa 96-97 announcing PPro laptops "for CAD and engineers" at about $15,000 a pop projected, but I don't know if many made it out to the real world.
I found one on google. It is exactly what you would expect 😉 https://www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/Intel-Pe … /30156884.WX3NH
Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1
Neat, at least that version will be as equally fast at 16bit code as 32bit.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133
Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-10, 13:18:Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133 […]
Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133
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Must be huge to fit in a Pizza box......😉
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-10, 17:44:Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-10, 13:18:Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133 […]
Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133
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20210810_134033.jpgMust be huge to fit in a Pizza box......😉
Hehe
This Chieftec (Antec Clone) tower arrived today, and I'm really impressed by how clean it is! Looks like it was just taken out of the box for the first time. I'll probably use it for a P3 build of some sort. Came with a power supply, CD-ROM drive, floppy drive and a handful of random internal cables.