Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-20, 19:54

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While not strictly GPU related, I believe the artwork is cashing in on the hype around the much anticipated release of the computer oriented movie "Naked TRON" which was set to be released back then. For obvious reasons (not least of which was high cost of using early 2000s CG to replace all of the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-17, 04:56

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by pete8475

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Finally received my Acorp 5ALI61 motherboard today. I've got one of those modded K6-2+ 570 processors in there running at 600. Currently memtesting a couple of 128mb sticks of PC100 memory before doing something with it this weekend. This should be the last variation of my socket 7 dos/98 machine, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-10, 22:02

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Yup 128bit is the one to have, clocks can always be pumped a bit, but you're stuck with the bus width. Closest thing really to a GF 3 PCI is a FX5200 PCI... it's a much maligned card, but knowing it's strengths and particular weaknesses can find a notch where it's useful. Most stuff it's always …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-10, 02:21

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Radeon 9200 128MB AGP Hope you got one of the gooderer ones, I just had them all pegged as level with the 8500, but they and theire 9xx0 kin are all over the place... https://www.anandtech.com/show/1463/6 The Radeon came in today, seems to work fine in one of my 98SE machines. Everest home edition …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-08, 21:15

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CoffeeOne wrote on 2023-02-08, 19:32: Wow. Really DAUL channel? Is this really original? That is a bit ridiculous. I wonder if knock-off OCZ memory is better than the real stuff. 🤣 I kid.

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Re: AT Form Factor Cases with separate side panels?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 01:03

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I have a Techmedia brand AT tower case with removable sides. There's some pics of it in this thread: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build - updated now to include some 430TX vs. 430VX benchmarks

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-30, 22:05

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Then why advice someone of who you don't know if they also have quite literally hundreds of good DIMMs in their stash to ASAP toss the OCZ modules out without a second thought? Because that advice came across more as if OCZ modules are inherently flawed so badly that throwing all out is the only …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-30, 20:54

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Why throw the OCZ memory away? If it works perfectly fine, then throwing it away is rather foolish. or at the very least it's a waste. And to add to what others have already said, I've personally used 2x2GB DDR3 1333 for years in one of my rigs and it always worked perfectly fine. The only thing I …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 21:38

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-01-29, 20:27: Thank you for this little experiment! Looks like in the end $40 Conroe released mere year later at 1/10 P4 price is the OC winner 😀 haha yeah the Celeron is a decent CPU for sure. But the Core 2 Q9550 annihilates both! GTX770 - Q9550 UT2003 1280x960: Flyby - 546. …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 16:54

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Still a good bit more than a GHz overclock on a CPU from an architecture that newer released past 3.8 ... That's pretty neat Oh yeah! It's been a fun little diversion playing with this stuff. After I finish the current benchmark run I am going to try bumping the voltage up by quite a bit to see if …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 16:45

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Well I seem to have reached the end of the road with this P4 661 CPU. 4.77 seems to be limit, going even 1mhz higher on the bus speed and it does not post. GTX770 - Pentium 4 @ 4.77 - Asus P5B 3dmark01 - 36778 3dmark03 - 54442 3dmark05 - n/a - bluescreens Aquamark3 - 101942 UT2003 1280x960 Flyby - …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 15:04

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Hey, I just noticed this thread. This might sound silly, but did you try to mess with the Floppy Controller and/or related floppy settings in the BIOS for that board that wouldn't overclock? I have an ASUS Nforce4 s939 board from 2005 that I couldn't figure out why it didn't want to cooperate when …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 05:06

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Breaking out the big guns to see what I can do with this P4 on this Asus board. I was using this Big Typhoon cooler on an Athlon 64X2 but that board has some bad caps and has been retired for now.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-29, 01:38

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Ebay and lack of sleep are a bad combination. I've ordered the following lately: Radeon 9200 128MB AGP Athlon XP-M 2600+ MSI KT880 Delta-FSR Acorp 5ALI61 AMD K6-2+ 570 (with K6-3+ mod) Abit ST6 Also I got an Asus P5B (with bent CPU socket pins) for a Tim Hortons coffee. Straightened them out and …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-29, 01:30

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So 3288mhz seems to be about it for this CPU. Anything higher and it bluescreens or doesn't post. Kind of neat to get over a 1000mhz overclock out of it though. GTX770 - Celeron D 450 @ ~3.29 - Asus P5B - ~743mhz mem ~1.39V (set to 1.425 in bios) 3dmark01 - 35740 3dmark03 - 50713 3dmark05 - 13616 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-28, 21:59

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Received my Gigabyte GA-6VTXE-A today. The motherboard came in the original box and included all the original documentation, driver cd's and cables. The board itself looks also good, although I'm not quite sure about a few capacitors located at the upper left of the board. Do they need recapping? …

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Re: Pentium 4 - Silly overkill machine - now featuring an Asus P5B

Posted on 2023-01-28, 21:57

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So I came across an Asus P5B with bent pins last night and gave a friend a coffee for it. Straightened the pins today and it works, so I'm back to doing silly things with this Celeron and P4. I've upped the Celeron voltage to 1.36 and gotten a bit more out of it. Once I reach the limit on the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-28, 19:15

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I wouldn't hand them money by buying their new stuff, but I don't see a point of rejecting old RAM untested, because I test everything anyway, I've had bad Kingston modules, bad Dell modules, bad Corsair modules, bad Micron modules, no blame attached though, you never know how it's been treated. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-28, 16:15

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I must have missed this then or got luck. I used a 32GB OCZ kit in my AMD Bulldozer system for years without any problems. I sold it to a friend a d they continue to live on 10 years later. My sample size is extremely small, but I wanted to share that anecdote. Ever since Ryzen made it a commodity, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-28, 15:40

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why throw away the ocz ram? I always had ocz as good hardware. Here's an email a customer of mine got from them after sending back defective ram and receiving MORE defective ram from them. I believe this was a DDR3 kit but it's 13 years ago and I'm not sure. I've deleted the email and name of the …

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