Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-03-12, 19:42
Godlike wrote: Mystery box looks good, try Catacomb 3D on it I see it comes with FPU as well right? I do not think there is a FPU installed but there is a socket for a 287.
Re: You ever have one of those days?
Posted on 2015-03-12, 19:23
The day my A7N8X Deluxe decided to smoke my rare Athlon XP 3200+ 2333 MHz (HP 166 MHz FSB version) wasnt very good. I had clocked lots of other Bartons on that board but I wanted a 3dmark06 score at 2600 MHz or more with the Geforce 6800 GT/Ultra. For some reason things went south even though I was …
Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread
Posted on 2015-03-12, 19:13
Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE. This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-03-12, 19:05
The mystery box I bought arrived today :) Its was a heavy package and I had to carry it 1.5 km (about a mile in medieval units) http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/Thetreasurechest.jpg Inside the box we find a 286 system with a HDD :) http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/Insidethebox.jpg A pretty fast 286, …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2015-03-09, 22:15
I now have a dual-xeon machine, a SuperMicro motehrboard with two LGA-1366 sockets, and it will run any of the entire line-up of 1366 xeons. But this one has to be matched pairs of chips to work together and only works at stock speeds (no overclocking). The nice part is the motherboard + a tower …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2015-03-09, 21:08
Asus, Gigabyte and EVGA should all support socket 1366 dual QPI Xeons with the latest BIOS. The first generation EVGA socket 1366 boards could not run any 6 cores without a mod though. The Asus P6T line of boards dosnt support disabeling TDP induced turbo throtteling so when overclocking with those …
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2015-03-09, 20:39
Sounds attractive. How do you choose a motherboard for such a project? Most home-oriented MOBOs wouldn't support Xeons and server SAS controllers I believe. What are drawbacks of such a build you can think of? I see high CPU TDP, but that possibly can be solved with just another CPU. Xeon chips …
Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread
Posted on 2015-03-08, 13:25
What could be better than a screenshot showing a 3dmark score? A video of a system running 3dmark 2001 😀 A reboot and a quick look at the BIOS settings is also shown in the video. "Youtube enhanced" 1080P Q6600 @ 3600 MHz. Gforce 8800GTX. 3dmark 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbuzDHx8_0
Re: Cartoon Network in 2015 /rant
Posted on 2015-03-07, 14:01
Cartoons have been going down in quality ever since Hanna Barbara went on from making awesome Tom & Jerry cartoons to stuff like Yogi Bear and such. Another Quantity doensn't make up for Quality thing I guess. Tom & Jerry cant touch Oggy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oggy_and_the_Cockroaches Also …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-03-06, 19:10
This post will be slightly more off topic than usual. Nothing in this post is retro what so ever. Buy hey, it isnt a car! :D My system in my signature is a great system when it comes to heating up my chilly apartment during Swedens very long and cold winters. Its not so great during Swedens short …
Re: Cartoon Network in 2015 /rant
Posted on 2015-03-04, 10:10
I miss Monkey Dust and Wonder Showzen.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-02-25, 21:55
I just won this PC for 20 Euro. It was advertised as a Pentium but I guess its an older system, perhaps a 286. The shipping will cost me another 20 Euro but I do not mind becasue this AT case is awesome! http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/MysteryMeat1.jpg http://u.cubeupload.com/jonaz81a/MysteryMeat2. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-02-23, 20:18
Some more rare XP era hardware. I thought I bought a 2x1GB DDR2 Crucial Ballistix Tracers kit for 7 Euro, a bargain they usually cost 25 Euro or more. When I got the kit it turned out to be a 2x2GB DDR2800 4,4,4,12 Crucial Ballistix Tracers kit, these are really hens teeth, you never see these kits …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-02-22, 19:59
Perhaps not totally retro but definitely something to remember with all old (and sometimes new) computer gear. You can never be sure that it follows the specification. I have used a MSI P35 motherboard with an overclocked Core 2 Quad to test video cards. Over the weekend I have been playing GTA IV …
Re: A proper PCIe GPU for AMD Athlon64 3700+
Posted on 2015-02-22, 18:38
If you play at 1920*1200 with AA and stuff then I think a Geforce GTS 250 with 1GB memory would be optimal but other G92 cards such as the 8800 GTS 512 and 9800 GTX should also work well. The 9800 GX2 probably creates a bit extra overhead which isnt optimal with a single core K8 CPU. If you want …
Re: Building High-End PC 2004
Posted on 2015-02-22, 12:48
Yes sensors failed! Where i can get it, suitable type? By the way: Why my MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum shows 1300MHz on AthlonXP 3000+? When I change settings-to the right, PC didnt boot up. I think you could try to just reseat the BIOS chip. I do not think this will fix the issue but its worth a try. …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2015-02-22, 10:05
Not very retro perhaps but Im playing GTA IV using my 2006 system with a single Geforce 8800 GTX. Well Im actually using a clone system as the 2006 system is a finished great working system I dont want to mess with and Im in a tinkering mood. The performance should be the same though as the hardware …
Re: Not sure what hardware
Posted on 2015-02-21, 14:51
So I'm returning to this thread.. I've just seen a really good deal about 1km away from me. Complete Northwood system on an Intel D865PERL board, with some mysterious 64MB NVIDIA card (I suspect a MX440), having to judge from the Speccy screenshot. Intel boards are generally known for being rock …
Re: Building High-End PC 2004
Posted on 2015-02-21, 13:06
You don't need pci-express platform for games under 2006 ;) If you find athlon 64 Venice or San Diego cores + 1gb ddr + a native agp gpu (like geforce 6800 or radeon X800) it will be fine I kind of agree but some members like to play their XP era games at 1600*1200 with AA :) If you want to do that …
Re: Building High-End PC 2004
Posted on 2015-02-21, 12:38
Seriously you people consider synthetic benchmarks as good performance measure? That's no way indication of real world performance, specially if said bechmarks were compiled with Intel compilers. Man Intel really did a great job making its micro-architecture look not so bad. Intels micro- …
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