Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-22, 22:04

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I bought yet another Asus P6T Deluxe today, you can never get too many of these as they will last forever like Paladins. Do they even build motherboards with this kind of over-engineering anymore? My X58 board is the ASUS P6X58D-E, how does that compare to the P6T? You seem to know more than I do …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-22, 19:22

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I got some packages today! It's winter in Sweden with very low humidity. You get ESD shocks even from just looking at bubble wrap! I bought some bubble wrap.jpg AAAAAAAARRGGGG more bubble wrap.jpg I see a pattern.jpg It never stops.jpg I can only attach 4 pictures in a single post, otherwise you …

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Re: Help with motherboard - Abit PR5 R2

Posted on 2017-02-21, 19:10

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I'm running an MMX 233 in my Socket 7 board that doesn't support split voltage. I found a lot of people from 'back in the day' saying that they upgraded systems even using socket 5 boards like this without issue. Mines been running fine, though I did rig a large heatsink fan (non standard) to make …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-20, 19:30

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do someone know if the MSI K7N2 is any good? I have one for an uncoming build, it uses the FSB 333 nForce 2 without onboard video From what I have read it should be decent. After 4 CPUs I took a short break in the Socket A CPU scaling benchmarking to test my new Athlon XP-M 2400+. This was just a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-20, 12:28

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I'm at work reading old Socket A related threads on the "xtremesystems" forum. I just stumbled on a thread titled "Artifacting in nature, please help", I love the overclocking community of yesteryear.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-20, 07:35

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I bought yet another Asus P6T Deluxe today, you can never get too many of these as they will last forever like Paladins. Do they even build motherboards with this kind of over-engineering anymore? The price was ~37 Euro + 6 euro shipping (it was on a Swedish Ebay clone site). The sellers picture. …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-19, 22:04

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I bought yet another Asus P6T Deluxe today, you can never get too many of these as they will last forever like Paladins. Do they even build motherboards with this kind of over-engineering anymore? The price was ~37 Euro + 6 euro shipping (it was on a Swedish Ebay clone site). The sellers picture. …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-19, 17:24

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I found a Duron 800 so I won't have to investigate how to cut and connect bridges to create one! :D Here is a picture showing most of my Thunderbirds and Spitfires, two Morgans has infiltrated the picture. One more Thunderbird and one more Spitfire I know about because they sit on motherboards but I …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2017-02-19, 13:39

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@candle_86 Would you like to go for round three ? I got myself a new motherboard and a proper soundcard this time :) 214.5 FPS, agent_x007, Pentium Extreme Edition 965 @ 5,10GHz, Rampage Extreme, 16GB DDR3-1133 CL5.6.5.15 CR1T, GeForce 7900 GTX GX2 @ 600/1400 + ForceWare 92.91, Creative X-Fi …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-19, 10:49

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Yeah, you can't change multipliers on most KT400 / KT600 boards. They were considered by manufacturers as "budget chipsets". Not even my KV7 has a multiplier setting in bios - or my NF7-S witch is a higher end nforce board. The only boards that I know of that support multiplier changes are: - Abit …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 23:05

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Yeah, you can't change multipliers on most KT400 / KT600 boards. They were considered by manufacturers as "budget chipsets". Not even my KV7 has a multiplier setting in bios - or my NF7-S witch is a higher end nforce board. The only boards that I know of that support multiplier changes are: - Abit …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-18, 22:32

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... the A7N8X has pretty mediocre CPU power delivery... if you want to make sure that doesn't happen again, I highly recommend getting an Abit AN7. The DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra (REV B) is also excelent when it comes to power delivery, but they're so rare it's barely worth mentioning. I did have a …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 19:24

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... I wouldn't run a X1950 on a measly 350w psu... even the X800 series needs a 400w psu in conjuncture with a good CPU and some add-in cards. I'd say look for a 400 or 450w PSU for the x1950 and 3200+ I think it will be fine. A PCI-E Radeon X1950 pro 256MB needs about 80W. I guess the 512MB AGP …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 17:18

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... I wouldn't run a X1950 on a measly 350w psu... even the X800 series needs a 400w psu in conjuncture with a good CPU and some add-in cards. I'd say look for a 400 or 450w PSU for the x1950 and 3200+ I think it will be fine. A PCI-E Radeon X1950 pro 256MB needs about 80W. I guess the 512MB AGP …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 15:04

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I'm making some progress. Athlon XP systems mostly runs of the +5V rail, many modern PSUs have weak +5V rails. Digging through a pile of junk power supplies I found a 15+ year old Chieftec 350W PSU which seems decent. I don't remember the exact model name but I took a picture of the inside when I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-18, 11:40

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The DFI nForce4 SLI LanParty Expert seems to work just fine. DFI nForce4 SLI Lanparty UT Expert splash screen .jpg DFI nForce4 SLI Lanparty UT Expert posting.jpg I will test this motherboard at a later date to see how well it overclocks. Now I need to get back to setting up my Socket A test system.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-18, 11:24

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I'm going to start with my K7 benching today but I had to do something else first! A year ago a bought a lot of 10 or so broken motherboards to use as spare parts, if I could not fix them that is. The price ended up ~75 SEK + 89 SEK shipping = ~15 euro if I remember right and the motherboards were …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 10:04

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Looks like us K7 fans had a similar PC history at one point :) Nice boards guys. I'm (as you probably guessed) an Abit man myself. Not an asus fan by any stretch of the imagination, but the A7N8 nforce 2 series boards are very good. Even so, they don't hold a candle to the Abit AN7 or it's little …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-17, 23:51

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Nice board. An Abit with KT133 chipset. I have the same but the version without the raid-controller. My photo is taken from last year before i've started to de-solder some bulging caps. I hope that this board will survive after the work... That's correct. I have 3x vanilla Asus AV7, all rescued …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-17, 22:40

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I would be surprised if the KX/KT133 board could not handle 768MB which should be enough for benchmarking, XP-SP3 can be stripped of all unnecessary services to make some headroom. Most services don't make any difference for benchmarking scores even on older systems. I have tried to improve …

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