Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-05-01, 00:20

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Didn't get a chance to do cables on the weekend. :depressed: But the Acrylic came at 7am on the dot this morning, and I have today off since I worked on Sunday. So here's some pictures of what I made in the last couple of hours (and still working on the rest) http://i.imgur.com/bJWqIsrl.jpg Oooh. …

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

Posted on 2017-04-30, 13:34

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My copy of WoW has an advertising insert for the 6800 series (which doubled as a rather decent coupon at the time). It also has an insert for the Pentium 4 processors of the same time frame. I need to get a scanner and scan those at some point. I think mine had the same, or something very similar. …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-28, 09:57

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Still no CPU this week, but should be getting some final things Monday/Tuesday. http://i.imgur.com/8EUI8bN.png Top are some modding tools that I thought I had but I didn't, middle is the SATA Controller, and bottom are my Acrylic sheets to cut up. My fittings were shipped from China today by ePacket …

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Re: A P4 Rambus system, by AzzKickr

Posted on 2017-04-26, 01:42

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love those early cooler master cases Those early all-aluminium Cooler Masters still look good and have an excellent quality and they weigh almost nothing. For sure. It's sort of the same with the old Antec cases. It is funny to think that in some ways, we went backwards with cases as time went on. …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-22, 12:25

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A pci sata/ide card can have problems with an overclocked pci buss. Be careful if you plan to overclock the system. Yeah :( Just something I'm going to have to accept when putting form over function. Anyway, some updates. Ordered the following over the last day or so: Promise SATA150 TX4 SATA …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-19, 03:37

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Doing more things today, ran into an issue I'll have to solve. http://i.imgur.com/RTr3ia6l.jpg The GF2 Ultra overlaps the IDE ports on this motherboard. Tried a number of different cables to no avail. My plan now is to find a combo IDE+SATA PCI card, but I'll have to find one that I can boot from. …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-18, 10:47

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Excuse the poor lighting, I was doing this well after the sun went down. Wanted to get my mind off having a chunk of my collection stolen (a story for another thread) so I started putting things in the case. http://i.imgur.com/d0aaewzl.jpg Cold cathodes (and some of the radiator too)! http://i.imgur …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-12, 19:27

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Reservoir came the other day, and built it last night. Took apart the DDC pump and put it inside. Had to dig around the garage for my Torx pieces which took a lot longer than I was expecting. Don't think I used them since I moved here. http://i.imgur.com/N5WGKGYl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FuRYoGRl.jpg …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-10, 20:17

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Where did you get this sleeved uv cables or are those home made? Haven't made my own in a loooong time. A local family owned PC store in the city had them on sale for next to nothing each on clearance. I know in the USA that Performance PCs still sell them in lots of lengths/colours but shipping is …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-04-06, 09:26

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Getting close to being able to build - albeit much later than I was initially expecting. Some more items arrived today! Sadly I can't start putting it together until the Tualatin CPU arrives, which is coming from that guy in Korea that sells the modded ones. Was cheaper to buy a modded one than any …

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Re: BitchinFast 3D 2000!!

Posted on 2017-04-01, 13:32

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Holy shit! Almost 20 years later and someone went ahead and did it. I can't believe he went through the lengths to even create a silly benchmark software :lol: . To be fair, if he went through the lengths to make a look-alike card, the silly benchmark is probably childsplay in comparison :lol: :lol …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-03-28, 08:03

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Between the fittings and tubing will there even be room for the mounting clip for the CPU block? Yeah. Koolance provides a diagram and I double checked. The Barrow fittings for 12mm tubing are 20mm in diameter, which would leave me exactly 1cm between the fittings for the clip - which would fit any …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-03-28, 04:02

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New stuff in the mail today! CPU Waterblock. Was a pain to find something that'd work, so I'm glad that's out of the way. http://i.imgur.com/lxHRZsFl.jpg And when the new 1.4GHz Tualatin arrives, this is what it'll look like! http://i.imgur.com/RLI9Eval.jpg Also have the UV molex and 20 pin ATX …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-03-27, 05:47

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I love the idea behind this project! Will be following Thanks! We've got some photos today, finally! http://i.imgur.com/EFMicBwl.jpg This arrived in the mail today. I bought it on eBay brand new for about $40 AUD including postage. I think it's the first time in my life I've seen a non third party …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-26, 18:30

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3DFX V5-5500 and V5-6000 Domed Case Badges I think I bought stuff from the same guy (eBay?). Funny story about that, and related to what I was going to post today anyway. I purchased some stickers off him a couple of months ago and we got talking through eBay messages about retro hardware and …

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Re: 1998 Dream PC / Time Machine with P II 450, Voodoo 2 SLI, 120 GB SSD, BitFenix Aurora, RGB lighting

Posted on 2017-03-24, 14:29

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Beautiful build. Wonderfully executed - love it! I really do like the mix of old and new. I think the YouTube comment comparing it to putting an old engine in a new car is a bit disingenuous. Aside from it just being a plain ol' bit of fun and an enjoyable deviation from the beige box formula …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-03-23, 13:57

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Haven't posted an update in awhile - power's been out from storms, and still is. Posting this from my phone. :depressed: http://i.imgur.com/bOATpACl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/amO4WjSl.jpg There's actually multiple trees down and almost all the power lines on the street are down. They are estimating …

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Re: Build Log: P3/V5500/GF2Ultra Water Cooled Build - A Marriage of Retro and Modern

Posted on 2017-03-19, 21:58

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Made some progress over the weekend: Picked up the AOpen AX34-U motherboard for $5 locally. I haven't tested it yet but seems to be in good condition. Even though the capacitors are in seemingly good shape, I'm going to recap it anyway since I don't trust these Lelon brand caps currently on it. …

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Re: AMD AM2 / AM2+ (Water-Cooled) XP-32 Build

Posted on 2017-03-17, 03:26

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Yup, I'd be up for seeing that video!

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Re: AMD AM2 / AM2+ (Water-Cooled) XP-32 Build

Posted on 2017-03-17, 03:16

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That's some beautiful old style rad mounting. That takes me back to my first watercooled PC using aquarium tubing, a car radiator stuck on the back of the case and a tub of water outside the PC as a reservoir on an Athlon XP. I certainly look forward to seeing the finished build. 😀

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