Re: Post photos of your Unique Custom CPU/GPU fan

Posted on 2022-06-08, 22:58

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ System Specs

What I did with HP Z420 was upgrade the heatsink it had, using Z440's heatsink. One more heat pipe and better design netted me about 15 to 20C cooler on a 8 core CPU, play and plug. Cheers, I have a couple HP z420 I want to fix. The motherboards went bad. I think they have 8-core xeons. Plenty of …

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Re: Post photos of your Unique Custom CPU/GPU fan

Posted on 2022-06-08, 00:24

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ System Specs

What I did with HP Z420 was upgrade the heatsink it had, using Z440's heatsink. One more heat pipe and better design netted me about 15 to 20C cooler on a 8 core CPU, play and plug. Cheers,

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Re: Help cooling down a Pentium 3

Posted on 2022-06-06, 19:46

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Much better! Cheers,

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Re: Help cooling down a Pentium 3

Posted on 2022-06-05, 17:22

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Turn that front fan around so it blows into the case and have PSU blow the air outwards so all the air go in one path in one direction. Cheers,

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Re: Geforce 4 TI 4200 or 5600 FX for a pentium 3 733 build?

Posted on 2022-06-03, 22:49

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by pentiumspeed

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People sounded like they were talking about DX 9 for FX series. Not in this case, I wanted and others interested about performance how they compare using DX 6, 7 and 8 using FX 5600, FX 5700, for high end FX 5800 and FX 5900 compared to ti 4200 and MX 440/460? Cheers,

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on 2022-06-03, 15:47

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by pentiumspeed

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That 486, I had exact same thing happened except it was motherboard covered with pee from mouse. The slot was open. Yes, mouse can fit through these slot easily. Here's a quote: "An adolescent mouse can fit its body through a hole that is the size of a pen. An adult mouse can fit through a hole the …

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Re: PCI video card recommendation?

Posted on 2022-06-03, 15:36

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ Video

Consumer computers does not have 3.3V PCI due to keying is 5V along with 12V, -12V. Cheers,

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:17

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium and Pentium MMX also comes in ultra delicate TCP package. One condition is the back of the silicon die had to be soldered to the center ground pad that has thick wall multiple vias to other side for cooling. I have same interposer which has pentium 90 TCP package soldered to back of this …

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

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:14

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Smart!! Cheers,

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Re: Do not buy: Micron P400m 100GB for Dell EMC.

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:09

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Regarding 3TB drives out of this datacenter computer, I bet these were hitachi or Seagate? Be cautious. Years ago, I had a HUA722020ALA330 bought used that seller claimed good which was not good as heads was reseeking. Once I detected this fault, I broke it down to find out why. Turns out spindle …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:01

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Optiplex 780 can go up to 16GB using DDR3 1333 or DDR3 1600 (running at 1333), this what I done for win 7 or windows 10. Does not matter with XP, will see as 3.5GB. If the COA sticker is windows 7 pro from either computers, even better, you can use this key to activate the windows 10 Pro. Supports …

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

Posted on 2022-05-30, 17:49

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Must make good impressions with your job interviewers so you don't want to make excuse about poor hard ware issues or support, they will notice that. That is last thing you want. Atom is vastly out of question at all, vast CPU starved on everything even slows down using PCI GPU due to driver …

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

Posted on 2022-05-30, 17:00

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

386sx, test the conference stuff before you put it to use! It is prudent to have windows 10 computer, least issues and sometimes you cannot get compatible software you need to work on older OS even XP (not safe) and windows 7 is not supported anymore especially the security support. And older …

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Re: Do not buy: Micron P400m 100GB for Dell EMC.

Posted on 2022-05-30, 00:49

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use gsmartcontrol to check on the health. Cheers,

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Do not buy: Micron P400m 100GB for Dell EMC.

Posted on 2022-05-29, 22:32

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All of these are set for sector size of 520 not 512 byte. Takes too much work to set up sg3 utility and then needs cygwin installed. And probably fail. At this moment previously put away the wireless router "in a bridge mode" into storage and could not find it so unable to finish the cygwin …

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Re: 10MB Obsidian2 90-2440 - No video output, but 3D seems to be working.

Posted on 2022-05-29, 19:08

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ Video

Make sure this bodge fix's transistor's third leg is not broken off. Cheers,

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Re: AMD 7970 UEFI/Legacy BIOS issue with Z77 mobo

Posted on 2022-05-29, 18:40

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by pentiumspeed

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Looks like your HD7970 is UEFI only firmware. There is different makers of HD7970 with legacy bios firmware and some does have both but finding one is guess work. I had two Asus HD7750 cards converted to UEFI & legacy combo using a ASUS UEFI utility to get them working on a UEFI only computer. …

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

Posted on 2022-05-29, 01:17

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Checking the health on each used SSDs I purchased, pretty good so far. They're data center rated, both intel and micron. I'm taking a Intel DC s3510 1.6TB for my work PC at repair shop to upgrade a consumer grade Hynix 512GB to at least over 1TB. Running low on space, which this grabage Hynix has …

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Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst

Posted on 2022-05-28, 22:27

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by pentiumspeed

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I kept forgetting about the DSP version, (CT1741), why did creative keeping revising the versions even they were working well then introduced hanging note and other bugs later on? Cheers,

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-28, 21:57

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by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Soldiering on ..... One more to come.... Osborne! I had one to play with and repaired one other for a customer around 1990-91 On these, they were basically giant shell, bottom is vast space for one or two large boards and almost 4 feet of ribbon cable to hook up the floppy drives. That's rather bad …

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