GeForce 7800GTX SLI Running Hot

Posted on 2021-11-13, 06:02

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Built my first SLI rig recently with the following specs: Core 2 Extreme X6800 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 4GB DDR2-667 2x Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 128GB SSD EVGA 80+ White 500W The cards are identical, nVidia version. Recently cleaned and repasted. I initially started it with just one card working and then …

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

Posted on 2021-11-08, 09:19

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by HangarAte2nds!

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Built my SLI rig today: 20211107_224257.jpg 20211107_224217.jpg 20211107_224654.jpg 20211107_224550.jpg Core 2 Extreme X6800 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 4GB DDR2-667 2x Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 128GB SSD EVGA 80+ White 500W I have been planning this one for about 18 months and finally came together in the …

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

Posted on 2021-11-08, 08:25

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First I realized the motherboard had 20pin power connector and the PSU had 24pin -> two weeks of waiting for an adapter You don't need an adaptor unless there's something else (e.g. a capacitor) blocking the addition 4-pin part of the 24-pin connector from PSU. Yeah so I found out and asked for …

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Re: PC tower cases by year

Posted on 2021-11-08, 07:46

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They did make one by some famous designer and it looked terrible IMHO. Not only one. Use google image search "vobis colani" and "highscreen colani" if you want to see some really weird cases. I think the desktop ones actually look pretty cool. It's just that when you find them these days that they …

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Re: PC tower cases by year

Posted on 2021-11-08, 07:43

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Hi. Uploading these photos I shot once. photo_2021-10-15_18-34-04 depicts a nearly identical case to the one in which I built my first PC in 1995. I lived in the UK at the time. The color of the buttons were different but it is the same case. It is also featured in the lineup for 1994 in the …

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Re: Looking for 4:3 DVI/HDMI Capture hardware

Posted on 2021-11-08, 06:42

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I'm looking for options to capture DVI output form my Windows 9X and XP PCs for a personal project. Looking at most 'Gaming Capture Hardware' is fine for 16:9 and such but I hit problems testing with my PCs. This is DVI matter, not VGA. The main thing is most hardware also reports higher resolution …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-04, 10:31

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Bought a ton of stuff today, a real mixed bag for $110. Highlights are... Sun Ultra 60 Dual 450MHz 64 bit RISC workstation Dell Poweredge 2950 2x4 core NetBust Xeon (haven't checked SKU), set up for 6x3.5" SAS (RAID-6) Matrox G2+ 8MB AGP Diamond Stealth 3D 2MB PCI Creative CT4500 AWE64 ISA EPoX …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-04, 05:03

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Received a Radeon X1950 Pro AGP card for my Windows 2000/early XP system, should be more than enough horsepower to run any game through the first half of the 2000 decade at highest quality. https://i.ibb.co/QdZnbfr/20211102-210122.jpg Also stumbled across this gem for sale locally, the legendary …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-03, 00:55

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Just got an offer to buy a lot of vintage hardware for $110. Includes a Sun Ultra 60, Dell Poweredge 2950 and a tub full of late '90s/early '00s video cards, ram and other expansion cards plus 3 vintage SCSI drives (those are hard to find and I just got a free Iomega SCSI card). All I did was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-02, 21:15

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Local thrift shop had a dual PCIe LGA775 board , Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4. It was a steal at just $25. I will be installing a Core 2 Extreme X6800 and a brace of 7800GTX for a representative period correct "Crysis PC". Also picked up a GF2, PCI SATA I card, a couple of vintage Microsoft mice in good …

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Re: Do games/software that justify 287/387SX coprocessors exist?

Posted on 2021-11-02, 20:59

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by HangarAte2nds!

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought one recently to put in my old 386. It cost less than $10 so why not?

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Re: Dell Precision 490 - safe to turn this thing on?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 22:31

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by HangarAte2nds!

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I would just get a new PSU, though that could be tricky as Dell likes to frequently use nonstandard PSUs. Still, you might find a low mileage one on eBay for less than a fortune. I bought a couple EVGA 500w White on Amazon recently for $25, which would be great if uses a standard size. It's none …

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Re: Dell Precision 490 - safe to turn this thing on?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 22:13

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I would just get a new PSU, though that could be tricky as Dell likes to frequently use nonstandard PSUs. Still, you might find a low mileage one on eBay for less than a fortune. I bought a couple EVGA 500w White on Amazon recently for $25, which would be great if uses a standard size. It's none …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 07:58

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by HangarAte2nds!

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The ones I can remember: XFX RX5700XT Thicc II XFX RX5700XT Thicc III Sapphire RX5700XT Pulse EVGA RTX3060 XC Gaming EVGA RTX2070 Super Blower (Blower replaced with Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV for obvious reasons, lol) MSI RTX3070 Gaming X Trio Dell Radeon R7 250 2GB Vision Tek Radeon HD7750 1GB 3x …

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Re: Dell Precision 490 - safe to turn this thing on?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 07:35

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Hi, I got a used Dell Precision 490 today. Mainly got it because I think the case looks cool and wanna use it for something, but since it still has all components (I think) I thought I'd try to see if it works as is. It's really loud, and during the startup sequence I get all kinds of warnings. " …

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2021-11-01, 07:06

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Glad to announce that thanks to your support today I shipped the 100 th BlasterBoard! Was totally not expecting this when started the project back in summer of 2018. The community is growing and hope it will grow even more. Kind regards and gratitude to everyone! Thanks for your hard work. I like …

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Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

Posted on 2021-10-30, 10:22

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I just downloaded something even better from archive.org today. REMOVED . I still managed to think up a few that weren't on the list but most of the best games from the '80s and '90s are here. Naturally, I don't encourage piracy but what you do is up to you. Just exercise caution. A comment on the …

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Re: Watching DVDs on Win98

Posted on 2021-10-30, 09:43

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Finishing up a Win98 build with a PIII 450. I want to experiment with DVD because this is about the minimum PC spec for playing DVDs, or so I have read. Unfortunately, I cannot find drivers for either of my IDE DVD-ROM drives. One is a HL GCR-8481B and the other is a Lite-On SOHD-167T. However, I …

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

Posted on 2021-10-30, 08:49

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-29, 14:12: Your coppermine is a katmai. Yes it is. I also have a couple of Coppermine 750s and I got mixed up since it was late. I will be trying the 750 in this machine too at some point.

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-10-30, 08:33

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The Rage 128 Pro is considered similar to the Riva 128. is it the number??????????? :)))) Yes, number is same... You guys must not have much to do with your time. That was a typo and I was actually thinking of the RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB. But I guess you didn't take the time to think that through and …

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