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First post, by candle_86

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So I picked these up today

Epox EP-9NDA3J
Opteron 144 939
1gb OCZ Platnium DDR400
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Radeon 7500 x2
Antec Performance Plus PLUS1080AMG Case

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Plans for some of this is

Board ram and cpu assemble into Antec Case, take 6800GS from AXP build and put into this board, put Ti 500 into AXP, take 1gb OCZ gold from P4 and combine with current OCZ ram into this machine, add 250gb SATA drive I have laying around install XP

Reply 1 of 2, by obobskivich

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Nice haul. Especially to find a bona fide Ti 500 (usually when I've seen GF3s recently they're Ti 200s). I'm not very familiar with the OCZ RAM, but if it has different timings/chips/etc it may not be best to combine them if you're planning to overclock or otherwise tweak. It will also likely force the machine's memory into 2T, which will hamper performance. That said, if you really need 2GB of memory, you really need 2GB of memory. Most older XP-era games won't be a problem on 1GB, but if you're trying to run newer software/games/etc 2GB may be more important than absolute memory performance.

The two combos - AXP + GF3 and A64 + 6800 would both be very good pairings, and will enable a relatively large range of games, especially if you're loading different operating systems on them (like 9x on the K7, and 2k/XP on the A64).

Reply 2 of 2, by candle_86

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Yea I saw a Geforce3 Ti 500 and went all giggly 🤣, best part I didnt pay for it, not one dime.

Well I swaped ram around though, my DDR500 OCZ Gold went into the opteron and runs at 1t, my OCZ Platnium went into the P4 and runs at 2-2-2-5 DDR400 and the AXP now runs windows ME with the Ti 500 🤣.

and yea OCZ ram I remember it back in 2004/2005 it was some of the best stuff out their. They made DDR400, DDR500 and DDR600. My buddy had the DDR600 stuff, and man was it sweet, but I'm content with DDR500 at 2-3-3-8 🤣.