kithylin wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I dont know why, but i never liked the skulltrails

Yeah it's a odd board. It's dual cpu but noting server related.
I would rather have a Z7S WS, but hay it was a good price.

Remember you'll probably need a fan on the ram sticks or at least a very good airflow case. FB-DIMMS get -hot-.

so do my overclocked dual core 604 xeons with FB-DIMMS ram 😵

My case has 2 60mm fans 2 120mm 1 92mm and 2 80mm fans. I'll be fine.

Ozzuneoj wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

@chose007 those 7900 GTX Duos are truly something special to collect as most out there are already long gone but one day once Win XP DX9 retro becomes popular people will start looking to these sort of cards so to have two of the original nvidia dual gpu cards is really the king of the hill. The only catch is that the bridge chip uses a earlier bios version than the 7950gx2 and so some boards won't boot the cards. The advantages the 7900 GTX Duo has over the 7950gx2 is far better cooling, better vrms by far, power is linked between both planes, and they can reach normal 7900 GTX clocks. EVGA sold a small number of them on newegg but the vast majority ended up in Dell/Alienware machines. There is one other version and that is the Quadro FX 4500 X2. Hope they run and do enjoy them 🤣 as there is probably no one else here to show off a such a build 😀

So, I take it 7900GTX Duo is just a different name for the 7900GX2? I remember when they came out and I don't remember ever seeing them called that.

I had a 7950GX2 and wasn't too pleased. Coming from a 7900GTX (eVGA step-up program) it was actually a performance downgrade in many situations where SLI didn't work properly. As soon as the 8800GTX was released, I bought one of those and sold the GX2. Crazy to think that the 7900GTX, 7900GX2, 7950GX2 and 8800GTX all came out in 2006... within 9 months of each other actually. That was a very expensive and unstable time for me... 😵

Both cards same stick. 7900GX2 was later marking (my opinion)

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Another Phenom II X6 1090T owner here. Mine is overclocked to 4.07GHz and paired with 16GB of DDR3-1740. It's not my main comput […]
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Another Phenom II X6 1090T owner here. Mine is overclocked to 4.07GHz and paired with 16GB of DDR3-1740. It's not my main computer, but the performance is fine enough that it easily could be. 😀

As far as single-threaded performance goes, it's slightly faster (5% tops) than my Q6700 @ 4GHz. It just leaves that C2Q in the dust in multi-threaded stuff.

My only concern (and this applies to the 65nm Core2 as well) is the lack of true SSE4 support. Yes, the PhII has SSE4A, but are there any programs out there that actually use 4A? All of the SSE4-optimized apps/games I've seen only use Intel SSE4 (45nm Core 2 and newer). On the AMD side, you'd have to "upgrade" to an FX chip.

I have a hunch that HEVC decoding/encoding takes advantage of SSE4. I have a 4K, 60fps, 10-bit HEVC video file that I use to measure a CPU's software-only HEVC decode performance. The 1090T @ 4GHz simply cannot do it. All six cores get completely slammed. It handles 4k/60 H.264 wonderfully, but HEVC kills it. My Core i7-4930K plays that HEVC file just fine, and with very low CPU usage (~25%).

mafia III requires SSE4.1

Second card came in today. Here it is with the other one I bought earlier this year.

Pair of nvidia 6800 Ultra 512MB PCI-Express cards together.

In an AMD nforce4-SLI socket 754 board from Epox.

This system would of been sooooooo expensive in 2005.. 😁

Temporary testing setup seen here.. will migrate to a real chassis later.

I particularly like the AT keyboard plugged into such a "new" setup. 😀

rkrenicki wrote:

I particularly like the AT keyboard plugged into such a "new" setup. 😀

😁 😁 😁 😁 I was using it to work on my 486 last week and too lazy to bother swapping out keyboards so just jammed an adapter on the end to make it PS/2.

FYI, these cards were originally $999.99 retail in 2005, each. And most of em were price gouged to $1200 - $1500 due to low availability at the time.

These showed up today which i picked bought off ebay the weekend.

Gigabyte GA-568TX3 motherboard with 128mb SD Ram and Pentium 200mmx.

This was also included in the above bundle, Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 which appears to be in great condition!

Bought 4 pieces of this.... (no need for them, bought them "just in case")

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-UM61512AK-15-64K … EIAAOxyY3ZRt8gu

And then I bought an Audician 32 Plus. They are good cards after all, and brand new.

Today was a pretty good day.

First i received this SC-55ST.

Then I picked up this from some guy clearing out his mini studio...

(In the middle, the SC-88 Pro)

And finally I paid about €2 for this HP Vectra XA6/200DT.

Came complete with a Sound Blaster Vibra 16C and a Matrox Millenium card. I think I'm gonna gut it and just keep interesting parts. The case was pretty banged up, and I don't really like desktop cases like this one.

I should probably not buy any more stuff for now...

kithylin wrote:

Second card came in today. Here it is with the other one I bought earlier this year. […]
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Second card came in today. Here it is with the other one I bought earlier this year.

Pair of nvidia 6800 Ultra 512MB PCI-Express cards together.

In an AMD nforce4-SLI socket 754 board from Epox.

This system would of been sooooooo expensive in 2005.. 😁

Temporary testing setup seen here.. will migrate to a real chassis later.

Wow, I didn't even know such a thing existed. I own an Abit Nforce 4 SLI board for socket 939, but I honestly thought it was a typo when you said yours was 754.

Those must have made for some really unbalanced systems back then. 754 didn't leave much CPU head room compared to 939. Lower speed per clock, lower clocks and no dual cores. Really unusual setup though. I'd wager that there aren't many of those left. 😀

c0keb0ttle wrote:

And finally I paid about €2 for this HP Vectra XA6/200DT. […]
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And finally I paid about €2 for this HP Vectra XA6/200DT.

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Came complete with a Sound Blaster Vibra 16C and a Matrox Millenium card. I think I'm gonna gut it and just keep interesting parts. The case was pretty banged up, and I don't really like desktop cases like this one.

I should probably not buy any more stuff for now...

That PPro CPU alone is more than worth the €2 investment 😀

Socket 8 CPU HSFs aren't al too common either, worth keeping in case you ever want to build your own s8 rig.

Yesterday I've recieved few packages... It was a good day 😀

From left:
- Yamaha SW60XG full box
- Gravis Ultrasound Classic 2.4 with manual and disks

Daughterboards (from bigger to smaller):
- Korg Ai20 (aka Trust Korg Super Sound Module,Guillemot Korg Wave Upgrade)
- Hizon db333 / Dream SAM9233 1MB
- Avance PRO32AW
- last but not least Dreamblaster S1

That's a great haul you got there. I'm particularly jealous of Gravis Ultrasound goodies - such as the box and the manuals, as mine came completely bare.

Congrats.

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Just bought a single JBL 4410 studio monitor. Yes, single speaker. It would make a great center channel for my JBL 120Ti mains. […]
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Just bought a single JBL 4410 studio monitor. Yes, single speaker. It would make a great center channel for my JBL 120Ti mains. Yes, there are slight difference, like the 4410's use JBL 035Ti tweeters while the 120Ti's use JBL 044Ti tweeters, but they should sound similar enough. I would originally go for JBL 4412 instead, since its frequency response curve is more similar to that of 120Ti's, but it seems 4412 wouldn't make a good center speaker, because it has asymmetrical off-axis response curve.

For games, I would connect the speakers to my Yamaha RX-V663 AV receiver. For music, however, I'd connect it to my Sansui-AU-7900, which is a stereo amplifier. But how would you connect L-C-R (Left-Center-Right) speaker to a stereo amplifier, then? Using Hafler Circuit, like a Dynaco QD-2 I've just bought on ebay. The QD-2 hasn't arrived yet though.

So, without further ado...

It's interesting to note that it really, really appears to me that the woofer has been re-foamed. During the process, the dust-cap in the center of the woofer is cut out, and the voice coil is shimmed during the process of gluing the new surround in. Then the shims are removed and the dust-cap is either replaced or adhered back in place. It looks like that is what has been done. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that you'd need to have the speakers response re-analyzed as it won't match the original woofers compliance, perfectly.

Indeed, but my 120Ti's are due for refoam anyway, so I guess I could tolerate imperfect compliance to the original woofer.

Today i also recieved package with this "piece of art."... Christmas in November? 😀

Batyra wrote:

Today i also recieved package with this "piece of art."... Christmas in November? 😀

A Voodoo 5 AGP?

Batyra wrote:

Today i also recieved package with this "piece of art."... Christmas in November? 😀

Are you man enough to MOD this piece of art, so that the ventilation system gets better?
No ?

V5 + Gravis Ultrasound + Yamaha XG for Christmas ?
This is really pathetic. You must have been a good boy.
Would you sell this stuff for a good price for me, wouldn't you ?

No? Did think so... 😁 😁 😁

c0keb0ttle wrote:

A Voodoo 5 AGP?

At least I have an exemplar of this card! I love her as much as Nurzaman loves it. And he has Voodoo 5 in plenty.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

It's literally impossible to get ANY good boards if you're in a horrible local for buying things in person OR can't afford to pay 150 USD for items thats value as components is the same as there value in scrap metal.

Now you know what I am thinking, when I look at GUS cards at sale for little over 500 US Dollars. 🤣
They are iconic in the same way as Voodoo5 cards. Just not worth THAT much. Über rated stuff.

Hey guys, I really enjoy this AMD discussion. I'm moving all the posts to a dedicated thread: AMD 754/939/SLI for retro PC discussion

brostenen wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

It's literally impossible to get ANY good boards if you're in a horrible local for buying things in person OR can't afford to pay 150 USD for items thats value as components is the same as there value in scrap metal.

Now you know what I am thinking, when I look at GUS cards at sale for little over 500 US Dollars. 🤣
They are iconic in the same way as Voodoo5 cards. Just not worth THAT much. Über rated stuff.

I agree that GUS and V5 are highly overpriced... buying them on ebay or amibay means lots of $$$... our "hobby" is getting more and more expensive, but still it is possible to find some great cards for reasonable money but it needs a lot effort...
In case of some of my card it looked like that: I've heard that a friend of mine, knew someone who had cool cards back in the days etc... so I wrote tons of e-mails, called many times and in the end he found few boxes of "old electronics" in his garage... 😀

But can you imagine trying to collect vintage soundcards without having any GUS? 😀