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Reply 40 of 82, by kolderman

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Anders- wrote on 2021-10-13, 21:10:
One more important point, it was around that time the floppy port disappeared from the mainboards! My amd64x2 (socket 939), came […]
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kolderman wrote on 2021-10-13, 19:21:

I remember the Athlonx 64 X2 peaked around the mid-late 2000s, because upgrading meant going from socket-939 (AGP,DDR,IDE,WinXP) to the AM-socket platform (DD2/3, PCIe,SATA,Vista) meaning you needed to upgrade EVERYTHING. It was the last hurrah of 90s era tech and a lot of people wanted to keep that platform running as long as possible, and the Athlonx 64 X2 meant not only could you upgrade to a high clocked CPU, but often it meant upgrading from single to dual core for owners of the earlier single-core Athlon64s, which made a tremendous difference. Was probably the best CPU upgrade in history and no wonder prices went through the roof.

One more important point, it was around that time the floppy port disappeared from the mainboards!
My amd64x2 (socket 939), came with floppy controller, ddr2, sata and pcie+pci 😀

Edit: I realize there's a bit of contradiction there, will have to doublecheck next time I got the case open.
Pretty sure I've seen both "939" printed on the socket as well as buying 4x1G ddr2 back in the day...

There was a lot of weird stuff around this era, like boards with both AGP and PCIe, possibly DDR1/2, but I have mainly seen DDR2/3 on latter gen boards like s775.

Reply 41 of 82, by Hoping

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-10-13, 19:23:

Ehhh, Even the Geforce FX 5950U is CPU limited in 3DMark 2001 with a Core2 X6800 below 3.2-3.3Ghz.

If going for a PCIe setup for XP, the ideal would be whatever the latest you can get XP drivers for as far as the motherboard goes... Probably an LGA-2011 with a Xeon 1680v2 or so along with a couple Geforce GTX Titan X video cards... of course I would be running XP x64 so I could use more RAM as well. The Sound card would be an Audigy 2 ZS or Audigy 4 Pro.

I've never tried to do something like that, for me XP is DX9 only and I'm not intrested in using a DX12 capable card on XP, and also I don't care about 3DMark scores, I only care that the computer can run any DX9 game maxed out at a high resolution like 1600x900 or 1920x1080 but is guess that DX9 cards aren't capable of this. Like I said, I never tried it, because most games released after Win Vista launch that work on XP will also work on Win7 and sometimes they have a DX9 and a DX10 renderer, and is cheaper to asemble a computer for Win 7 because of the driver support and hardware availability.
Of course everybody has it's point of view, it's only my opinion.

Reply 42 of 82, by subhuman@xgtx

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It's a crap platform and as much of a bad purchase decision as it was 10 years ago. Any Sandy Bridge/Ivy bridge chip ran full circles around them in about every possible aspect

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Reply 43 of 82, by The Serpent Rider

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Anders- wrote:

Don't forget the K6 (and K6-2 and -3) provided a lot more bang for the buck than the intel counterparts

Actually no. AMD had it really tough after Celeron Mendocino came out. They had to scrape the bottom of the barrel after that.
Failure of Bulldozer is practically the main reason why Intel was feeding mainstream market 4 cores after 4 cores CPUs with miniscule improvements (with some corner cutting) and still got away with it.

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Reply 45 of 82, by The Serpent Rider

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You missed a bit of the quote there, fixed that for you.

I didn't. You've mentioned PIII which was sold later than Mendocino.

Perhaps you can present some prices to show how expensive the k6-2/3 was because that's not what I recall from back in the day.

Celeron 300A - $150
K6-2 300 - $281

Nuff said.

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Reply 47 of 82, by The Serpent Rider

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I don't see the cost of the new

I don't see the cost of the new shiny SuperSocket7 motherboard with AGP slot and correct voltage support either. And no, bottom feeding on old motherboards wasn't very sustainable business model.

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Reply 50 of 82, by Repo Man11

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Contemporary real world prices on this sort of thing are surprisingly difficult to find. On this capture of Cybermax's site from Jan. of 2000, AMD has both the cheapest and the most expensive of the offerings in their "Valuemax" line of computers.
I also found August of 1999:

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Reply 51 of 82, by cyclone3d

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Before I had a K6-2 system I may have had a K6 for a while.

I don't remember the first K6-2 CPU I had, but when I was running a K6-2 550, I paid around $50 for it. The Intel CPUs were at least 4x that amount. I was getting a discount... something like 15% over cost.

Edit: I was working at a local computer store back then and starting in 2000, it looks like the pages were archived:
https://web.archive.org/web/2000*/swselectronics.com

That should give a pretty good idea of retail prices for a decent amount of stuff back then.

Fun fact... I handled the maintenance / updating of the webpage while I worked there... in 2000-2001.

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Reply 52 of 82, by Repo Man11

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In these reviews from 1997, there's a listing for a K6 from Tiger Direct for $1,999.00. The least expensive Intel system is a Gateway for $2,389.00. https://web.archive.org/web/19970711023328/ht … sales/index.htm

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Reply 53 of 82, by Repo Man11

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You guys got my hopes up for selling the FX 4300 I have, but I checked and they're going for about $20.00.

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Reply 54 of 82, by ODwilly

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If you aren't putting a Hyper 212 on a FX chip and OCing the Northbridge frequency you aint doing it right

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Reply 55 of 82, by Repo Man11

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Across a span of several years, the low cost/lowest cost systems that Cybermax offered were consistently AMD based.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991110021802/ht … es/valuemax.asp

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Reply 56 of 82, by bestemor

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Heh, now this topic took quite the detour it seems... From FX8350 to a K6 ?! 🤪

So, perhaps even the Phenom should get its share of the action as well ?
I found this little snippet about modern performance etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2Bf51XkCA

Good thing I only plan on using the platform for mostly older games and WinXP it seems.

Reply 57 of 82, by The Serpent Rider

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What you call bottom feeding was the only way amd could get by back then, they absolutely had to sell their cpu's at a lower price in order to compete with intel.

No, AMD had some presence in OEM (multiple examples above), which is sustainable business model. But as I've already mentioned, they had to significantly scale down pricing and expectations after Celeron release. With FX release things got really dire, due to very weak presence in OEM and nearly zero presence in servers.

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Reply 58 of 82, by Hoping

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-10-20, 11:53:

No, AMD had some presence in OEM (multiple examples above), which is sustainable business model. But as I've already mentioned, they had to significantly scale down pricing and expectations after Celeron release. With FX release things got really dire, due to very weak presence in OEM and nearly zero presence in servers.

I concur. I have an old workstation with two opteron 2384, and it already was very low end, with the next generation they only got worse. And I think that in ten years I've never seen an HP branded computer with an FX cpu. I mention HP because it's the brand I've seen more around here.
Until the release of Ryzen AMD was in a deep hole. They were cheaper, but the gap was very huge.
Again, I like AMD over Intel, but the truth is the truth.