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Reply 20 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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Found my old Logitech X-530 speakers in my parents' garage. After a fairly thorough cleaning, I gave them a try and they still work.

Not the best 5.1 speakers around, but I'm still going to hook them up to this rig since that's what I used back in the day. Here's a contemporary review if anyone's curious.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 21 of 32, by pixelatedscraps

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Nice build here. Love those old Athlon 64 rigs, they were truly at my apex point for enjoying and pushing boundaries of computer tech (liquid cooling a 5950x/3090 ITX build for some reason just doesn’t come close.

I’ve got my original 3000+, and a 3700+ and an FX-60 lying around with a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D and Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe lying around in storage just waiting for some 2004-2006 throwback. Ah, the good ol’ days when one was still living at home with their parents, first paychecks went on either dates or building a beastly gaming rig at home. 6600GT? Sure, why not? The day I could afford a 7800GTX to go with my Dell 2405FPW was next level though.

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Reply 22 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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pixelatedscraps wrote on 2022-02-01, 04:20:

Nice build here. Love those old Athlon 64 rigs, they were truly at my apex point for enjoying and pushing boundaries of computer tech (liquid cooling a 5950x/3090 ITX build for some reason just doesn’t come close.

I’ve got my original 3000+, and a 3700+ and an FX-60 lying around with a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D and Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe lying around in storage just waiting for some 2004-2006 throwback. Ah, the good ol’ days when one was still living at home with their parents, first paychecks went on either dates or building a beastly gaming rig at home. 6600GT? Sure, why not? The day I could afford a 7800GTX to go with my Dell 2405FPW was next level though.

Cheers! I originally had an Athlon64 3000+ (Venice core) and a Gainward 6600GT in this build as well. Back then, such a setup provided great value for the money invested, and I was very happy with how it ran most of my games.

It was a good time to be a PC gamer. Many games ran just fine with relatively affordable components.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 23 of 32, by Sombrero

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2022-02-01, 07:46:
pixelatedscraps wrote on 2022-02-01, 04:20:

Nice build here. Love those old Athlon 64 rigs, they were truly at my apex point for enjoying and pushing boundaries of computer tech (liquid cooling a 5950x/3090 ITX build for some reason just doesn’t come close.

I’ve got my original 3000+, and a 3700+ and an FX-60 lying around with a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D and Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe lying around in storage just waiting for some 2004-2006 throwback. Ah, the good ol’ days when one was still living at home with their parents, first paychecks went on either dates or building a beastly gaming rig at home. 6600GT? Sure, why not? The day I could afford a 7800GTX to go with my Dell 2405FPW was next level though.

Cheers! I originally had an Athlon64 3000+ (Venice core) and a Gainward 6600GT in this build as well. Back then, such a setup provided great value for the money invested, and I was very happy with how it ran most of my games.

It was a good time to be a PC gamer. Many games ran just fine with relatively affordable components.

I remember drooling over Athlon 64 and 6600GT back then, I had a Athlon XP 3200+ with Radeon 9800 pro I was perfectly happy with but A64 and 6600GT were newer, faster and shinier 😁

Been planning a windows 2000 machine and would like to build it around Athlon 64 but the nforce4 chipset is really giving me pause, I already have one motherboard that doesn't like creative sound cards and I really don't trust my luck that I'll get one that doesn't have any issues with one like you clearly did. DFI motherboards seem to be way out of my price range at fleeceBay.

Reply 24 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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Sombrero wrote on 2022-02-01, 09:21:

Been planning a windows 2000 machine and would like to build it around Athlon 64 but the nforce4 chipset is really giving me pause, I already have one motherboard that doesn't like creative sound cards and I really don't trust my luck that I'll get one that doesn't have any issues with one like you clearly did.

From what I gather, it's the PCI versions of the X-Fi cards that sometimes have issues on certain nForce4 motherboards. The later PCIe-based Titanium models don't seem to be affected. I definitively haven't experienced any problems on my setup.

DFI motherboards seem to be way out of my price range at fleeceBay

Yeah, today's prices are pretty crazy. I only have mine because I kept it all these years.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 25 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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Well, today my DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D motherboard unceremoniously kicked the bucket.

I was re-pasting the (aftermarket) chipset cooler and my hand slipped while putting it back. Unfortunately, that seems to have damaged one of the surface mounted components on the chipset. As a result, the motherboard powers up, the fans spin, but it doesn't post and nothing shows up on the screen. No beep codes either. I tried all the usual solutions like clearing the CMOS, booting with only a single stick of RAM, using a PCI graphics card and even replacing both the CPU and the PSU. Alas, nothing helped. It's dead, Jim.

I briefly considered replacing the board with something else, but I think I'll just part out this build. This system was too slow for late WinXP games (2006 and onward) and my LGA 1155 rig runs them with much better performance. Also, I'm currently putting together a Socket 754 build for the few edge cases like Splinter Cell and Gothic 1 which need an older GPU to display everything correctly.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 26 of 32, by appiah4

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Interesting, I will be retiring my Socket 754 Athlon64 3700+ soon myself.. And we have very, very different builds 😀

For a fun comparison, this one is mine:

PSU: High Power 500W ATX
Mainboard: ASUS K8V Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3700+
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB DDR)
Floppy Drive: Mitsumi 3.5" DS-HD
Hard Drive: Samsung 120GB IDE
Optical Drive: Samsung 20x DVD-RW IDE
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon X800XT PE AGP
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) PCI
Operating System: Windows XP SP3

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Reply 27 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-04-19, 09:00:

Interesting, I will be retiring my Socket 754 Athlon64 3700+ soon myself.. And we have very, very different builds 😀

Heh, that's kinda similar to the socket 754 system that I'm currently building, though my components are somewhat lower specced.

I will mainly use it as an overpowered Win98 rig, but it will also dual boot WinXP for the few games mentioned above.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 28 of 32, by The Serpent Rider

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Joseph_Joestar wrote:

I was re-pasting the (aftermarket) chipset cooler and my hand slipped while putting it back. Unfortunately, that seems to have damaged one of the surface mounted components on the chipset. As a result, the motherboard powers up, the fans spin, but it doesn't post and nothing shows up on the screen.

Always include silicon pads for brittle FCPGA chipsets as cushion. Or even better - just use high performance thermal pad to avoid any damage.

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Reply 29 of 32, by mastergamma12

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RIP the board.

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The Tuala-Bus (My 9x/Dos Rig) (Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus)

The Final Lan Party (My Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)
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Reply 30 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-04-19, 09:40:

Always include silicon pads for brittle FCPGA chipsets as cushion. Or even better - just use high performance thermal pad to avoid any damage.

Yup, lesson definitively learned. I won't be mounting heavy coolers on a finicky chipset without using some sort of cushion.

To be fair, the motherboard was designed for a small heatsink + fan cooling solution, and not a weighty spire type cooler that I ended up using. The stock cooler was super noisy though, so I had it removed years ago.

mastergamma12 wrote on 2022-04-19, 09:48:

RIP the board.

As it became clear that it won't boot up, I was tempted to say: "Goodbye old friend, and may the Force be with you." 😁

I'll keep it in storage since I still have the original box and all. It will make a nice souvenir from my college days.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Reply 31 of 32, by The Serpent Rider

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Joseph_Joestar wrote:

To be fair, the motherboard was designed for a small heatsink + fan cooling solution

I know for a fact, that original DFI coolers had soft protective frame to avoid any scuffs.

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Reply 32 of 32, by Joseph_Joestar

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-04-22, 18:43:

I know for a fact, that original DFI coolers had soft protective frame to avoid any scuffs.

I think I may still have that original cooler somewhere. Pretty sure the fan is dead though.

As mentioned earlier, I was using a much heavier aftermarket cooler when I damaged the chipset. You can see it in one of the pictures attached to the first post of this thread.

PC#1: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155
PC#2: AthlonXP 2100+ / ECS K7VTA3 / Voodoo3 / Audigy2 / Vortex2
PC#3: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2
PC#4: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi