ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 03:36:

and behold!!!! AN Athlon 64 FX-53. Legendary!!!!!

That's a pretty awesome find!

Has anyone seen this before? Looks like corrosion or something but it was in a nice Lian Li case that I picked up for $15. Case didn't have any corrosion at all. What would you do with this board? It's nothing special

Numerous times through my recycler picked boards. Seen it on some ATI cards (X1950 Pro) from him even.

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 17:55:

Has anyone seen this before? Looks like corrosion or something but it was in a nice Lian Li case that I picked up for $15. Case didn't have any corrosion at all. What would you do with this board? It's nothing special

I believe that is caused by condensation from being in an unheated storage room. As the room warms up from daylight and warmer outside air, the part remains cold and condensation forms. You don't see this on parts stored in indoor closets, but once they get moved to garages and storage sheds...

Removal process is similar to 486 battery neutralization. The only downside is there will be a white-ish residue left - that's the flux used in the factory.

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 17:55:

Has anyone seen this before? Looks like corrosion or something but it was in a nice Lian Li case that I picked up for $15. Case didn't have any corrosion at all. What would you do with this board? It's nothing special

I have been finding similar on I/O chips in particular, I am toying with the theory that it's a variation of tin pest or zinc pest due to some solder metallurgical incompatibility over the decades.

PODP5V83, only had time to test it to POST, but bought from a seller I trust over at cpu-world, who sent lots of test screenshots, so not worried at all.

A GTX580 for my Rampage III with i7 980x. Pretty similar period.

Tested the GTX260 I mentioned earlier. Thing is a pretty fiery beast (reminds me of the 60GB PS3s) but the performance is a high beauty.

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 03:36:

One of several complete PCs I picked up from a recycler last month. Been going through them one by one. Paid $15 for this one. No idea what was inside. Lian Li PC-v1100, missing one side panel sadly and with a big dent on the top, someone took their time on this build though, very meticulously built and spotless inside with an Audigy 2ZS, an Asus SK8v, and behold!!!! AN Athlon 64 FX-53. Legendary!!!!! I don't have any ECC ram to test this one but it was yelling at me when posting for not having ram installed so that is promising!

Amazing to find such a setup in the wild. I have a soft spot for the SK8V and socket 940 in general. Congrats!

Artex wrote on 2025-06-10, 00:13:

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 03:36:

One of several complete PCs I picked up from a recycler last month. Been going through them one by one. Paid $15 for this one. No idea what was inside. Lian Li PC-v1100, missing one side panel sadly and with a big dent on the top, someone took their time on this build though, very meticulously built and spotless inside with an Audigy 2ZS, an Asus SK8v, and behold!!!! AN Athlon 64 FX-53. Legendary!!!!! I don't have any ECC ram to test this one but it was yelling at me when posting for not having ram installed so that is promising!

Amazing to find such a setup in the wild. I have a soft spot for the SK8V and socket 940 in general. Congrats!

Thanks! I have a soft spot for 939 and wasn't really looking for 940 because I felt like I would never have a chance to find one let alone an FX-53! I was blown away. Any recommendations for RAM? I don't know much about ECC DDR1

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-10, 01:16:

Artex wrote on 2025-06-10, 00:13:

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-09, 03:36:

One of several complete PCs I picked up from a recycler last month. Been going through them one by one. Paid $15 for this one. No idea what was inside. Lian Li PC-v1100, missing one side panel sadly and with a big dent on the top, someone took their time on this build though, very meticulously built and spotless inside with an Audigy 2ZS, an Asus SK8v, and behold!!!! AN Athlon 64 FX-53. Legendary!!!!! I don't have any ECC ram to test this one but it was yelling at me when posting for not having ram installed so that is promising!

Amazing to find such a setup in the wild. I have a soft spot for the SK8V and socket 940 in general. Congrats!

Thanks! I have a soft spot for 939 and wasn't really looking for 940 because I felt like I would never have a chance to find one let alone an FX-53! I was blown away. Any recommendations for RAM? I don't know much about ECC DDR1

I used a couple of Corsair ECC sticks. You can see my build here from several years back.

Artex's Build of the Week - Hammer Time!

Artex wrote on 2025-06-10, 12:41:

I used a couple of Corsair ECC sticks. You can see my build here from several years back.

Artex's Build of the Week - Hammer Time!

Great to see you back in action here on Vogons Artex! I love those old build thread of yours. Any new updates soon?

I actually thought about you the other day, that some people used to laugh a bit on the prices you paid for certain items. Now it's a classical example on "who's laughing now" given how much the prices have increased last couple of years.

Artex any chance you could fix your OneDrive link? Would like to see your collection.

Artex wrote on 2025-06-10, 12:41:

ATi_Loyalist wrote on 2025-06-10, 01:16:

Artex wrote on 2025-06-10, 00:13:

Amazing to find such a setup in the wild. I have a soft spot for the SK8V and socket 940 in general. Congrats!

Thanks! I have a soft spot for 939 and wasn't really looking for 940 because I felt like I would never have a chance to find one let alone an FX-53! I was blown away. Any recommendations for RAM? I don't know much about ECC DDR1

I used a couple of Corsair ECC sticks. You can see my build here from several years back.

Artex's Build of the Week - Hammer Time!

Thank you!!!!!

I don't buy things often anymore, but when the opportunity to buy these two boards (among others that I passed up on, due to space and budget constraints) for $25 presented itself I couldn't refuse. I don't have any 694T Tualatin+ISA boards in my collection, now I have two that probably need recaps. I look forward to recapping and testing these. I doubt I'll replace my GA-6OXT with either of them, as I don't really need ISA in my Tualatin build, but they are nice boards to have regardless.

Seller Photos.

Picked up a ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe
brand new never been out of the box

$15 usd

I stopped building modern PC's around 2005 (I had a pentium 4 at the time) so totally missed out on Am2 any everything else until I made a Ryzen rig last year..

Maybe I could find some cheap 8800 GT's and build a rig with it

appiah4 wrote on 2025-06-11, 08:12:

Seller Photos.

Excuse me please, I'm just very curious, if what I see is a CNR slot up there. I just have never expected to see both ISA and CNR slots on the same board.

Got one of those dell workstations, to be specific "dell precision workstation 340" for ~10$

What made me buy it is that there was a photo of what's inside, i've spotted fancy looking videocard and RDRAM... it also is surprisingly clean:

Card turned out to be fancy looking FX5600 with fast RAM:

Nothing too great, but not bad either - at least it would more than cover the cost of whole thing if i wanted to sell is separately.

The system itself is S478 1.8Ghz willamette with 4x256MB PC800 ECC RDRAM and i850 chipset. So far - no bulging caps on the board or in PSU and everything seems to work fine.

Actually with this CPU, GPU and nice quiet cooling it seems like a great system for win98 as is. A few things are a bit... rude though for a system like this - USB 1.1, no USB boot, only 2 USB ports on the back and if i plug in storage KB/M stops working. Also just a cd-rom, though a functional one thankfully.

Definitely a fun one to play around with... and i wonder - what CPU would work? I'd assume at least 533FSB northwood should be fine, right? Though not sure if dell BIOS is going to be annoying here...

Halofiber86 wrote on 2025-06-12, 00:16:

appiah4 wrote on 2025-06-11, 08:12:

Seller Photos.

Excuse me please, I'm just very curious, if what I see is a CNR slot up there. I just have never expected to see both ISA and CNR slots on the same board.

Could be an AMR slot too but that's normally down where the ISA slot is.

Halofiber86 wrote on 2025-06-12, 00:16:

appiah4 wrote on 2025-06-11, 08:12:

Seller Photos.

Excuse me please, I'm just very curious, if what I see is a CNR slot up there. I just have never expected to see both ISA and CNR slots on the same board.

That's an AMR (audio modem riser) slot.