The Tale of Two Builds

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 28, 2012, 07:11 PM

In this thread I am going to showcase two builds I am in the middle of right now. One I have been working on for awhile and has taken a totally different turn from where i was going with it. The other has been floating around my brain but I really didn't get serious with it until I got a lead on the case. So here we go my Win 98 se and Liquid cooled win xp builds.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 28, 2012, 07:11 PM

The Win 98 Build. Well I have been toying around with doing a win 98 build for awhile. I had everything in stone and started building the rig when I found out my Slot A Athlon board was bad. In came the back up which is in the build now A Lucky Star Slot 1 board with a 600 Mhz Pent 3. I am just going to highlight some things in the build for now and then go into detail later.

Mobo, proc, Gpu, soundcard

Ati Rage Fury Pro

Aureal Vortex 2 SQ 2500

Gpu and Soundcard installed

Build together

More to come!!!!!

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 28, 2012, 07:12 PM

Win xp Build

Well This build is actually about 80% done or so. I have been running the main parts of the rig under Ubuntu and crunching for awhile now. I recently came across the case and put it to work so I could test it. All is good so far and the real build is getting ready to begin. Motherboard is already set in case with cpu and memory.

Here is a interior shot.

Exterior

Specs on this rig are

Asus A8n-Sli Premium
Athlon 64 x2 4400+
3 gb pc3200 mem
Creative Sb Audigy 2 platnium
Vid cards will be announced as soon as I have sealed the deal on them. Yes Them there will be 2 cards in sli.

Radical_Edward · Nov 28, 2012, 07:13 PM

Excited to see how this goes.

[Ion] · Nov 28, 2012, 07:23 PM

Cool--subscribed

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 28, 2012, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radical_Edward

Excited to see how this goes.

I used the case from you for the win 98 build as it fits perfectly for the theme

t_ski · Nov 29, 2012, 12:17 AM

I miss ISA cards

Norton · Nov 29, 2012, 12:22 AM

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Really liking how that SLI board looks in that case!

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 29, 2012, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by t_ski

I miss ISA cards

LOL I don't. Win 98 with it's crappy IRQ assignments is bad enough. I have the win 98 rig up and running and all hardware installed. Had to play with irq assignment in the bios for the sound card to get rid of the conflict with it and the ide channels. But all that is worked out and I played a little of MYST earlier. Will install some heavier games in the next couple days and get some screen shots.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Norton

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Really liking how that SLI board looks in that case!

It does look cool. I am going to tidy up the inside more when I get the other vid cards. I also got to install Xp on it.

Here's a couple more shots.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 9, 2012, 04:54 PM

Update:

The win 98 build is running and I have installed MYST and played around with it for a few.

The Win xp build will be put totally together within the next couple weeks. I am awaiting the 2 gpus for it.

More pic to come with some screen shots of some old favorite games.

lemonadesoda · Dec 9, 2012, 05:30 PM

Would love to see your scores http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=88575

JrRacinFan · Dec 9, 2012, 05:38 PM

That Koolance p3 is looking real nice. Where the heck did you get a near mint p3 at anyways?

stinger608 · Dec 9, 2012, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThE_MaD_ShOt

The Win xp build will be put totally together within the next couple weeks. I am awaiting the 2 gpus for it.

That is going to happen before a "couple weeks."

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 10, 2012, 02:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemonadesoda

Would love to see your scores http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=88575

Which system do you want to see the numbers on?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

That Koolance p3 is looking real nice. Where the heck did you get a near mint p3 at anyways?

Are you talking the Koolance rig or the Pent III rig? They are 2 separate rigs.

Quote:

Originally Posted by stinger608

That is going to happen before a "couple weeks."

It wouldn't have happened at all if it wasn't for you buddy as most of the interior of that rig has come from you

You are making a distant dream come true.

JrRacinFan · Dec 10, 2012, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThE_MaD_ShOt

Are you talking the Koolance rig or the Pent III rig? They are 2 separate rigs.

Case bro. Those things were beasts and still are. Very very RARE nowadays. Careful the pump in them likes to fail so If I were you I would use a secondary pump inline (only due to age).

lemonadesoda · Dec 10, 2012, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThE_MaD_ShOt

Which system do you want to see the numbers on?

Both! I'd love to see how far a modern processor has come on since those early build days!

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 10, 2012, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

Case bro. Those things were beasts and still are. Very very RARE nowadays. Careful the pump in them likes to fail so If I were you I would use a secondary pump inline (only due to age).

I got the case from a member on here. I mentioned I would love to find one and within a couple days we sealed a deal on it. The thing runs like new. I was actually thinking of running a second pump for safe measures. Is there one you would recommend? Also it will not be a 24/7 rig.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lemonadesoda

Both! I'd love to see how far a modern processor has come on since those early build days!

I will do it man. Now the Xp system might fair ok as it is a Athlon 64 x2 proc. The Pent III system is just going to kill it with at that raw power.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 29, 2012, 10:56 PM

Update:

I got a chance today to play with the Winxp project. I have Win xp installed. I only have one of the 2 8800 gtx's in it right now due to needing to pick up another psu powerful enough to power both cards and the water cooling system. Only hitch so far is the soundcard. I am planning on running a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum. Problem I have right now is the only drivers I can find are very basic drivers. Creative only offers the basic driver and updates to the original software. So if anyone out there has the original install discs hit me up. I will pay you for a copy of the discs.

I will post some updated pics soon of both rigs.

The win 98 rig is just about done. I did make a change to it's hardware. I was finally able to get my Slot A board going with another cpu. I was then able to flash the bios so it can run my original 800 mhz proc.

Anyone have a game suggestions ?

Screenshot from the xp rig

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Jan 19, 2013, 07:00 PM

Another small update for the Sli rig. I bought a new psu unit for it. Well one of my crunchers decided to eats it's psu. So I had to tkae the psu back out of this rig and run it in the crunching rig while I bought a replacement. Well the replacement came in and the brand new psu I got for the sli rig decided it didn't want's it's sata line to function anymore. So off to RMA that one goes. I sent it out today and also bought yet another PSU. So in the past 2 weeks I bought a total of 3 PSUs. The crunching rig should be good now since i jammed a 650 watt Corsair Tx in it which should actually be overkill for it. So when I get the one psu back from RMA and get it installed I will be doing some test and then on to some gaming fun.

Enough of that stuff and on to some pics with the twin 8800 gtx's installed.

More to come.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 3, 2013, 08:16 PM

Win xp rigs in game shots

More to come as I am digging into Quake
4 now.

Unreal Tournament

Unreal Tournament 2004

Norton · Feb 3, 2013, 08:24 PM

Sweet!!!

What other games will you be trying out?

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 3, 2013, 10:42 PM

I just played a couple hours of Quake 4.

Anyone have any other suggestions of what i can throw at it?

I am going to fire the win 98 rig up next weekend and try out some other things. I have to install my joystick on it.

McSteel · Feb 3, 2013, 10:50 PM

Interesting idea, and I'm glad it's working out so far; however...

I just saw this thread and I've spotted and highlighted a potential problem (service/electronics tech by profession, sorry couldn't help it) with your WinXP machine: bulging caps in the CPU VRM-out. They're most likely '03 or '04 Nichicon HM or HN series, 6.3V x 3300uF (can't really tell for sure from the pics). It's good that Asus have used such beefy chokes on the output and good caps (NCC and Ruby) on the VRM-in, that your output caps aren't critical to system/voltage stability. I would look into re-capping the board nonetheless, and with something good too. Especially if you plan on overclocking/overvolting that Athlon of yours...

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 3, 2013, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McSteel

Interesting idea, and I'm glad it's working out so far; however...

I just saw this thread and I've spotted and highlighted a potential problem (service/electronics tech by profession, sorry couldn't help it) with your WinXP machine: bulging caps in the CPU VRM-out. They're most likely '03 or '04 Nichicon HM or HN series, 6.3V x 3300uF (can't really tell for sure from the pics). It's good that Asus have used such beefy chokes on the output and good caps (NCC and Ruby) on the VRM-in, that your output caps aren't critical to system/voltage stability. I would look into re-capping the board nonetheless, and with something good too. Especially if you plan on overclocking/overvolting that Athlon of yours...

I see what your saying and I looked at the pics closely. I also just took a peek at the board and the caps that looked bulged in the pic aren't bulged on the board. Guess it must have been the camera angle or something that makes them 4 look that way. Why the other in the pic doesn't looked bulged is beyond me. Thanks for concern though.

McSteel · Feb 4, 2013, 12:26 AM

Must be the reflection of the board's MOSFET heatsink on the cap tops playing light tricks... Well, for once I'm glad I was wrong about something

Those are nichicons though, right?

Nov 28, 2012, 07:11 PM	#1
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	The Tale of Two Builds In this thread I am going to showcase two builds I am in the middle of right now. One I have been working on for awhile and has taken a totally different turn from where i was going with it. The other has been floating around my brain but I really didn't get serious with it until I got a lead on the case. So here we go my Win 98 se and Liquid cooled win xp builds. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo

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Nov 28, 2012, 07:11 PM	#2
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	The Win 98 Build. Well I have been toying around with doing a win 98 build for awhile. I had everything in stone and started building the rig when I found out my Slot A Athlon board was bad. In came the back up which is in the build now A Lucky Star Slot 1 board with a 600 Mhz Pent 3. I am just going to highlight some things in the build for now and then go into detail later. Mobo, proc, Gpu, soundcard Ati Rage Fury Pro Aureal Vortex 2 SQ 2500 Gpu and Soundcard installed Build together More to come!!!!! __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo Last edited by ThE_MaD_ShOt; Nov 28, 2012 at 07:25 PM.

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Processor:	Phenom II x6 1090t @ 3.6 / Phenom II x6 1055t @ 3.2 / Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Motherboard:	Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 /Gigabyte 890XA-UD3 / Asus A8n Sli Premium
Cooling:	CM Hyper 212+ / CM Hyper 212+ / Koolance W/C'd
Memory:	4x 4gb G.Skill Ripjaws / 4x 4gb G.Skill Ares / 2x 1gb & 2x 512mb Crucial Pc3200
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Case:	Chieftec Dragon Blue / Chieftec Dragon Blue / Koolance PC3-720BK
Sound Card:	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio / Creative Sb Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
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Nov 28, 2012, 07:12 PM	#3
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	Win xp Build Well This build is actually about 80% done or so. I have been running the main parts of the rig under Ubuntu and crunching for awhile now. I recently came across the case and put it to work so I could test it. All is good so far and the real build is getting ready to begin. Motherboard is already set in case with cpu and memory. Here is a interior shot. Exterior Specs on this rig are Asus A8n-Sli Premium Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 3 gb pc3200 mem Creative Sb Audigy 2 platnium Vid cards will be announced as soon as I have sealed the deal on them. Yes Them there will be 2 cards in sli. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo Last edited by ThE_MaD_ShOt; Nov 28, 2012 at 07:39 PM.

Nov 28, 2012, 07:13 PM	#4
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Nov 29, 2012, 12:22 AM	#8
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Dec 9, 2012, 04:54 PM	#10
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	Update: The win 98 build is running and I have installed MYST and played around with it for a few. The Win xp build will be put totally together within the next couple weeks. I am awaiting the 2 gpus for it. More pic to come with some screen shots of some old favorite games. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo

Dec 9, 2012, 05:30 PM	#11
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Dec 9, 2012, 05:38 PM	#12
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Dec 29, 2012, 10:56 PM	#18
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	Update: I got a chance today to play with the Winxp project. I have Win xp installed. I only have one of the 2 8800 gtx's in it right now due to needing to pick up another psu powerful enough to power both cards and the water cooling system. Only hitch so far is the soundcard. I am planning on running a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum. Problem I have right now is the only drivers I can find are very basic drivers. Creative only offers the basic driver and updates to the original software. So if anyone out there has the original install discs hit me up. I will pay you for a copy of the discs. I will post some updated pics soon of both rigs. The win 98 rig is just about done. I did make a change to it's hardware. I was finally able to get my Slot A board going with another cpu. I was then able to flash the bios so it can run my original 800 mhz proc. Anyone have a game suggestions ? Screenshot from the xp rig __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo Last edited by ThE_MaD_ShOt; Dec 30, 2012 at 12:04 AM.

Jan 19, 2013, 07:00 PM	#19
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	Another small update for the Sli rig. I bought a new psu unit for it. Well one of my crunchers decided to eats it's psu. So I had to tkae the psu back out of this rig and run it in the crunching rig while I bought a replacement. Well the replacement came in and the brand new psu I got for the sli rig decided it didn't want's it's sata line to function anymore. So off to RMA that one goes. I sent it out today and also bought yet another PSU. So in the past 2 weeks I bought a total of 3 PSUs. The crunching rig should be good now since i jammed a 650 watt Corsair Tx in it which should actually be overkill for it. So when I get the one psu back from RMA and get it installed I will be doing some test and then on to some gaming fun. Enough of that stuff and on to some pics with the twin 8800 gtx's installed. More to come. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo

Feb 3, 2013, 08:16 PM	#20
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	Win xp rigs in game shots More to come as I am digging into Quake 4 now. Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2004 __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo

Feb 3, 2013, 08:24 PM	#21
Norton WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Northeast, USA Posts: 5,124 (9.95/day) Thanks: 5,358 Thanked 9,990 Times in 3,157 Posts System Specs	Sweet!!! What other games will you be trying out? __________________ *Why sit on the Bench* when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!- World Community Grid (FTW) CPU crunchers- FX-8350(4.4)/FX-8150(4.0)/FX-6200(4.0)/ PII 1045T/PII 1045T/i7-920/Xeon (6c/12t)....(44 cores/54 threads) GPU crunchers- no WCG GPU work available Folding@Home- 2x GTX 580's WCG-TPU Mothers Day Challenge (5/10 thru 5/19- crunch for our Team, for Mom, for games and prizes )**

Feb 3, 2013, 10:42 PM	#22
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,739 (6.97/day) Thanks: 2,529 Thanked 2,442 Times in 1,468 Posts System Specs	I just played a couple hours of Quake 4. Anyone have any other suggestions of what i can throw at it? I am going to fire the win 98 rig up next weekend and try out some other things. I have to install my joystick on it. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo

Feb 3, 2013, 10:50 PM	#23
McSteel Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: North Disturbia Posts: 257 (1.43/day) Thanks: 5 Thanked 116 Times in 83 Posts System Specs	Interesting idea, and I'm glad it's working out so far; however... I just saw this thread and I've spotted and highlighted a potential problem (service/electronics tech by profession, sorry couldn't help it) with your WinXP machine: bulging caps in the CPU VRM-out. They're most likely '03 or '04 Nichicon HM or HN series, 6.3V x 3300uF (can't really tell for sure from the pics). It's good that Asus have used such beefy chokes on the output and good caps (NCC and Ruby) on the VRM-in, that your output caps aren't critical to system/voltage stability. I would look into re-capping the board nonetheless, and with something good too. Especially if you plan on overclocking/overvolting that Athlon of yours... __________________ Careful what you wish for... You just might get it.

System Name:	Chaos
Processor:	Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.0 GHz / 1.0625 V
Motherboard:	MSI Z77 MPower
Cooling:	Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 + MX4
Memory:	2x4 GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400 GT/s CL11
Video Card:	MSI GTX465 1 GB @ stock
Hard Disk:	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD + 320 GB Samsung SP F3 + 320 GB WD Blue + 200 GB Hitachi DeskStar 7200
Optical Drive:	None
CRT/LCD Model:	Acer V223HQ
Case:	Fractal Design Define R3
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Seasonic SS-380GB

Feb 4, 2013, 12:26 AM	#25
McSteel Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: North Disturbia Posts: 257 (1.43/day) Thanks: 5 Thanked 116 Times in 83 Posts System Specs	Must be the reflection of the board's MOSFET heatsink on the cap tops playing light tricks... Well, for once I'm glad I was wrong about something Those are nichicons though, right? __________________ Careful what you wish for... You just might get it.

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