Green Tea: retro AMD-nVidia build

ThE_MaD_ShOt · May 2, 2012

Melvis said:
Naa that's the mad shots system, mine are running 2x 8600GT's and the other a single 9600GT all at stock settings

MY Sli system is running Linux right now. LOL

TRWOV · May 2, 2012

Any tips on OCing the FX60? I don't have any experience with AMD CPUs.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · May 2, 2012

Hell I don't oc anymore. I am more for total stability right now as I use most of my system for crunching.

TRWOV · May 2, 2012

You can always have a stable OC. What I don't do is overvolt (lost many Celerons due to that), I'm happy to live within the stock voltage but getting as much performance as possible.

BTW, I previously reported that I set the multi at x14 but CPU-Z reported x13... well, dxdiag and the system propreties panel show 2.8Ghz so I guess it's a CPU-Z bug.

burning at 2.8Ghz, 10 loops, standard. Wish me luck.

EDIT:
IBT stable at 2.8Ghz :rockout:

How safe is to increase the Vcore on AMD CPUs? CPU-World reports the FX60's Vcore as 1.35-1.4V so if I set the Vcore at 1.4v I should be in the clear, right?

There are some BIOS options that I don't understand that much, specially the HTT decode scheme and the HT width. Is there a way to measure their effect? I've already set the HT Link at 1000Mhz (Auto is 800Mhz).

EDIT2:

Ok, I've educated myself a little. Let's see if this wo

eidairaman1 · May 2, 2012

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
Hell I don't oc anymore. I am more for total stability right now as I use most of my system for crunching.

Minor OC wont kill it, aka a 500MHz Increase from Stock

TRWOV · May 3, 2012

mmm... I'm not having luck with this. At x15 (3Ghz) it won't boot at any voltage.

I tried to raise the bus speed but the most it can do is 203 with the x14 multi AND HT at x4. With the x13 multi I can go up to 210Mhz with x5 HT and 213 with x4 HT.

I think that I'm hitting the board's ceiling in terms of how much power can it deliver to the CPU. I'll try to get the capacitors replaced and get some VRM heatsinks. Apparently the average OC is 3.2Ghz, I'd like to reach 3Ghz at least.

I'll leave it at 200Mhz x14 CPU x5 HT for the time being. The only thing I don't like is that I can't take advantage of my RAM's 250Mhz rated speed but I've lowered the timmings to 2.5-3-2-5 so not everything is lost.

BTW, there's another thing I've noticed: shouldn't XP detect 3.25GB of RAM??? It only detects 3GB for some reason. W7 detected the whole 4GB so I know that all the slots are working fine.

TRWOV · May 5, 2012

ok, this is a first:

A TWIMTBP title that's incompatible with an nVidia card? :wtf:

_JP_ · May 5, 2012

HA! That's what you get for trusting a generic random no-vendor card!

Just kidding, that is really weird.
What game is it? Far Cry?

TRWOV · May 5, 2012

Crysis 2

_JP_ · May 6, 2012

Well, the minimum requirements for that game lists a 8800GT...so that card is underspec'd.

TRWOV · May 6, 2012

oh, that must be it then...

_JP_ · May 6, 2012

Shoot for the 1st one.

TRWOV · May 8, 2012

so I removed the heatsink to give the card a proper cleaning and found two bulging caps... does anyone knows if GPU caps need to be of the low ESR type? I've found replacements but they aren't low ESR caps.

eidairaman1 · May 8, 2012

TRWOV said:
so I removed the heatsink to give the card a proper cleaning and found two bulging caps... does anyone knows if GPU caps need to be of the low ESR type? I've found replacements but they aren't low ESR caps.

low ESR is required on all caps to work properly, right now those caps have High ESR

TRWOV · May 9, 2012

Someone knows a good site to order low ESR caps from that ships woldwide? I tried eBay but read that there are quite a few bootleg caps out there.

Norton · May 9, 2012

TRWOV said:
Someone knows a good site to order low ESR caps from that ships woldwide? I tried eBay but read that there are quite a few bootleg caps out there.

Check these guys...
http://www.newark.com/

stinger608 · May 9, 2012

Also Digikey is great and ships world wide! Huge discounts. Caters to individuals as well as very large corps!

http://www.digikey.com/?gclid=CLzI_...C095ADE-128B-46E8-BC7C-0D925897B218cs3juYXzQH

TRWOV · May 9, 2012

another question: what range can be considered low ESR?

eidairaman1 · May 9, 2012

http://www.badcaps.net/

http://www.capacitorlab.com/failure-modes/index.htm

TRWOV · May 13, 2012

Painted the kb and mouse.

I decided to paint the whole front panel green as I couldn't find a way to paint just the front without the edges looking like shit. I'm going to use black DVD and floppy drives with some green accents (the eject button and the floppy lid will be painted green).

Also bought a cheap LCD 5.25" panel:

and the slim DVD 5.25" bracket it's on its way too. All that's left is to mod the power supply and recap the boards.

I got the u-channel molding and finished the window and top blower.

I'm going to replace those screws with black ones later.

Jayzilla · May 15, 2012

Cool.

gtoforce · May 21, 2012

im so impressed with the interest in retro setups

im using current phenom and cards for gaming etc
but for normal pc usage and playing minor requirement games like Assassins Creed 3 or mass effect 2 (can play mass effect 3 at max but bottlenecked), dragon age, borderlands, i am using my old legend pc which has the specs below:

AMD Athlon FX-60
4gb Ram
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
1000w PSU
Win 7 64
ATI 4870x2

i am sad cuz the processor can go further but the pcie 2.0 can only go as far as gtx 285 or 4870
anything modern such as the ati hd 5xxx and above, the pc wont POST
crap...

ThE_MaD_ShOt · May 22, 2012

gtoforce said:
im so impressed with the interest in retro setups

im using current phenom and cards for gaming etc
but for normal pc usage and playing minor requirement games like Assassins Creed 3 or mass effect 2 (can play mass effect 3 at max but bottlenecked), dragon age, borderlands, i am using my old legend pc which has the specs below:

AMD Athlon FX-60
4gb Ram
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
1000w PSU
Win 7 64
ATI 4870x2

i am sad cuz the processor can go further but the pcie 2.0 can only go as far as gtx 285 or 4870
anything modern such as the ati hd 5xxx and above, the pc wont POST
crap...

Well what you do there is find someone that will trade you S939 board. One that does Sli and put 2 gtx 285's in Sli. Problem solved. :toast:

Melvis · May 22, 2012

gtoforce said:
i am sad cuz the processor can go further but the pcie 2.0 can only go as far as gtx 285 or 4870
anything modern such as the ati hd 5xxx and above, the pc wont POST
crap...

Im not sure if thats right? i find that a bit odd, i ran a 4870X2 on PCI-E 1.1 with out any issues, im sure ive tested a GTX295 on that also (S939)

I must admit i dont think ive run anything more modern then that on PCI-E 1.1 but im sure they will run on it without fail.

gtoforce · May 22, 2012

Melvis said:
Im not sure if thats right? i find that a bit odd, i ran a 4870X2 on PCI-E 1.1 with out any issues, im sure ive tested a GTX295 on that also (S939)

I must admit i dont think ive run anything more modern then that on PCI-E 1.1 but im sure they will run on it without fail.

sorry i was mistaken
i tried the GTX 295 on it...and it ran.
and the A8R32-MVP is a crossfire motherboard
so i did crossfired my 4870x2 but after one burnt, finding another in my country (malaysia) is really difficult

anyways, yeah, the 1.1 can run 2.0 cards but it cant run 2.1 cards
:cry:

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