TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Fouquin]

All the love for the Pentium Pro, but no mention of its younger sibling:

No not the WinChip, the Pentium II Overdrive! I wish I had a working Socket 8 system like @Trekkie4 so I could run these behemoth CPUs.

 

[Fouquin]

Just going to quickly post a shot of my most time consuming project at the moment:



Of course a QuadFX machine. The 8800 GTs will be replaced by 8800 Ultras in a few days, just waiting for them to arrive. Along with that, I'm doing some thinking about putting a few of those SATA ports to use in RAID. Just not sure what I can get away with on the cheap.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Just going to quickly post a shot of my most time consuming project at the moment:

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Of course a QuadFX machine. The 8800 GTs will be replaced by 8800 Ultras in a few days, just waiting for them to arrive. Along with that, I'm doing some thinking about putting a few of those SATA ports to use in RAID. Just not sure what I can get away with on the cheap.

funny ... same "MTCP" for me but with the hardware i mentioned in the post #4173 : Opteron 248 or 250 and dual 6600GT since i only have 1 8800Ultra xD (which was used in the dual Optys rig once ... "SPB" ) and i also need to find a suitable PSU, i only have my Antec Phantom (Innovatek water mod) 500w and a Enermax CoolerGiant 485w

 

[micropage7]

eBay just isn't showing it to me. Well what did it go for? Seeing as 5500s usually get $170+ I'd expect you got at least $250 for a 5000.

Also @stinger608 this will make you happy:

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I had to run to the storage unit to pick up some laptops and of course I had to get a pic of the P5A. This is the second one I owned, and it is set up to run a K6-2 500. The first is running the Cyrix MII-333GP and was the board in one of my previous posts that was covered in VooDoo 2s

damn that legend book, like when i bought pc from pentium I era

 

[PP Mguire]

All the love for the Pentium Pro, but no mention of its younger sibling:

No not the WinChip, the Pentium II Overdrive! I wish I had a working Socket 8 system like @Trekkie4 so I could run these behemoth CPUs.

Oh nice, I used to own a 486 overdrive back in the day.

 

[Doc41]

man i would love a dual cpu board to play with,....dreams aside i recently got a deal on this here
came with a cheap case/PSU along with a small monitor,KB and mouse (not pictured/needed )
C2Q 9550, GA-EP35-DS3P, 2x2gb OCZ reaper and a reference GTX 280

gave them a good clean up and swapped it up with my Xp machine, though im yet to have fun with this...going to make time this weekend to see how much i can OC (not that i have any good idea on how to do that )

yes it is a grey carpet lol
(also ninja edit for pics >.>)

 

[Fouquin]

man i would love a dual cpu board to play with,...

I will tell you that I went through four seperate L1N64 boards before finally getting one that would post with both CPUs installed. And even still half the DIMMs don't register and it only works with two DIMMs on CPU0's controller in single-channel. Every time I go to boot the machine it's got a new problem that stops it from booting properly.

That said I've managed to OC it quite a bit with those 212's rigged on, and I'm hoping to push just far enough to take some #1 spots on HWBot. ( Tired of being #2. )

Let us know how the Q9550 adventures go. Those are some great fun chips.

 

[Retrorockit]

Time to go back to the future now. I took another shot at the Dell Optiplex 745 O/C. I tested a new fan setup on my Dimension E520, so the 2 motor molex powered Delta GFB1212VHG was just sitting around.
I decided to stuff it into the old Opti 745 and she went 3.72GHz @ 1.5V. under some light stress testing from CPUZ. This was with a QX6800SLACP. I did heatsink the MOSFETs., all 6 of them. It ran a couple hours at about 70*C. then temps shot up into the 80"s so I quit. The cooler I swapped in was a tight fit, I might have crushed the chip. I was kind of surprised the 3 phase VRM with 2 MOSFETS per would allow that speed. To really test it I would need a bigger PSU and a good GPU. I have some around but don't know when I'll get back to it.

 

[JunkBear]

Losing my job next friday so I will finally have the time to build my P4 single core build. Stay tuned folks!

 

[Ahhzz]

 

[Fouquin]

Losing my job next friday so I will finally have the time to build my P4 single core build. Stay tuned folks!

Normally I'd say, "Can't wait, sounds awesome." But I don't want it to read like I'm excited about you losing your job...

 

[JunkBear]

Normally I'd say, "Can't wait, sounds awesome." But I don't want it to read like I'm excited about you losing your job...

Don't worry I could probably find again but I'm gonna take some times to enjoy a build. I also have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M53 compact form factor inside a box brand new and I bought 25 older games that could probably play really well even on the integrated HD4600. I'm gonna find time to relax and forget about the job loss

 

[Trekkie4]

Losing my job next friday so I will finally have the time to build my P4 single core build. Stay tuned folks!

Now, THAT'S the spirit!

 

[stinger608]

Well, about 6 to 8 months ago I responded to a local Craigslist add that stated "Old Alienware ($100)"

I opened up the listing to find the guy had actually two Alienware systems for $100. One of them was a system that was in the era of about 2005 which is an actual Alienware not a Dell system and the other one was from around the 2009 era. The 09 era system was having issues but the 05 era system ran fine.

After responding we made arrangements to meet up. When I arrived both systems were without hard drives and filthy as hell. He said that the 09 era system was having windows problems and would blue screen after being loaded for a few minutes.
The earlier 05 system he said was solid as a rock!

I told him due to not having hard drives, being filthy, and the one having issues I'd give him $60 on the spot...............He took it.

Well, the 09 system did in fact have motherboard problems but I was able to find a new motherboard and it is up and running..........I'll take some shots and specks on that soon.

Now, the 05 system came stock with an Abit board that only accepts single core Pentium chips. Dang it.......Low and behold though, I have an awesome Asus P5Q-E motherboard that I had gotten from our awesome member @theonedub !!!!

So, I kept the original factory Abit motherboard but installed the Asus board.

Over the last week or so I have been putting it together and loading Windows XP, updating using WSUSOffline, and loading some ole software.......Well, games. UT2003, UT2004, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, NFS Porsche Unleashed, Quake, and Quake 2.


Now lets get to the specs and pictures; shall we?

Motherboard: Asus P5Q-E (Thanks @theonedub !!!!!! )

Processor: Intel Quad Extreme QX6700 (Was in the 09 era system)

Ram: 4 gigs AMP X DDR2 6400 (again, thanks to @theonedub !!!)

Audio: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Gamer (was actually in the system)

Video: EVGA 8800GTX 768 gig card (had this bad boy)

Hard drive: Seagate 500 gig Constellation ES

Power supply: Enermax 465 watt (I believe it to be the factory power supply)

Operating system: Windows XP Home SP3 with all updates

Spoiler: Ole Alienware

 

[Mr.Scott]

I like how the alien head logo replaces your head in the reflection.

 

[stinger608]

I like how the alien head logo replaces your head in the reflection.

And that was by accident.

 

[Fouquin]

Ram: 4 gigs AMP DDR2 1600

Holy smackamoly batman, DDR2 1600?! That's gotta be pulling 3v+ per DIMM!

Joking aside, I'm assuming you meant 1066.

 

[stinger608]

Holy smackamoly batman, DDR2 1600?! That's gotta be pulling 3v+ per DIMM!

Joking aside, I'm assuming you meant 1066.

Nope, its DDR2 1600 ram.

 

[Fouquin]

Nope, its DDR2 1600 ram.

I think I'm going to require a picture for proof. I have never seen nor heard of a PC2-12800 DIMM. The highest rated DDR2 I've ever seen was Corsair's PC2-10000 and those are RARE. Often they did not even work at rated speeds in 2x dual channel configurations.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Nope, its DDR2 1600 ram.

Link?
Pretty sure you're mistaken.

 

[stinger608]

I think I'm going to require a picture for proof. I have never seen nor heard of a PC2-12800 DIMM. The highest rated DDR2 I've ever seen was Corsair's PC2-10000 and those are RARE. Often they did not even work at rated speeds in 2x dual channel configurations.

Link?
Pretty sure you're mistaken.

Oh shit you guys are right.........Doh!!!!!! Its DDR2 6400.

 

[JunkBear]

I know AGP gpu had some low profile but did they ever made PCI low profile?

 

[Doc41]

well there goes my weekend and "fun", got sick and had to take off the Tt PSU to replace a broken one on a family member's PC , sooo i'll have to find another one before i can do anything on it

 

[Trekkie4]

I've been meaning to upload pics of that Pentium Pro machine the next day, after I took those couple of shots on the previous page, but the next day I've had a nasty pain in my left arm, probably pinched nerve or overworked muscle from carrying that hunk of a metal (and a huge CRT) all by myself - that thing weights a ton! So I ended up taking couple of days "off", which translated into taking a prolonged "vacation" away from old computers & vintage technology But I didn't forget about my Pro bucket and WILL post more pics eventually, once I hook it up & properly test everything!

 

[Keullo-e]

I found out a good use for old broken hardware

Who needs paintings etc. when you can just put your old motherboards and graphics cards to the wall?! My old P67 Fatal1ty Performance and a DOA FireGL V5100 (X800 Pro based but with 128MB DDR instead of 256MB GDDR3)