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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Komshija said:
@Mr.Scott : Past times when small fans were so "fashionable" (Fury Maxx). :D They are, what, 30 mm in diameter?
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Imagine having 4 of these, on a card like Voodoo5 6000! Especially after several years of service, when those sleeve bearings wear (and dry) out :D :laugh:
 
dorsetknob said:
:) be like a parent to 4 Teenagers :)
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Or even better, imagine having a Voodoo5 5500 quad SLI configuration, therefore 8 of these things in total! Jeez, now that would really be something! :eek:
 
Lights, Camera, Action!

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The Maxx is in great condition but the tiny fans are making noise :D that was to expected :D Anyway they spin freely and effortlessly.

It will receive a full cleanup. The bracket lost its shine and is kind of dull and it will be polished. The heatsinks will be cleaned and the fans will be lubed. The PCB will be spotless - SPA treatment for Hardware Stars!!!

The V2 beeing V2 it doesnt require anything :D Just kidding. The two V2's will also be deep cleaned and will shine more than a diamond in the goats a$$!!!! :D
 
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I love it, but what's going on with that pass-through VGA connector, for the Voodoo card? Seems like someone chopped the original one off & then mounted a DIY connector housing.

Also, here's a tip for the Voodoo2 cards ... if you're planning to use them, of course. See if you can place them directly in front of the fan, either side or front mounted one. V2 might not require cooling, but these things can get quite hot (especially when there's two of them), so make sure there's some airflow across both of them :toast:
 
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Sooo who is going to show me the secret handshake? Must be near 15 years since I stupidly sold my last one.

Just had a score of junked agp cards and this was in it, think there is a Voodoo 3 3000 in there too :D
 
@Trekkie4 - a big TY-150 will cool these puppies for testing purposes :) I dont plan a full build in a case, yet.

The cable is home made by the last owner I guess. I opened it and it's pretty well made. It's the only cable I have so I musnt complaint about it.

Also the SLI cable is home made to be longer :D

Bungz - you lucky.....:D
 
@Bungz Don't think so, no. Mine came on a Win XP machine & (from what I remember) XP recognized it as "Fury" which had me confused, especially when I took the entire system apart & converted it into W98 system :)

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Take a look at the following posts:
#4407, #4413
 
I have both the 128 Pro Ultra and the Maxx on XP right now. I get better scores on XP than 98 for most benches for a single GPU. For both GPU's you need 98 or Me. 98se benches the best.
 
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You can't beat the 4k system at 599$
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They had 4k in the 80s !
And that is cheap in today's money :)
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
And my favourite one
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What a machine! An 8-bit (Zilog Z80? Motorola 6800? Intel 8008?) CPU in a computer for only! 5995$. In todays money that's would be about 24000 $. Yep, "only". :)
 
It's quite rare (from my experience) to see a Slot 1 motherboard with on-board sound... Most of these things didn't have anything, except for maybe OEM systems which came bundled with other components. And that's Spire FalconRock II if I'm not mistaking, one of the best S462/370 CPU coolers from my experience. Bought several of those back in a day, even have 3 units nowdays, with 2 of them actually mounted on the motherboard(s) and one spare, inside the box :)
 
Thanks for the name of the Spire Cooler. I didnt have time to search it!!! :) That's a massive lump of aluminium :D Needs cleaning too.

On that shelf from left to right we have: Epox 8RDA3I, Gigabyte 6BXC v1.7, Asus K7M v1.04. The Asus k7M v1.04 Slot A has the integrated sound. The Gigabyre 6BXC v1.7 Slot 1 doesnt have integrated sound.

All the motherboards are waiting paciently for a good cleaning! :D
 
Oooops, my mistake! I thought it looked weird lol! But joke aside, I DID get to see slot-1 boards with on-board audio. I even had one, Intel-branded (Desktop?) board, standard ATX layout which had on-board sound. Sadly, I gave it away not realizing it was such a big deal :oops:

And no prob for the FalconRock CPU cooler. Wasn't sure if it's the original one or Mk. II though, but I DO believe it's mark 2 mainly because of the copper insert on the bottom - from what I remember the original one didn't have one.
 
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