TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[68Olds]

Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA

I always wanted one of these boards, or the Core2 version. The two boards hold most of the AGP GPU records at HWBot.

 

[Ruru]

I always wanted one of these boards, or the Core2 version. The two boards hold most of the AGP GPU records at HWBot.

I got mine for like ~30EUR several years ago. Probably the seller knew that it's worth more, but didn't want to be a scalper and sold it to a hobbyist instead.

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

Time flies so fast that I consider even Skylake as retro just delidded a 6600K last week, I'd use that in some project but I don't have any spare DDR4, dammit.

I personally don't consider Haswell or Skylake nostalgic/retro quite just yet. But it's on the threshold. They don't power through games like they once did, although the i7s are still capable enough for most titles. Overall just a bit too new to be retro.

But if we're sharing our 1150 collection, I'll share my latest acquisition: An MSi Z87 M Power with i7 4770k

Got this almost 2 months ago now. Have not done much with it, honestly Haswell is quite boring because even with an M power it probably won't oc that well.

But I am pretty happy to have something that can probably run my 2400mhz DDR3. Shame this won't run a 5775c either.

Z87 also doesn't really have the Pcie to happily run multi GPU, which limits the silly fun i'd have with it too.

 

[Greenslade]

Time flies so fast that I consider even Skylake as retro just delidded a 6600K last week, I'd use that in some project but I don't have any spare DDR4, dammit.

Your only 36. most of us on here are in 50,s and 60s and even older.

 

[TheKingGamerBr]

Stop talking about 1150 being retro, please, my main computer have an i5 4690

 

[jak_2456]

I'm not sure if this is really "nostalgic" but it's old enough i bought it purely for collecting purposes. A GPU that's been fairly high on my wishlist for awhile. Sapphire R9 290x Vapor X 8GB

The 8gb version of this card is very difficult to find at this point, and for me it had to he a Vapor X because of how it looks.
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And yeah, it works perfectly.

I think that that blue shroud is easily one of the best-looking GPU shrouds I've seen. Kinda wish GPUs still had nice color schemes.

Stop talking about 1150 being retro, please, my main computer have an i5 4690

CPUs haven't advanced THAT much since Haswell. Sure, a lot has changed, but you can still perform many tasks with a 10+ year old platform. You certainly couldn't do the same thing 20 years ago. Also, nostalgic and retro are two different things according to most dictionaries.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I know that it's a crappy card (even back in the day) but I've never owned one myself.

Not really. The 7200 was the top model at the time, but the 7000 was a good card. The lower end cards were the Rage cards. The Radeons were the new hotness and both models kicked ass!

 

[Ruru]

Stop talking about 1150 being retro, please, my main computer have an i5 4690

Though nostalgic isn't always retro for example, I can easily say even some DX12 GPUs (like 980 Ti and 290X nostalgic) yet they're faaar from retro. Fer... ehm, Thermi is maybe retro now?

I guess it's just that being a classic intel-ish quadcore make it somewhat retro. Luckily then there came Ryzen and made them bumped up the core count. Otherwise we'd probably still be using 4c/8t chips on the consumer side.

Not really. The 7200 was the top model at the time, but the 7000 was a good card. The lower end cards were the Rage cards. The Radeons were the new hotness and both models kicked ass!

But R7000 has only one pipeline and 64-bit memory, sounds pretty crappy to me

Your only 36. most of us on here are in 50,s and 60s and even older.

Not yet, just 34. Born in 1990.

I personally don't consider Haswell or Skylake nostalgic/retro quite just yet. But it's on the threshold. They don't power through games like they once did, although the i7s are still capable enough for most titles. Overall just a bit too new to be retro.

Yeah, they still can run games when paired with a fast GPU and if you just don't expect too much. That 6700K @ 4.5 on my media PC is still fine as I have a 1080p60 TV and I play with Vsync on.

 

[Greenslade]

Though nostalgic isn't always retro for example, I can easily say even some DX12 GPUs (like 980 Ti and 290X nostalgic) yet they're faaar from retro. Fer... ehm, Thermi is maybe retro now?

I guess it's just that being a classic intel-ish quadcore make it somewhat retro. Luckily then there came Ryzen and made them bumped up the core count. Otherwise we'd probably still be using 4c/8t chips on the consumer side.


But R7000 has only one pipeline and 64-bit memory, sounds pretty crappy to me


Not yet, just 34. Born in 1990.


Yeah, they still can run games when paired with a fast GPU and if you just don't expect too much. That 6700K @ 4.5 on my media PC is still fine as I have a 1080p60 TV and I play with Vsync on.

Oh sorry ,even younger then wow.

 

[lexluthermiester]

But R7000 has only one pipeline and 64-bit memory, sounds pretty crappy to me

That depends on your perspective. It was the value option for sure.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Since Haswell runs WinXP with no compatibility issues to me so far, that's retro enough for my purposes. Still trying to work up the motivation to pound my head against some issues on my Socket A hardware, though.

 

[stinger608]

pound my head against some issues on my Socket A hardware, though.

What's the issues man?

There are several members on this thread that are pretty good with Socket A configurations. Ram? Video?

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

What's the issues man?

There are several members on this thread that are pretty good with Socket A configurations. Ram? Video?

I for one ran a bunch of socket A configs also still have a few laying around. Also Stinger knows a bunch about them.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

My LanParty Ultra 400 Rev B and NF7S V2's will install WinXP but never complete booting to finish setup. I've tried two sets of ram that both test good and different CPUs as well. Both boards are re-capped. The same OS image worked fine on my Haswell builds.

 

[Courier 6]

I just scored a Sony Bravia 32W605A tv and a Sharp videocassete VC-762B, both in mint condition and complete with documentation, cables etc, heh, nice last day of the year lol

(both for free)

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

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My LanParty Ultra 400 Rev B and NF7S V2's will install WinXP but never complete booting to finish setup. I've tried two sets of ram that both test good and different CPUs as well. Both boards are re-capped. The same OS image worked fine on my Haswell builds.

What are the full system specs?

Try reset CMOS, and try BIOS or setup defaults first.


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I bought some old and retro hardwareI

Samsung Synchmaster 171s

And a Seagate ST157A Harddrive (44MB formatted capacity) (Link at TheRetroWeb)

 

[Gunbound]

My LanParty Ultra 400 Rev B and NF7S V2's will install WinXP but never complete booting to finish setup. I've tried two sets of ram that both test good and different CPUs as well. Both boards are re-capped. The same OS image worked fine on my Haswell builds.

Don't know if it will save time or help, but maybe you can try one of the OS images of XP people put together that has all updates and drivers bundled in? I can't remember some of the names

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

You can also try slipstreaming drivers for your particular hardware into the XP ISO using a program. I think NLite does this

 

[freeagent]

My LanParty Ultra 400 Rev B and NF7S V2's will install WinXP but never complete booting to finish setup

Have you tried slipstreaming your SATA drivers? When my floppy kicked the bucket I had to do that.. turns out it was waay faster

 

[TheKingGamerBr]

I recorded a video, testing some old games in my thinkpad t61.

 

[QuietBob]

Dug the Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA from my closet and I'll be putting a rig together soon. Put already a 955BE to it, need to grab some RAM as well ... now installing WinXP with 955BE, 4GB & R700

My WinXP rig says hi!

 

[RyzenMaster.sys]

My 2000s cube is similar to that. Phenom II X4 955, 8GB RAM, 9800 GTX+

I have another GPU to go in it for SLI, but the potato board lacks a second Pcie slot. There's not too many boards of this era with 2 Pcie x16 slots that will fit in a MATX cube.

There is an MSI 890GXM-GD65 on eBay but I'm not sure if $30 is worth it.

 

[Caring1]

My LanParty Ultra 400 Rev B and NF7S V2's will install WinXP but never complete booting to finish setup. I've tried two sets of ram that both test good and different CPUs as well. Both boards are re-capped. The same OS image worked fine on my Haswell builds.

From memory the LanParty boards were very fussy about Ram. The two sets you have might be good, but not good for that board.

 

[wolf]

A selection of cards on display now from my collection thanks to some new floating shelves, a work in progress.

I have lighting to add, and will be making labels for the cards, and refine what's up there from the collection.

 

[Dragokar]

A selection of cards on display now from my collection thanks to some new floating shelves, a work in progress.

I have lighting to add, and will be making labels for the cards, and refine what's up there from the collection.

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Nice collection..may I ask if that are 3d printed GPU holder?