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[Greenslade]

What stuff do i need to connect this cooler to a intel 775 socket ?
It is a DEEP COOL. CPU COOLER when i bought it the seller did not have the INTEL stuff. If someone can give me a link for it i would be Greatful
I did not realise at the time the AM2+ was such a useless board.

 

[lexluthermiester]

What stuff do i need to connect this cooler to a intel 775 socket ?
It is a DEEP COOL. CPU COOLER when i bought it the seller did not have the INTEL stuff. If someone can give me a link for it i would be Greatful
I did not realise at the time the AM2+ was such a useless board.

Unless you have the 775 mounting kit for that heatsink, you'll have a tough time mounting it. Ebay might have a kit but for the money you'll spend, it might be cheaper to buy a different heatsink.

 

[Greenslade]

Unless you have the 775 mounting kit for that heatsink, you'll have a tough time mounting it. Ebay might have a kit but for the money you'll spend, it might be cheaper to buy a different heatsink.

I thought that would be the case LEX i can get this one Arctic Freezer Pro 7 CPU coller and fan for £6.17.What it is do i get this one Asus P5Q DELUXE ,freezer pro 7 q6600. 2GB Corsair 800mhz Ram for £41 with out the I/O Shield.
or this one for £20 Asus P5Q Pro with Q6600 and the I/O Shield.eBay have given me an offer for £42.98 and yet i have got a coupon code for £2 less,i don,t get eBay

Should i go for the deluex version,i am told it is beter than the other one.I have got a lot of ram ,Id it worth it for the drluex verson?

 

[vinacis_vivids]

The biggest bottle of 596mm² FINE WINE by AMD is still running in 2025

 

[Radical Vision]

What stuff do i need to connect this cooler to a intel 775 socket ?
It is a DEEP COOL. CPU COOLER when i bought it the seller did not have the INTEL stuff. If someone can give me a link for it i would be Greatful
I did not realise at the time the AM2+ was such a useless board.

U can mount this with zip ties, and it should work... But is better to look for deals and get some big A$$ cooler, for good price, like i got ThermalRight Silver Arrow new for 35$...

The biggest bottle of 596mm² FINE WINE by AMD is still running in 2025

But ofc since Radeon drivers are never 100% optimized day 1, like GEforce is, they usually get better and better with the time... Meanwhile nGreedia have very good software/ driver team, and their drivers are usually at 100% for their GPUs day one, and since they are scumbags they gimp the drivers over the time, specially if they launch new gen cards...






I like the 423 socket, is strange, is one of the Intel failures over the years, is interesting platform to utilize Pentium 4 CPU glued together on wafer with pins so it can get bigger, while it should have been at the 478 socket in the first place... Also the RAMbus memory was very odd, and failed product as well...
These parts were inside the IBM IntelliStation M Pro, but since they are not as cool, as the ones i added, i did remove everything, except the PSU.... Still the original parts were very odd, compared to what you typically see in OEM prebuilds even from way back then... Mobo and CPU being early P4 and s423, memory being Samsung RAMbus and GPU being Diamond - S3 - ATI Fire GL2 (IBM) very odd card... But i decided i will keep these odd parts for collection, not use them, and replace them instead with dual Tualatins 1.4-S paired with dual GPU Voodoo V 5500, making the machine dual CPU, dual GPU 2x2...

 

[MaxiPro800]

nVidia can suck a fat one if they think they can gimp my 1660 Super with new drivers. No thanks, I stick to what works fine for me (old 479 drivers from GTX650). I use NVENC regularly enough to warrant the need for a nVidia card. (I'm an anti-updater when it comes to Windows itself so nothing that much surprising.)

Meanwhile, for ATI needs I have my ABIT KG7-RAID + X800XTPE machine with an Athlon 1133 AXIA stepping, WD Raptor 74GB and 2GB ECC RAM. LAN is provided by RTL8169SC and sound by Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830.

 

[Radical Vision]

I think most ppl these days will agree they hate nGreedia as a company, and that leather jacket guy he is just disgusting...



Cleaning the King, the best of the best keyboard IBM Model F122 B$... Could clean only 1, as it takes time, and also is annoying AF, at least for me to clean keyboards....


The Model M is for spare parts, as it has cracked top casing, and is also RJ terminal one, but the key caps are brand new texture ones, not glance of years of use... Will use them as spare for my main Model M or replace that god damn F122 layout...



Welp time takes its toll on some elements... The second F122 has better cord seems...





Very "nice and clean" The rainbow middle metal plate... UK 1886, i think these were the last gen Model F
And yes that is a wrench key....





The only proper way to clean keys fast 95%
in bucket all keys up, spray degreaser on them. The key caps cleaned and drying. Actual keys were not dirty, no need of cleaning





Before After






All clean up as it should be, these keyboards are rare, very expensive these days (like everything vintage and cool/ build well), also one of the very best keyboards praised by all enthusiasts over the world...






I did research before that, Model F keyboards are programmable, so key REmapping is a thing, that would be great, as no matter that amongst all Model F keyboards the F122 is the closest to the Model M layout, the proper layout, still is not the same (tho better then Model F80 AT hah)...
Now need to find Model M13 stealth black, Model M gen 0 or Gen 1 industrial grey, and i will be happy (and no i dont want to even touch the Model M space saver, i laugh at that format...)... That layout did piss me off, while putting all key caps on their place, annoying as hell.... Will replace the caps with proper one at some point, as this is nonsense...

 

[MaxiPro800]

Today's lot arrived.

- ASUS K7V - needs further troubleshooting - might have a corrupt BIOS (which wouldn't surprise me given the A7V, the 462 version, is NOTORIOUS for bad BIOS.)
- Biostar M7MKA - dead unfortunately, no POST, kind of shame since it had a C5 revision AMD 751 which allows SuperBypass
- Epox EP-BX3 - works, needs a cleaning and obviously recap (Hermei crap caps)
- Epox EP-61BXA-M - needs BIOS IC and recap
- ECS P6S5AT - no POST
- Soyo 6VBA133 - strange power issue that might be due to bad caps near ATX socket.
- Gigabyte BX2000 - works, needs cleaning and maybe recap, BIOS update since it does NOT like Coppermines as is.

GPU:
- Voodoo 3 2000 PCI 16MB - working great, adapted bracket from a crap ATI Xpert2000
- 3d Prophet II GTS PRO 64MB - also working, uses bracket from a MX440SE

 

[Radical Vision]

Voodoo III PCI are hard to obtain these days, very rare cards... But also VERY potent cards, as far as i know 3Dfx architecture was designed the way that, they could use as many chips as they want, so connecting multiple PCI Voodoo cards is a thing, and will make em run in SLI.... If someone finds x2 Voodoo III PCI, he can SLI mod them, and get cheap Voodoo V.....







Introducing Diamond Edge 3D - nVIDIA NV1...
Very expensive piece of tech these days, guess everything odd goes to multiple digits these days, in ebay specially....

The first attempt of these greedy FKs to create videocard for games, but it was total failure.... But guess what the f Huang was talented and after only 2 attempts (NV1 and Riva 1) he did match 3Dfx's Voodoo III with Riva TNT II, and only Glide saved the Voodoo III from losing, they still lost to Riva and Rage when it comes to 32bit color tho.... But the fault for that was on 3Dfx, as they did not improve things after Voodoo II, they started being slow AF as company, and release products slowly and with not much improvements, so they got what they deserved in 2001, closing doors, and being bough by nGreedia.... The Voodoo V was too late to the party, and also had 2 chips, that did fight 1 chip of the GEforce....

 

[MaxiPro800]

V3 does not work in SLi. Only VSA-100 cards, as in V4/V5 onwards.

 

[TM30]

Voodoo 3 is in fact SLI capable and Quantum 3D made the AAlchemy 4116 with 4x Voodoo 3 GPUs: http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_4116.htm

 

[Ahhzz]

Decommissioned these over the weekend... hated to do it to them, but it was time...

 

[MaxiPro800]

Voodoo 3 is in fact SLI capable and Quantum 3D made the AAlchemy 4116 with 4x Voodoo 3 GPUs: http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_4116.htm

Except it was not made into mass production. Drivers would have needed rewriting from scratch, at least according to voodooalert forums.

"The AAlchemy 4116 with four Voodoo3 chips was too difficult to design and had not been mass-produced by the end of 1999. With the release of the VSA-100 chip, Quantum3D also abandoned this product and directly developed the next-generation product of eight VSA-100 chips."- yjfy

 

[onemanhitsquad]

Huh i remember the AMD Hyper Transport, but that was even older, as AMD abandoned the big cores after the second gen AM3+ CPUs that being FX83xx and first being FX81xx... Or the Cool and Quiet lmao, that was funny as back in the day AMD CPUs were the opposite of that, Hot and Loud TM...

AMD pre Zen days huh, that did bring memories of gone days in the past, when i was on epic war with about all Intel and nVIDIA fanboys and supporters, cuz the prices of CPUs and GPUs (GPU prices huh, talking about that in 2025 what a joke) back then pissed me off, and the monopoly support most did too... I remember reading about the future Zen processors, and that Jim Keller was involved, the guy behind the strongest AMD CPUs the K8 and Athlon 64, and he was also kinda involved with the K7 AthlonXP, another strong series... And in some forums i said to the Intel fanboys that Zen will be glorious, and they all laughed, and said it will be another FAILdozer... Welp fast forward to 2017 (jeez that was 8 years ago i still live like is 2017-2019 ...), and after the tests of Zen most of the fanboys were like :O wtF, and i was more then right ofc... And fast forward to 2020, most Intel fanboys moved to AM4 and ZEN III, and forgot about Intel and their 14nm++++++++ problems, overheating and security holes.... But before

Too bad AMD could not pull an RyZEN moment with the Radeon division, and bring nGreedia down in prices or to leave the consumer space, as these scumbags are not interested in gamers and normal consumers since RTX2000 launched, and things are getting worse with RTX5000 fake frames, insane prices, burning pwr connectors and other crap... So far AMD failed to make chiplet GPU, if they could pull 7950XTX with x2 big chips, they could trash the RTX4090 easy in raster, and match them in RT... Who knows maybe in the future, but the way things are going GPUs are dumb expensive, and i blame all Fkers that did NOT stop buying F nGreedia cards, after GTX1080/TI the very last card that was worth it from that disgusting company of leather jackets..... The way i see it the future for desktop computers is grim, and prob will get even worse, and force many of us to use old HW, or migrate to consoles/ laptops ect....

Love my Nvidia cards...all 12 of them from gtx2*** on...they all pretty much stomp their AMD rivals...cool

 

[Ruru]

U can mount this with zip ties, and it should work... But is better to look for deals and get some big A$$ cooler, for good price, like i got ThermalRight Silver Arrow new for 35$...



But ofc since Radeon drivers are never 100% optimized day 1, like GEforce is, they usually get better and better with the time... Meanwhile nGreedia have very good software/ driver team, and their drivers are usually at 100% for their GPUs day one, and since they are scumbags they gimp the drivers over the time, specially if they launch new gen cards...




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I like the 423 socket, is strange, is one of the Intel failures over the years, is interesting platform to utilize Pentium 4 CPU glued together on wafer with pins so it can get bigger, while it should have been at the 478 socket in the first place... Also the RAMbus memory was very odd, and failed product as well...
These parts were inside the IBM IntelliStation M Pro, but since they are not as cool, as the ones i added, i did remove everything, except the PSU.... Still the original parts were very odd, compared to what you typically see in OEM prebuilds even from way back then... Mobo and CPU being early P4 and s423, memory being Samsung RAMbus and GPU being Diamond - S3 - ATI Fire GL2 (IBM) very odd card... But i decided i will keep these odd parts for collection, not use them, and replace them instead with dual Tualatins 1.4-S paired with dual GPU Voodoo V 5500, making the machine dual CPU, dual GPU 2x2...

That interposer solution of S423 is indeed interesting, never seen anything similar used in comsumer grade CPUs.

nVidia can suck a fat one if they think they can gimp my 1660 Super with new drivers. No thanks, I stick to what works fine for me (old 479 drivers from GTX650). I use NVENC regularly enough to warrant the need for a nVidia card. (I'm an anti-updater when it comes to Windows itself so nothing that much surprising.)

Meanwhile, for ATI needs I have my ABIT KG7-RAID + X800XTPE machine with an Athlon 1133 AXIA stepping, WD Raptor 74GB and 2GB ECC RAM. LAN is provided by RTL8169SC and sound by Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830.
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AXIA is the best of the best. My 1GHz one goes ~1.5 pretty easily with 2 volts.

 

[Radical Vision]

Love my Nvidia cards...all 12 of them from gtx2*** on...they all pretty much stomp their AMD rivals...cool

U can love them all u want, wont change the fact that is waste of sand, as nGreedia sells E-Waste since after the Riva cards... Also wont change the fact, that Radeon cards are usually way more durable, and many more of them are still alive.... One simple example is ThinkPad T60 Radeon cards vs T61 with nGreedia cards, all of them are dead.... So yes u are correct, in terms of dying nGreedia for sure stomps Radeon... Guess it is nice to suck leather jacket as well, and simp for that brand, while they rise prices to that insane level today, and stop innovating, and give u fake frames, so good right >>>>>>>

That interposer solution of S423 is indeed interesting, never seen anything similar used in comsumer grade CPUs.

Similar with the RAMbus memory, very strange modules, also they all have heatsinks, since they get hot af lolol....
Actually the Slot processors, are the same nonsense, but even more, as they could not find a way to integrate the cache on the CPU itself, so they made that nonsense with the cartridge CPUs lol... It was B$ for sure, but i love the slot platform, these CPUs are unique and nice....





It seems the battery on the T60 machine is at 100% health, lmao did not expect that, for some reason that T60 was not used much... Guess i got very lucky, tho that battery is Sanyo made, not the original one for some reason... At least wont worry about getting new one, as they cost money....

 

[MaxiPro800]

Add Intel to the list of greed too. A lot of people jumped ship to AMD by now, especially with CPUs since ~13th gen or so becoming the new Netburst thermal wise, and AMD's whole Ryzen lineage beating Intel to a pulp ever since its inception.

No wonder the AMD+ATI (since I still consider their graphics line as ATI, and certain internal stuff I could find still use the ATI naming!) combo is now becoming more relevant than ever. Intel and nVidia shot themselves in the foot.

But enough derailing of this thread lol

 

[lexluthermiester]

Decommissioned these over the weekend... hated to do it to them, but it was time...

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Save them if they still work. Having spares is always handy!

 

[MaexxDesign]

Hello,
I'm looking for a AGP/PCI 3d-print card-holder.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one yet for a single card.
This must hold the card horizontally.
Like this PCI-E holder:

Graphics Card (GPU) Display Holder by Tylerebowers

The holder works best with a PCI protector on it, or some sort of spacer to keep the gpu up.

www.thingiverse.com

 

[Ahhzz]

Save them if they still work. Having spares is always handy!

Ah, they were attached to an old AS400 system I'm doing to dismantle and repurpose, wouldn't ever use the board they were attached to so they got the hammer heheh

 

[lexluthermiester]

Ah, they were attached to an old AS400 system I'm doing to dismantle and repurpose, wouldn't ever use the board they were attached to so they got the hammer heheh

Oh man, that sucks. Older functional SCSI drives are starting to get very rare. Oh well..

 

[Veseleil]

Spoiler: off-topic

AMD hasn't had the top card since 2009...ATI 5870/5790...just a plain fact

6900XT says hello. Your fact is invalid.

BTW guys, a bit of self control, this is a nostalgic HW club, keep your brand wars for appropriate threads, there's an abundance of those.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

Does it still work? Have no idea haha.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Fresh card lot for this month.

- Radeon HD3850 AGP
- ATI Rage FURY MAXX
- 2x Radeon X800AGP, ASUS is X800 Pro, Sapphire is X800 GT, both VIVO
- ASUS GF4 Ti4800SE
- MSI GF4 Ti4800-8X
- Geforce 6800GT
- 7950GT AGP
- 6800GS AGP
- X800 PCI-E
- 9800XXL Medion
- Creative TNT2 Ultra
- AWE64 Gold

 

[TheKingGamerBr]

Something has arrived here

6200LE - 8400GS - 9500GT - Ati HD2400

Started the shenanigans with the 6200

brunex0`s 7384 marks score: 3DMark2000 with aGeForce 6200 LE (PCI, DDR2)

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brunex0`s 5406 marks score: 3DMark2001 SE with aGeForce 6200 LE (PCI, DDR2)

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brunex0`s 1585 marks score: 3DMark03 with aGeForce 6200 LE (PCI, DDR2)

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brunex0`s 838 marks score: 3DMark05 with aGeForce 6200 LE (PCI, DDR2)

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Overclock give a little boost

I Think 450mhz(900) in memory clock is a little bit too much