TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Kissamies · Sep 24, 2023

Damn I remember all the hype about this cooler.

MaxiPro800 said:
ASUS P2B Rev 1.02 and the fresh custom SL35EView attachment 314926 View attachment 314927 View attachment 314928 View attachment 314929

I had a P2B on my first custom PC. First I had a P2-400 @ 450, then I flashed its bios and got a P3-500 @ 575. Good times.

lexluthermiester · Sep 24, 2023

Kissamies said:
Damn I remember all the hype about this cooler.

Der8auer was a bit more concerned that he needed to be. The alloy being used is a bit flammable but so are many of the liquids and materials we use everyday in our homes. Very interesting.

Remeca · Sep 24, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Der8auer was a bit more concerned that he needed to be. The alloy being used is a bit flammable but so are many of the liquids and materials we use everyday in our homes. Very interesting.

There's a smidgen of difference between a bit flammable and an alloy that chemically reacts when in contact with water, air or organics.

3x0 · Sep 24, 2023

Some new cards in my collection.

MSI HD3850 512MB, very good condition, but a DVI port needed some TLC. Cost: 7$

HIS IceQ3 HD3870 512MB. Cost: 9$

Gainward HD4850 512MB. Cost: 15$

PowerColor PCS+ HD4890 1GB. Fan is a bit rattle-y, because of poor heatsink mounting mechanism. Cost: 20$

Gainward GTX580 Good Edition (lol). This one is a bit problematic, all of the outputs result in weird flickering/moire effects on my display every once in a while, but no artefacting (scores are good, no crashing). Will check on other displays. Cost: 25$

Rest of my collection is in this post: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/post-5062595

I'd be interested in a price comparison, what's the prices for these cards in your countries?

Remeca · Sep 24, 2023

3x0 said:
I'd be interested in a price comparison, what's the prices for these cards in your countries?

This is a sample of what I see locally right now. Sometimes good deals pop up. Sometimes people think the GPU shortage is still full swing and charge $100+ for anything with an HDMI port. Canadian dollars.

$10 (working)

$50 for all (working but missing a 460 fan blade and ghetto rig cooling on 5750.)

$5 Nvidia Blur

3x0 · Sep 24, 2023

Remeca said:
This is a sample of what I see locally right now. Sometimes good deals pop up. Sometimes people think the GPU shortage is still full swing and charge $100+ for anything with an HDMI port. Canadian dollars.

So far, the cheapest HD5870 is 20$, HD6970 is 40$, GTX 460 is 15$ (US dollars). Sometimes there's an auction which is a good opportunity to snatch some old hardware nobody wants, otherwise people rarely price these cards below 20$ if it's a dual slot GPU made in the past 15 years.

Greenslade · Sep 24, 2023

Another great big PC case i want be getting it i all ready got one for £5 with a motherboard and PSU. .This one is £3 Properly just worth it for the motherboard

All though the heatsink looks dirty.

My one was a lot better for a £5 and it had a floppy drive and PSU and a DVD Drive i have not tested them yet. Plus the mother board which works fine along with manuals for the board and PSU. which i have not tested yet.

One is enough of those massive cases.

Kissamies · Sep 24, 2023

3x0 said:
I'd be interested in a price comparison, what's the prices for these cards in your countries?

IIRC I paid 35EUR total from two XFX HD 4890 cards (from different sellers)

lexluthermiester · Sep 25, 2023

Remeca said:
There's a smidgen of difference between a bit flammable and an alloy that chemically reacts when in contact with water, air or organics.

It's not that bad. I've made that alloy before. It's not super dangerous. Hell, bleach is easily more dangerous.

Count von Schwalbe · Sep 25, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
It's not that bad. I've made that alloy before. It's not super dangerous. Hell, bleach is easily more dangerous.

Can't be bothered to watch the video - what was the alloy?

lexluthermiester · Sep 25, 2023

Count von Schwalbe said:
Can't be bothered to watch the video - what was the alloy?

Potassium/Sodium Metal. To make it completely liquid at room temps they would need to mix in another metal with it, likely a bit of Gallium, maybe a bit of Indium. Bismuth is also a possibility.

Count von Schwalbe · Sep 25, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Potassium/Sodium Metal. To make it completely liquid at room temps they would need to mix in another metal with it, likely a bit of Gallium, maybe a bit of Indium. Bismuth is also a possibility.

Ah. Hard to ignite under normal conditions but God help you if it does catch fire.

boomstik360 · Sep 26, 2023

Here’s a few more finally. Let me know if medium is too small of a size! It is very hard to get a solid picture with the antistatic bag but I refuse to open it since it’s still sealed LOL. It’s insane how many accessories/cables this thing came with in late 2004. Even the floppy drivers hahahaha good times.
Edit: yeah redoing with large.

mechtech · Sep 26, 2023

3x0 said:
Some new cards in my collection.

MSI HD3850 512MB, very good condition, but a DVI port needed some TLC. Cost: 7$

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HIS IceQ3 HD3870 512MB. Cost: 9$

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Gainward HD4850 512MB. Cost: 15$

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PowerColor PCS+ HD4890 1GB. Fan is a bit rattle-y, because of poor heatsink mounting mechanism. Cost: 20$

View attachment 315033

Gainward GTX580 Good Edition (lol). This one is a bit problematic, all of the outputs result in weird flickering/moire effects on my display every once in a while, but no artefacting (scores are good, no crashing). Will check on other displays. Cost: 25$

View attachment 315031

Rest of my collection is in this post: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/post-5062595

I'd be interested in a price comparison, what's the prices for these cards in your countries?

I wouldn't call them new though lol............unless you meant new to your collection...................

MaxiPro800 · Sep 26, 2023

Old and rusty 360 a gets new life.

The only think that irks me about it is its loud as all hell Delta fans. I have a Nidec fanned white unit and that thing is barely audible, on par with Sunons.

ExcuseMeWtf · Sep 26, 2023

3x0 said:
Some new ca

HIS IceQ3 HD3870 512MB. Cost: 9$

View attachment 315030

Maaaan, IceQ is a contender for my favorite look of all time for GPU shrouds.

Remeca said:
This is a sample of what I see locally right now. Sometimes good deals pop up. Sometimes people think the GPU shortage is still full swing and charge $100+ for anything with an HDMI port. Canadian dollars.

$10 (working)
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I also like that Saphire look, e-girl or not, I think the ring around the fan does it for me.

basco · Sep 26, 2023

me too loved the HIS IcQ cards !

for today
Zotac 9800gtx+ amp

Outback Bronze · Sep 26, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
P5WD2 Premium

My old mate used to run one of those. Clocked his Pentium D 830 pretty hard. It's not an SLI board, is it?

Kissamies said:
4890 cards

I've been looking for them in their original retail boxes. Haven't come across any yet. I used to run two in Xfire back in the day. Were good cards!

basco · Sep 26, 2023

the p5wd2 premium was xfire only i think

for you Outback Bronze :

MaxiPro800 · Sep 26, 2023

Outback Bronze said:
My old mate used to run one of those. Clocked his Pentium D 830 pretty hard. It's not an SLI board, is it?

It is SLi, and mine runs a Pentium D 930. IIRC I also got a 7800GT from Leadtek with the board.

Athlonite · Sep 26, 2023

Apocalypsee said:
I either downgrade to 98SE or upgrade to 2000.

+1 either go for 98SE or go up to 2000 also if you want a faster defrag in 98SE grab it out of a temp winME install and just drop/overwrite the 98SE one

MaxiPro800 said:
the ASUS 7850 I have now has a Sapphire sibling of the same 2GB GDDR5 flavour.

time for some Crossfire action

Outback Bronze · Sep 26, 2023

basco said:
p5wd2 premium

Yeah, pretty sure its 955X and not 975X. Thought it was only xfire as well.

basco said:
for you Outback Bronze

Love it

Now I gota find one Damit

MaxiPro800 · Sep 26, 2023

Outback Bronze said:
Yeah, pretty sure its 955X and not 975X. Thought it was only xfire as well.

Love it Now I gota find one Damit

Mine is 975. I just checked and forgot that mine says P5WD2-E Premium.

ASUS P5WD2-E Premium

ASUS P5WD2-E Premium is a motherboard based on the Intel 975X (Glenwood (RAID)) chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!

theretroweb.com

It is slightly confusing tho since both look so similar.

Outback Bronze · Sep 26, 2023

MaxiPro800 said:
Mine is 975.

Yes, I think your right! Is it only the E Premium that's 975X?

Also, you sure its SLI because I can only find Crossfire about it.

MaxiPro800 · Sep 26, 2023

To be honest no idea, thought it might do SLi due to 2x PCI-E slots... a shame I don't have two matching nVidia cards to test. (I only have a 7800GT shown above and an ASUS King Kong 7900GTX)

As far as chipsets go, the -E Premium is 975X. I think the vanilla P5WD2 and P5WD2-E (non Premium) might be 955X but I haven't checked that yet.

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Memory	32GB DDR4-3466 / 16GB DDR4-3200
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Case	Corsair 4000D Airflow White / Fractal Define XL
Power Supply	EVGA G2 750W / Fractal ION Gold 550W
Mouse	Logitech MX518 Legendary / Logitech G400s
Keyboard	Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO / NOS C450 Mini Pro RGB
VR HMD	Oculus Rift CV1
Software	Win 11 Pro / Win 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	It runs Crysis

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Processor	i5-11600k @ stock
Motherboard	Asus TUF Z590 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 3200
Video Card(s)	Asus Dual RTX 3060 ti
Storage	Boot: WD Black SN770 1TB - Game Storage: WD Black SN770 2TB - Other Storage: 4TB
Display(s)	Samsung Odyssey G5 curved 27" 1440p 144hz
Case	Thermaltake v100 perforated
Audio Device(s)	Some headphones and some speakers
Power Supply	Gigabyte UD750GM
Mouse	Logitech G203
Keyboard	Redragon K509
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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi ITX
Cooling	Scythe Fuma 2 rev. B Noctua NF-A12x25 Edition
Memory	2x16GiB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200Mb/s CL14 F4-3200C14D-32GTZKW
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Radeon RX6600XT Gaming OC Pro 8G Noctua NF-A12x25 Edition
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0 1TiB, Western Digital Blue 3D WDS200T2B0A 2TiB
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Power Supply	Seasonic Focus SGX 500W SFX
Mouse	Lamzu Atlantis Mini Wireless
Keyboard	HyperX Alloy Origins Aqua

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Motherboard	Asus TUF Z590 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 3200
Video Card(s)	Asus Dual RTX 3060 ti
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Case	Thermaltake v100 perforated
Audio Device(s)	Some headphones and some speakers
Power Supply	Gigabyte UD750GM
Mouse	Logitech G203
Keyboard	Redragon K509
Software	W11 Pro

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi ITX
Cooling	Scythe Fuma 2 rev. B Noctua NF-A12x25 Edition
Memory	2x16GiB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200Mb/s CL14 F4-3200C14D-32GTZKW
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Radeon RX6600XT Gaming OC Pro 8G Noctua NF-A12x25 Edition
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 WDS100T1X0E-00AFY0 1TiB, Western Digital Blue 3D WDS200T2B0A 2TiB
Display(s)	Dell G2724D 27" IPS 1440P 165Hz, ASUS VG259QM 25” IPS 1080P 240Hz
Case	Cooler Master NR200P ITX
Audio Device(s)	Altec Lansing 220, HyperX Cloud
Power Supply	Seasonic Focus SGX 500W SFX
Mouse	Lamzu Atlantis Mini Wireless
Keyboard	HyperX Alloy Origins Aqua

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Kissamies

S.T.A.R.S.

lexluthermiester

Remeca

3x0

Remeca

3x0

Greenslade

Kissamies

S.T.A.R.S.

lexluthermiester

Count von Schwalbe

lexluthermiester

Count von Schwalbe

boomstik360

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mechtech

MaxiPro800

ExcuseMeWtf

basco

Outback Bronze

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basco

MaxiPro800

Attachments

Athlonite

Outback Bronze

Moderator

MaxiPro800

ASUS P5WD2-E Premium

Outback Bronze

Moderator

MaxiPro800

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Mouse	Always changing
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Cooling	EKL
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Mouse	Marvo KM400 Mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
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Memory	32GB Hynix
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Mouse	Asus
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Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Core
Keyboard	Logitech G815
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