TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Backfire]

Yes, it's a V8, but it has a special function. There is electricity involved.

 

[Vario]

Peltier Cooler?

 

[Backfire]

yup. I tried to build a peltier- booster. The peltier is cooling the water that is flowing through the watercooler. The warmth of the peltier is terminated by the aircooler. The pelt has got 120W effictive pumping power, but its not effective enough. It would be effective with a stronger peltier, but its an economic desaster. That would be about 400W just for the peltier. Nice gag, not more.

 

[Vario]

Did you run an insulated chilled reservoir setup? I don't know much about Peltier/Thermoelectric Coolers.

 

[Backfire]

No, I just put it in my regular cooling system. I know when the water temperature gets below room temperature the radiators warm the water up instead of cooling, but I had not enough tube & connections to build a bypass. Man, I'm always broke. But I've got my computers to play with .

 

[stinger608]

@ Vario; A couple of awesome ole nostalgic video cards man!!!!!

And of course I added ya to the original post bro!

 

[Backfire]

You seem to be really nice people here at the board. I think we could be friends. But one thing has to be clear: I've got the longest!

 

[stinger608]

You seem to be really nice people here at the board. I think we could be friends. But one thing has to be clear: I've got the longest!

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Bhahahaha, Thanks Backfire, I just spit beer all over my damn desk when I read that one bro!!!

 

[micropage7]

You seem to be really nice people here at the board. I think we could be friends. But one thing has to be clear: I've got the longest!

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its the grandpa of long add on board

 

[GreiverBlade]

just for fun .

Does anyone know what this is?

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a CM V8 (not hard part of the guess i think) modded to be a TEC heat exchanger for a CWL ?
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ahahahahahahhaha< and i did not read the post under the "guess what it is" ... and it took me only one post to figure out ... I AM THE BEST!


also i could have the longest but i still need to get one

since it is a PCI-X the connector is longer and the back of the card seems to be equal so she should be longer ... or ... need measurement xD

 

[Backfire]

lets see what I got else.

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AccelGraphics Falcon Board

3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110

Optibase 5000 video capturing card

and a really heavy Idon'treallyknowwhatitis from the late 80's

The Oxygen 402 in a baby AT case.

 

[Jetster]

Those cards look brand new

 

[Keullo-e]

In my opinion the Radeon 9700Pro is amongst the 10 or maybe 15 cards that made computer- graphics history. When it came out, it blew everything away.
My Radeon 9700Pro story goes like this: A hot summers day in 2004. I was sitting at my PC, playing I don't know, maybe Counter Strike, as a Thunderstorm broke loose. Really heavy rain and storm. I was running through the whole house, looking if each & every window is shut. Finished my round I came back to my room, F...! I forgot my window. So it was a hot summers day under the roof, the overclocked PC was open and it rained through the open window in the roof right in the running computer. The Radeon was dead.
I bought a Radeon 9800Pro, sure, it had a little more power, but the 9700Pro had something else away from sheer power. In my eyes, theres was always something like a glow around it. For me the 9700Pro is still a graphics- adapter worth remembering.
I still run (sometimes) a Hercules 9700Pro in the dual socket A- System, in posting #1655 is a picture. I made another pic of the card with the Zalman VF700-heatsink. Though the 9700Pro doesn't like to be alone, she brings a, Zalman cooled too, 9800Pro as backup .


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Hah nice story bro! For me, the 9700 Pro is the #1 when it goes to (evolution of) GPUs

Even my old R360 chipped 9800Pro 128MB @ 9800XT can't compare to 9700 Pro when it comes to nostalgia.



The top2 of my favourite cards is a Club3D 9800SE @ Pro which oc'd like mad and ran nice. Zalman vf700alcu I had to buy for it since it came to me without any cooling.


I had also another Club3D 9800SE but that didnt unlock So I ran it with stock pipelines but with mad OC too, vf700CU as cooler.

Damn sweet rare VGA cards there!

 

[Mr.Scott]

@ Backfire- You have quite a bit of very nice vintage gear my friend.

 

[Keullo-e]

lets see what I got else.

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And they say that the video cards these days are too long..

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

 

[Keullo-e]

Hahah I remember that pic


And I thought that my old GeForce 6800LE was long..

 

[Vario]

I have a Everex Step 386.

 

[christoph_789]

Hi
you all have great old hardware here.
Here I got my first graphics card, a Nvidia Geforce 7600GT. I'm only 18 years old, so I don't have as old components as some others in this thread.

And here I got an old Intel Celeron Processor and some old RAM from my father

 

[GreiverBlade]

yeah yeah .... he has the longest ... we know we know ...

 

[TRWOV]

Following up on my i-RAM raid, I could get the RAID going on my AM2NF3-VSTA board so I know it's not because of the i-RAMs. What I think it's happening is that somehow Abit fucked up and the IC7-G RAID drivers aren't the correct ones. I'll try with the official intel drivers or maybe drivers from other 875P boards.

 

[Keullo-e]

Hi
you all have great old hardware here.
Here I got my first graphics card, a Nvidia Geforce 7600GT. I'm only 18 years old, so I don't have as old components as some others in this thread.
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And here I got an old Intel Celeron Processor and some old RAM from my father
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Cool stuff dude! I had a Celeron D 331 @ 3800MHz and MSI Passive 7600GT @ 650/1600 5yr ago

 

[Keullo-e]

Bought some great LGA775 hardware yesterday, I'll put pics when I get them.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Bought some great LGA775 hardware yesterday, I'll put pics when I get them.

i am nitpicking but unless you do a 10 pics post and a second one, double post over editing the older post, even for a bump, is not recommended

edit: (no ... im not picking on you 9700pro ... i actually had a edit to do )i found a "pics of the shame" (tm)
i had once in my K6-2 setup GeForce 2 (great isnt it?) MX440 (annddd the greatness goes to hell)

tho the cooler look cool ....

 

[Backfire]

just won a TerraTec EWX 24/96 for 1€ at ebay.