TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

milewski1015 · Jul 4, 2020

Definitely not as old as some of of the other hardware in this thread, but considering I didn't get into PC hardware until 2018, this stuff's old to me.

Asus Rampage III Formula with an i7-950

EVGA E-GeForce 8800GT

Now I've just gotta scrounge up some RAM and a monitor with DVI-I. Any suggestions on what to do with this stuff?

biffzinker · Jul 4, 2020

milewski1015 said:
Any suggestions on what to do with this stuff?

You could try doing a retro build around that time frame the components were new.

lexluthermiester · Jul 4, 2020

milewski1015 said:
Any suggestions on what to do with this stuff?

You could put in a GTX770, 3x1GB DDR3-1600 and make a very nice RetroWinXP system with it.

micropage7 · Jul 4, 2020

milewski1015 said:
Definitely not as old as some of of the other hardware in this thread, but considering I didn't get into PC hardware until 2018, this stuff's old to me.

Asus Rampage III Formula with an i7-950
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EVGA E-GeForce 8800GT
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Now I've just gotta scrounge up some RAM and a monitor with DVI-I. Any suggestions on what to do with this stuff?

i miss where the card just taking single slot, yeah those days are gone

hat · Jul 4, 2020

@milewski1015 Ever feel like you need a server for anything? That board is probably compatible with the 6 core Xeons, which can be found for peanuts. It would be easy to load up with 12 or even 24GB RAM. It could be used as a media server (think Plex or something), or a secondary "beast of burden" streaming computer, if you're into streaming on Twitch or something. If you got storage needs, set up a nice RAID array, and you have a NAS, too. Got a basement or decent garage and some expendable cash? Stick it in a 4U server case with Delta fans, huge PSU and stuff it full of graphics cards. Perhaps you could mine crypto with it (don't expect to make money any time soon, but it would be a fun hobby, I'd do it if I won the Mega Millions or something), or crank out some serious work with F@H.

If you're not into any of that, Lex's suggestion for turning it into a retro XP rig also makes sense. That hardware will still work okay with XP32, and some oldies don't work great with newer hardware/software. However, that CPU and GPU are probably powerful enough to handle some PS2 emulation.

If you're not into that either... I dunno? Maybe play around with using it as a router or something, and if you like what it can do, think about getting something more efficient for that task. Although, many router systems also have plenty of other functionality, like NAS.

lexluthermiester · Jul 4, 2020

hat said:
However, that CPU and GPU are probably powerful enough to handle some PS2 emulation.

Easily! Wii/WiiU/Dreamcast emu too.

Apocalypsee · Jul 5, 2020

After the X800 premature death twice I'm no longer wanted to buy that high end card anymore, I'm buying X700 off eBay. Hopefully a midrange card with simpler PCB won't have any sudden death. It only have half the pixel and ROP units but the same 6 vertex units so hoping it'll do well with Truform.

phill · Jul 7, 2020

I've put this up in a few threads, but I think it's worthy of it here more so...

I hope this is a good place for this

All 8 boards now... I have a serious issue and problem!! :laugh:

Apocalypsee · Jul 7, 2020

Cool board phill! I still have Crosshair II Formula, but no CPU. I have A64 x2 3800+ but it wont boot with two board so I suspect its dead.

phill · Jul 7, 2020

Thanks guys

I've got a few CPUs for the AMD range of 939 but I do think I'm missing a few 754's and such but I don't believe I have the boards for them anymore.. I really hope this one works but I have another Crosshair which I know works, its just got no box or anything

But hey

The AMD X2 CPUs aren't that expensive to be honest, you can pick them up for ten a penny so to speak I think?... Knowing my luck, I'm completely wrong.....

MaxiPro800 · Jul 7, 2020

Some vintage stuff.

The PCChips M577 board, the Sound Blaster 16 PCI (Ensoniq) and the Caviar 2850 are recent purchases. Sadly the M577 had missing components (2 coils, lots of caps, AT power header, LPT, floppy headers, RTC holder, and one diode was desoldered) and although I placed most of them back, I couldn't get it to POST regardless of CPU.

The Texas Instruments board boots just fine but stops because it has had corrosion on the keyboard traces. I rebuilt most of the traces for the KB on the back of the board but so far I haven't got the KB working. If anyone has any ideas what should I do to get the KB working, let me know so I can post some better pictures of it.

lexluthermiester · Jul 7, 2020

MaxiPro800 said:
Some vintage stuff.

The PCChips M577 board, the Sound Blaster 16 PCI (Ensoniq) and the Caviar 2850 are recent purchases. Sadly the M577 had missing components (2 coils, lots of caps, AT power header, LPT, floppy headers, RTC holder, and one diode was desoldered) and although I placed most of them back, I couldn't get it to POST regardless of CPU.

The Texas Instruments board boots just fine but stops because it has had corrosion on the keyboard traces. I rebuilt most of the traces for the KB on the back of the board but so far I haven't got the KB working. If anyone has any ideas what should I do to get the KB working, let me know so I can post some better pictures of it.
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Wow does that take me back...

MaxiPro800 · Jul 7, 2020

...aaand another goodie.

Acorp 5VIA77 with the PCChips M577 BIOS. POSTs fine, just need to flash the PM9900 128GB BIOS and I should be set.

lexluthermiester · Jul 7, 2020

MaxiPro800 said:
...aaand another goodie.

Acorp 5VIA77 with the PCChips M577 BIOS. POSTs fine, just need to flash the PM9900 128GB BIOS and I should be set.

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That ATI Rage AIW was such a solid card for it's day. I always glued on a heatsink to the GPU as they can run hot, but I'm paranoid about heat like that.

Artex · Jul 8, 2020

Gravis Ultra Sound Extreme - Synegy ViperMAX GUS32SB Rev. 3.0 1MB ISA (Boxed) (1995)

Cyrix 5x86 133-4X (Evergreen 486 to 586 CPU Update) (Sept, 1996)

Creative CT1900 - Creative Wave Blaster (I) (Boxed) (1994)

3DFX Voodoo - Gainward CardExpert Dragon 1000 4MB PCI (NOS) (1996)

3DFX Voodoo - TechWorks Power3D 4MB PCI (Boxed) (1996)

A few more for fun...

3DFX Voodoo2 - Quantum3D Obsidian2 S-12 12MB PCI (Boxed) (1998)

3DFX Voodoo2 - Quantum3D Obsidian2 200SBi 24MB PCI (1998)

3DFX Voodoo2 (x2) - Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 24MB PCI (Boxed) (1998)

lexluthermiester · Jul 8, 2020

Artex said:

This was a gamers wet dream, BITD.

biffzinker · Jul 9, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
This was a gamers wet dream, BITD.

I never bought any of the Voodoo 2 cards. Instead I went from a Vodoo to a Diamond V770 TNT 2 Ultra.

Artex · Jul 9, 2020

biffzinker said:
I never bought any of the Voodoo 2 cards. Instead I went from a Vodoo to a Diamond V770 TNT 2 Ultra.

That's a pretty big jump!

biffzinker · Jul 9, 2020

Artex said:
That's a pretty big jump!

Moved from the TNT2 Ultra to the Hercules GeForce 2 GTS. First one I tried to modify the heat sink but instead ended up ruining the GPU. So I bought another because it was a nice card just I wanted more through Overclocking the GPU.

Actually what happened is Cirrus Logic Laguna 5466? was replaced with a Voodoo Rush but I didn’t care for the Voodoo Rush and instead replaced it with a Voodoo card. Put the Cirrus Logic card back in for 2D.

lexluthermiester · Jul 9, 2020

biffzinker said:
Hercules GeForce 2 GTS

32MB or 64MB version? I had a 32MB version but when I saw the performance of the Radeon, I switched over to an AIW card and gave the GF2 to my wife.

biffzinker · Jul 9, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
32MB or 64MB version?

I think it was the 64MB. A bit overkill for a AMD K6-III CPU at 450 MHz.

lexluthermiester · Jul 9, 2020

biffzinker said:
I think it was the 64MB.

Nice. That was the better version as it had the DDR ram instead of SDRAM. Gave it a serious boost.

agent_x007 · Jul 9, 2020

I'm pretty sure all GF2 GTS cards have DDR memory.
GF256 had SDR and DDR versions (at the same capacity).

biffzinker · Jul 9, 2020

agent_x007 said:
I'm pretty sure all GF2 GTS cards have DDR memory.
GF256 had SDR and DDR versions (at the same capacity).

The only cards with SDR in the GPU family was the GeForce2 MX/MX200, and the MX400 was SDR or DDR.

lexluthermiester · Jul 9, 2020

I'm fairly certain that my 32MB GF2GTS was an SDR version. Not 100% though..

Processor	Ryzen 5 5600X
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Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA G3 80+ Gold 750W
Mouse	Glorious Model D Wireless
Keyboard	Custom Qwertykeys Navy QK80: Sarokeys Strawberry Wine switches, GMK CYL DMG3 keycaps

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Case	Phantek Eclipse P400S (PH-EC416PS)
Audio Device(s)	EVGA NU Audio
Power Supply	EVGA 850 BQ
Mouse	SteelSeries Rival 310
Keyboard	Logitech G G413 Silver
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System Name	micropage7
Processor	Intel Xeon X3470
Motherboard	Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. P55A-UD3R (Socket 1156)
Cooling	Enermax ETS-T40F
Memory	Samsung 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Video Card(s)	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
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Case	Icute Super 18
Audio Device(s)	Auzentech X-Fi Forte
Power Supply	Silverstone 600 Watt
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Sades Excalibur + Taihao keycaps
Software	Win 7 64-bit
Benchmark Scores	Classified

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Processor	i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400
Motherboard	ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus
Cooling	Cryorig M9 :: Stock
Memory	4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400
Video Card(s)	PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630
Storage	Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5
Display(s)	Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p
Case	Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower
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Power Supply	FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550
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Motherboard	Gigabyte B450M-S2H
Cooling	Scythe Kotetsu Mark II
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Video Card(s)	Colorful RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB
Storage	250GB WD BLACK SN750 M.2 + 4TB WD Red Plus + 4TB WD Purple
Display(s)	AOpen 27HC5R 27" 1080p 165Hz
Case	COUGAR MX440 Mesh RGB
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi Titanium HD + Kurtzweil KS-40A bookshelf
Power Supply	Corsair CX750M
Mouse	Razer Deathadder Essential
Keyboard	Cougar Attack2 Cherry MX Black
Software	Windows 10 Pro 22H1 x64

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

milewski1015

biffzinker

lexluthermiester

micropage7

hat

Enthusiast

lexluthermiester

Apocalypsee

phill

Moderator

Apocalypsee

phill

Moderator

MaxiPro800

lexluthermiester

MaxiPro800

lexluthermiester

Artex

lexluthermiester

biffzinker

Artex

biffzinker

lexluthermiester

biffzinker

lexluthermiester

agent_x007

biffzinker

lexluthermiester

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
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Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 32 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	Marvo KM400 Mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core, 24-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor
Motherboard	GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 E-ATX Motherboard
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Storage	Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB, Samsung SSD 860 EVO 4TB, 2x12TB Seagate IronWolf Pro, 2x10TB WD Red, 6TB
Display(s)	ASUS VW266H Black LCD 25.5" 2ms
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Pro TG PH-ES614PTG_BK
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime 1000 Titanium SSR-1000TR 1000W 80+ Titanium Full Modular
Mouse	Logitech G603 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse - 12,000 DPI
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Processor	Core i7 6950X @ 4,26GHz (1,28V)
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Cooling	Thermalright Venomous-X + 2x Delta 38mm PWM (Push-Pull)
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 4000MHz CL16 4x8GB (@3240MHz CL12.12.12.24 CR2T @ 1,48V)
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Mouse	Logitech RX-250
Keyboard	HP KB-9970
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