Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2007-2008.

She’s a smoker, and it’s ruddy disgusting, but I’ll clean it up and give it a shot. It’s even got some of my old Hyper-X PC2-8500 in it. No idea what CPU is in it, and I’m not going to find out until I get it home and under the air compressor! Assuming we don’t get snowed in here anyway!

paradigital wrote on 2023-12-03, 12:23:

Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2 […]
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Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2007-2008.

She’s a smoker, and it’s ruddy disgusting, but I’ll clean it up and give it a shot. It’s even got some of my old Hyper-X PC2-8500 in it. No idea what CPU is in it, and I’m not going to find out until I get it home and under the air compressor! Assuming we don’t get snowed in here anyway!

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I live by the sea. The air is too salty here 🤣 . We have snow once every 3 winters. It's never cold in winter and never hot in summer.

I may try to compete in s775 soon as I just bought this Pentium4 670 (3.8 GHz / 2MB / 800).
It's not an EE but probably a good performer. (I doubt it will have a lot of headroom for OC.)

25€ incl. shipping.

Still a PrescHOT then. Should still manage 4GHz with good cooling, possibly even 4.1-4.2 with a modest vcore bump and good airflow with a big heatsink.

paradigital wrote on 2023-12-03, 12:23:

Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2 […]
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Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2007-2008.

She’s a smoker, and it’s ruddy disgusting, but I’ll clean it up and give it a shot. It’s even got some of my old Hyper-X PC2-8500 in it. No idea what CPU is in it, and I’m not going to find out until I get it home and under the air compressor! Assuming we don’t get snowed in here anyway!

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That poor motherboard, it definitely needs a bath.

supercordo wrote on 2023-12-03, 12:52:

paradigital wrote on 2023-12-03, 12:23:

Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2 […]
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Liberated an Abit AW9D-MAX from the mother-in-laws garage. God knows how long it’s been there, probably since the late 2000s? 2007-2008.

She’s a smoker, and it’s ruddy disgusting, but I’ll clean it up and give it a shot. It’s even got some of my old Hyper-X PC2-8500 in it. No idea what CPU is in it, and I’m not going to find out until I get it home and under the air compressor! Assuming we don’t get snowed in here anyway!

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That poor motherboard, it definitely needs a bath.

Possibly! I’m going to see how my compressor and a brush get on first. If it boots and is stable it might get some more love. There’s unfortunately a damaged SATA port, but as it has 7 I’m not too disappointed.

The Tuniq Tower Extreme 120 was a good cooler though, so I’m glad that was there still! Better than any other S775 heatsink I had in my parts.

Retaken the 2001SE top score, for now, I'm sure Supercordo will be back shortly to knock me down a peg.

I think the drivers for the HD5000 series are just a touch too new both to be optimized for DX8.1 and the additional overhead on the CPU.

I really need a card from the X19xx (1900XT/XTX, 1950XT/XTX) to get the most from this platform. Would allow me to use the older drivers and I feel would be better matched.

Got the RAM up to 550MHz though!

Thought I might as well throw up a 3DM2k3 score, seeing as there's only one on the board so far! Maybe 2K3 could benefit from a newer GPU, but with this setup hitting 2300FPS at one point during the "Battle of Proxycon", maybe not.

here are my scores with a pentium 4 650 clocked at 4ghz. couldn't get 4.1 no matter how hard i tried.
motherboard is evga 780i sli.
gpu gtx285

2K - 22,150, CPU=4000, FSB=235.5, GPU=gtx285

01 - 33,595, CPU=4000, FSB=235.5, GPU=gtx285

03 - 43,457, CPU=4000, FSB=235.5, GPU=gtx285

edit: added text for the results.

wirerogue wrote on 2023-12-04, 03:35:

here are my scores with a pentium 4 650 clocked at 4ghz. couldn't get 4.1 no matter how hard i tried. motherboard is evga 780i s […]
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here are my scores with a pentium 4 650 clocked at 4ghz. couldn't get 4.1 no matter how hard i tried.
motherboard is evga 780i sli.
gpu gtx285
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That's an awesome 3DM2000 score, I can't get near it no matter what combination of video card and driver I use. I've even shoved my GTX 295 in with identical drivers to you and am still ~2000 points off, and that's with the card clocked to GTX 285 levels.

Would love to see the details pane of the individual FPS for each test, and what your CPU score is.

Rebuilt on the Abit AW9D-MAX and pushed a bit further, still can't quite hit wirerogue's 2k score, but my 2k1 score has increased a chunk.

And a small increase in 2003:

Ill update the scores later today.

Popped a 940 in my board. I'm very imPreslered by the clock headroom. Can't disable a core from bios and can't change multiplier as I could with the 630, but ... So far I've increased from 3.2 to 4.2 without touching voltage. And it seems to scale quite nice with clock speed.

And the cpu in question is even missing a couple of capacitors.

Scores are updated! Very nice.

paradigital wrote on 2023-12-04, 08:42:

wirerogue wrote on 2023-12-04, 03:35:

here are my scores with a pentium 4 650 clocked at 4ghz. couldn't get 4.1 no matter how hard i tried. motherboard is evga 780i s […]
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here are my scores with a pentium 4 650 clocked at 4ghz. couldn't get 4.1 no matter how hard i tried.
motherboard is evga 780i sli.
gpu gtx285
3dmark.2000.4ghz.stock.png
3dmark.2001.4ghz.stock.png
3dmark.2003.4ghz.stock.png

That's an awesome 3DM2000 score, I can't get near it no matter what combination of video card and driver I use. I've even shoved my GTX 295 in with identical drivers to you and am still ~2000 points off, and that's with the card clocked to GTX 285 levels.

Would love to see the details pane of the individual FPS for each test, and what your CPU score is.

sure, i had to run the benchmark again. came in 20 points less on this run.

I was trying for 4600MHz but it just wouldnt do it.

I'm crazily impressed by the thermal output of the overclocked 940. I'm running with, what I believe is an original Intel Core2 cooler with a copper core, it gets so hot, that I think it might bend some rules of thermodynamics 🤣 I estimate that the fins on the HSF is in the ballpark of 50 degrees C. I don't dare guessing what the core temp is.
Also, the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR board has the BIOS option of disabling CPU fan control, which according to the help text should just run it at 100% - however it doesn't seem to do anything. Anyways, at 4.4 GHz it's still stable at stock voltage, but I'm certain that if I'm getting to speeds where voltage also needs to be increased, thermals will run wild.

My question is - how do you cool your Preshotts?

I have a Zalman CNPS9900A copper cooler with heat pipes, but am missing the mounting part to sit under the motherboard for LGA775. Is that a good enough cooler, that it's worth 3D printing a bracket for it, or should I go other ways?

Last but not least - LGA775 mounting - am I really dim-witted for not really getting it? I can't really figure out when to turn the retention pegs which way, in order to lock, unlock or mount or unmount them 🤣 OTOH that made me find out that they can be changed from one cooler to another, as I broke one of the pegs, that goes through the motherboard ... 🤣

Switch to a Cooler that has its own back plate, itll give far better retention pressure and might be able to net you a few extra degrees to play with, the pin coolers were never that great for reliability due to the plastic pins.

I have a Noctua D14 that fits a 775 board, uses the same mounting system and backing plate as sandy bridge does.

So much this. I have an ABIT IP35 Pro with an Q6600 and I legit switched to a HP cooler made by AVC. The OG Intel copper heatsink doesn't cut it.

Netburst wise - Pentium D 930 + 8800GTX on a ASUS P5WD2 Premium, which registers as 975x on the chipset. That thing doubles as a space heater during this winter 😀

The only thing i was missing for a custom loop was a pump so i just bought a new one. My 90nm Preshott is currently at 4544MHz and only reaches 59C.