My stuff finally arrived. Shipping times are a pain in Germany right now.

Hardly retro but still cool: HD7990 in great condition, just needed new thermal paste. Great card for Max Payne 3 which is what I'm gaming right now.

And this Pentium 4 670 R0. Just testing this for my 2005 build on a Asus P5ND2 SLI (NForce 4 Intel Edition chipset) and it's working suprisingly great and with no headaches. Look at this baby. I didn't even adjust the CPU voltage, this is all stock values.

That's a pretty awesome OC, I didn't know such P4's had that much headroom. Then I wonder why they cancelled the possibility to bring out the first 4GHz at the time. Probably early yield troubles I guess.
Congrats!

digger wrote on 2024-12-06, 22:16:

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@Jccwu Oooooh, have you opened a dedicated topic for those metal card brackets yet? They're definitely worth a topic of its own.

It will make it easy to take orders, determine demand for the various variants you have or might consider making.

I'm sure you'll attract a lot of buyers.

Good work!

I have already attracted many buyers and continue to actively sell. But in my own country.

PD2JK wrote on 2024-12-07, 11:12:

That's a pretty awesome OC, I didn't know such P4's had that much headroom. Then I wonder why they cancelled the possibility to bring out the first 4GHz at the time. Probably early yield troubles I guess.
Congrats!

Thank you. 😀 They generally didn't OC well (at least until the 65nm Cedar Mill refresh came out, which you could OC to the moon). But there's also a million different steppings for Prescott and I haven't tested any other R0's yet. From a sample size of 1, this still seems like a pretty good chip. 4700MHz@1,4V crashed after 15 minutes of SuperPi 32M just to give you an idea.
I'm also suprised on how this mobo is holding up. It's not even recapped yet and there are "the quickly expiring kind" of capacitors installed. ^^

Might be time to delid it and replace the goo
It's kinda funny how fast we went from 1ghz to 4.
And it's taken a decade to get to 6.

Well it smooths out the curve a bit if you regard netburst as a cheat code. The higher you go over 2ghz though the less it's like electronics, meaning below that, you can lay out your CPU like a hotwheels track and expect your hotwheels car to follow it and stay on it when you let it go down the slope or shoot it from the catapult... then over 2ghz it's more like you either haven't got a hotwheels car any more but a paper aeroplane, or the track has lost it's edges, or both, and applying more oomph to the thing just has it going off anywhere. So then you're trying to contain it in tubes more than tracks, but get all sorts of problems around how to fit tubes together and change their shape without things bouncing off the joins. Then that only works for a bit, and you're wondering whether your signal is going inside or outside of them, then you're switching from bulk matter to dealing with everything atomically, or worse, quantum mechanically, the billiard ball has left the building.. or some of it has, there's still a 60% chance it's located somewhere around here. Anyway mix the metaphors how you like, trying to put hi-bounce powerballs down a marble run or something, but yeah, gets weirder the faster you try to go.

3 AGP cards showed up ad my local thrift store, the lot for around 10€ so even if the 2 first ones are low end, they will be useful one day. All are working.:

- Radeon 7000 VE
- Radeon 9200 SE
- Radeon X1650 Pro IceQ

myne wrote on 2024-12-07, 14:34:

Might be time to delid it and replace the goo
It's kinda funny how fast we went from 1ghz to 4.
And it's taken a decade to get to 6.

Thankfully the physical limits of increasing frequency have been counteracted by insanely huge improvements in performance per-clock and per-watt.

I'd love to see a comparison of something like a 7800X3D or 9800X3D, pulling ~70-100 watts vs a top of the line Pentium 4 pulling ~115 with a single core.

This is about as close as I can come up with on short notice...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1080vs52 … MD-Ryzen-7-7700

Of course synthetic scores don't tell the whole story (Passmark doesn't seem to benefit from tons of cache), but we're approaching something like 100x the performance for the same wattage versus the top Netburst chips. Or, in the case of the Ryzen 7 7700, almost 100x performance at a little over half the wattage. Really incredible if you think about it. And that was all in spite of Intel's 6+ year stagnation period.

Two computers:
One chenbro AT-case with a pullout-mobotray. Contained
- a DFI P5BV3+ rev B+ (MVP3 mobo with 1M cache)
- K6-2/350
- Some ram
- CT2940 ..
- Ati Rage 128
Went for it mostly for the mobo and case.

The other in an unknown case with PSU parallell to mobo next to the CPU
- MS-6340 KT133 mobo
- Duron 800
- Some ram

I gave a i5-2500K and some change for these. Not bad, not great.
Got to replace caps on both motherboards to get them alive.

Today I got myself a Soltek SL-02A++. I had one back in the day, still had the box with the previous (non-FCPGA) slotket inside.

That CT2940 checks many boxes: IDE header, Midi header, OPL3 and almost as quiet as an AWE64! It's so good it will (sadly) replace my Audician32 Plus. Creative's mixer totally destroys Yamaha's...

One of those odd MWave DSP modem/sound card combos. Are they as bad as people suggest?

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-12-08, 20:16:

One of those odd MWave DSP modem/sound card combos. Are they as bad as people suggest?

Settled lawsuit bad.

Just bought this MSI FX 5700 Ultra this morning for 45€. No idea about the condition though.

rasz_pl wrote on 2024-12-08, 23:51:

Settled lawsuit bad.

🤣

Masterchief79 wrote on 2024-12-09, 09:25:

Just bought this MSI FX 5700 Ultra this morning for 45€. No idea about the condition though.

Judging from the looks and lack of dust, it doesn't look like it's seen much use 😀

H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-12-09, 12:26:

Masterchief79 wrote on 2024-12-09, 09:25:

Just bought this MSI FX 5700 Ultra this morning for 45€. No idea about the condition though.

Judging from the looks and lack of dust, it doesn't look like it's seen much use 😀

That's what she said. ^.^

luckybob wrote on 2024-12-09, 14:56:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-12-09, 12:26:

Masterchief79 wrote on 2024-12-09, 09:25:

Just bought this MSI FX 5700 Ultra this morning for 45€. No idea about the condition though.

Judging from the looks and lack of dust, it doesn't look like it's seen much use 😀

That's what she said. ^.^

I'm more afraid of stuff like a warped PCB or other mechanical damage. I'm always expecting broken solder joints, memory artifacts or missing components and that sort of thing but I'm used to fixing that stuff by now. You can't fix a warped PCB and you can almost never tell by the pictures.
Although I would agree this card _looks_ fine. ^^

I've seen some very warped boards run great still though. Hurts your brain to look at, but works.

Picked up Saturday. $45 Optiplex GX115 with cute 15" monitor and accessories

Uninteresting system as such. Only 2 RAM slots, weak onboard GPU and no AGP. But! My first PC was a PIII-500 of this model. 😁 (With a Nokia monitor weighing like a smaller house)

Gonna throw in an HDD, a bit uncertain about graphics though. With PCI only, guess this thing is bound to be GPU crippled regardless? Best currently in stock, 16MB Matrox...

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Uninteresting system as such. Only 2 RAM slots, weak onboard GPU and no AGP. But! My first PC was a PIII-500 of this model. 😁 (With a Nokia monitor weighing like a smaller house)

Gonna throw in an HDD, a bit uncertain about graphics though. With PCI only, guess this thing is bound to be GPU crippled regardless? Best currently in stock, 16MB Matrox...

Very nice! great price for all the accessories included! As far as the video is concerned, nothing a PCI voodoo 2,3, or 5 won' t solve! 😀
Or if you want to go on the cheap side plenty of GF2 MX or GF4MX PCI models to go around.