Retro OC Rig with some case modding *9 new cpu's*

[Jumper118]

Nice Corsair Dominator Platinums :lol:.

thanks they are xms platiums

 

I love this

i have now ditched the cit psu and replaced it with a cooler master! its 500w not 80+ but it probably is 80 times more reliable 

 

[cacra]

Really cool paint job!

[Jumper118]

Really cool paint job!

thanks. i'm going the try and do the front panel at some point but it will be tricky to get all the stripes lined upon the different surfaces

[ObeseWalrus]

DAT PAINTJOB

[Jumper118]

update! i has a few new cpu's to do trial by voltage in the ic7 max3 

the first is a brilliant ebay special 2.8ghz HT northwood which set me back a whopping £2.90

the second is a 3ghz HT northwood which set me back £4.99 and its a brand new cpu by the looks of it 

^they are the lastest, but i have a few more to test that i've collected over the past few months ..................................

obviously only 9 of them are socket 478 and the bigger one with pins on the left is an am2 single core athlon and the 2 lga 775 cpu's are pentium dual cores for when i get round to buying a rampage I or II extreme (can't remember which is 775). i will be testing some of them on friday   

[Lord Pantaloons]

It's about time you updated the thread, I've been waiting to hear more.

[Jumper118]

It's about time you updated the thread, I've been waiting to hear more.

 

 

It's about time you updated the thread, I've been waiting to hear more.

It was .i have 3 pc's that ive been getting parts for all at once, so they dont get used very often. I have been doingsome benchmarking with the 5950 ultra about 2 weeks ago but i couldn't find this thread because it had gone so far down.

[Jumper118]

 many set backsthisafternon but ihavegot into the swingof things now. Im currently slowly ramping up the clock speed on the 2.8ghz northwood. It has also turned out that my 3ghz p4 is a prescott and that my motherboard doesn't like it very much so it doesn't allow me to oc it and it doesn't see the hyperthreading. Will do be posting some 8400gs vs 5950 ultra screenshots and then some screenshots from overclocking this 2.8ghz p4, with cinebench r11.5 and some super pi scores.

[Raboo]

Very cool

[MrFoX114]

nice to see this with old stuff ^^. Keep up doing

[Jumper118]

Very cool

 

nice to see this with old stuff ^^. Keep up doing

ok i've just finished for today 

i'll start off with the Athlon ii x2 220@3.7ghz+8400gs vs Pentium 4 3.2ghz HT@3.6ghz+ fx5950 ultra in 3d mark 01 and 3d mark 03

this is the best score from the 8400gs

and the 5950 ultra

and in 3d mark 03

now as you can see they are similarly matched even though to 5950 ultra is over 5 years older, its just a beast for its age, however i have an ATI HD3850 on the way so it might be getting replaced. B) 

 

Ive been doing some ocing of the 2.8ghz ht northwood p4 which i got on wednesday. its gone ok and i got to 3.35ghz on 1.775v. you can see the cinebench score increase as the clock goes up, i didn't manage to get 0.6 though so i still need to do some tweaking and fine tuning to get it done. **CPUZ is wrong in most cases and the clock on cinebench is correct to what i set it at in the bios.**

 

i did get it to boot at 3.45ghz but i wouldn't run anything  . once i've got going its been a good afternoons overclocking. i need to do some research into these prescott cpu's that i have and get them to work and overclock on my board properly. the next update will be when i get the 3850 or get a prescott working properly. also i am willing to try any benchmarks that will run if you provide a link to download the benchmark, i can't find copies of 3d mark 2000 that work at the moment.

 

thanks all for now people   

[hornedfrog86]

Cool, I didn't realize that Sempron > P4.

[Jumper118]

Cool, I didn't realize that Sempron > P4.

yep p4's are probably worse than bulldozzer. earlier p4's were slower than p3's!

[SkilledRebuilds]

3Dmark Legacy Benchmarks of old.

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/legacy

 

XL-R8R would be your best bet.

Minimum System Requirements for XL-R8R

• Intel® Celeron® processor 300+MHz or compatible
• 64 MB of memory 50 MB of free hard disk space
• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME or Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft DirectX 7
• 3D Accelerator similar or above an ATI Rage128, nVidia RivaTNT or 3Dfx Voodoo3
• A desktop resolution of 640x480 with 16bit colors, or better
• Access to the Internet is required to use XL-R8R's online services

Press Release

http://www.futuremark.com/pressreleases/20400

[ALXAndy]

yep p4's are probably worse than bulldozzer. earlier p4's were slower than p3's!

 

They were awful. It was thanks in part to Intel's awful Netburst. Once they went back to the Pentium Pro way of doing things (Core 2) it was plain sailing from there..

 

I like this thread muchly. Shows you can have tons of fun with computers for small piles of pennies. I also love that 5950. I had a BFG 5950u and it was a wonderful card. Lovely polished nickel heatsink with two fans on

[Jumper118]

3Dmark Legacy Benchmarks of old.

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/legacy

 

XL-R8R would be your best bet.

Minimum System Requirements for XL-R8R

• Intel® Celeron® processor 300+MHz or compatible
• 64 MB of memory 50 MB of free hard disk space
• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME or Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft DirectX 7
• 3D Accelerator similar or above an ATI Rage128, nVidia RivaTNT or 3Dfx Voodoo3
• A desktop resolution of 640x480 with 16bit colors, or better
• Access to the Internet is required to use XL-R8R's online services

Press Release

http://www.futuremark.com/pressreleases/20400

that version doesn't seem to work. i'm not sure if its because it doesn't support xp or something else

 

They were awful. It was thanks in part to Intel's awful Netburst. Once they went back to the Pentium Pro way of doing things (Core 2) it was plain sailing from there..

 

I like this thread muchly. Shows you can have tons of fun with computers for small piles of pennies. I also love that 5950. I had a BFG 5950u and it was a wonderful card. Lovely polished nickel heatsink with two fans on

i just got the replacement for the 5950 ultra today. i didn't think it would come till next week! anyway here are some pics

the hd3850 has 2 dvi ports instead of the dvi+vga on the 5950 ultra. this doesn't benefit me at the moment but might later on. the hd 3850 is a single slot card compared with the 5950.

they use a slightly different slot with 3 gaps on the 5950 and 2 gaps on the 3850

the 3850 is a bit longer than the 5950 to make up for not being dual slot.

 

some pic of it in the rig.

it does require an 8 pin vs the single molex. the psu only has an 6 pin pci power and i only have a 2 molex to 8 pin connector not a 6 to 8, which is a bit annoying considering i should have 2 of them from my 7970 box but msi decided to throw them away along with my cf bridge!   i will see if it will be ok on molex then do some testing and benchmarks with it later today or tomorrow. it'll be early next week before i can get a 6 to 8 pin.   

[Mkfish]

This thread is really cool, and has definitely inspired me. Thanks for sharing all of this with us!

[Jumper118]

this is what the 5950 ultra can do in various benchmarks

[Jumper118]

i can't do too much with the 3850 at the moment overclocking wise because i'm running it off dual molex to 8 pin instead of 6 to 8 pin because the 6 to 8 pin adapters that i have were sent back with my lightning. i think i am being limited by power, because if i overclock past a certain point the gpu clock drops like a stone when it is under load. i have done a small overclock on it though so here are the results

HD3850@670mhz (stock)

and oced

it can't be directly compared to the 5950 ultra scores as i was using the 2.8ghz p4 ht instead of the 3.2ghz ht which is a about 10% faster. i will do a full comparison when i put the 3.2ghz one back in with some nice graphs. i still have some testing to do with the 2.8ghz before i move back though.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Cool stuff, moar plis

[Jumper118]

 

 

 

 

 

 

i've been doing a bit of case modding, because i got my new toy yesterday  . looks good so far. the edges aren't too sharp and the dremel wasn't too hard to get used to. i need some u channel and acrylic to finish it off now. not sure what colour window to go with, clear, smoked, blue?