Hermes (Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Radeon HD 7950)

[flibberdipper]

More bad news: Corsair isn't gonna cover the sidepanel, so right now it doesn't even have a sidepanel.

 

And to top it all off, something in my system seems to have a coil whine-like issue (seemingly my boot drive).

 

*sigh* I guess I'm gonna have to save up to get a non-windowed sidepanel, new front panel, and then some kind of 120GB SSD.

[flibberdipper]

Hey guys! Quick update on the 'ol girl: The cables are training GREAT, and my 480 is still without parts. So... It still has the 3450 in it (LTT's fastest 3450, I might add). Also, I've gone from it just being the "trusty dusty" to "trusty and cleanerthanmymainrig," or in other words, I just cleaned it really well. So, here's the pic of it. The random USB 3.0 cable will get an adapter soon, and therefore be hidden from view.

 

[Dabombinable]

Hey guys! Quick update on the 'ol girl: The cables are training GREAT, and my 480 is still without parts. So... It still has the 3450 in it (LTT's fastest 3450, I might add). Also, I've gone from it just being the "trusty dusty" to "trusty and cleanerthanmymainrig," or in other words, I just cleaned it really well. So, here's the pic of it. The random USB 3.0 cable will get an adapter soon, and therefore be hidden from view.

 

2015-10-18_02-41-03 by Travis McClelland, on Flickr

Old rigs always tidy up so well.... that 3450 really looks out of place however.

[flibberdipper]

Old rigs always tidy up so well.... that 3450 really looks out of place however.

Yeah, well... It felt outta place apparently. The video connector on it got all screwed up, and there was no way to fix it. So now this rig is completely useless.

[Dabombinable]

Yeah, well... It felt outta place apparently. The video connector on it got all screwed up, and there was no way to fix it. So now this rig is completely useless.

If I could spare it I'd send my GTX 650ti your way (its going in a rig that I'm building for my brother-if I don't he'll be stuck with a Pentium M 1.7GHz and the Intel 910GML based laptop-which just won't do).

[flibberdipper]

If I could spare it I'd send my GTX 650ti your way (its going in a rig that I'm building for my brother-if I don't he'll be stuck with a Pentium M 1.7GHz and the Intel 910GML based laptop-which just won't do).

Daw, how kind of you to use it in either case.

[Dabombinable]

Daw, how kind of you to use it in either case.

I'll put it this way. I know what having a shitty computer until after School is like and it really gets you behind the times.

[iHardware Shelden]

Looks good, get that poor 480 working then it will be perfect.

 

[flibberdipper]

I'll put it this way. I know what having a shitty computer until after School is like and it really gets you behind the times.

Psh, I was using a 500MHz PIII and TNT2 until like 5 years ago. I know the feel.

 

Looks good, get that poor 480 working then it will be perfect.

If only. All of the money I get is going to a ZenFone 2 (the one with the 1.8GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage, and the black color scheme). My current phone is slow, the display and camera suck, and it's just been acting all fucky lately.

[Dabombinable]

Psh, I was using a 500MHz PIII and TNT2 until like 5 years ago. I know the feel.

 

If only. All of the money I get is going to a ZenFone 2 (the one with the 1.8GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage, and the black color scheme). My current phone is slow, the display and camera suck, and it's just been acting all fucky lately.

That is very similar to what I was dealing with. Pentium III 667, Riva TNT 2 (I wasn't using the upgrade graphics cards-Geforce 256 and then Nvidia MX400 64MB-as they both died), 256MB RAM and a 1.28GB HDD (Seagate ST51270A) until the start of last year-where I jumped straight to the i5 4440, 8GB RAM, GTX 650ti OC 2GB and a 1TB HDD.

However I did have access to a few laptops that were hand-me-downs from my Mum (but they were always years behind the latest laptops at the time).

[Guest]

That is very similar to what I was dealing with. Pentium III 667, Riva TNT 2 (I wasn't using the upgrade graphics cards-Geforce 256 and then Nvidia MX400 64MB-as they both died), 256MB RAM and a 1.28GB HDD (Seagate ST51270A) until the start of last year-where I jumped straight to the i5 4440, 8GB RAM, GTX 650ti OC 2GB and a 1TB HDD.

However I did have access to a few laptops that were hand-me-downs from my Mum (but they were always years behind the latest laptops at the time).

I'm still using my P4 xeons. not as old but they still get to 100% cpu doing nothing but web browsing.

EDIT: Oh, and a heavily bottlenecked HD5770.

[Dabombinable]

I'm still using my P4 xeons. not as old but they still get to 100% cpu doing nothing but web browsing.

EDIT: Oh, and a heavily bottlenecked HD5770.

Those are't Pentium III though......and they are well over the 1GHz barrier.

[Guest]

Those are't Pentium III though......and they are well over the 1GHz barrier.

Pent 4. Like I said. but still not enough  for "modern£ computing. 

 

The CPUs can't run windows 8.1 or 10.

[Dabombinable]

Pent 4. Like I said. but still not enough  for "modern£ computing. 

 

The CPUs can't run windows 8.1 or 10.

Willamette or Northwood?

[Guest]

Willamette or Northwood?

Irwindale (90 nm). the architecture was slightly different different. added some xeon features and called it a different name I think.

[flibberdipper]

I'm still using my P4 xeons. not as old but they still get to 100% cpu doing nothing but web browsing.

EDIT: Oh, and a heavily bottlenecked HD5770.

How tf do you make those things go to 100% just browsing...

 

My Northwood 2.4GHz P4 w/ HT doesn't even do that bad with CHROME...

[Guest]

How tf do you make those things go to 100% just browsing...

 

My Northwood 2.4GHz P4 w/ HT doesn't even do that bad with CHROME...

using chrome. I think my fucked up windows 7 install has something to do with it.

 

steam updating games uses about 50% cpu.

[iHardware Shelden]

using chrome. I think my fucked up windows 7 install has something to do with it.

steam updating games uses about 50% cpu.

Oh my, what type of games can you run on that/those things?

[Guest]

Oh my, what type of games can you run on that/those things?

I got gta V running on it (at about 5 fps), so probably most games that happily run in a pentium g3258 will run kind of. Basically anthing that will run on a pentuim D.

[Atomicnerd64]

I got gta V running on it (at about 5 fps), so probably most games that happily run in a pentium g3258 will run kind of. Basically anthing that will run on a pentuim D.

if it runs portal and minecraft then it's okay for me haha

[Dabombinable]

How tf do you make those things go to 100% just browsing...

 

My Northwood 2.4GHz P4 w/ HT doesn't even do that bad with CHROME...

TBH, not even my dual Pentium III EB1000 do that (though trying to open FB is an exception). Oh and I've played Portal on them BTW, though I think my Geforce 6200 was getting bottlenecked.

[Guest]

if it runs portal and minecraft then it's okay for me haha

Portal runs great, but minecraft does not.

[iHardware Shelden]

Portal runs great, but minecraft does not.

Yea I remember running Minecraft on a Pentium D for a while and that was not fun... the GT 210 ran it like a charm when you ignored the studers caused by the CPU lol

[Dabombinable]

Yea I remember running Minecraft on a Pentium D for a while and that was not fun... the GT 210 ran it like a charm when you ignored the studers caused by the CPU lol

It would still be running better than it does on a Celeron M30 and Intel 910GML-and it was very playable until I had to use a portal.

[iHardware Shelden]

It would still be running better than it does on a Celeron M30 and Intel 910GML-and it was very playable until I had to use a portal.

Haha I would go on servers were kids were bragging about there new GTX 680s and make them think the Pentium D and GT 210 were better (they had no idea what they were talking about)