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[da na]

Just now, Dabombinable said:

Would have been far more robust than the standard connector.

Had never seen one of these before... 

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, Mel0n. said:

Had never seen one of these before... 

Same - only ever dealt with the standard parallel cables. I do have one of the SCSI cables floating around somewhere - they are blue not purple. I don't have anything though with SCSI. Just the random cable from who knows what.

[dell fanboy 1111]

Just pimped out my thin client

[Corrupt_Liberty]

2 hours ago, dell fanboy 1111 said:

Just pimped out my thin client

 

 

 

Nice camera.  Yukon Gold or Russet?

[Noble3212]

I have a AMD GPU for a mac from the early 2000's and another one from around 1999. And a intel core duo from 2005. and one of the first intel core i3 generations. And a AMD Athlon x64 cpus 

[da na]

2 hours ago, Corrupt_Liberty said:

Nice camera.  Yukon Gold or Russet?

Motorola Razr

[da na]

Any suggestions for good SLI boards?

Debating between buying an NIB XFX 780i SLI board (very high end 775 board) or a Foxconn Destroyer board with the same chipset but Socket AM2+ (includes Phenom X4). They're about the same price (little over $100). I'd be running a Q9650 on a 775 board. I do have earlier AM2 chips, but they're dual-core and quite inefficient so I'd want a Phenom anyway were I to go AMD.

I wouldn't want to use my GeForce 6800, also want to stay away from 8000/9000 because of heat issues... single GTX 280 seems like it would be the best bet, but would GTX 275 SLI be better? 

[NF-A12x25]

On 10/6/2022 at 11:32 AM, dell fanboy 1111 said:

Just pimped out my thin client

 

that is the camera ever made

[NF-A12x25]

found some stuff in ewaste, the drawer one is a bunch of i5s from Sandy Bridge to Haswell so not SUPER old, plus a Xeon X5690- the workstation equivalent of the i7-990X and a couple LGA775 Xeons

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0n. said:

Any suggestions for good SLI boards?

Debating between buying an NIB XFX 780i SLI board (very high end 775 board) or a Foxconn Destroyer board with the same chipset but Socket AM2+ (includes Phenom X4). They're about the same price (little over $100). I'd be running a Q9650 on a 775 board. I do have earlier AM2 chips, but they're dual-core and quite inefficient so I'd want a Phenom anyway were I to go AMD.

I wouldn't want to use my GeForce 6800, also want to stay away from 8000/9000 because of heat issues... single GTX 280 seems like it would be the best bet, but would GTX 275 SLI be better? 

Pain is life, get an old Abit @abit-sean

[flibberdipper]

Man the pricing of half decent Socket 478 boards sure has skyrocketed since I looked last. Just got my hands on a 3GHz P4 that I'd love to do something with but with the prices of boards I'm no longer feeling it lol

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, flibberdipper said:

Man the pricing of half decent Socket 478 boards sure has skyrocketed since I looked last. Just got my hands on a 3GHz P4 that I'd love to do something with but with the prices of boards I'm no longer feeling it lol

That's why @FakeKGBeeds to get my old one fixed up and running. They could flip that thing for profit easily!

[da na]

7 minutes ago, Bitter said:

That's why @FakeKGBeeds to get my old one fixed up and running. They could flip that thing for profit easily!

I should probably fix mine too... it's a niceish one. 

[WhitetailAni]

12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

That's why @FakeKGBeeds to get my old one fixed up and running. They could flip that thing for profit easily!

I got a job, caps + solder + flux are next on the agenda.

[Bitter]

8 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

I should probably fix mine too... it's a niceish one. 

But does yours talk?? His does!

[da na]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

But does yours talk?? His does!

Yes! 

[Bitter]

12 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Yes! 

Sweet, Asus?

[da na]

6 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Sweet, Asus?

Aopen. Has 15 or so leaky caps, no trace damage though. Never tried to turn it on. 

[Bitter]

23 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Aopen. Has 15 or so leaky caps, no trace damage though. Never tried to turn it on. 

Neat, probably the same BIOS that Asus ran on whatever the board I gave to him was. I took a quick gander on eBay and in working condition they were going for $150-250, probably more now.

[Bitter]

https://www.slashgear.com/diy-118gb-floppy-drive-makes-those-a-drives-useful-again-26429179/

 

Neat!

[Dabombinable]

On 10/8/2022 at 11:14 AM, flibberdipper said:

Man the pricing of half decent Socket 478 boards sure has skyrocketed since I looked last. Just got my hands on a 3GHz P4 that I'd love to do something with but with the prices of boards I'm no longer feeling it lol

Some of my boards have over doubled in price since I bought them. Which is made worse by seeing examples that weren't new old stock at those prices - considering there is some fail-free life in unused capacitors from the plague error.

[ApolloX75]

On 10/7/2022 at 7:06 PM, Mel0n. said:

Any suggestions for good SLI boards?

Debating between buying an NIB XFX 780i SLI board (very high end 775 board) or a Foxconn Destroyer board with the same chipset but Socket AM2+ (includes Phenom X4). They're about the same price (little over $100). I'd be running a Q9650 on a 775 board. I do have earlier AM2 chips, but they're dual-core and quite inefficient so I'd want a Phenom anyway were I to go AMD.

I wouldn't want to use my GeForce 6800, also want to stay away from 8000/9000 because of heat issues... single GTX 280 seems like it would be the best bet, but would GTX 275 SLI be better? 

780i or 790i for sure, but keep in mind I'm supremely biased because I've been working with them for years. But beware the frustrating randomness of nVidia chipsets lol. That XFX 780i being NIB would be a godsend though especially if it's got little to no run time on it. There's little to no difference between the XFX and the EVGA boards, keep in mind you may want to find a modded BIOS to unlock a lot more tuning.

 

780i/790i boards can be hit and miss (750i were worse, and the AMD versions were middling), I've had my EVGA 790i Digital FTW for more than a decade and it's been running strong, I had several Asus 750i boards and they crapped out after a year or two.

 

I just picked up an EVGA 790i Ultra and it's a pig-headed prick to get working so far. I'm thinking bad caps at this point until I troubleshoot further. Only the 790i Digital from what I have seen is 100% solid caps, even the Ultras have regular caps on 90% of the board and the board I got has some sus "repairs" done to it that I couldn't see in the pictures. 

 

Also nothing really wrong with 9800 GTX cards if you tear them apart and clean them up, 8800s too. The only ones I've ever had thermal issues with were my 9800 GX2's way back in the day... and well those had a good reason for it lol. I'm running a pair of Zotac 9800s in SLI right now on my QX9650 setup and it's flawless. GTX 200 series are also fantastic though, it really depends on what you can find these days, everything is going through the roof. People want a gold brick for a Geforce 2 MX now ffs.

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Some of my boards have over doubled in price since I bought them. Which is made worse by seeing examples that weren't new old stock at those prices - considering there is some fail-free life in unused capacitors from the plague error.

It honestly makes me a little angry seeing how prices have gone. A P4P800-SE used to go for like 30 bucks with a decent CPU and now they've more than doubled and supply has seemingly almost disappeared.

[Bitter]

The P4C800-E Deluxe is like $130-200+ which is kind of crazy I agree.

[Sir Beregond]

Don't have any of them anymore sadly, but used to have a Radeon 7500, 9700 Pro, I think a Geforce Ti 4600, some mid-range Geforce FX card, among others, plus whatever old CPU's. Can't remember which Athlons I had.

 

Probably the oldest thing I can dig up now is a Pentium 4 and an x1650 Pro.