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Dan81
Dan81
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Last Activity: Yesterday, 05:01 PM
Joined: 10-01-2013
Location: Bacau
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
    in General Computer & Tech Discussion
    Today's scores:

    - custom built 775 w/ P35-DS3 (rev1.0, yay), Geforce GT320 1GB DDR3 (PCPartner/Sapphire OEM, GT215 core), 500GB Seagate Pipeline HDD (ew, why.), C2D E8400, 2x2GB DDR2
    - ASUS P5QL Pro w/ E7300 - dead, burnt PCB near one of the USB headers. CPU untested.
    - Quadro4 750 XGL - dead, GPU quite literally fused with heatsink and got ripped off when removing the heatsink
    - Winfast A340 - kinda dead? No POST on my ABIT NF7, have yet to test on other mobos.
    - Kobian N620 - Riva TNT2 M64 32MB - works fine
    - bunch of random RAM sticks
    - eVGA...
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Ya got me sold on ECS. For whatever reason their OST caps held right up there with Ruby MBZ and Panasonic FL/FJ/FR.
    Not counting the pre-Teapo merger G-Luxon riddled models which required recaps almost always.

    Man, I wish I'd find a K7S6A these days. Their K7S5A is already a goldmine in itself
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Trashpicked this a few days ago:

    - ECS K7VTA3/333
    - K-Mex PX-450 PSU
    - 160GB WDC HDD
    - Sparkle Riva TNT2 M64 32MB
    - 256MB DDR333
    - Athlon XP 1700+
    - Realtek RTL8139C+ NIC

    Surprisingly used for topography purposes. The ECS mobo doesn't seem shabby at all, given LITE-ON of all people rebranded it!
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Not much activity here:

    - CUSL2 + P3 1000EB run great - gotta love the flexibility of the AGP Pro slot, allowing me to change between a V3 3000 and a Geforce 6600 whenever I want
    - 7800GS unfortunately turned up dead
    - the ASUS lappies are pretty much troopers. Sandy Bridge was one of the few last Intel chips (along Ivy and Haswell, as Broadwell was the first to switch to all soldered BS) that were great for laptops. GPU wise, i5 got a GT540M, i7 does with a 610M. Both have 2GB worth of VRAM.
    - PS2 cleaned off well, received new case and parts
    - PS3 works...
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    These came yesterday:

    - ASUS CUSL2 + P3 1GHz, 512MB SDR (2x128MB + 1x256)
    - 2x ASUS K53S (K53SV and K53SD I think... one of them has a i7), X553M (scrapped X553M due to bad MB)
    - Pine Tech/XFX GF2 MX400 64MB
    - PS3 CECHL03
    - Xbox 360 Falcon
    - PS2 SCPH-50004a w/ roaches
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  • Dan81
    replied to Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
    in General Computer & Tech Discussion
    I think I had a chap locally that bought all 4 of my RDRAM sticks. I couldn't find a cheap RDRAM board and honestly didn't really like it either... cooling them down didn't seem like an easy task.

    For me it's either PC133 SDR (dunno why most people ran away from 845 SDR - it's an rather okay-ish and cheap alternative to Tualatin IMO) or DDR. Especially with the 820's flop, I'm pretty confident of staying away from RDRAM.
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Apart from the US gems (hehehe), I have a [B]7800GS AGP [/B]that has to show up Tuesday, as well as a whole mystery build that has an I/O shield for my Soltek

    Fingers crossed that the 7800GS arrives intact and working. I already have a zombie 6600 AGP running and god knows for how long... a 7800GS wouldn't hurt an Athlon XP, would it?Apart from the US gems (hehehe), I have a [B]7800GS AGP [/B]that has to show up Tuesday, as well as a whole mystery build that has an I/O shield for my Soltek

    Fingers crossed that the 7800GS arrives intact and working. I already have
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  • Dan81
    replied to Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
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    Speaking of weird builds... I felt like torturing a old Northwood HT today. Netburst deserves no mercy

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    Northwood HT 2.8, 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar I had around (7200 RPM, nothing special), HD4870 1GB, 2x512MB DDR400, SATA ODD. All running XP, powered by ASRock's funky P4Dual-915GL mobo.

    There's no way the CPU would keep up with the 4870 lolSpeaking of weird builds... I felt like torturing a old Northwood HT today....
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  • Dan81
    replied to Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
    in General Computer & Tech Discussion
    Yeah, then you'll likely be fine. I can see it has active cooling on the northbridge so that's good - these nVidia chipsets were really crispy.
    (not that their AMD counterparts were any less cooler )
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  • Dan81
    replied to Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
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    Yeah. A simple explanation: it may not POST at a range of FSBs (let's use 390-401 as example) but will work at the first FSB digit outside that range. (like 389 or 402). nForce 600 and 700 were fairly notorious of this issue.

    As long as the XPS doesn't allow FSBs outside the standard speeds (e.g 333, 667, 800, 1066, 1333, 1600, and I think 1866 as well?) you'll likely be fine. It's only OC-ing that is a pain on those.
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  • Dan81
    replied to Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
    in General Computer & Tech Discussion
    nForce 650i... now that's a interesting challenge. Weren't those known to have FSB holes?
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Heh, it's nice to hear the whir of that SCSI Seagate once in a while

    Meanwhile, it's a nForce 2 party most of the time. That "Golden Flame" Soltek looks gorgeous with the red LED fan and ADATA Vitesta sticks, and the NF7 v2.0 besides me is stomping stuff with a 210FSB overclock.

    A shame I couldn't find any working 9800s. The more I find locally, the more they turn out dead
    Guess X1xxx/HD series it is. I think I found a HD2600XT somewhere once, for a rather accessible price (around the same as 9800 Pro.)
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Scores of today:

    - Toshiba 4TB Surveillance HDD - dead
    - 2x 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar, Sun Microsystems OEM - one appears to be dead, the other seems to work, haven't tested them further yet.
    - custom build - C2D E6600, Gigabyte P35-DS3, 4x1GB DDR2, WD Green 1TB (yikes), MSI GT210 1GB, SB X-Fi SB0730, Win7 - POSTs, haven't checked HDD.
    - PS3 CECHH04 - works, need to replace USB/BT/WLAN daughterboard tho.
    - Acer Aspire 8530G - works after recasing using my other dead 8530G
    - 1GB DDR400 Zeppelin stick - a nice addition for my Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL "Golden...
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Having fun with Athlon XPs.... trying to get a mobile 2600+ Barton in that "Golden Flame" beauty. I seriously am dumb regarding getting a XP-M running on a desktop mobo, but it should be worth it over a standard Barton I suppose.
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    While I'm still halfway on the long road of waiting for the VP6s to arrive (they're in Nederlands as of this post, so mid April-early May would be my guesstimate of arrival here ), I simply COULD NOT pass up the oportunity to post this beauty.

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    This is the above-mentioned Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL "Golden Flame" mobo, which came from a fellow Romanian retro collector.
    Not sure how many of you still remember these - they...
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    And another great score has been found and secured! Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL "Golden Flame".

    This thing absolutely rivals the NF7 in beauty. One chap told me this isn't as much great OC-er as the NF7 or Lanparty Ultra B... guess he wasn't accustomed to the poly treatment.
    Up next might be a fitting GPU for this beast - I'm thinking of a X1950 or a Geforce 6/7 series GPU, if they're available at reasonable prices.

    And gee, I totally forgot to put up a pic of the LG Studioworks CRT!

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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
    in General Computer & Tech Discussion
    Ah, good times. The B450E would be the second unit from them I own.
    I have (or at least remember owning) a older B400ATX that I had rebuilt myself.
    Wonder if it still runs... has a K-Mex branded fan of all things

    Nowadays it's mainly Delta/Chieftec, Andyson, FSP, CWT ISO and Seasonic for me. SS-351FS for older systems and CWT ISO-500PP for newer stuff that requires SATA. Andyson-built Raidmax RX-700AC if I need 8pin PCI-E, and a 450W Chieftec powers my dual P3 1GHZ/MSI 694 Pro-AR build.
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Moar freebies yesterday:

    - LG StudioWorks 563N CRT monitor - works fine, nice picture. Shame it's 1024x768 only, unlike the Philips 107P4 I have.
    - Syntax SV266A mobo - the lowest "HongKongFlyApartLLC" version of the ECS K7VTA2 rev2.0
    - ASRock P4VM800 - nothing much interesting, P4M800 chipset.
    - Torrent Computers LC-B450E - much more gutless than the ANS branded counterpart I yanked out of the Thermaltake from my previous post. Yes, it's one of those trace-jumpered crapola specials.
    - ASUS Radeon 9200 128MB
    - Quantum LCT15 HDD
    - Seagate...
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  • Dan81
    replied to best cheap/free scores 1.1
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    Indeed I'm already making preparations for them. Just need to score another similar SL4C8 800EB.

    Scored today:

    - P5Q Pro
    - GB Radeon 9000
    - Medion GF4 MX460
    - Thermaltake case w/ what I suspect is a Core 2 Duo
    - 2x Galaxy A5 2016
    - ASUS GF 6600 (non-GT unfortunately) AGP
    - Dell 2407WFP monitor - hella massive!

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  • Dan81
    replied to Chieftec Dragon LGA1366 Build
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    Since I can't edit my previous post, found an 8087-to-SAS adapter over Aliexpress. Good god that's gonna be copious amounts of fun to cram in.

    Still thinking on what drives to use... I'm thinking of a mix of 2x SAS HGSTs and 2x Seagate ST1000DM010- the latter were literally $21 both, they just had stiction somehow. A quick palm whack on top fixed them, and they run well ever since. Made rather recently (2020 date on both) so I'm pretty surprised as to how did they manage to get head stiction despite not being dented.
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