New collectible build : FX 5800 Ultra

More details on the +5V issue: http://uk.comp.homebuilt.narkive.com/5C9NLfwk/psu-5v-rail-fluctuation

in Gigabyte EasyTune5 I don't even see it displaying the +5V line nor do I see it in the BIOS. Multimeter across a molex = 5.05V steady

"To be honest, it seems that ALL gigabyte boards read the 5V rail as unstable. Mine current 939 one does, my old k8ns-pro did, my bro's k8n-pro...ALL had the 5v rail jump all over the place, I highly doubt this is your issue here...All these had the SAME issue with the SAME software(speedfan)..."
 
Testing out the new case, only $35 shipped from Amazon... Will have to still pull the mobo to replace those bulging caps


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Had a little mishap while desoldering one of the capacitors... ended up sucking all of the solder totally out of the holes for the pins... have it all rigged up and i can't believe it still POSTs... got all of the caps running off the same ground from the CPU fan header


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with those very long leads to the capacitors should i still be all right? the voltages seem "all right" and even prime95 ran... had a full memtest86 pass too
 
I honestly don't know but even looking at the pics make me nervous lol
 
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just recieved and installed the non-bulgers, seems like the voltages are a little more stable. letting prime95 run
 
prime95'ing, those offboard caps are still in place as you can see... dangling, but non-bulgers
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You do realize at some point, nobody cares.

You're just talking to yourself.
 
Nope, that is bullshit!!!!!!!! Some people enjoy seeing other people happy, and some of us remember old school systems that meant something!!!!!

So, bottom line...................Fuck you


Agreed! Midnight on a Friday night and I'm looking at this thread instead of doing a million other things. :)
 
I care, the FX 5800 is fantastic for Win98SE gaming, it sux at DX9 shaders, but it supports DX9 well enough to run the nglide wrapper, and it can do DX up to DX8 as well as OpenGL really well too. Also it can run old drivers so it can do proper shadows in Splinter Cell, the FX5950 Ultra can't do that. I'd like to have one myself but can't find one for sale. Considering getting a Quadro FX2000 instead, seems to be mostly the same thing.
 
Maxtor?

Whew.... That brand still gives me the chills lol

Let's see some benches on this puppy already :)

I remember when the 5800 Ultra came out. I was playing Asherons Call 2 and couldn't wait, so I grabbed a 9500 Pro.

That was the Ti4200 of it's day.
 
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Maxtor?

Whew.... That brand still gives me the chills lol

Let's see some benches on this puppy already :)

I remember when the 5800 Ultra came out. I was playing Asherons Call 2 and couldn't wait, so I grabbed a 9500 Pro.

That was the Ti4200 of it's day.

I have also removed the card from this butchered system until i can get a solid replacement mobo, heh

will keep you all posted
 
i've got some software issues to work out also, Morrowind worked well, UT99 ran worse than the ATI Xpert 2000 Pro, Oblivion is having "extra software" not installed problems
 
i've got some software issues to work out also, Morrowind worked well, UT99 ran worse than the ATI Xpert 2000 Pro, Oblivion is having "extra software" not installed problems

AKA: you have to install Oldblivion, if you want to play at anything above 640x480.
 
Well, I enjoyed this thread so far. Been putting together vintage builds with old parts I have lying around. And about to recap a couple boards as well.

Thanks for sharing the pics and progress.
 
AKA: you have to install Oldblivion, if you want to play at anything above 640x480.

can't even click "Play" only "Exit" or "visit elderscrolls.com", hopefully i can install Oldblivion on the steam copy and get it to work (after i source out a proper replacement mobo without blown caps)
 
Strange, you sure you have the latest drivers and DirectX installed?

Latest drivers, yes. DirectX? Forgot all about that... I'm on Windows XP Pro 32-bit, all updates installed, will check into DX
 
I remember having to install the latest DX9 redistribution every time a new game came out.

This site has a list o ALL off them. If I were you, I'd try the ones clustered around 2006, and see if they fix your no-launch problem.

http://www.falconfly.de/directx.htm

Just because you have DX9.0C installed, doesn't mean you have the right redistribution. Microsoft fucked things up when they froze the version number of DirectX, but continued to release "updates."

This is one thing I dont miss from old Windows.

If you installed Oblivion from it's original CD source, you perhaps wouldn't have this problem, because it comes with the DX9 .

One thing you can be sure of is that the FX series will RUN Oblivion:

http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64076
 
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Since you brought that up. I run several earlier games on my Win98se rigs and found DirectX 8.0 is best for compatibility. Seems 8.1 and later support stopped for the older stuff.
 
I remember having to install the latest DX9 redistribution every time a new game came out.

This site has a list o ALL off them. If I were you, I'd try the ones clustered around 2006, and see if they fix your no-launch problem.

http://www.falconfly.de/directx.htm

Just because you have DX9.0C installed, doesn't mean you have the right redistribution. Microsoft fucked things up when they froze the version number of DirectX, but continued to release "updates."

This is one thing I dont miss from old Windows.

If you installed Oblivion from it's original CD source, you perhaps wouldn't have this problem, because it comes with the DX9 .

One thing you can be sure of is that the FX series will RUN Oblivion:

http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64076

Could I just install all of them (DirectX Redistributions) or does it not work like that?
 
I don't know exactly, it's been ten happy years free of XP :D

I guess try them all in-order first.

Then if that doesn't work, reformat XP then try installing them up-until the release date of Oblivion, which was mid-2006
 
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Those caps look very pretty. Means the board is very likely never used, or only used lightly. I'd check those periodically for signs that the contaminated electrolyte has started to boil (brown leaks, bulging, etc), but so far so good.
 
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Caps look good. Are they same brand as ones that were bulging on the other board? Have seen several manufacturers switch up to Japanese made like Rubycon, Nichicon, and Sanyo in later revision of their boards.
 
Caps look good. Are they same brand as ones that were bulging on the other board? Have seen several manufacturers switch up to Japanese made like Rubycon, Nichicon, and Sanyo in later revision of their boards.
Yup,

Nichicon 3300uf 6.3V, same
 
Interesting. Same issue with same exact caps on my ASUS a7n8x board. Actually leaking. Board is still running fine, for now.

They say the Japanese brands are not usually subject to the "capacitor plague" issues. Plenty of knock offs out there so who knows.
 

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"The first commercial product to claim using the "DDR2" technology was the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 graphics card. However, it is important to note that this GDDR2 memory used on graphics cards is not DDR2 per se, but rather an early midpoint between DDR and DDR2 technologies. Using "DDR2" to refer to GDDR2 is a colloquial misnomer. In particular, the performance-enhancing doubling of the I/O clock rate is missing. It had severe overheating issues due to the nominal DDR voltages."
 
Caps look good. Are they same brand as ones that were bulging on the other board? Have seen several manufacturers switch up to Japanese made like Rubycon, Nichicon, and Sanyo in later revision of their boards.
Wouldn't matter at that time. The tainted electrolyte got into everyone's caps, world-wide. The Japanese brands tended to weed out the bad batch quicker, but no one was safe. When the bursting caps first hit, I sourced a whole load of older (>10 years stored) new-old-stock and used those to recap the electronics I loved best.

I'm very glad that's all history at this point, and hope we never have a similar incident again.
 
Man, this brings back memories; I saw "FX 5800 Ultra" and had to check in!

Even the hard drive bit of the rest of your build made me nostalgic; I used to run a U320 36GB 15.3k SCSI Seagate Cheetah on an Adaptec 29160 (160 card vs 320 didn't really matter because it was just the one drive on it) as my gaming drive in my old rig with my 5800 Ultra.... that thing FLEW. I still fondly remember loading up levels and map-transitions in games like CS and the original Planetside (and pretty much any other multiplayer game) way before anyone else would make it in. Also that glorious spindle rev on boot! :headphone:

The 5800 Ultra too: I still remember thinking that card was the coolest thing ever when I first got it..... even if it really was totally obnoxious lol. I picked mine up like-new on EBay right about the time the 5900 had just hit the market from a guy who claimed it was a reference/engineering sample or something like that. I'm not so sure about it being an "engineering sample", but it's definitely an early unbranded reference card and I remember it came without retail packaging. Despite all the shit the NV30 got, it absolutely destroyed every game I wanted to play with it at the time - particulary because I was the type who went for competitive edge and framerate vs resolution and image quality, so I was running everything at 1024x768 on a 100hz CRT with high AF, no AA, and pre-render buffer to zero in pretty much every game and the 5800 was a legit beast in that category.

The rest of that old rig was an Athlon XP, I think 3000+, oc'd to "3500+" equivalent on an A7N8X Deluxe with a gig of Corsair DDR.... and a set of the original Klipsch Promedia 2.1's to drown out the dustbuster :)
I think I even had to re-cap a bad cap or two on that A7N8X at some point, heh.

I still have all those parts packed away because I could never bring myself to toss 'em, too many fond memories. I just went and dug out my 5800 Ultra and the Cheetah/Adaptec and took a few pics for nostalgia's sake:

>> I put them in an imgur gallery over here because they were huge <<

...but here's the first one at least; I've been storing the 5800 Ultra in a plastic clamshell from some other old graphics card for safe keeping for years now:

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Good luck with your build erek! :)
 
Man, this brings back memories; I saw "FX 5800 Ultra" and had to check in!

Even the hard drive bit of the rest of your build made me nostalgic; I used to run a U320 36GB 15.3k SCSI Seagate Cheetah on an Adaptec 29160 (160 card vs 320 didn't really matter because it was just the one drive on it) as my gaming drive in my old rig with my 5800 Ultra.... that thing FLEW. I still fondly remember loading up levels and map-transitions in games like CS and the original Planetside (and pretty much any other multiplayer game) way before anyone else would make it in. Also that glorious spindle rev on boot! :headphone:


Good luck with your build erek! :)

Awesome reference NV30 / Seagate Cheetah !
 
Finally received the replacement motherboard and installed it today (from Latvia) no bulging capacitors.

 
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