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eBay, $125How much was this? I assume you got it on ebay?
Yes, next year it Sandy Bridge will officially be classified as retro, crazy as that sounds.Do you all think that in short time, Sandy bridge may show up here? It is older that Phenom and Nehalem were when this thread started, the only thing I see is that for most tasks, sandy bridge is still relevant.
Oh yeah, I recently acquired a nehalem and yeah, it's almost too usable, besides being forced into MBR and windows 11 freezes upon install.Yes, next year it Sandy Bridge will officially be classified as retro, crazy as that sounds.
You are right in that it is still very usable for modern tasks.
I think as time goes on we are going to see less of a skew with the usability factor for modern tasks, as even Nehalem from 2008 or 2009 can still be equipped with 12GB+ RAM, SATA SSDs, and PCIe 2.0 transfer rates.
Go back to 2008, though, and something from 1993 like a Pentium 1 system certainly could not perform any contemporary task from that time period.
Nice build, that was the first GPU to hit the 1 TFLOP FP32 mark.Now that I have 16:9 panels I figured it's time to put this Radeon HD 4850 512MB I've had for years through its paces...
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I would have paired it with a P35/45 motherboard and a Q9650 instead of this G31/Q6700 combo but my DP35DP got ruined by cat piss (and I'm not spending $150-200 for a replacement!). Pretty sure I left my Q9650 and other LGA775 CPUs back in the Southwest, but I just have to persuade my friend to get off his ass and mail them out to me....
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I mean, nehalem isn't impressive (after trying to use it a bit more), it is definitely slower feeling than sandy bridge, but that doesn't change that it can still do tons of tasks today, but it definitely shows its age, unlike sandy bridge (in my honest opinion).Oh yeah, I recently acquired a nehalem and yeah, it's almost too usable, besides being forced into MBR and windows 11 freezes upon install.
Yes, next year it Sandy Bridge will officially be classified as retro, crazy as that sounds.
You are right in that it is still very usable for modern tasks.
I've never tweaked LGA 775, although, id imagine with some people getting 2x overclocks, bus speeds get pretty high!Retro is a state of mind, unlocked multiplier and locked bus overclocking doesn't feel retro to me. It will undoubtedly be 15 years old either way.
I really need to amass a small collection of 775 CPUs to play with. They might be too slow to run anything new but they'll always be fun to tweak.
The great ones did 100% but practically all of the cheaper chips would do 50%+. Intel had tons of headroom on them and the boards usually had FSB headroom too. Good times.I've never tweaked LGA 775, although, id imagine with some people getting 2x overclocks, bus speeds get pretty high!
The great ones did 100% but practically all of the cheaper chips would do 50%+. Intel had tons of headroom on them and the boards usually had FSB headroom too. Good times.
Do you have any to show off?400 and 500 FSB was some great times on P45 and Wolfdale! Still have some Gigabyte MBs, CPUs and RAM.
You are upgrading the shit out of that Nehalem platform.Small update:
I installed an nvme drive. On a now 16 year old system... Isn't it amazing? The people who make Legacy nvme bootloaders are magical, it's so great to have an nvme on this old thing. Windows 10 on an nvme feels so quick, since I had gotten used to the hard drive on 7. I have also installed my deepcool ak620 cooler, it didn't work with LGA 775 mounting holes, but it did with the 1366 holes. I think deepcool did that by accident, but who knows, it now runs pretty cool, (60c with my overclock) and I'm excited to get a Xeon eventually.
Nvme adapter:
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Thanks a lot to rEFInd!!
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And my huge air cooler in a tiny case:
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Finally, my CPU-Z (update, new O/C):
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Well, its all stuff I had, just in other systems, namely, my AMD FX that supports native NVME. I also have DDR3 up the wazoo, albeit some has died over the last couple years. But yeah, I have like 3 mobo-cpu combos that all run on DDR3 (haswell, FX, Nehalem). I am just giving the Nehalem special treatment ATM. My fx now has 4gb of ram and a Dell PSU.You are upgrading the shit out of that Nehalem platform.
This is peak 2000s, respect!![]()
I have a Z77-A, GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 and a P67A-GD65-B3 and 2 2600k's.Recently, I have been too busy to mess with my retro builds, but I want to give an update on my next project. I do not want to commit any heresies, but it is going to be sandy bridge. Why? I have heard the stories about the legendary 32nm Sandy bridge 5ghz+ OCs, and I love my 32nm FX in the same way that people love sandy, you can chuck voltage and clocks at it until the temps become an issue- something that can be mitigated easily.
My plan so far:
-It started after seeing some guy's FS post here, with both a 2500k and 3570k. That is what told me that hey, maybe this will be my opportunity to go through the LGA 1155 platform.
-I found an auction for an asus pz77-v (I think that is the name...?) that is listed for parts (he said only lights, no post, but generally had little info.), but it literally had no bids, and I bet $1 plus $7 shipping. It ends in a day, so wish me luck!
-I went on aliexpress for some DDR3 and saw that I could get 4x4GB 1866 for literally like $16 all in, or get 2x8GB for the same price. I want 4x4gb mostly for looks.
-I saw a $5 i3 3220 to hopefully use to test and troubleshoot that board.
That is as far as I have gotten
Lol, or a troubleshooting nightmare and -$13, if the board is truly toast.I have a Z77-A, GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 and a P67A-GD65-B3 and 2 2600k's.
Best proc that I ever had. I could do 4.5 with stock volts on my P67.
You will have fun guaranteed.
So, I have another update-- I kinda struck it lucky on the silicon lottery with my 8300-- a little bit. I have it with a 240mm aio, and I have it 5ghz stable at 1.49v (that goes to about 1.50 in LLC). Is that a pretty good chip?--Update!-- My Fx-8300 arrived today and I have put it in. Also, with FX, the best thing is that I can actually use 32gb of ram. So far, my OC success has been 4.8ghz @ 1.392v (under load with LLC) that ended up BSODing while downloading Windows updates... Since then, I just set the multiplier down a notch and I am typing this right now at 4.7 ghz. My temps under load are around 52-53c,
Probably a little above average.So, I have another update-- I kinda struck it lucky on the silicon lottery with my 8300-- a little bit. I have it with a 240mm aio, and I have it 5ghz stable at 1.49v (that goes to about 1.50 in LLC). Is that a pretty good chip?
Uh, take me with 2 grains of salt, but I can confirm that a fermi card is at least compatible with those really old apis. Id suggest doing some research (GPt search is really good at this, in my experience)I have a question: although the GTX 780 / 980 is probably the most powerful GPU that's Win XP compatible, do they have any problem running earlier XP era games? DirectX 7... etc? Or If you're building an XP machine, you'd go for something like 6800 Ultra / 7800 GTX?