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Wait... what?Dayum! My peasant self over here with only a MT32-Pi
not sure how the 180's clock, but my 165 runs at 300Mhz/2.7Ghz on my Abit AN8-SLI and has ran that way since I got it. While it spends most if it's time these days in the closet, it's a fun flashback form time to time.
Yes I was liking the "Easy come easy go, I suppose" part not the lost and damaged boards.
No worries lol - I have found in this day and age, sadly, you can't always be sure. Trolls take many forms and guises...
That would have been from circa 1998-2000, so 64MB to 128MB RAM would have been average for that time.
Nice! I always drooled over 2P systems even then, but lamented the lack of general support outside of WinNT and 2000...
Yep, 256MB would have been high end, but not out of place in a dual PIII 933MHz system.
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My Voodoo 3 3000 AGP from the late 90's fired right up!
+1 for that Zalman CPU copper cooler, those were the best!True Retro PC build complete! Plays 3DFX games smooth as butter so far!
Specifications:
ABit KT7A v1.3 PCB with last bios to gain Athlon XP support
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.73Ghz
768Mb of SDRAM PC133 @ 2-2-2-6 (I OCed these)
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, overclocked to 175Mhz core/memory (might go higher if i need too)
SB Live! 5.1 w/ DOS emulation installed
Netgear 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter
Realtek USB 2.0 PCI card
40GB 7200RPM Western Digital IDE Drive
16x DVD/ 32x CD Drive
Iomega ZIP100 Drive
Antec 400W Power Supply (had to use to get enough amps on the 5.0V and 3.3V rails)
Windows 98SE w/ SP2 installed
Yeah, got it around the time of my Soyo KT880 and Athlon XP 2800+. This mobo had the mounting holes, so figured, why not! CPU hasn't even gone above 35C under full load testing... lol. Decided to use some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on it too. Might OC it, but its hardly a limiting factor for a Voodoo 3, so it was more for aesthetics...+1 for that Zalman CPU copper cooler, those were the best!
I still have a Q9450 running on an Asus P5BDelux (P965 chipset) at 3.6Ghz with 8GB of DDR2 and a GeForce 1080.
It's just a web/YouTube/Photoshop PC my wife uses these days, but outside of gaming, it holds up surprisingly well for modern tasks. It has an SSD in it and is quite responsive running Windows 10. Based on benchmarks I have run with it (for fun), it would hold up for games at 1080P and even some at 2K from maybe about 4~6 years ago and before. Anything within the last 3~4 years though that require decent CPU IPC would likely be a stutter fest because of the platform/cpu limitations.
Core 2 really pushed the goalposts further out. It doesn't surprise me that for light usage it still fares well enough today. Having SSE4 instructions help.I still have a Q9450 running on an Asus P5BDelux (P965 chipset) at 3.6Ghz with 8GB of DDR2 and a GeForce 1080.
I mean, what's your end goal? The Q9650 will all around be a better CPU than the Q6600 with more cache and newer instruction set. Even with the higher FSB, they still overclock really well if you have a good motherboard and good DDR2.
Really it's just to play period games, a gaming time capsule, if you will. I originally was going to put in the Pentium D and install a 7900 GTX for some end-of-Windows XP-era fun. The fact that this supports Yorkfield and Wolfdale CPUs is icing on the cake, and would allow me to more/less replicate my end-of-2008 gaming experience with an E8600/Q9650 with a GTS 250 1GB or 9800 GT 512MB, or pop in a Q6600 and build more/less what I initially set out to build...
Enjoy! Here is my Q9450 setup... have some massive cooling on the CPU and Northbridge because I have been pushing a 450Mhz FSB on that quad chip since it came out... lol.
Zalman FTW. I remember those flower style coolers well. They were among the best for that time period, IIRC. I had a Q9550 that would overclock to 400MHz FSB/3.4GHz with only a modest voltage bump, so I'm not at all surprised you were able to go up to 450MHz. Me? I saw no need to go further, as even at stock the system did what I needed well enough.
Did I have a "need" back then, not really, but anyone who knows me knows I get as much fun tweaking/pushing hardware as I do playing any games on it. I have pushed things to the max ever since I got into PC gaming, straight up when I buy it too... lol.
Nothing wrong with doing that. I am the opposite, choosing to never overclock. In my experience I just haven't been that lucky in regards to the silicon lottery so these days I don't even try.Did I have a "need" back then, not really, but anyone who knows me knows I get as much fun tweaking/pushing hardware as I do playing any games on it. I have pushed things to the max ever since I got into PC gaming, straight up when I buy it too... lol.
That specific LGA775 setup served me for a long time before it got passed on. It originally had an E6600 in it, which I upgraded to a Q6600 G0, which promptly got OC'ed to 3.6Ghz (400x9). Then upgraded to a Q9450 OC'ed to 3.6Ghz (450x8). That system served my gaming needs from Circa 2006ish until 2014 when i went to an X99 platform. Every nvidia video card (except the 6 series) from my 8800GTX to a GTX770 was in that system. It served me well and held up for quite some time before it got relegated to low end task duty
I currently have an ASUS 24" 1920x1200 monitor hooked up to my true retro build (the KT7A one). It's the only LCD I have that has DP, HDMI, DVI and VGA, and at 75Hz! Plus, it has a ton of scaling options being an "Art" monitor, so I am using 1:1 on my true retro build so it looks correct to the picture. It's obviously older, but it looks damn good, weights much less, and takes up less space than an old school CRT... lol. I used to have a Samsung SyncMaster CRT 17"... sadly lost that probably a decade ago...
I saw a Sony trinitron on the curb 2 weeks ago when I was walking in the neighborhood. I thought about picking it up to see if it still worked and keeping it if it did. Was probably about 17". Sadly tho, not sure where I would have put it, plus the wife was with me walking and was already getting pissed when I half jokingly mentioned getting the car to go get it... LoL.
