Nvidia 680i LT, Intel Q6600, Nvidia 8800 GTS build (December 2007)

[andrevautour]

Hi all,

Today I'm going to travel back to December 2007 and show you some images from my dad's personal build for the 2007-2008 time period.

The case was some aluminum generic case that was fairly popular at the time. it was from TigerDirect. it had 2X 80mm fan mounts at the front with those light purple fast clips, some of you may remember those in older cases. they blocked the airflow quite a bit along with the poor quality cutouts in the case itself resulted in less than ideal airflow. My dad removed all the fast clips and cut all the aluminum out and made them all into 92mm fan cutouts. He then fitted all the cutouts with Vantec Steath 92mm fans, which were supposed to be quiet fans for the time.


The motherboard was an XFX Nforce 860i LT.

The memory was 2GB of DDR2 800mhz Corsair XMS 2

The video card was a EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SSC Edition

Processor was an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600


Here are some picture's of the graphics card.


IMG_4520 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4527 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4529 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




Motherboard:



IMG_4662 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4663 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4665_2 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr






IMG_4666_2 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4660 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4659 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4658 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4657 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




The build



IMG_4616 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4617 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4618 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


Zalman Copper cooler with 120mm fan.


IMG_4621 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4622 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4623 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4624 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4625 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4626 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4627 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4628 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4629 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4630 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4631 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4632 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4634 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4635 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4636 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr





IMG_4638 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



IMG_4641 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4642 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4645 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


IMG_4647 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4649 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_4655 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr




IMG_5226 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr



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IMG_5240 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

 

[Ghosthud1]

the 6/7 series of nvidia chipset boards give me terrible nostalgia erghhhh XD

 

[The Orange One]

I Like all these Old Builds you are putting up Andre!

 

[rossi94]

Me too, someone should create a museum with a timeline of pc builts inside it

 

[yassarikhan786]

You and dad sure do keep busy with these computer builds

 

[andrevautour]

the 6/7 series of nvidia chipset boards give me terrible nostalgia erghhhh XD

I Like all these Old Builds you are putting up Andre!

Me too, someone should create a museum with a timeline of pc builts inside it

You and dad sure do keep busy with these computer builds

thanks guys! it is a lot of fun looking back at them and remember them all! i wish i had some more pictures of the earlier ones! before this one it was a gigabyte amd board with a amd 64 3200+ and a nvidia 6800 ultra around 2005 when the original far cry was coming out. then before that it was an MSI 875p neo, pentium 4 and nvidia fx5600 card. before that it was amd athlon xp 3200+ and geforce 4200ti, and before that it was pentium 3 500mhz and the original gefornce 256 in 1999

i found the 6800 box the other day and took a picture, maybe some of you remember BFG cards?

and this was the pentium 4 motherboard by msi i reunsed in later in the computer for my sister.

 

[andrevautour]

this was my first computer -- an hp pavilion 541c in 2002. it game with geforce 2 integrated graphics and it wasn't long before i put a geforce 4200 in there.


IMG_1503_047 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


103_0364 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


103_0363 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


my old syncmaster 900nf

111_1158 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr


and this was my dads setup around 2002. he had a dell 21 inch crt and 2 Nokia 19 inch ones


IMG_1503_045 by Andre Vautour, on Flickr

 

[CPMFW]

nice work mate!

 

[hmmblah]

I used to love those chieftec aluminum cases. Had one for a mobile AXP 2500+/9800pro/BH-5 build. That was such a great time in computers for me.

 

[andrevautour]

nice work mate!

thanks man! i have a band new personal rig project log coming up soon- im just taking pictures for that now. updated specs are in my signature

I used to love those chieftec aluminum cases. Had one for a mobile AXP 2500+/9800pro/BH-5 build. That was such a great time in computers for me.

For sure! I had a lot of fun. I had a athlon XP 2900+ and a Radeon 9800 Pro too with one of those passive zalman heatpipe coolers on it that covered both sides of the card with a heatsink and there was one heatpipe that wrapped around the card and touched both sides of the heatsink

 

[CPMFW]

thanks man! i have a band new personal rig project log coming up soon- im just taking pictures for that now. updated specs are in my signature

looking forward to it