OC3D Throwback Thursday

[blitztech]

I see a great interest in this (since I also horde). Every fortnight sounds like a decent time span for TBT.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

I would like to see P3's and either a 9700pro, or a Q6600 with a 8800GTX.

 

[GameOver]

actually you could use the older hardware to make a steam box that can then stream to your main desktop in another room and play windows based games on linux if you are a linux user who loves gaming.

 

[shadow]

I had a 486 (yes im old) then upgraded to a p75 with 4mb of ram.
Manual setting of the irq's.

Once every 2 weeks sounds a good idea, for the vids.

 

[Bartacus]

LOVE this idea! Makes me wish I had pics of the first 3D card I ever had, a Voodoo Rush.

 

[metalgun2000]

This was an awesome idea. You should keep this sort of thing going. The thought had crossed my mind to buy some old kit and do some real overclocking, back when it was more enjoyable. Not the tediousness of just doing multiplier bumps on z87 or z77. Mindnuming.

 

[Bullmecha]

I would like to see this as well as the rest of these folks. New stuff is nice but it seems rather lacking lately.

Bring forth the old school !!!

Maybe ask for pics for vids.. IE you have a running X type system send in a pic to see in the upcoming vid.

 

[samwisekoi]

Retro Build!

Don't bother benching, just do some retro builds!

New case plus old hardware, or old case and old hardware. Or a combo.

Then crank up some Doom II (or BF4 I suppose) and see how it runs.

Can you hit 6GHz with an H100? Do modern games even run? Is XP as bad as we remember?

Build some cool systems just for fun.

Just my £.02.

- samwisekoi

 

[Wraith]

Just in case anyone was wondering about comparing the GTX295 against the GTX690 as TTL pointed out just to see how they stack up today here it is.

GTX 295
Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce GTX 200
GPU: GT200b x 2
Release Date: 2009-01-08
Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock: 576 MHz
Shader Clock: 1242 MHz
Memory Clock: 999 MHz (1998 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 223.776 GB/sec
FLOPS: 1788.48 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 32256 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 92160 MTexels/sec
Max Power Draw: 289 W
Noise Level: Moderate
Framebuffer: 1792 MB
Memory Type: GDDR3
Memory Bus Type: 64x7 (448 bit)
DirectX Compliance: 10.0
OpenGL Compliance: 2.1
PS/VS Version: 4.0/4.0
Process: 55 nm
Shader Processors: 480 (240)
Pipeline Layout: Scalar MADD+MUL
Texture Units: 160 (80)
Raster Operators 56 (32)

GTX 690
Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce GTX 600
GPU: GK104 x 2
Release Date: 2012-05-03
Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16
Core Clock: 915 MHz
Shader Clock: 915 MHz
Memory Clock: 3004 MHz (6008 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 384.512 GB/sec
FLOPS: 5621.76 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 58560 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 234240 MTexels/sec
Max Power Draw: 300 W
Noise Level: Moderate
Framebuffer: 4096 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus Type: 64x4 (256 bit)
DirectX Compliance: 11.0
OpenGL Compliance: 3.2
PS/VS Version: 5.0/5.0
Process: 28 nm
Shader Processors: 3072 (1536)
Pipeline Layout: SMX
Texture Units: 256 (128)
Raster Operators 64 (32)

 

[ShaunB-91]

Has anybody got an old rig still they could post pics of?

Doom 2? It's Doom 3 you want to bench, that was a hard game to bench back then as was Far Cry (1).

Return To Castle Wolfenstein. Max Payne! Ohhhh the good old days!!

 

[Xayer]

This is a really good idea, especially for a person like me who got into Hardware around P65 & Geforce GTX 500 Series!

 

[ShaunB-91]

This is a really good idea, especially for a person like me who got into Hardware around P65 & Geforce GTX 500 Series!

I think my first all built rig was P45, I'm sure that was the Asus P5B's, may have been P65, I can't remember!

My rig before it was upgraded over time but never knew what the Gigabyte board was.

Edit: Lol think I'm thinking of another P45 actually haha.

 

[temag20]

still running in my PC right now with moderate OC, even with a broken cap.

 

[GussetPimp25]

This is brilliant, I used to have so much older gear but alas sold it off to pay for newer stuff, but after a bit of hunting i found these bits laying around, i guess there's a reason why i couldn't sell any of this haha

Two Geforce 2's, an ATI x1600, two Athlon XP 1800+, one Pentium D 820, an e6600, a really old MSI KM2M 462 socket, my pretty rock solid Asrock z68 board and an old sound card which has no label, oh and my very old Nintendo manhole handheld, its a mismatch but pretty much all of this stuff still works and its always fun to chuck an old system together.

 

[nippinpippin]

Great idea Tom.
My 3.4Ghz, Q6600 is still going strong.
Even though my main rig is an i7 2600K I still love messing with my socket 775 rig.
Full spec is Asus P5Q Deluxe MB, 8GB of Gskill PC2-8500 ram, Patriot Inferno 120GB Sata 2 SSD, 2TB Seagate HD and a GTX 570 GPU. OS is Windows 7 64bit. I know it's long in the tooth but it still plays all modern games at OK levels @ 1080p
Would really be interested in seeing the older stuff in videos, especially OCing as they were so much more involved to get really high stable results.

 

[MilesPNZ]

Would love to as an old AMD 9600 XT. I remember back in the day we had AMD Athlon 3000+ CPUs with 512mb ram and a 9600 XT. All we did was play WoW and Counter Strike.

 

[Asus11]

the best motherboard ever made?

rampage 3 extreme black edition

I still have mine I like this TBT I used to love my gtx 260

 

[agent_x007]

I would like to see P3's and either a 9700pro, or a Q6600 with a 8800GTX.

U want PIII's ?
U come to right place :E
I will rock Your world My friend
Tualatin Celeron 1300MHz (OC'ed to 1,6GHz+) + 6800GT (with NV5 Silencer - of course) http://i.imgur.com/D9eL3wZ.jpg
PIII Cumine with BX440 chipset in legendary MS-6905 Master Slotket with 9800XT : http://imageshack.us/a/img845/2354/vpy7.png
And here's My fav. (not PIII related) : http://i.imgur.com/WVe9hON.jpg
Impossible is nothing my friends

Anniversary of LGA775 is coming, and I would like to see, a comparison of every LGA775 CPU Core* available for it, in few things :
1) Internet (can it play smoothly YT or... ads on webpage ?)
2) Movies (can it play HD Video without hardware accelerated GPU ?)
3) Games (can, for example, Pentium Extreme Edition 965 beat Core 2 Duo, when GPU needs 4 threads ?)

*CPU Core : ie. Prescott-2M, Cedar Mill, Presler, Gallatin, Wolfdale, Conroe-L, etc.
Don't worry, I ask only for 1 CPU model per core

But LGA771 Xeon in LGA775 motherboard can also be interesting...

 

[Red Dragon]

Great idea
Brings back so many memories,i instantly saw that 7950gx2 xD
I still have one lying around thats fully working, the drivers were a mess for it back then (i wonder if they ever fixed the crysis water flickering)

I was running a q9550 (E0) @4ghz on a Rampage formula (x48, Awesome board to oc with) for ages

 

[Geralt]

hmm so it seems my hardware was dated. Till last week I was running q9550 on Maximus formula nad 4 GB of RAM with gtx 570 and I thought it was running pretty decent. TBH with my new machine I still kept the gtx 570 . Anyways for you fully watercooled X38 setup: