It's so beautiful
>>55230377
DESIGNATED
>>55230377
Housefire
HOLY SHIT
ITS BEAUTIFUL
>>55230377
Is that a sound card?
>>55230435
ITT WE POST BEAUTIFUL TECHNOLOGY
>>55230495
Well, why not.
>>55230377
Can't wait to have that card.
>Wait a minute, that card
>>55230402
>100 watts
>housefire
could you be a bit less of a obvious summerfag?
>>55230495
i always wondered, but could never afford it as a kid.
was memory on a video card that easy to upgrade back in the day? could you really just get the right chips and double yur memory?
>>55230547
>yur
logitech keyboard, last fucking time
>>55230547
Yes.
These days though there's no need with AMD stuffing ridiculous amounts of vram on midrange cards like the 390 and 480.
>beautiful
>>55230501
VIA boards look so cute, don't you think?
>>55230629
they kind of look like they short out easily near the bottom
>>55230629
Yep. Too bad you really can't get them anywhere for cheap
>29th is only Wednesday
gezz
>>55230544
>AMD
>not a housefire
The spookiest card
>>55230544
It doesn't have a heat sink.
You really don't belong here.
>>55230674
S A V A G E
A
V
A
G
E
why are you just posting random expansion cards
stunning
>>55230934
They are BEAUTIFUL.
>>55230953
No they aren't. They're just generic expansion cards.
Beautiful, you say?
>>55230952
Actually really impressive work.
>>55230965
I still don't get how they thought that cooling "concept" was any good
Did they not test it at all before manufacturing?
>>55230985
What? I can't hear you! Can you speak up?
>>55230995
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>>55230963
Beautiful expansion cards though
>>55231004
>and then you realized the card was deafening you just by idling
>>55230652
Ikr. I want the new c4650 but it's so expensive I can't justify it. Ended up getting a d2500 board instead for A$19
>>55231037
For what purpose?
>>55231037
Yo what
I don't remember this shit
>>55231064
For when you buy Intel and regret it
>>55231064
>>55231065
remember this?
>>55231088
What the fuck am I looking at? Why are the components so massive on that board?
>>55230697
>It doesn't have a heat sink
Why would there be a fire in your toilet?
Drivers for this one are really shit.
>>55231116
tube audio
>>55231088
>those ribbon ports
Man. I know it's stupid, but I really miss those massive ribbon cables. They were just so aesthetically pleasing to hold and. I still have one for when I'm working on builds, running my thumb over the cable bumps is very calming. Kind of like a rosary, I guess.
>>55231116
"Audiophile" board, has a tube amp for the onboard sound
Reviewers said it sounded worse than normal onboard cards of other boards.
>>55231037
>>55231064
>>55231065
>>55231148
Man, that... that seems like a really terrible idea. Did it work well?
>>55230495
I remember when I had one of these and actually found expandable memory for it, extra 512k!
>>55230501
I miss AT boards. Super Socket 7 was tite af and you could do AMD or Intel on some boards.
I miss how wonderful and almost innocent technology used to seem.
This one is dead.
![radeon-hd-5970[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TvAlhcQ.jpg "radeon-hd-5970[1].jpg")
fampai plz
>>55231203
>that fan
Are you a smoker?
>>55231142
>>55231088
Vaguely, but that was before I gave a shit about the audio output.
My main memory of weird boards back then was some AGP+PCIe boards. And those funky 479 boards, since an overclocked pentium-M could beat the shit out of a P4.
>>55231179
I found the article for you. conclusion at the bottom
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/mainboard/ecs-sima-a9s-sis756.html
>>55231210
Ayy
>>55231203
Looks like a 6800. I remember the 6800 ultra was the best card you could buy when I got into computers. Had that funky lookin' fairy bitch on it too.
I'll buy one some day and play the 3dmark 01 demo on it.
>>55231202
>Super Socket 7
I really miss my old SS7 systems.
Was funny that you could run anything from a Pentium MMX to AMD K6-2+ 550MHz processors on the same card.
>>55231246
Shit pic, but I snapped up this beauty for 70 eurobucks a while back.
>>55231218
Nope. No idea why the dust looks brown on the picture.
>>55231254
It's a 8800GTS 640MB. Has the same probllem as all other nvidia GPUs of that generation
Shit, I fucking love this thread right now. I remember when I went from a Rage 4mb PCI card to an Xptert 98 8mb card and things like Quake and UT and Unreal all ran so much better at 800x600.
>>55231290
Got mine for free last year from a dead pre-built. Tested it, it gets artifacts when it heats up and sounds like a jet engine if you turn the fan up.
Will stick to my gtx680 for now
>>55231263
Shit I remember when I had a K6-2 250MHz and I upgraded to a K6-2 450 for like 40 bucks and it just dropped right in. I used to drool over the K6-3 550.
RIP
>>55231325
Mine was part of a crossfire set, me and a mate bought them and took one each. Did test them though, under a short stress test both seemed to work fine.
It serves as decoration now though, I'm sticking with my 290 Vapor-X until Vega comes out (and maybe longer, we'll see).
HELP
TOO BEAUTIFUL
HELP
>>55231354
>double 5970 crossfire
Absolute madmen
>>55230377
Behold, and I bring unto thee, Providence!
>>55231349
>it's like a voodoo1
>but slower
>>55231388
Sex.
Sex and drugs.
>>55231348
I tried to get my hands on a K6-3 but never had any luck, from what i seen they all went into shitty Compaq laptops and compact multimedia PCs.
IIRC a 450MHz K6-3 would outperform 500MHz Katmai Pentium 3s that were much more expensive at the time.
>>55231368
Oh yes. We had to put them next to a window to cool down the backplates after we were done. These things get HOT.
>>55231420
>IIRC a 450MHz K6-3 would outperform 500MHz Katmai Pentium 3s
Not quite, but they were 95% the performance for 50% of the price.
Except in AutoCAD. The Pentium 3 destroyed the K6's.
That said, when I didn't need SMP, the K6-3 was really the only option, and I ran one for years.
Then the Athlon 64 came out, and everything changed...
>>55231396
Leave the poor card alone, man. It did the best it could. Bless its underperforming little heart.
>>55231458
Oh wow.
Goddamn.
That's a sexy layout.
>>55231458
Did one of the current owners manage to make his card run stable?
>>55231446
It's too bad the SS7 were never made for SMP, a system with 2-4 K6s would have been awesome for low cost servers.
I still have a working Pentium 3 cpu and board at home. The psu blew up though.
Guess the brand of the motherboard.
>>55231530
Yeah. The best socket 7 you could get was a pair of Pentium 233's. There is an Asus board that I was looking for when I posted the PR440FX, but I couldn't find it. Shame too, I had one running NT4. 64MB? RAM, 2x 2GB SCSI (OS), 8x 9.1 GB Seagate Elite (full height 5.25 SCSI). Those were the days...
The fun project was the ALR 6x6 running Pentium Pro Overdrives.
>>55230377
it's so beautiful
Too much eyecandy, time for abominations
>>55231578
Not as beautiful as this
>>55231530
>>55231568
Actually, I found it. Asus P55T2D.
>>55231585
>all those goddamn jumpers
Please tell me this was never a retail product
>>55231596
I've got some bad news for you...
>>55231585
And the other
>>55231596
Yep, the jumper blocks were to select between sockets. The version of this board that had the newer chip on a daughterboard also had them.
>>55230544
it has 6 power phases. that card will be drawing a lot more than 100w at load.
>>55231608
>>55231604
Reminds me of that HP laptop where you have to remove 60 screws to replace the keyboard
>>55231585
pls no bully candy corn board
This one was completely ruined by the shitty nvidia chipset.
>>55231674
What are the jumpers for?
>>55231674
You mean the #1 Socket 939 motherboard ever?
>>55231706
On that DFI board they're for PCI-E slot lane allocation. I know the x4 slot and x1 slots have dedicated lanes, but the 2 x16 slots had to share.
>>55231088
is that a fucking vacuum tube?
>>55231002
This is stunning. Please explain what it actually does.
>>55231721
It was a great board for sure, I mean I had it for ages, but it's still pretty unappealing visually.
>>55231762
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
>>55231654
How does that shit work?
Phases ain't for AC current only?
Why the heck do people talk about inductor+capacitor pairs as "phases"?
>>55231804
Someone please explain this to me. An inductor + capacitor is used to reduce ripple in a DC circuit, with an AC source.
So power phases just decrease the ripple in the circuit? Do they do anything else?
>>55231791
>in particular, a file recording the contents of memory after a system error is usually called a core dump.
Huh, learned something new today. Neat.
>>55231557
This thing used to be my daily use machine for the summer months up until 2012 when it was replaced by a AMD E350 APU system.
>>55231568
>ALR 6x6
I remember following some guys build log of getting one of those things running again back in 2003-2004, motherboard is freaking huge.
Most impressive i ever got my hands on was an old Compaq 4 CPU PPro server, but i had very little use for it, i had already gonne through dual P3 tualatins and a dual MP2200+ system by then.
Besides, it used more power than both the tualatins and the Athlon MPs together, so i sold it to someone that needed it for spares.
Late 90s early 00s really were the best time to play around with computers.
I remember dumpster diving old P2 and PPro servers in huge numbers and selling parts on ebay to pay for my new computers back then.
>>55231769
DFI never did give a flying fuck about what their boards looked like, and occasionally they did their own little abominations like this fucking thing.
What is it you may ask? Its a P45 motherboard that has an Atom 330/Nvidia ION system integrated into it under the second heatsink. Its literally 2 systems on the same physical board.
>>55231821
they reduce ripple and increase amperage capacity. Overclocked chips can draw hundreds of amps at 1.xx volts (I*V=P), and even if they dont it doesnt hurt to overbuild the phases a bit because it reduces overall heat output, and since silicon draws more power the hotter it gets, increases efficiency to have more phases than what is strictly necessary.
>>55231867
>Its literally 2 systems on the same physical board.
How does that even work? How do you switch between the two?
>>55231867
Was Intel core 2 and the transition to ddr3 the end of weird and funky tech?
>>55231821
You replied to me.
That shit you said is definitely true, but the power supply already fixes AC ripples (for god sake it uses switching regulators, it already does that). However you can use inductor/capacitor to reduce power surges and reduce the possible damage of spike currents (the few ms before you start playing vidya and rendering polygons).
>>55231867
what is this...
where am I?
>>55231923
It was the beginning of "minimalism" and "PC master race" so all the non-OEM boards had to look edgy
>>55231913
Oh my. I may have fallen in love.
>>55231894
Apparently it has an integrated hard network link between the two as it did an onboard KVM switch chip. Both systems could be run simultaneously, and the idea was to either let the secondary system be something someone else could use at the same time, to be a low power system that could be run while the high power side was off, or just do other things (say, a integrated fileserver) while the main system was busy.
Thermaltake also at one time made the Mozart TX, a monster Xbawks Hueg (seriously, thing was a monster) case that could physically support 2 systems, a normal ATX system and a smaller BTX system (i think, I saw an article where they hacked in a normal mATX board) on the flipside of the main board tray.
>>55231923
For release hardware, yah, but some really fucking weird concept hardware continued to show up every now and then at the tech shows afterwards. There was one I think had a radeon 5850/5870 integrated directly into the board, and there was another concept that had both LGA 1366 and LGA 2011 sockets on the same board.
>>55231975
Sapphire does some crazy shit from time to time.
>tfw you will never have a hideous candy cane motherboard.
I still like their 990fx atomic the best though.
>>55231967
This makes me sad
I love this board. Best purchase I've ever done. Looks fucking mesmerizing in person.
>>55231458
Omg glorious
I have a V5 PCI and V4 PCI
>>55232056
Why did they stop making AMD socketed motherboards?
/g/ ive been looking for another one of these for a while.
I had one when they were new, with an unlocked XP2500, Zalman CNPS copper flower cooler, ATi 9800 Pro 256mb, and 1gb Corsair XMS Pro with the LEDs on the top
>>55232123
>7x pcie
>you will never again experience a beautiful and fun mix of PCI, ISA, and AGP.
>>55232205
Is that the Soundstorm chipset? Those were pretty great
>>55232176
AMD stopped making relevant CPUs.
>>55231088
what exactly was this board listed as?
>>55232056
I'm almost afraid to ask what the fuck is going on in that image.
>>55232221
yup
loved this thing, had that little 2500 up to 2.5ghz stable. was my favorite board, if I find another one I'm doing a retro build
>>55231299
But can it run Crysis?
>>55232230
AOpen AX4B-533 Tube is the model number. That power plug looking socket next to the tube is actually the output that goes to a PCI slot mounted daughterboard.
>>55232262
I've got this one. Very stable board and apparently very similar.
Anyone remember the awful PCChips boards?
http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html
>>55232230
nm: AOpen AX4B-533
>>55231578
>>55232314
Ah PCChips. I had one of their microATX Socket 478 boards and played with it for a little bit. It died a quiet death when I tried to OC the CPU on it. I suppose attempting to bump a 2.8ghz chip straight to 3.7ghz (there was only 2 options: 400mhz and 533mhz) didnt work so well.
>>55232297
had that exact board before the DFI it was an unstable piece of shit that I had RMA'd like 3 times. kept defaulting to 100mhz FSB no matter what I did
I've considered one for a retro build Im sure any of those that had that issue are gone by now
>>55232314
>>55232443
I remember them with fondness.....I had a PCChips Baby AT Pentium 3 board 1ghz that I am fairly sure smoked itself once, it was a file server with a 12-HDD stack in a giant server case I ended up replacing the whole setup with a Super Socket 7 board, 3dfx Banshee, 512mb RAM and 550 K6-3
>>55230550
>DO NOT APPLY PRESSURE TO TOP COVER
Who the fuck are they to tell me what to do? Fucking capslock too!
>>55232314
>>55232443
>>55232483
Fun fact: googling PC Chips gives that site as the second result.
>>55230797
What a stupid fucking heatsink fan design
>>55232533
sup?
>>55232548
Not him, choked on my drink laughing at that. Thanks.
>>55232548
>we need to make a really good looking heatsink, what do we do?
>you remember them silver airstream campers?
>say no more, I got this
>>55232576
>>55232533
Apparently the card looked like this, but it was already "modded" by an earlier owner
>>55232604
Why not one fan over the whole thing
Less rpm for the same air flow and less sound
I think the new EVGA 1080 aftermarket cards look quite nice.
>>55232649
>>55232604
>>55232587
>>55232548
What the fuck is leadtek's obsession with screens? Are they trying to keep tiny raccoons out of their heatsinks?
>>55232684
Maybe dust filters?
>>55232713
They're so small that it seems like it'd fuck up airflow more than prevent dust entering.
>>55232727
That thing is a shitty joke. I bet even HIS engineers laughed at that crap
>>55232744
No way man, it's totally legit. You have to buy the $1700 audio cables to hear the difference though.
>>55232782
It's for your video card, though.
>>55232809
Exactly
>>55232727
>>55232744
I think HIS is the joke.
>>55232835
That actually looks pretty awesome in a weird way.
I'd buy it.
>>55232876
You have very strange tastes.
>>55232941
That's true, but who cares, you buy what you want and I'll buy what I want?
That would have looked nicer with an engraved honeycomb all over the top plate instead of just the center btw.
>>55231557
It's gigabyte btw.
The motherboard is gigabyte.
>>55232963
For sure, I wasn't making a dig at you or anything.
>>55232548
I actually think that looks badass.
>>55233105
That reminds me of those pcie splitters.
Could I use this to crossfire or sli? By splitting one pcie x16 into 2 8x.
>>55233172
Good question.
Bump
>>55231830
>I remember following some guys build log of getting one of those things running again back in 2003-2004
Yeah, there was a thread on Arstechnica about it. Put it in an InWin case. He gave it to a friend of mine, friend gave it to me. Not sure where it is these days.
The Proliant 8500's were fun. Would love to adjust the same platform to todays density, but Dell beat me to it with the VRTX.
>>55233725
Wouldn't drivers not allow it on a mobo that isn't certified for sli/cfx?
>>55232176
>>55232229
I'm pretty sure they have fm2 and fm2+ motherboards floating out there. They actually have developer systems for the firepro apu.
>>55232257
Full coverage water block. Cpu, vrms, Southbridge, everything that produces heat gets liquid cooled.
>>55233172
Might work for XF.
Almost definitely won't work for SLI.
>>55236271
>Firepro APU
That sounds awesome.
>>55236328
Why not?
>>55236332
Yeah, just now realized it's fucking pile driver arch, wow.. Has ddr3 and ddr4 controllers pcie 3.0x8 Yada Yada.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FirePro%20A320%20-%20AWA320WOA44HJ.html
>>55231674
I had that board. Didn't you have to change all those jumpers to enable SLI? They were in banks so you didn't have to change each set of pins individually, just a whole block at a time.
Eventually SLI came into the chipset so you didn't need to change the jumpers or something.
>>55236482
Piledriver would have been great for servers if they improved the ipc and efficiency. They're dropping it too soon, it still has so much potential.
>>55231578
Obligatory autism
>>55231588
>>55236715
>>55236723
Dude what?
glorious AGP slot
>>55230657
hello my friend, welcome to /g/
now get the fuck out
ATI 3850, one of the fastest AGP cards
>>55237704
Silly me the one above was PCIe, here´s the right one
>>55231674
i had this one along an opteron 144 rocking at 2700MHz. Unfortunately the Kingston Hyper X RAM i had in this rig only made it to 245MHz stable.
>>55236574
Steamroller is really good, especially on multithreading. Too bad they never took the fx series passed pikedriver. I benched an 860k on cpuz, it was 37% faster (10% higher clock) in single threaded, and 70% of the 8120s multithreading score.
remember when nvidia made cheap, decent cards?
based FX 5600GT
>>55236715
>>55236723
for what purpose
>>55237457
I had the microatx S478 version of that board, and it actually worked ok until the capacitors feeding the CPU all simultaneously failed.
I would have fixed it but I didnt have any suitable replacements to salvage from my other boards and electronic junk.
