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Post by Aleslammer on Oct 31, 2022 2:58:09 GMT -5
Bones , found three more that are bulged after getting the board out, worst is lower right-hand corner has a little fluid leakage. One in yellow makes me a little hesitant as a lot of trace activity on the back side.
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Post by Bones on Oct 31, 2022 4:29:37 GMT -5
At the very least I'd get those out to help prevent any possible damage from going further. Get them out, do the cleanup and see how it is.
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Post by mel0n on Nov 13, 2022 12:20:56 GMT -5
Finished building my first SLI rig. Dual Quadro FX 4800s on XFX nForce 780i SLI. This board was an absolute bitch to repair, needed to replace three capacitors but couldn't get the solder out of the holes after I removed them. Had to solder new caps to the top of the board, on top of the remainder of the leads from the blown ones. Looks a bit messy but works just fine.
Running a Q9650, currently not OC'd but I will be doing so later today. 4x1gb of Ballistix DDR2-1066 for RAM - 5-5-5-18 timing, not the tightest out there but it's still quite a good performing kit. Threw in an NVS 310 because it was supported by the Quadro driver, and can run the small screen on the front of my case without any extra load on the Quadros.
For some era appropriate drives I'm using two WD RE3 500GB in RAID 0 through the Nvidia MediaShield controller. They are quite quick drives.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, a little off in age but I don't want to touch Vista with a 10 foot pole.
Turns out Unreal Tournament 2004, the game I was most excited to run on this thing, runs significantly worse with SLI enabled. Oops. But still glad to have this system.
There's the little screen I put in the 3.5" bays on a dare last year. Totally unreadable in any font size below 72 pt, but looks pretty cool.
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Post by Bones on Nov 13, 2022 18:33:14 GMT -5
Looks good Melon, I know sometimes solder works goes sideways but you did get it going again. I'd suggest a stronger/hotter soldering pen and if you have one, to use an airwand to preheat the area around the caps too.
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Post by mel0n on Nov 25, 2022 21:08:09 GMT -5
Looks good Melon, I know sometimes solder works goes sideways but you did get it going again. I'd suggest a stronger/hotter soldering pen and if you have one, to use an airwand to preheat the area around the caps too. Had the pen heated to 480c, tried using hot air, flux, and a desoldering gun but none of that worked. Shame I had to resort to this solution, especially since I immediately broke one of the caps installing the GPUs and had to redo it, but hey it works.
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Post by Aleslammer on Jan 13, 2023 12:00:12 GMT -5
Ended up with a Asus P5E WS Pro, not the board I thought I was getting so was a little angry but after checking prices on the Pro plus shipping cost to send it back decided to keep it, has WS in the name so probably would of picked one up someday anyways. Though the seller got a few sharp words in my first email. So far the only thing interesting was the splash screen on first post using the Q6600 that it came with, (Only reason I posted this). Had to update BIOS for the wolfdale I was going to use so lost the splash screen. First attempt 6x500, 1.45v on the CPU, NB 1.5v, GTL's max'd, 1:1 mem ratio, RAM voltage at 2.2v everything else auto, no post same for 6x400. Set 6x333 got to windows discovered that BIOS was setting tRFC way to tight so went in and set the timings manually, no problems after that, though I couldn't get past a 560 FSB. Board has the same north and south bridge as the plain jane P5E or the MF so might try flashing it to the RF BIOS at some later date, didn't find any info pro or con on a quick search. Probably won't do much for the FSB but should help how the board handles memory. Added: Found this on search of F.R.E.D. www.redferret.net/fred-the-ultimate-forensic-computer-for-nabbing-bad-people/
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Post by Aleslammer on Jan 14, 2023 10:00:43 GMT -5
Well couldn't resist and flashed the P5E WS Pro to the RF BIOS, add another of the DDR2 boards that it works on. All settings the same as the first post, board posted out of the hole at 6x500 (didn't set RAM timings as a test), set timings tried 560, right into windows, FSB topped about 571 at 1.5v NB, Kicked it up to 1.6v made what's in the SS. Tried 1.6 with the native BIOS had no improvement. Only voltage sensor working is vcore, Temp sensors only CPU and cores showing up, don't remember how they reacted on the P5E but think a few more things worked. Pleasantly surprised!!!
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jan 14, 2023 16:05:24 GMT -5
5600G - I recently made a deal to upgrade the kids's Rigs.
These any good in B450 boards? Hope so, cause I don't plan on replacing motherboards.....
Gonna have to try a few benchmarks. Looks like average OC is a mere 4600mhz??? I thought these where 5ghz chips?
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 14, 2023 17:15:50 GMT -5
My 5600G does 4.8 on air.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jan 14, 2023 18:09:10 GMT -5
My 5600G does 4.8 on air. Not bad. I have wraith prisms. Should be good enough? Not for records but daily use.
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Post by MachineLearning on Jan 15, 2023 5:09:20 GMT -5
5600G - I recently made a deal to upgrade the kids's Rigs. These any good in B450 boards? Hope so, cause I don't plan on replacing motherboards..... It should do just fine - the only thing you could be missing out on is a better RAM OC if the memory topology isn't great on that B450. MSI is the best in this regard IMO for B450.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jan 15, 2023 16:59:14 GMT -5
5600G - I recently made a deal to upgrade the kids's Rigs. These any good in B450 boards? Hope so, cause I don't plan on replacing motherboards..... It should do just fine - the only thing you could be missing out on is a better RAM OC if the memory topology isn't great on that B450. MSI is the best in this regard IMO for B450. One of the boards is a 2 slotter Rog B450-I, should do ok I think.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Jan 15, 2023 17:11:30 GMT -5
It'll be fine.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Jan 15, 2023 20:33:56 GMT -5
The other system is using a B450M-A 1st revision. It runs a Ryzen 5 1400 currently.
Should be OK. Don't plan to OC that one though. It'll be interesting to see how the lowest end board handles this lol.
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Post by mel0n on Jan 19, 2023 13:01:40 GMT -5
Picked up a Core 2 Quad Q9100 for my Precision M4400 mobile workstation (also rocking a Quadro FX 770m and 8GB of DDR2, quite high end for the time). Love seeing the two dies on these. Great reminder that a Core 2 Quad is literally just two Core 2 Duo dies on the same chip. Few laptops could actually take Core 2 Quads, the limited edition Latitude E6400 in front of the Precision certainly can't and it was rather high end too. In fact, the Precision can take a QX9300, fully unlocked Extreme Edition CPU but those still go for around $80, leading me to the Q9100 instead. Can still play with the multiplier a little on these, from experience. Also, if anyone has a Quadro FX 1700m, reach out to me. Interested in buying one, and I can't find one anywhere.
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Post by mel0n on Apr 2, 2023 23:01:57 GMT -5
Been a little while... been taking a bit more time for myself lately but have also been maintaining some old servers. Quite interesting to now be able to casually drop that I've installed 18 sticks of RAM at once. My favorite of the servers, although the least powerful of the 3 I now own, is a dual 771 PowerEdge 2900. Uses FBDDR2 memory. I upgraded the CPUs to two Xeon Core 2 Quad Q9650 equivalents and it's running great. Just one of the dual PSUs on this big lad weighs a good 8 lbs. (Picture is from the factory config I inherited it in, before adding the new CPUs.) Here I am installing the new CPUs, which, as aforementioned, are basically Q9650s with the 771 socket. The memory it uses is FBDDR2, which despite its name has little in common with consumer DDR2. I've removed the heatsink from a module here for demonstration. It's keyed differently than DDR2, and has a chipset right in the middle of the module to enable not only ECC, but communication with the northbridge. First time I powered this server up, the sentient RAM actually informed me that one of the modules had died and was running at a reduced clockspeed. Odd. I have another PowerEdge that isn't all that interesting, I also have this 1u Proliant (which I really hate but hey it was like $150, can't complain.) Upgraded to dual Xeon X5650s and 18x4gb DDR3 ECC DIMMs. Odd having this configuration where each CPU has 3 channels, 3 slots per channel so you end up with odd memory sizes like 36, 72, 144gb.
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Post by Bones on Apr 3, 2023 2:54:04 GMT -5
mel0n That looks great! BTW for a good deal on some other stuff Mr. Scott found something you may want to take a look at. www.ebay.com/itm/225427262703I hope you see this before they are all gone.
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