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Okay, you actually made me go hunting and research a Socket I already thought I knew everything about. See....we DO learn new things everyday!!!! So.....I was GOING to say, that magazine must be impossible. FX-51 is a Socket 940 based processor, and Socket 940 only had PCIe capable motherboards and DDR ECC memory options only. HOWEVER, turns out I'd be wrong in that assessment. I had NO CLUE they made AGP Socket 940 motherboards!!!! Apparently, they were only produced in the early days of Socket 940, once Nvidia got their act together with their NForce chipsets, 940 went full PCIe only at THAT point (around Socket 939 release). Socket 754 was the only Socket at the time that had AGP from AMD, or you'd have to go backwards to Socket A and K7 with the Athlon-XP processors to get AGP back. Again, I see NOW that I was wrong in that remembrance. Here's proof: ASUS SK8N NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 Mainboard IXBTLABS.COM The only reason I even went into all that, is because the Radeon 9800XT was ONLY released as an AGP card. But hey, thanks for teaching me something new today!

You're going to fit in PERFECTLY around here....... Welcome (again I guess?) to EHW!

The Ti 4200's aren't too terribly bad if you can find one from a reasonable seller. I almost bought one for $35 a few days ago. Seller didn't want to combine shipping though (was from Ukraine to US), was trying to grab multiple old cards from him. $160 shipped for 3 vintage cards? Yeah no thank you. The Ti 4400 and 4600's are stupid expensive though. Been trying to score one. -_-

That was a wonderful read boss man. Sounds like Gigabyte has their act together on this SSD, looks like this SSD might be worth every penny of the Gen5 pricing. The included heatsink also appears like it might put high end tower coolers to shame too..... Spot on review! Was well worth the read!

Send it to pio to collect? Hey, can't say I didn't try......

I'm working on that...... Currently I've got a XFX GeForce 6200 I can toss in there, or a Riva TNT2 PCI 16MB card. I might be able to get my MX420 to stop artifacting, MAYBE but that's like a $9 card to replace too. So yeah, lacking AGP video cards still at the moment.

Don't you have a 3060Ti still you could be running too? You probably could've held the lead and beaten Flux had you had all your gear running I bet. Good showing everyone! My poor 6900XT is worthless on these foldathons, plus the heat, yeah its just too much during the summer.

Want! I already did that run though, I really should allow somebody else to take that.

Just got a neat new (to me) motherboard in from @UltraMega actually. Old 775 board that takes P4's and Pentium D's, and a couple Conroe C2D chips (very few). AGP board though!!! I do need to actually repair the board, there's one blown cap on there that needs attention before I want to power it up. These AGP 775 boards, ESPECIALLY ones that support Core 2 at all, are actually kinda hard to find. Should be a good board for hwbot stuffs later once I get it recapped.

https://hwbot.org/submission/5333204

That's a really terrific looking case! Never would have even looked at BeQuiet cases. Thanks for covering this Mr. Fox!

Did someone say 939? @Avacadoif you need a copy of clockgen, I think I still have the copy I used decades ago ON socket 939 stashed away somewhere on my NAS. I'm probably not going to break any records on 939, my CPU's I have all suck. 2.9GHz at best. I could try a single core out though, I've got like 6 of those laying around I haven't even tried yet.

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We can't let OCN win beat us this year........

Okay that's it. My collection is coming out this week.

Fair enough, I can understand that point. My apologies for throwing things slightly OT.

Dude, nobody here is an AMD fanboi? Nobody here is even defending AMD on these actions (or even condemning them), we're just talking about it. I mean I GUESS you could say I am, "kinda". Since I have a collection of ATI / AMD cards dating back to the Radeon 7500 up to the current 6900XT realm (haven't bought a 7900 yet). Does that make me an AMD fanboi though? I have Nvidia cards too, and I love them just as equally. It just wasn't as easy to create a collection of Nvidia with all the Ti's and Titans mucking up the lineup making it more difficult to buy a top tier card of every gen. Plus the Nvidia tax, even on older stuff....yeah. -_- I'm a hardware lover in general, I don't take sides. I'm pretty darn sure that 99.99% of our website feels similar about hardware. Nobody is specifically a "fanboi" on this site. We're all here because we love hardware. Just wanted to address that, because that type of mentality and thinking is exactly why I left OCN.

You're not using that Cooler Master PSU again are you? A bad PSU could potentially effect your boost algorithms.

I certainly hope not. Maybe it means something different with RDNA4? I thought AMD was working on chiplet type designs for the next gen of GPU's? If they were, it wouldn't be difficult at all to make top end cards. Both AMD and Nvidia need to take a look at current pricing structures though. I get inflation and all that jazz, but this is getting ridiculous when GPU's have appreciated in value over a decade more so than new cars or houses percentage wise. So in THAT sense, I'd hope to see both companies come out of that realm.

The funny thing is, the problem I mentioned could easily be mitigated by using a 90* angled connector....which does exist I'm sure. Oh wait, they do....its already on GPU's. If they put the straight motherboard connectors shown here on the RTX 4090's with the cables pointed downward (or upward would maybe be easier) instead of directly at the side panel, that'd solve the problem on the GPU. Put the 90* connector on the backside of the mobo, so the cables can be ran parallel with the board (up or down either way, probably downward since most PSU's are down). Now, neither cable would be bent too near the connector, and no more fire hazards. But what do I know, I'm not an engineer so obviously I don't know the difference......

This isn't my oldest working, but its my oldest working that I daily drive still. I actually use this rig a LOT just playing around in Win9X. Definitely my favorite older build to play with.

I take back my previous promise, but only with a teeny tiny update. For anyone with the v1.30 pack, you can auto download off the server or download the update only. Map pack remains unchanged until v1.40 now. Added: Wingeon - The Flying Wigeon 1.0 P-Series 1.1 Was just a couple neat new mods that were added to the repository that looked absolutely great, and turned out to be just that. Definitely would suggest trying the Wingeon out if anybody wants to try flying in Beam. And the P-Series is absolutely adorable. Links: Beam MP Mods Pack v1.31 BeamMP Mod Pack v1.30 - 1.31 Update Washington state servers are ONLINE and verified working.

Looks like a smart solution to me. I do have a question though, I thought those 16pin connectors could NOT be bent too near to the connector. Isn't that going to be a problem on the backside of a motherboard, where there's usually very little space?

I mean, I won't SELL it because I scored it for $7 at a thrift store and its mine dangit. However, if you needed to borrow the Hauppage 2250 I've got, let me know. I bought it exactly for the purpose you're wanting, converting VHS to digital. I just don't have any VHS or a tape player....

Okay, unfortunately after doing some testing on the servers, I actually had to remove 4 mods, so I had to update the pack AGAIN. I promise, I'm done for a while this time. Removed: Wheel Spacers Dirty 4x4 Map Lucas Oil Speedway Map Wild West Motorsports Map The wheel spacers mod was causing a no load issue on the servers (but worked fine in single player testing). Huge bummer as the spacers were super useful building offroad monsters for the new Gambler500 themed maps. The 3 maps I removed nobody ever used anyway and were taking up space. Corrected (and final working) Links: Beam MP Mods pack v1.30 Beam MP Maps pack v1.3x (optional but suggested) Washington state servers are ONLINE and verified working.