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Yeah, that's accurate, 1.80v is what's setup by default. I could try to overclock it some, but meh, not worth it. The ONLY reason I haven't run the K6 since I "talk, talk, talk"ed.......I don't have PS2 keyboard or mouse (well, the K6 needs AT keyboard and a serial mouse but I have adapters). I thought I had some PS2 ones but alas, I don't. -_-

Sorry for double post so quickly, but....... the Antec 350w PSU that came in the above case was flawless and looked brand new. Caps were all solid on it. Tested the 5v rail at 5.3v and 12v at 12.4v (no load). Went ahead and powered up the 1100MHz T-Bird / Radeon 9800XT rig with it and a test install of Windows 7. IT WORKS!!!!! I also tested the rails under a load, just to be sure everything was fine. 5v = 5.11v load, and 12v = 12.10v load. Absolutely perfect! I uploaded a screenshot to the CPUz bench thread, but here it is too. (RAM was wrong, it didn't like 2x1GB so its got the proper 2x512MB in it now) I played Quake on it for an hour! This means my Windows 2k build is alive!!!! I just need my beige Chieftec Dragon repaired fully and I can build it. This also means I definitely do need another PSU, something with 35-40a on the 5v rail for the AthlonXP build. So that rig is minus a PSU apparently. Assuming no other goodies arrive tomorrow (enough to test anything), I'll be building the second 939 into the above black Chieftec Dragon tomorrow night.

I present to you guys, a run WITHOUT CHEATING and underclocking...... CPUz isn't reading the RAM correctly, AIDA is though. DDR200 / 100MHz speed. I CAN in theory downclock this chip as low as like 200MHz I think in BIOS. Oldest one I have running so far, Pentium 3 era.

I used 450GB on my Verizon MVNO last month before I was able to get a cable line in.

Teaser update..... Please ignore my grandpa's feet.... Second 939 rig will be going in here. If the included psu actually works, that MIGHT be the key required to testing the socket A gear too. I think the 5v rail is why I've been having lock up problems with those. My rmx550 psus were supposed to be fine for old rigs, but I noticed old psus had 30-40a on the 5v, whereas mine had 25a. Supposedly other people have had problems with low 5v rails on socket A equipment, so hopefully this antec 350w has good caps still. If I can get the socket a with 9800xt running right on this psu, I'll then know for sure it's a psu problem holding me back.

Until they bring their prices back down to Earth levels, I really have to say I'm out. $1000-$1200 was a tough spend for a high end GPU, but okay, fine...inflation and all that. $3000+ these days, yeah no. Those price ranges were okay for professional level cards, but not for gaming cards. I consider the Titan more of a gaming card than a pro card anyway, it wasn't a Quadro. Of course as an enthusiast, I don't care as much about the power consumption. So that's not really an issue. If its 800w, its 800w, whatever. It's not like other GPU's haven't drawn a ton of power, or CPU's either for that matter. Either way, guess we'll wait and see how things go. There's rumors going around on youtube that Nvidia might end up getting stuck with the next gen cards and not being able to sell them off. *shrugs

No, what I meant was actually using an LTE service, would that be an option? I know that's sometimes frowned upon, but you can get cheap plans from MVNO's like say Straight Talk for AT&T and pop that sim card into an LTE router. I've heard of businesses using this type of service before, so I went ahead and tried it out myself because of similar issues you're having. I ended up having the best of luck with Verizon myself, so I just found a cheap MVNO plan and stuffed it into an LTE router. Have that wired up as my backup ISP in case my other line goes down. I was using it as my daily ISP for a few months. Once you get the kinks worked out, it does work. You just have limited data is all, just like a cell phone.

Since I'm still waiting on the case, and I just happen to have dang near everything here for an AthlonXP build to be completed, I'm working on that today. Last night, I was able to get my AthlonXP rig working, installed Windows to it, and things seemed to be going pretty well. Tried to launch CPU-z on it to run a bench for the competition thread, and it locks up immediately. -_- Even though it had been rock solid and sitting pegged at 100% CPU usage doing updates and drivers for 6 hours. Ugh.....so yeah, still playing with that. Today in the mail: ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB (for this Socket A rig I'm working on) Some 64GB Compact Flash Cards, hopefully these will be faster than the 32GB I used 2x8GB DDR4-2666 for the Ryzen build coming And a HUGE shoutout to @damric!!!! We've got 3 2280 NVME drives now to play with!!! I'm not 110% decided yet where I'm going to place these at, and I may or may not have to buy some PCIe riser cards to stuff them into, but alas, these are going to be SUPER helpful. I've already got a home picked out for one of these already in my game rack server, but it absolutely will need a riser card to use it in there. No big deal. EDIT: And absolutely NONE of my Socket A kit seems to be working properly. I can get 2 of the setups to boot into Windows (all I need). But immediately upon any sort of load on either one of them, the system locks up. I've tried everything except a different PSU, as the Corsair RMX550 is the only PSU I have that has decent 5v rails at 25a available. I'm almost wondering if I need like 35+a on the 5v rails for the Socket A rigs. I really don't know. I've tried Radeon 9800XT, X800 Pro, X1950 Pro, and all 3 GPU's lock up at various stages in 3dmark03. When they do work, they're not artifacting or showing any sort of graphical issues, so I'm stumped. Almost seemed like a memory issue earlier, but I'm kinda leaning more towards I don't have enough 5v.....and I have no clue what to do about that.

This was one of the reasons I ended up going with multiple ISP's and bonding them together with failover. That sucks man. Hope you've got it all sorted out. Do you have any backup options? What about LTE?

Anytime, its up and ready to go for events. I personally am available to play on it at night, PST, but if we end up organizing a different time later on I might be able to shift things around and hop on.

Put me down for 10 please! My 14TB drives are getting full.......

After trial and error....... I figured out the Athlon x2 4200+ is faulty. it still works, but it is unhappy with HW memory hole enabled / above 2GB of RAM. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard will not POST at all. However I have success to report!!!!! I'm a little bummed with "only" 2.70GHz CPU speed, but whatever this is fine. Not very many people EVER have gotten even 4GB of RAM to work at decent speeds on Skt 939, let alone 8GB. 8GB was never a thing when this socket was used. I present where its p95'ing at RIGHT NOW. I even typed this post up on it while it's priming. The second 939 rig WILL live! Now, I just need the Chieftec Dragon, which I think arrives tomorrow, and its time to build it. EDIT: I was wrong. The case arrives Wednesday.

Please PM me if there's any issues, if you need a map change, or if there's mods you want to see put into it! It's pretty easy to drop mods into the server, so I can make changes pretty quickly so long as I'm at home to do so. Might use this post in the future for organized events maybe? But otherwise, thread is now completed enough and open for discussion!

Current Maps: (if modded map - click link and put zip in "C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\BeamMP-launcher\Resources".) N/A (will update soon after game server migration) Current Mod List: Mods: N/A (will update soon after game server migration)

Actually pulled this thing apart (again) tonight on camera with a couple of the guys here at EHW. Set her up on the bench, trying to see what I could get it to do, make sure its working. So far, so good!!! I'm having some RAM issues, the KVR 4x1GB DDR400 I bought is dead. My KVR DDR400 ECC 4x2GB sticks I knew weren't going to work right, so those didn't work either even in 2x2GB array. I tried putting a couple of generic 1GB sticks in with the OCZ stuff I have laying around for the Socket A, that didn't work either....its very possible the generics are dead too, those were freebies years ago. The OCZ sticks work fine, but those are planned for the Socket A build. I know the 2.5-3-3-6 sticks are good in these boards, but finding a set of 4 that matches is near impossible. Sooo, I don't know what to do with it at this point. Can't find RAM for it. HOWEVER, I was able to successfully play Crysis for 45 minutes to an hour on it. Played GRiD for a bit and even Metro2033 Redux on it. All playable. I tried to get a brand new game working on it, "Stray", but kept getting at the end a DX11 error message saying the game needs DX11 shader model 5....which, the card supports. So, not sure there but whatever, 5 day old game on 20 year old hardware....I'll live with it not working.

"Official" BeamMP Servers For the game Beamng.drive (Image credited to a random youtube generated image) Welcome to the BeamMP mod for the game Beamng.drive! If you'd like to play on the server, you'll need the installer found below. Install Link: https://beammp.com/ Server Info: eXtremeGaming Lite (Hosted in WA state) - ONLINE eXtremeGaming (Hosted in WA state) - OFFLINE Mods Pack Download: You CAN get away with just connecting to the server and it'll automatically download the mods. It's 3.25GB+ currently though, you'll have a faster time downloading the mods directly and placing them in the correct folder. n/a If you were on the original mod pack download, I have also zipped up just a simple update file for anything I've added since then. Full mod pack download (above) is fully up to date with all mods. If you're missing any, please see the update links below to catch up. Updates: n/a Note: Put all of the zip files included into "C:\Users\(username)\Appdata\Roaming\BeamMP-Launcher\Resources" Extract, install. In order to play multiplayer, you really should launch the MP executable, it doesn't always pop up with multiplayer if you open the game through the original game's executable. Click on multiplayer from the main menu once the game launches, and then search for the server above! That's it! You CAN register a username in game, it usually goes off discord if I'm not mistaken. However you CAN also just skip the registration process and play as a guest. Completely up to you. You can add it to your favorites so you can always find it. Clients do NOT need to worry about any additional mods (unless you want to play single player). You will auto download the mods directly off the server. I have added a download link (above) however, to make the process faster as the mods list is growing pretty rapidly. Beamng.drive is a sandbox style driving simulation game. BeamMP is just a mod for it, the game is really based on the mods since its still in alpha stages. The idea here is that we can organize literally whatever type of autosports events we want virtually! We can go racing, we can just cruise city streets, drifting, 4x4'ing, mud bogging, even flying if we pop some airplanes into the server. Whatever we want to do, that's what we can do. I'd like to see perhaps weekly events if we can get more of the community to play it. Hopefully I'll see you around! Let's go driving!

Well..... Kiddo got himself grounded last weekend.... As far as I know it's functioning great. It was getting a little hot, 80c loads. I have quite a few gpu's like that right now though. So it's actually been powered off since about Sunday I think. He'll get it back next weekend assuming good behavior. It's certainly a huge upgrade from his temporary 960 he had, and a perfectly fine temporary place holder till I can score a cheap Vega for the build (planned card for the ryzen 2600 build). I'll regrease cards later on, 80c isn't going to kill anything. My 2900xt dang near idles there..... He's excited to play "Stray" now, I got him a copy of that. Should be an interesting game, my main rig does fine with it but it's certainly graphically intensive.

MX-5, stock 754 cooler, another 5.25 bay adapter, and 4x1gb kvr ddr400 arrived today. Probably no pictures, I'll be busy testing junk. I think my black chieftec dragon comes in Monday. With any luck I'll have the 939 functional and just need to transplant into the case Monday. If I have time tonight, I'd like to see about getting the Athlon Xp functional, I could just about finish it if everything tests out okay. I also mentioned my K6 in the cpuz bench thread, so we'll see about that too. If anyone is interested, I might stream my shenanigans on the ehw discord, but you'll have to deal with me disappearing from time to time. I'm not really sure where to begin with it yet. The only one I could potentially "finish" would be the Athlon xp, but without the 939 functional to create media and lacking working cf cards I just don't know.

My MX-5 arrives today.......do I dare see if I can get a CPUz bench on Windows 98? I'm not sure if it'll run, and I'd be kinda going out of order on these rigs I'm working on...... Once I get in gear tonight working on things, I'll see if I can do just that, and I'll do a quick K6 run. If not, I wanted to test my Socket A builds anyway. Wouldn't be hard to put XP on one of those.

Yeah, we'll have to figure out who's all willing to stream games, and maybe just not stream the games in the discord, but instead use discord for the voice functions. Share the stream on social media / YT or whatever instead so audio can be played, and we can capture our voices playing it too. Something like that, idk. I'm no streamer. Like I said, I was just playing with my toys to see what I could do with them lol. The server's been changed to motorsports playground for now. I'm happy to host any games I happen to have on hand on the server, so that's always a feature I can implement. I have about 12Mbps upload, so not the greatest upload, but its got 32 cores dedicated to it from Broadwell Xeons and 32GB of RAM, soon an NVME possibly. I can upgrade my ISP up to gig / gig, but the cost just isn't something I can work with right now.

Yeah, sorry about the audio issues. I could fix it by just screensharing, but that doesn't show my wheel inputs.

I'll be going live in the EHW Discord with my BeamMP server. Just playing around with more junk I have laying around bwahahaha. Figured out a way to use my phone as a webcam, so ya'll can see my steering wheel inputs and also my screen. Resolution probably isn't the greatest, but it should be viewable. Anyway, if anyone wants to pop in (or join me in game), feel free! I think it'd be kind of fun to have an EHW gaming night maybe someday soon. Personally, my favorite games are racing, but hey....I'll livestream the events if others want to start joining too! If we start actually having gaming sessions together at some point, I'll record the events so they can be posted in the videos section of the site too.

You know, one of these days I'm going to fire up my K6, and all low speed records will be lost.

So far site's working great *knocks on wood. I was even able to get into my build log thread successfully a few times today, which has been a bear all week.

Hopefully better than ever too!