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See, that's exactly my gripe. You're fine with RENTING your games and the "store" telling you what you can and cannot play. I'm not. If I pay good money for a game, I expect to OWN that game forever. Same thing with movies. I understand there's some licensing limitations, always has been. But I can still play my original copy of Quake from 1996. I cannot say the same for half of my Steam library.

Wow!!!! 4GHz on a Kentsfield!!!!??? Impressive. I think I might have a slightly better run on my 939 rig now that its stable, but nowhere near that lol.

If you really think paying $90+ for a complete game (with day one DLC), and subscription based models is winning........ I might have a nice rock I could sell you. This is why I refuse to touch a lot of modern games. If I pay for a game, I expect the ENTIRE game. I also do not expect to get nickle and dimed to death just to play the game. I also refuse to install a lot of the stupid DRM that is now commonplace to screw over paying customers, when the game is cracked same day anyway WITHOUT the DRM. Piracy is never going to stop, its time the companies figure out a different model. Preferably one easier on gamer's pocketbooks because today's games are getting ridiculously expensive. Microsoft is absolutely NO better than EA, look at Office. It went from you bought the Office package, it was yours.....to now you have to pay for it on a subscription model. This is NOT okay to me. There's been talks of them taking Windows itself to the same degree. Luckily they haven't yet, but when they do, I won't buy Windows ever again either.

Already done. Somehow the RDP window hung, assuming it had to do with update Tuesday last week. I thought I had taken everything offline on Tuesday to do the updates so it wouldn't be a problem, but I might've missed a rig associated with my folding rig, or the folding rig itself. Idk, that was last week.

Well let's see, how many game companies has EA gobbled up over the years? Consolidation of creative efforts under one giant umbrella is NEVER a good thing. Yes, there's more budget available, but you're stuck under the umbrella, not able to go and enjoy the beach, metaphorically speaking.

I'm going to be the odd man out here probably, but I really don't care as I refuse to buy Activision / Blizzard games anyway. Same with MS (outside of Minecraft, but that was before MS bought them). It's just Microsoft being a big company bully, same thing EA does. Don't care, I hope they rot. Probably won't happen, but hey a guy can dream.

Of course it is Getting it back online right now. Must've been because of update Tuesday or something stupid. It'll be back up within the next 10-15 minutes.

Since I was bored and decided to wipe my laptop too, here's another run in the faster rigs section. I didn't bother doing the overclock on it so its still in the 15w power envelope. Overclocking it, it absolutely will stay at 3.6GHz all the time if I need it to, but sadly I've damaged my battery from doing that.

First of the 2 Socket 939 rigs is up and 100% functional now. I'm currently trying to get the famed 3GHz stable on it right now. Enjoying Winamp and the Xonar in it. I think this is my new favorite machine to play music through! It hasn't changed much, but here's the specs. AMD Opteron 180 A8N SLI 4x1GB Corsair XMS DDR400 Sapphire HD5870 1GB HP 64GB SSD Seagate 2TB 2.5" HDD eVGA BQ600 PSU Zalman CNPS 9500 CPU cooler Yate Loon fans all over it 6 spot fan controller from UltraMega Samsung DVDRW with Lightscribe ZIP 250 Floppy Asus Xonar DG Sound Card TP Link Archer T4E Wireless NIC (onboard giga LAN is fine for LAN) Windows 7 x64 on it right now And of course, my Thermaltake cig lighter / ashtray / cupholder thingie Custom painted / windowed Rosewill Challenger case Overclock I'm trying to get stable: 250 x 12 for 3GHz HT Link at 1250MHz (stock 1000) RAM at DDR400 (200MHz) because 939 defaults to 333 as fastest divider with 4 sticks EDIT: I'm now down to HT Link at stock 1000 and RAM at 333. This Opteron 180 isn't a great chip. Seems to be good, but not great.

I too have one for ripping purposes for my NAS. I use lossy codecs though sadly, 64TB doesn't go as far as you'd think it does. Definitely a step backwards for Intel on this one. I know the future is subscription based models for everything, looking at you Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, EA, etc. I'll go ahead and skip that future though.

Only thing I'd be worried about would be the caps degrading inside of it. If you're comfortable with it, I'd pop the cover off and just take a quick peek in there and make sure none of the caps are bulging. If the caps are all flat on top, you're good to go. Be careful when in there, do NOT touch the contacts side of the caps, just in case. Capacitors do degrade sitting on the shelf sometimes. But again.....if they're flat, you're good to go. There's a VERY good chance its perfectly fine though.

The Opteron 200 series were more server oriented as those were for socket 940, which was capable of multiple sockets on one board. The Opteron 100 series were for Socket 939 which was an enthusiast platform. Think of it like people putting Xeons in their 775 boards or 1366 boards back in the day. It's the same exact thing as running the FX 60 or an Athlon x2 4400+. Just a neater name lol. They tended to overclock like mad too, 3GHz daily was impressive back then (I'm still trying to wrangle that 3GHz stable on that rig now). Sorry, just a daily dose of AMD history. EDIT: I think that score's pretty good actually. I'm beating a "quad core" on the list, and keeping right up with the Core 2 Duo on the list there. Heck, I'm beating the Athlon II which was a weakened Phenom II processor (no L3 cache). A couple of those were mobile CPU's, but still. I'm happy with that result!

I got it running kinda!!!

Alright, I've got MOST of the orders in now. I can, in theory, finish the 939 build I have going, and I can now build the second SLI 939 build. I'm missing 24pin to 20pin ATX adapters for the Socket A rigs (should've checked that), but those are on order. Missing 2 sound cards, one LAN card, and a 60mm to 80mm fan adapter all for the Socket A rigs. So once those arrive, I'll get busy.

Well, I'm out for the time being on the slow board unless I ran my Socket 939 dual core. Won't get lowest score with that. The PSU's I bought for my older rigs have 24pin ATX plugs, I need 20pin. The only PSU I have in the house that's 20+4pin that would work is an Antec VP450 of questionable condition, and it lacks the appropriate 5v amperage anyway. Going to have to order 24pin to 20pin cables to make these work. Sorry guys, I tried. EDIT: Placed an order for a couple, should be here next week. Probably too late to play with everyone but alas, I'll be able to run a bench on the Athlon 1100 once those arrive.

Day one drivers, you mean these ones? https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-344-11-whql-driver-download.html

Mine's an 1100. I was waiting until I had the case finished next month to run that one, but I just might have to.

Hey would you look at that! Wow. I wasn't believing you till I saw that and then this too.....I climbed up really far on the team too. I was all the way down at the bottom of the page when I was running the 580. Now I'm nearing the top. That's really neat how the 290x is doing so well compared to a newer card.

You're going to make me bust out my Athlon TBird on the bench aren't you? I think that's the only thing I have that'll be slower! I doubt I have enough time to get a K6 ordered and to my door lol.

Lies! I never win at anything!

Somebody asked for dual Xeons right? Dual Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU's (24c / 48t) Quad Ch 88GB DDR4 1866 ECC I did have like 7 VM's going on this rig at the time of the bench, so it MIGHT score a tad better if I emptied out processes, but its my server and I'm not going to do that.

Well guys, it was fun but I'm no longer a member of the pfsense club. There's just too many options to mess with in there, I was never able to resolve my issues I was having. Bought myself a copy of Minecraft Bedrock (Win 10) edition last night, and I couldn't connect outside of the house with it. Swapped to my Netgear R7000 and all is well again. There was too many services I try to utilize that just weren't working with OPNsense. Not the router at fault by any means, its just too complicated for somebody who's only ever used consumer routers. I could probably get it going again and not use a separate VPN network like I had going.....but that kind of defeats the purpose of why I wanted it to begin with.

I've got my "Bulldrowser" rig running the ETF now, it has a Sapphire 290x in it. I wanted a complete rig instead of a bunch of parts naked on a shelf. If we need it, I can swap a 580 back into that rig for the ETF. I just figure the 2 cards are pretty equal, so I figured the 290x could do some decent work.

Already installed. My Ryzen 3600 rig IS on an install that's well over a year old though. A clean install would probably help my Ryzen rig if anything....but meh. I'm not going to win anything there lol. @Storm-Chaser, I know this is going to put me out of last place in the "fast" rigs section, but I'd move that FX 4350 up with the "fast" rigs. I know its not actually fast, but FX rigs are still completely usable today. And 4c / 4t is still enough to play games with today. A little struggle sure, but still fine. Unless you want the "slow" rig section to include the FX's, then in that case I guess move my 8 core down there? Just kind of depends on how you're wanting the split to be. If I didn't upgrade to Ryzen last year, I'd still be on an FX or i7 2600 today. My opinion, they're still "modern" enough to use. Phenom II on the other hand is missing instruction sets for some things. FX, not so much still.

Well then.......lots of updates in here since I last looked. That 4790k is beating my Ryzen 3600. (Well, for single core that is). That's VERY impressive, just wow! Whoever has that P4, I'm coming for you. The rest of the stuff needed for my old rigs arrives Tuesday. I have an Athlon x2 4200+ 939 I can run right now, but meh. The P4 is still going to beat me since I'm overclocking these. I'm not going to "cheat" and underclock, I'm just going to find something actually slower. I will have last place / slowest rig by end of the week.