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AI seems slow E..... Lmao, welcome anyway to daniel345!

E, the AI seems a little delayed there. Welcome anyway Colorous!

We can work out the details in private, but yeah sounds like a plan. Would love to just know that the board isn't a problem anymore on these old ones. I've been burned by too many bad capped boards already lol. The joys of trying to buy 15+ year old gear. You are awesome!

Huge images update (damage report): So, the test bench monitor died. I went ahead and went into a thrift store today, and I scored two 21.5" 1080p TN panels, one Dell and the other HP. The 939 rig that's built is 110% functional, I had Windows 10 32bit on it for a little while and it was rock solid. It was PAINFULLY slow though, CPU was pegged at 100% even when doing nothing. So.....trying to get 7 on there now. Images, I promised images. So, its no secret now Bones said he had some cap soldering experience and even some spare caps perhaps on hand (depending). So I went ahead and did an inventory of my leftover older boards that need attention to their caps. Figured these are all getting built here within the next few months, might as well double check the caps before I proceed. Socket 939 Boards: Asus A8N SLI Premium: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe x2: Socket A / 462 Boards: ECS K7S5A Rev 5.0: Asus A7V8X: Asus A7N8X-E Rev 1.01:

LTT had this on their live stream today. So, this is growing to be bigger news than I thought yesterday. Hmmm. Personally, I say good. Nvidia needed to be knocked down a peg or two. All of these big companies that are operating towards monopolies need to be knocked back. We need more innovation, more consumer choice. Honestly, if Cyrix was still around today and 3DFX and ATI, could you imagine the cool rigs that might've been? Tons of old, and honestly great companies died in the last 15-30 years its absolutely horrible. I hold the same views against gaming companies too. Looking at you EA. *shakes fist

Okay, this is really concerning. Didn't we learn our lessons from the movies? If they start talking about the robotics 3 laws..... I'm checking out.

Look at them cinder blocks! I thought I was the only broke guy that thought those make decent stands.

Yessir, I'll have pictures of the A8N SLI Premium and the good A8N32-SLI Deluxe hopefully this evening. Pretty sure the 32 Deluxe works fine, but going to take cap pictures anyway to check. I was spending all my free time trying to get the one working. Now it does.

How have I not ran into this thread yet? -_- Here's my home setup, best setup in the house right now. Home theater will be coming later after I get out of this apartment. I do have a soundbar on my TV, but who cares? Lol. Specs: SMSL AD18 Mini Amp Micca MB42 with crossover mod Philips SHP9500 Headphones with USB Mod Mic (and modded cushions) I intend on adding a small subwoofer to the setup eventually after I move to an actual house. But overall, I've been very very pleased with this setup so far. Also, please excuse the mess. Work in progress, as usual.

Good? Bwahahaha no lol. But I'll search around after Christmas. Worst case I'll buy a used 1080p panel on eBay if I don't find anything locally. Update further: The Socket 939 rig has drivers installed (GPU and wifi at least), and is currently installing updates on Windows 10. It most definitely is alive, it was BSOD'ing because my monitor was breaking. -_- Has an odd boot problem, the Windows 10 install flash drive must be inserted for it to boot. But otherwise its working.

Short lived success I suppose. -_- My test bench monitor died last night. It's now stuck at 640x480 resolution. Yes, its most definitely the monitor. I swapped rigs, I swapped cables, adapters, everything else I could think of. Only thing I couldn't swap was inputs on the monitor because I lack DVI-VGA adapters. So, my museum pieces are now actually on a pause till after Christmas. Small packages arriving or not, since I can't actually test anything. In the meantime, I'll use my TV for making sure the 939 rig works. Looks like I'll be in the market for a new cheapy monitor after Christmas.

There's some cards I haven't seen in years, names too. Good article!

AndrewKey there has a point. The US media, while they might not be 100% fabricated points, they absolutely are using fear, even in this tech related news story. Just look at all these words that inflict emotion, just in the quoted excerpt. Nevermind the entire article. They shot down a satellite. Their own satellite. Unless it really DOES pose a threat to the ISS, all these big scary emotional words really weren't necessary in the article. The ISS is still up there. I'm sure its completed a full orbit several times over since this happened. It is what it is. Or do we forget that there's probably tons and tons (literally) of space junk up there already that astronauts have to be mindful of?

It's finally alive! My first (again) Socket 939 rig! Attempting to install Windows 10 to it right now, will settle for 7 if it doesn't work. I definitely still need the A8N SLI Premium, the base model has no chipset controls hardly at all, and very little overclocking options. I'll see what I can do with it though.

Bump! I wanna play too if you guys are still playing Minecraft somewhere. I'm using Java, but I'll buy Bedrock if that's where the server is.

Power button, power LED, reset button, and HDD LED are all connected now. Front USB's and audio are re-installed on the case again. Tomorrow night (hopefully), I'll be swapping boards out on the 939 rig and with any luck......finally having it working! Of course, I'm not an expert at soldering by ANY stretch of the imagination.....but they work.

As a fellow SSD lover here, personally I noticed a pretty noticeable difference going between various SSD's, 2.5" and NVME. And even from one NVME to a faster NVME I noticed a difference too. Outside of benchmarks, and IMMEDIATELY using 2 different drives, you probably won't notice a difference. But my rig sure feels a lot snappier with this Gen 3 NVME I have now over the older NVME I had before. I can only imagine that a Gen 4 would feel even faster. My (current) drives for comparison would be a Crucial BX500 1-2TB (I have many of both), RAID0 BX500's (up to 4), Silicon Power 1TB NVME rated at like 1800MB/s reads (forget model), and now my Mushkin Pilot-E 1TB NVME rated at something like 3600MB/s reads I think. And yes, my fastest NVME is absolutely noticeable to ME in a few select environments, and I'd imagine an even faster NVME would still be noticeably faster yet. Everyday usage it feels snappier too. But....it all depends on your use too. Really, so long as you're avoiding mechanical drives as best you can for OS and game storage, I doubt you'll have a "bad" time even with an older NVME. As always, just grab the fastest drive with good warranty that your budget allows you to, and quit worrying about it. Gen 3 or Gen 4, either will be very fast and snappy. And outside of a very select few gaming titles and overall "snappiness" of the system, you absolutely will not notice a difference even from a regular 2.5" SSD.

It's not Socket A, no. But it'd be an awfully close match to my Phenom + 6970 build........ To be fair, LGA 775 was a huge turning point for Intel anyway, and it really was a pretty neat way to address AMD. It's probably on a lot of people's favorite list, and for good reason. I really enjoyed the ones I played with. Had I not picked all AMD just to make things easy on myself, I wouldn't mind another Socket T build. I've still got one in storage with a BSEL modded Q9550 and GTX 750Ti in it, but I'm pretty sure its in storage for some reason or another.

Alright, fresh from customs.....Asus A8N-SLI motherboard just arrived today from Finland. It has absolutely PERFECT caps on it. I'd snap pictures but its actually sealed in the anti-static bag. Going to throw that in the 939 build here in the next few days, and I "should" be able to finish it now, granted I have the time to solder and do a whole mobo swap yet again. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe I have I'll need to inspect the caps on (doesn't work for "this build" anyway). And the A8N-SLI Premium I had in there, is most definitely getting sent out for caps. Somebody in this thread already knows about that though..... I'm not sure if I'm ever going to find the time to do the bench list I was hoping. I started a few videos on the FX build and kind of lost interest lol. It's more fun building them than it is benching them for me. Either way, haven't stopped....just slowed down a little. Oh, some Socket A parts are starting to arrive too now that I ordered. I have 4 or 5 64GB HP SSD's coming, some IDE to SATA adapters, and I think a couple more coolers? I dunno, don't you hate it when you shop intoxicated?

EDIT: Sometime in the middle of the night last night, literally less than 12 hours after I put this on......some idiot decided they wanted it. Now there's a giant ding in my tailgate and all the damn bolts are stripped. I'm absolutely livid. It's a piece of freaking metal that was bolted to the car, like who the...........nevermind. I removed it tonight, its now stored in my closet till I can freaking move. -_- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Little update on my Jeep for you guys, since I gave up long ago on build logs for cars....... This is all going to be sandblasted and powder coated black next spring (with all 5 of the wheels). Electrical tape is all I could find to protect the paint on the Jeep itself, but it works for now. Today, we finished fabbing up the brackets to mount the custom ladder on it!

Welcome!

What I did in a similar situation, I just put the new router's IP address (OPNsense) into the DMZ on the gateway. You're not using the router on the ISP's gateway anyway, so that'll just bypass your ISP firewall entirely. Thus, allowing OPNsense full access naked to the internet. However you're then entirely reliant on the firewall in OPNsense. Which....is kind of the point to begin with if you didn't have a router from the ISP. I could be wrong, but it does work.

As I said earlier too though, the firewall options shouldn't be too terribly difficult to figure out with a simple "how to port forward" search online for a guide. If you're trying to go through a VPN or use DNS or something you might have a more difficult time like I am. But your average network use, it should be pretty straightforward with a guide.

I've found the pfsense firewall to be pretty robust out of the box, and a little complicated to get working when trying to allow stuff out. If you're decent with firewalls it's probably a no brainer. Again though too, mine is setup differently as I have 2 separate lan's with one going through a VPN. I also use dns. So my stuff is all kind of messed up right now and I gave up lol. A simple setup like you're trying with yours E, it should be as simple as googling "port forward on opnsense" and following a guide. Again out of the box, it appears pretty robust to me. But I'm also not a network guru either, I just play around with stuff. EDIT: You could also change the subnet on your ISP's router too instead. If your devices are used to the default say 192.168.1.x address space, you could change your ISP router to 192.168.0.x, and leave the 192.168.1.x to OPNsense instead of changing OPNsense to something different.

Since this is the team page, guess I'll post it here...... Been having power issues today off and on. I'm hoping power might be stable now finally, but we'll see. As such, my RX 580 probably hasn't been fully up and folding all day today. It'll be back to 24/7 duty as soon as the power company gets their stuff figured out.