Pio's new (lol) projects

[ENTERPRISE]

On 16/08/2021 at 23:45, pioneerisloud said:

I do have an Opteron, yes.   It's also part of my surprise on the 939 rig.  Just waiting for a clear enough day to paint it.

EDIT:
I have now officially started the painting process.  Took a few pictures, but I'll share all of them in an update post when its completed.  Smoke started blowing back our way this evening, so it might have to wait for another clear enough day.

Awesome...I bet its the Opteron 170

[pio]

Update:
Finally got the painting done today.  But as with most of my updates, I'd like to share the whole story with ya'll.

 

So, here in WA State, there's been some wildfires just a few miles away from where I am.  Seems to be the usual as of lately, but whatever.  As such, I had to wait for a day when it wasn't literally raining ash down all day.  We finally had a break on Monday, so we were able to get started (today didn't look much different, so didn't take weather pictures today).

 

 

Well, we were able to get one panel painted with nice clear skies at least.  The big problem seems to be the wind with all this dead grass and dirt in the pasture here.  That's okay though.  We got this panel painted.

 

 

And then, the smoke started rolling in. -_-

 

 

Luckily we were indoors to paint, but this just shows you how badly the wind was blowing this day (Monday).  We were able to get the initial couple of coats done on the whole case at least.  Yes, I can see the dirt on it here in the pictures too.  It's okay.

 

 

 

We took a dinner break that evening and went to town for some nurishment.  Seems the smoke followed us, of course.

 

 

Well, at this point we decided to go ahead and call it quits on Monday.  It was too windy, and the shop was too dusty to really get a good coat down without getting dirt or dead grass stuck in it.  So we decided to wait till Wednesday (today) seeing as the weather was reporting that it'd be a clear / non windy day.  So, let's fast forward to today's progress.

 

Now, I couldn't get the logo EXACTLY perfect.  I'm no master painter or anything like that.  This is only the 2nd thing I've ever painted, ever, first being my old Honda.  I think it turned out pretty nice though for an idiot out in a filthy shop.  Here's taping progress.

 

 

 

And then we have to put some black on there now.  That was the next step after the green.

 

 

 

And finalized products!!!  Yes, I did do a couple coats of glossy black along the top of the case as well to match the black tone.  Overall, I think this was a win!  I'll be sanding the plexi down hopefully tomorrow and finding some bolts and nuts at the hardware store to hold that in.  Of course drilling out the plexi as well.  But that shouldn't take too long.  But hey...I can now start my 939 build soon!  Case isn't done QUITE yet, I've got a couple other mods to do to it (besides plexi).  But I can start putting main components in at least......it'll free up some space on my shelves lol.  Besides, I need to buy a soldering iron before I can do the next part of the case mod.

 

 

[ENTERPRISE]

Nice. It's really coming together now. Those wildfires must be a nightmare. Seems to be all I hear about on the news as of late.

 

Looking forward to seeing the components for the 939 rig. I remember my Opteron paired with my DFI LanParty mobo lol.

[pio]

2 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Nice. It's really coming together now. Those wildfires must be a nightmare. Seems to be all I hear about on the news as of late.

 

Looking forward to seeing the components for the 939 rig. I remember my Opteron paired with my DFI LanParty mobo lol.

I currently have in stock an Opteron 165, x2 Toledo 3800+, and x2 Toledo 4200+.  The Toledo CPU's were the ones to go after (same core as the Opterons).  The 4200+ can pull 3.1GHz stable, which I was never able to get stable back in the day on my vast amount of 939 chips I went through.  The Opteron, seems to want cold and high voltage, which makes sense as its a CCBBE.  The 4200+ does 3.1 at just a hair over stock volts, which was also common for LCBxE chips, which that one is.....well was common to hit 3GHz.  I don't recall many hitting 3.1 stable.  I also have a single core chip of unknown quality and model number, but definitely a regular old Athlon.  Haven't pulled that one out of the board to look at yet.

I have 2 really good 939 boards on hand too, so I'll probably build two (3 if you count my dead-ish A8N32-SLI Deluxe).  One for my "museum" piece, and another for playing around with.  One needs an HD5870 in it to go with my theme, and then I have a pair of G92 GTS 250 1GB's that match for SLI lol.  I've GOT to use SLI on it, but my themes are strictly AMD / ATI.  This newly painted case is for my "museum" piece.  Not sure which chip I want to put in it just yet, probably the 3GHz+ 4200+.  But since its the same core as the Opterons, I think the Opteron logo is still fitting.

[Avacado]

Beautiful piece of land, I do so miss the Northwestern sky. Did 2 years out at FT. Lewis. Looks like you are on the Spokane side of the cascades. You're making me jealous. 

Edited August 19, 2021 by Avacado

[pio]

10 hours ago, Avacado said:

Beautiful piece of land, I do so miss the Northwestern sky. Did 2 years out at FT. Lewis. Looks like you are on the Spokane side of the cascades. You're making me jealous. 

I am, yes.   I love our side of the state very much.  Just wish it wasn't burning to the ground right now lol.  The land isn't mine, its family's.  Sadly, I'm still a renter right now.  I have been looking at a few properties to buy lately, but everytime I find one I like its already gone.

I had moved to the west side in 2019, lived over there for about 8 months nearish to Centralia.  Honestly the entire state is absolutely gorgeous.  Seattle, if they'd figure their stuff out.....is a beautiful city with a very neat history.  Lakewood was interesting, I'll just say that lol.  Olympia, well....it was one of the nicer bigger cities I've seen.  But then we also have just absolutely vast areas of nothing but wilderness.  Not just forests but rainforests, mountains, volcanoes, canyons.....I love the PNW.   I legally can't leave the state anyway because of custody problems, but I wouldn't want to leave WA anyway. 

Edited August 19, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[pio]

So I got some more work done today on the 939 chassis.  Not too terribly happy with today's progress, but hey....progress is progress right?  Apparently the 12"x12" sheet of smoked plexi that I bought for the side window, wasn't cut at 12x12, instead it was cut at 11 7/8" x 11 7/8".  As such, it doesn't fit, as my bolt holes are like 11 3/4" center to center on the outside ones.  Grrrr.

I was able to get the new buttons drilled and mounted today though.  I'll be ordering a soldering station soon (any recommendations?).  This way I can get the wires connected the proper way.  No more of this twisting and taping ghetto nonsense here!  So, wiring will be done after payday, with pictures of course when I get it done.

 

Old buttons vs new buttons.  I kinda already broke the old buttons, so too late to turn back now!

 

Hole drilled out, and the little plastic grabby things snapped off the backside of the case for the reset switch.

 

 

Reset switch mounted

 

 

 

Hole drilled for the power switch.

 

 

And power switch mounted.  Didn't realize this before, but its a "stay in" type of power button.  Hopefully it'll still work, too late now lol.

 

 

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And, just for giggles, here's the reason why the Thuban rig was taking so long.  It's just my luck.  Seriously.  I'm now trying to get it stable now, but not having a whole lot of luck.  Thing won't even run stable at 3.8GHz.  I think I got a bad 1100T or something.  Hard to say.  I might just have to live with low clocks on my Thuban rig.  Either way, this was the hold up on that one.

 

[ENTERPRISE]

On 19/08/2021 at 06:09, pioneerisloud said:

I currently have in stock an Opteron 165, x2 Toledo 3800+, and x2 Toledo 4200+.  The Toledo CPU's were the ones to go after (same core as the Opterons).  The 4200+ can pull 3.1GHz stable, which I was never able to get stable back in the day on my vast amount of 939 chips I went through.  The Opteron, seems to want cold and high voltage, which makes sense as its a CCBBE.  The 4200+ does 3.1 at just a hair over stock volts, which was also common for LCBxE chips, which that one is.....well was common to hit 3GHz.  I don't recall many hitting 3.1 stable.  I also have a single core chip of unknown quality and model number, but definitely a regular old Athlon.  Haven't pulled that one out of the board to look at yet.

I have 2 really good 939 boards on hand too, so I'll probably build two (3 if you count my dead-ish A8N32-SLI Deluxe).  One for my "museum" piece, and another for playing around with.  One needs an HD5870 in it to go with my theme, and then I have a pair of G92 GTS 250 1GB's that match for SLI lol.  I've GOT to use SLI on it, but my themes are strictly AMD / ATI.  This newly painted case is for my "museum" piece.  Not sure which chip I want to put in it just yet, probably the 3GHz+ 4200+.  But since its the same core as the Opterons, I think the Opteron logo is still fitting.

 

Man I remember the whole Opteron saga with the CCBBE stepping, man the memories. I actually had the Opteron 180 which I loved, though many were like just get the 165 and OC it, guess I was being lazy haha.

 

6 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

So I got some more work done today on the 939 chassis.  Not too terribly happy with today's progress, but hey....progress is progress right?  Apparently the 12"x12" sheet of smoked plexi that I bought for the side window, wasn't cut at 12x12, instead it was cut at 11 7/8" x 11 7/8".  As such, it doesn't fit, as my bolt holes are like 11 3/4" center to center on the outside ones.  Grrrr.

I was able to get the new buttons drilled and mounted today though.  I'll be ordering a soldering station soon (any recommendations?).  This way I can get the wires connected the proper way.  No more of this twisting and taping ghetto nonsense here!  So, wiring will be done after payday, with pictures of course when I get it done.

 

Old buttons vs new buttons.  I kinda already broke the old buttons, so too late to turn back now!

 

Hole drilled out, and the little plastic grabby things snapped off the backside of the case for the reset switch.

 

 

Reset switch mounted

 

 

 

Hole drilled for the power switch.

 

 

And power switch mounted.  Didn't realize this before, but its a "stay in" type of power button.  Hopefully it'll still work, too late now lol.

 

 

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And, just for giggles, here's the reason why the Thuban rig was taking so long.  It's just my luck.  Seriously.  I'm now trying to get it stable now, but not having a whole lot of luck.  Thing won't even run stable at 3.8GHz.  I think I got a bad 1100T or something.  Hard to say.  I might just have to live with low clocks on my Thuban rig.  Either way, this was the hold up on that one.

 

Nothing worse than getting a part back allowing you to continue or finish a project, and then something is not right and you either have to tweak or give up and get a replacement. I am glad you got it worked out though.

[pio]

40 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Man I remember the whole Opteron saga with the CCBBE stepping, man the memories. I actually had the Opteron 180 which I loved, though many were like just get the 165 and OC it, guess I was being lazy haha.

 

Nothing worse than getting a part back allowing you to continue or finish a project, and then something is not right and you either have to tweak or give up and get a replacement. I am glad you got it worked out though.

 

Back in those days though it really was the luck of the silicon lottery.  2.8-3GHz was a massive achievement with K8 overclocking, didn't matter if you had a 9x or 12x multi.  I wouldn't call the 180 being lazy, I'd call it a more guaranteed overclocker.   

The plexi bummer....yeah that sucked lol.  It was an $8 piece of plexi so not exactly a high dollar problem.  Home Depot might have some locally, going to try to check this weekend.  I also emailed the seller and just simply asked if I could buy another that's actually 12x12, awaiting response.

So I guess progress report:
So for the 939 build, I'm just mostly waiting for soldering tools and the plexi and I can start building that one I think.  I do need to double check that the power button isn't going to hit the front of the case metal, and if so drill a hole in the metal up top.  Not sure if there is metal there lol.  If I get bored, I might do the ghetto twist and tape method for the buttons, and go ahead and build it up.  Not sure yet, we'll see what time allows, but its getting closer to build day.  First ever real case mods, done to my first ever build (replica) as an enthusiast.  There's a reason this one's taking time. 

 

Yeah, I think the Thuban rig is toast still.  Still working it out, made a thread about it since this is more about the progress of building them.  I think I'm going to have to find a different board though for that one.

And finally, I made a purchase of two Corsair RM550x PSU's for the Socket A builds.  Also, another Radeon 9800XT, don't remember if I mentioned yet or not.  Once those arrive, I need to make sure they have an actual 20pin ATX connector (or 20+4) and not the full 24pin.  And then I can start the full on testing of those rigs assuming I don't need adapters.  Also, having a hard time finding nice 20pin ATX extensions on ebay.  So the Socket A rigs might not end up being so pretty.  I absolutely am taking that Chieftec front panel down to the plastic's company here in the next few weeks as well, that will be done before any more parts are purchased I think.  Running out of shelf space, and definitely need some boards put into cases lol.

Edited August 20, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[pio]

Progress of course has been slow since I'm basically waiting for payday.

 

I was actually able to test out my newest Radeon 9800XT this evening.  Thing sounds like a jet taking off!  But it works!!!!  So both of my Socket A systems work in full so far.  I have two Corsair RM550x PSU's ready to go for them, brand new.  They have ample 5v rails, so should suffice fine.  The older Socket A rig is waiting on the case to get repaired, and the newer Socket A rig is just waiting for PCI cards, drives, and pretty PSU cables.

With any luck, on / around payday, I should be able to get the Thuban rig testing and figure out what's wrong with it.  I should also be able to hopefully get the case repaired.  My main rig is also getting an upgrade on payday, so the projects are going to have to wait about a month to payoff those couple things since all are pretty expensive.  Just a small text update, I haven't forgotten about my projects.  Just waiting till I can order more junk to do what I need to do with them lol.  I need to order a soldering station too for the 939 rig, but that might get pushed back another month since that's another $160.  Hoping to have some updates again in about 2 weeks time or so.

The cool thing today though was that Radeon 9800XT works!  I'm very happy about that.  So far I have the following list of GPU's on hand:
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
ATI Radeon X600 (not a part of my plan)
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP
ATI Radeon HD2900XT 1GB

ATI Radeon HD3870 1GB

AMD ATI Radeon HD4890 1GB

AMD ATI Radeon HD5870 1GB

AMD ATI Radeon HD6970 2GB

AMD ATI Radeon HD7970 3GB

AMD Radeon R9 290x 4GB

AMD Radeon RX580 8GB (x4 / bought years ago / used as filler cards)
Soon to come - AMD Radeon RX5700XT

Not counted:
GeForce 4 MX400

GeForce GT310

GeForce 8800GTS G92 

GeForce GTS 250 G92 (x2)

So the only card I'll be missing is the newest top tier RX6900XT.  Won't be getting one of those for a few years, so....I'm pretty happy with this collection!  Best thing is, every single one of those listed cards works!!!

Edited August 27, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[pio]

Okay so a couple of updates......

1)  My main rig was finally updated to a modern GPU (huge thank you to the forum member that gave me a great deal!).  5700XT is installed with my Ryzen 3600 rig, and working fantastically!  Eventually this card will be paired with the Ryzen 2600 when retired, but for now its the best GPU in the house so main rig it goes.

2)  Thuban rig is now complete ish.  Wifi card doesn't work in it, but the PCIe and PCI slots appear to work so I don't think its the board this time lol.  CPU also refuses to overclock, which is odd being its an 1100T in a 990FX motherboard.  Got to be a setting in BIOS, or maybe my BIOS revision or something causing issues.  Not sure on that yet.  But it is 100% working.  I'm about done messing with it, so this one I MIGHT just go ahead and leave stock clocks.  Pictures and full update post on that rig coming soon ish once I sort out those 2 small problems, assuming I do.

[UltraMega]

I'm looking forward to seeing the final product and having a nostalgic reminition. 

Edited September 12, 2021 by UltraMega

[pio]

On 11/09/2021 at 23:02, UltraMega said:

I'm looking forward to seeing to final product and having a nostalgic reminition. 

Well wait no longer.  The only thing really not "done" is I need to buy it a different wifi card.  Didn't realize Intel 7260's no longer worked in Windows 10.  Could be a compatibility issue with the board, but whatever.  My AX200 cards work in it, so I'll just buy it a different wifi card this week.  The overclock isn't working (BIOS settings don't actually change clock rates via multiplier), so its at stock.  But whatever, this one wasn't super important to me anyway.  The FX and Phenom original both hold more sentimental value to me than this one anyway.

I present:

 

PIITAx6  (for lack of a better name):

Specs:

• Phenom II 1100T @ 4.10GHz
• 4x4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 @ 1600, 8-9-8-24-2T (NB @ 3000MHz)
• Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 ver4.0
• Gigabyte HD7970 Windforce ver2.1 @ stock
• eVGA 600BQ PSU
• 512GB Crucial BX200 SSD
• 4TB HGST 7200RPM HDD
• Coolermaster 240mm AIO with Arctic P12's
• Rosewill blue LED case fans
• DIYPC cheapo case
• Wireless N150 cheapie card (ordering an Intel 8260 on payday, 7260 didn't work in it)

 

 

 

Unfortunately period correct cases are harder and harder to find, especially 2005-2012 ish era cases.  They're just gone.  Chose this case because I had it already for a prior build, I liked the fans that I bought for the FX rig but wanted blue, so it all worked out.  Love the honey comb look on the front panel.  I chose to go with a 990FX board instead of the 890FX because, well....my 890FX died and this one was cheaper lol.  Otherwise, this is nearly exactly as I pictured for a Phenom II rig.  I do have a Xonar DG I can toss in there, but since I really don't care too terribly much about THIS rig, figured I'd save that one for later.  Just wish I knew what I was doing wrong in the BIOS for the overclock settings to work.

It's fully ready to play around on now.  Windows 10 is on it right now, been stress testing over 24 hours to ensure stability at 4.1GHz.  Wifi connection is "meh", but it'll work till payday.

Edited September 17, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[pio]

So apparently BIOS F3 for the 990FX-UD3 ver4.0 doesn't work with Thubans very well.  Makes sense, probably a mostly FX BIOS or something.  Flashed it back to F2, and overclocking is working again.  Stay tuned to see how much I torture this 1100T.  Preliminary results aren't looking "great", but decent at least now that I have a functioning board. 

 

Seems like 4.1GHz is right about the sweet spot with this chip.  Throwing that out there, but not giving away what the CPU-NB is at, FSB, or the RAM.  Just because I don't want to jinx myself and it not be stable.

Edited September 15, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[PCSarge]

5 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

So apparently BIOS F3 for the 990FX-UD3 ver4.0 doesn't work with Thubans very well.  Makes sense, probably a mostly FX BIOS or something.  Flashed it back to F2, and overclocking is working again.  Stay tuned to see how much I torture this 1100T.  Preliminary results aren't looking "great", but decent at least now that I have a functioning board. 

 

Seems like 4.1GHz is right about the sweet spot with this chip.  Throwing that out there, but not giving away what the CPU-NB is at, FSB, or the RAM.  Just because I don't want to jinx myself and it not be stable.

 

if you like full tower cases, try and locate yourself some HAF 922/932s they were really popular back in the day. i'm sure somebody has one.

 

when the 1100T came out,  i was on a lowly cure 2 duo E7400 still . i was a total pleb.

Edited September 15, 2021 by PCSarge

[pio]

18 hours ago, PCSarge said:

 

if you like full tower cases, try and locate yourself some HAF 922/932s they were really popular back in the day. i'm sure somebody has one.

 

when the 1100T came out,  i was on a lowly cure 2 duo E7400 still . i was a total pleb.

I forgot about the HAF line up!  Love to hate them, with their haf way attempted cable management, and haf butted looks.  All that mesh only allowing haf the airflow.  Loved the jokes one could make about those cases.  Seriously, they were pretty good cases, yeah I'll definitely keep an eye out for one.  Could replace one of these cheapie DIYPC cases I picked up.

 

I'm pretty sure I was still on a Socket 939 Opteron 165 when the 1100T came out.  I didn't upgrade till Sandy Bridge, and even then it was into an unlockable Athlon II quad lol.  Quickly dropped that for a 2500k though once I saw the performance difference.
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Looks like I got the Thuban stable though.  It's passed 16 hours and 30 minutes so far of P95 blended.  Unfortunately it didn't like memory speed much past 800MHz, so I stayed at 200MHz FSB.  Tried 833MHz on the RAM, no go on stability.  Tried every little trick I could think of to up the FSB, and every time it'd crash sometime into testing.  Same clock speeds on everything EXCEPT the FSB and RAM speeds.....its stable.  So yeah, the IMC on this Thuban isn't good for much past 800MHz.  I kind of expected that.

 

Screenshots and benches will be coming shortly.  Willing to take recommendations, I'll probably run the benches on it tomorrow night.  If I don't hear anything, I'll probably run similar style to the FX and Phenom since this one's kind of right in the middle.

Edited September 16, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[PCSarge]

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

I forgot about the HAF line up!  Love to hate them, with their haf way attempted cable management, and haf butted looks.  All that mesh only allowing haf the airflow.  Loved the jokes one could make about those cases.  Seriously, they were pretty good cases, yeah I'll definitely keep an eye out for one.  Could replace one of these cheapie DIYPC cases I picked up.

 

I'm pretty sure I was still on a Socket 939 Opteron 165 when the 1100T came out.  I didn't upgrade till Sandy Bridge, and even then it was into an unlockable Athlon II quad lol.  Quickly dropped that for a 2500k though once I saw the performance difference.
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Looks like I got the Thuban stable though.  It's passed 16 hours and 30 minutes so far of P95 blended.  Unfortunately it didn't like memory speed much past 800MHz, so I stayed at 200MHz FSB.  Tried 833MHz on the RAM, no go on stability.  Tried every little trick I could think of to up the FSB, and every time it'd crash sometime into testing.  Same clock speeds on everything EXCEPT the FSB and RAM speeds.....its stable.  So yeah, the IMC on this Thuban isn't good for much past 800MHz.  I kind of expected that.

 

Screenshots and benches will be coming shortly.  Willing to take recommendations, I'll probably run the benches on it tomorrow night.  If I don't hear anything, I'll probably run similar style to the FX and Phenom since this one's kind of right in the middle.

 

nice i was on core2duo until SB, went to 2500K, stayed 2500K until 7600K. then when ryzen 3000 series came out i finally went "oooo shiny" and bought into that. now im on a 5950X............im such a sucker for shiny things...........

mind you the jump from 3600 to 5950X was well worth it...especially at a mis-tagged half price of 659.99

Edited September 16, 2021 by PCSarge

[pio]

5 hours ago, PCSarge said:

 

nice i was on core2duo until SB, went to 2500K, stayed 2500K until 7600K. then when ryzen 3000 series came out i finally went "oooo shiny" and bought into that. now im on a 5950X............im such a sucker for shiny things...........

mind you the jump from 3600 to 5950X was well worth it...especially at a mis-tagged half price of 659.99

Let's see if I can keep up here with my upgrade paths.  I'm only going to mention "modern upgrades" that I've gone through.  Played with many many others, but usually past their prime time.

AMD K6 -> AMD K7 -> AMD K7 Athlon XP -> Pentium 4 (I kept lighting the Athlons on fire) -> Socket 939 Manny x2 -> Socket 939 Opteron -> Athlon II quad -> 2500k -> 2600k (I killed 2, so had 3 total) -> 3770k for a month -> Current Ryzen 3600 rig (and now this "museum" collection)

Joined forum discussions with the Manny x2 (where I really started learning), joined EXHW with the 3770k if I recall correctly.   Everything before the 939 setup was just me goofing off with what the local PC shop sold me.  Saw jumpers that increased clocks, voltages, RAM speeds, etc....so I played with them.  I saw BIOS options referring to those same jumper settings and even more, so I played with them.  Had every rig from the K6 upwards overclocked (hence the Athlon XP fires).

 

Basically what I'm getting at, is that I really want to upgrade my 3600 again lol.  The only, ONLY reason I jumped into the 3600 was because my 3770k delid went terribly (too much liquid metal).  As such, I was out of options since that was one of my only rigs at the time (that + my "server").  Was originally just wanting a 1600AF or 2600, but the 3600 somehow was cheaper at the time of purchase.  My 3770k was more than fine for my uses at the time, so didn't see the need.  Kinda screwed me on getting an x470 board like I wanted, but whatever.  My board will take a 5900x or whatever the top end is now.  It's not like real overclocking is even really a thing anyway, and the VRM's on this board are sufficient for PBO.  Meh.

I fell for shiny too, its okay.  I'm making up for it now buy buying thousands in junk.

[axipher]

On 21/03/2021 at 10:38, damric said:

Far Cry 2 has a nice built-in benchmark and the game engine is very friendly to quad-core CPUs. You will be able to compare your overclock scaling with the graphs that it generates. It's DX 10 if I recall, so good for that HD 4890.

 

3D Mark Vantage was also a very good benchmark for that era.

 

Trying to remember the name of the Unigine benchmark that was before Heaven...

 

There was Unigine Valley as well.

[pio]

16 hours ago, axipher said:

 

There was Unigine Valley as well.

I think I'll be doing nearly the same benches that I did on the Phenom rig on this one (the Thuban).  Going to ATTEMPT to run Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, and Crysis Remastered as well on it if they'll run.  Still waiting for things to install on it, its rock solid stable where its clocked at.  Just waiting for the slow wifi connection to get everything downloaded.

EDIT:
Actually come to think of it, I probably need to setup a proper series of benchmarks and games to run for comparison.  I'll see about updating one of the first posts with benchmark results somehow.

Edited September 17, 2021 by pioneerisloud

[pio]

My apologies everyone, been ill since my last post.  Finally got enough energy to even make it to my computer today, so yay!

I'm still working on getting a benchmark suite for "all" the rigs (what they run anyway).  I'm still going to be getting that going.  Probably going to include Quake, Duke Nukem, older 3D Mark suites, and the usual Unigine stuff, Crysis, RDR2, etc, etc.  Probably going to be a pretty long list.  Also, still working out how I'm going to organize all of that in a post. 

I should be back to nearly 100% tomorrow or the next day, so I'll be able to focus more of my attention on that very soon.  Again, my apologies to anyone that was wanting to see benchmarks on all this junk.  I "should" be able to benchmark both of the K7 Athlon setups too, even though they're not complete.  I have the main parts here, so should be something I can cobble together.  I also got the plexi in for the 939 rig, but its 1/4" thick instead of 1/8" thick.  So I'll have to double check with the cooler installed if that'll fit.

[pio]

Alright, feeling much better now.  Getting things going again, I've picked out my benching list.  This is going to take some time, but I think it'll be worth it when its done.

I've updated the second post found here with the basic first draft of the spreedsheet.  I'll fix the names and stuff later once I get going on the actual results.  I noticed I haven't been entirely consistent with the pictures + benches being all in one post.  I'll fix that up and the links in OP to the builds + benches once I get the benching actually started.  I'd like to have at least one of the 939 rigs ready to run so I can test all the multi core systems together.  I figured they should all be capable at 1080p for most of this.

[schuck6566]

Just an FYI, I run the latest 3DMark Suite,and if you go to the benchmarks tab,then the filters you click the "Include unsupported test" it will let you use the older test that aren't updated anymore like Ice Storm,Cloud Gate,and SkyDiver for DirectX 9,10,&11 tests.

[PCSarge]

On 16/09/2021 at 07:46, pioneerisloud said:

Let's see if I can keep up here with my upgrade paths.  I'm only going to mention "modern upgrades" that I've gone through.  Played with many many others, but usually past their prime time.

AMD K6 -> AMD K7 -> AMD K7 Athlon XP -> Pentium 4 (I kept lighting the Athlons on fire) -> Socket 939 Manny x2 -> Socket 939 Opteron -> Athlon II quad -> 2500k -> 2600k (I killed 2, so had 3 total) -> 3770k for a month -> Current Ryzen 3600 rig (and now this "museum" collection)

Joined forum discussions with the Manny x2 (where I really started learning), joined EXHW with the 3770k if I recall correctly.   Everything before the 939 setup was just me goofing off with what the local PC shop sold me.  Saw jumpers that increased clocks, voltages, RAM speeds, etc....so I played with them.  I saw BIOS options referring to those same jumper settings and even more, so I played with them.  Had every rig from the K6 upwards overclocked (hence the Athlon XP fires).

 

Basically what I'm getting at, is that I really want to upgrade my 3600 again lol.  The only, ONLY reason I jumped into the 3600 was because my 3770k delid went terribly (too much liquid metal).  As such, I was out of options since that was one of my only rigs at the time (that + my "server").  Was originally just wanting a 1600AF or 2600, but the 3600 somehow was cheaper at the time of purchase.  My 3770k was more than fine for my uses at the time, so didn't see the need.  Kinda screwed me on getting an x470 board like I wanted, but whatever.  My board will take a 5900x or whatever the top end is now.  It's not like real overclocking is even really a thing anyway, and the VRM's on this board are sufficient for PBO.  Meh.

I fell for shiny too, its okay.  I'm making up for it now buy buying thousands in junk.

 

if you really want to go ALLL the way back in the list.

 

i technically started on a 166mhz pentium --> Pentium 2 200mhx w/MMX --> 800mhz Pentium 3 coppermine --->Core2Duo E7400 ---> i5 2500K ---> i5 7600K ---> R5 3600 ---> R9 3900XT ---> R9 5950X.

 

the only thing i really had that was AMD in the core 2 duo up until present that was AMD cpus besides ryzen was laptops.

[pio]

11 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

Just an FYI, I run the latest 3DMark Suite,and if you go to the benchmarks tab,then the filters you click the "Include unsupported test" it will let you use the older test that aren't updated anymore like Ice Storm,Cloud Gate,and SkyDiver for DirectX 9,10,&11 tests.

 

I still have my original installers for 03, 06, Vantage, and 11.  I just figured I'd use those since they were common back then.  The newer 3DMark suites would be perfectly fine and suitable for all of my multi-core rigs (939 and newer), but I feel I might, MIGHT be able to run upwards of at least 06 on the super old single core rigs.  My thought was trying to find a diverse set of benchmarks and games that I can run on literally every one of these machines (with exceptions of newer game titles).

 

7 hours ago, PCSarge said:

 

if you really want to go ALLL the way back in the list.

 

i technically started on a 166mhz pentium --> Pentium 2 200mhx w/MMX --> 800mhz Pentium 3 coppermine --->Core2Duo E7400 ---> i5 2500K ---> i5 7600K ---> R5 3600 ---> R9 3900XT ---> R9 5950X.

 

the only thing i really had that was AMD in the core 2 duo up until present that was AMD cpus besides ryzen was laptops.

Of course I want to go all the way back!  This is why a K6 is on my list of rigs to build.

I mean TECHNICALLY speaking, I started on an Apple II, then a Centris 660AV, but I like to forget those days....... 

Edited September 25, 2021 by pioneerisloud