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[HeadlessChicken]

Looks amazing.

How come you don't see aftermarket GPU coolers like we had back then? They really improved the cooling. I'm guessing the standard ones caught up in quality?

 

[rare]

Thanks for the comments guys, a good nudge to me to get round to take pictures of the other systems…

OMG an NF7-S!

Such a great board. IMO it’s probably the best 462 board there was. It’s a real shame Abit aren’t with us anymore.

Also, how do you get your Floppy and IDE cables to be so compact?

I just buy aftermarket round cables, have to scour eBay and they occasionally come up in colours. You can bend the flat ones in to more of a round shape but it’s a bit of a pain.

How come you don't see aftermarket GPU coolers like we had back then? They really improved the cooling. I'm guessing the standard ones caught up in quality?

I think that’s exactly it, they are just generally better now. If you look at even mid range cards they have substantial heatsinks a lot of the time. Most fans on graphics cards back then were so small they ran at stupid speeds and often didn’t last more than a few years.

 

[SupraWez]

Nice builds, got some old builds in the loft, no way near as clean as these though.

Pretty sure one of them is a dual cpu AMD setup, there were motherboards that allowed the non MP variant processors to run as well, stability was an issue though

 

[rare]

Pretty sure one of them is a dual cpu AMD setup

Need more details mate that sounds awesome

I’ve got a dual Opteron 285 system I will probably share next. It’s effectively dual FX-60’s (or quad FX-55 if you will) with an AGP slot! Madness.

 

[SupraWez]

Need more details mate that sounds awesome

I’ve got a dual Opteron 285 system I will probably share next. It’s effectively dual FX-60’s (or quad FX-55 if you will) with an AGP slot! Madness.

The motherboard is a Tyan S2460, think it was called Tyan Tiger, cant recall what the CPUs are, they are not MP though.

Windows was very unstable on it and ended up with old flavour of Linux.

 

[Armageus]

The motherboard is a Tyan S2460, think it was called Tyan Tiger, cant recall what the CPUs are, they are not MP though.

Windows was very unstable on it and ended up with old flavour of Linux.

At least it wasn't the S2462 Thunder K7 - that needed Registered ECC and had a semi-proprietary power connector (AMD-GES) . I picked one up a couple of years after they were released, and it was an absolute nightmare

Tyan S2462

Tyan S2462 is a motherboard based on the AMD 760MP chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!

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[rare]

The motherboard is a Tyan S2460, think it was called Tyan Tiger, cant recall what the CPUs are, they are not MP though.

Windows was very unstable on it and ended up with old flavour of Linux.

Oh awesome, socket 462 board! Mines a Tyan S2875. It’s been a bit of a challenging setup, the SATA controller is incredibly fussy about newer drives, and I struggled to get it running with two CPU’s and 4GB memory at CL2 400Mhz so had to settle for CL3.

It’s a cool novelty to have effectively four cores of AMD FX goodness though.

 

[scrivz69]

Wow mate they are both works of art and so clean. Impressive stuff indeed.

 

[rare]

thanks mate much appreciated!!