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


jcb33 said:
OMG an NF7-S!
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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.


jcb33 said:
Also, how do you get your Floppy and IDE cables to be so compact?
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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.


HeadlessChicken said:
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?
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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.
 
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 :D
 
SupraWez said:
Pretty sure one of them is a dual cpu AMD setup
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Need more details mate that sounds awesome :D

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.
 
rare said:
Need more details mate that sounds awesome :D

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.
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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.
 
SupraWez said:
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.
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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 :D

Tyan S2462

Tyan S2462 is a motherboard based on the AMD 760MP chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
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SupraWez said:
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.
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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.
 
Loving both builds uploaded so far. The case is the one thing I am missing from my retro setups and this gives me some serious inspiration. I keep looking for a Thermaltake Xaser III in blue as its the case I had back in the day (Athlon 64 4000+ (OC'd of course), DFI LAN Party NF4 SLI MB, Dual 7800GTX Golden Sample Hiper PSU (all blue of course)) but I currently can't find one, at least not for lol money.

I may also be a little cheeky and use the benchmarks from dual 7800 system to compare mine to (dual Quadro FX4500 OC'd / 7800 GTX 512MB based). :)
 
oweneades said:
I keep looking for a Thermaltake Xaser III in blue as its the case I had back in the day
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Very cool case those! Finding cases in nice condition is becoming a bit trickier. I was quite fortunate with these two. Sad thing is so much nice older hardware has probably just been binned over the years because people either didn’t care / think it’s worthless. Those DFI boards are worth a small fortune now. I preferably sold a boxed one a few years back as someone offered me good money for it. Kind of wish I had kept it.
 
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