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![]() ![]() 64 GB to keep it a kosher as possible with 98's installer. All I needed was a special adapter to go from the slim laptop IDE form factor to the regular desktop form factor. All the benefits of an SSD without messing with SATA patches or a PATA to SATA converter. Mixed reviews online about their reliability but so far it's been working great. Apparently these were made for some high end ThinkPads back in the day. Now I get temps in the 90 C range.Īnother technical oddity in this build. Cleaned out the used grease with WD40 and left it at that. I guess years of spinning upside down will dislodge it slowly. They had to be popped back into their correct position by squeezing them into the shroud. The fan's bearings were also worse for wear. After that fresh paste was applied and it was benchmarked again. I had to soak the blocks in acetone to get all the epoxy off. Very carefully, I removed the epoxied thermal blocks and cleaned off any residue on the card and blocks. I was getting temperatures of above 110 C. While the electronics were fine, the original thermal paste was way past its prime. When it first arrived I benchmarked it to see if it was defective or not. This was a requirement for the NFS games and Thief. I edited the 45.23 Nvidia drivers to work on this card to maximize compatibility as well. I went with the FX series over the 6000 series for better game compatibility. Caught it on eBay when looking for GPUs on a whim, I don't want to say how much it was. This is the second fastest FX series GPU you can buy, the fastest being the liquid cooled variant of this card. Side note: 256 MB sticks of DDR2 are hard to come by these days.Įdit: Timings are now 3-3-2-5 tRFC: 15T CR :1T 4-way interleave 576MHz. Haven't gone too deep into optimizing the memory timings yet. They're actually clocked to 533MHz since I read that this chipset's memory controller seems to prefer 533MHz over 667MHz. In an effort to avoid patching, I'm sticking to 512MB of RAM to keep it kosher. With only a single core ever active the temps are very low, around 50 C, even when running Prime95. With a pretty small TDP, I have an ARCTIC Freezer 11 LP CPU cooler. A QX6800 would automatically downclock my motherboard's FSB by 5%, but since I'm only using one core I could feasibly raise the FSB back up, and get that sweet 8MB cache. This motherboard's FSB overclocks pretty poorly, and an X6800 can be expensive. Highest single core performance without overclocking that this board supports. They may work with rlowes patch, and maybe works in RAID mode with RAID drivers, haven't tested it. The on-board audio isn't supported (I'm using a sound card anyway), and neither are the SATA ports. Technically it doesn't officially support Windows 98, but the VIA chipset has 98 drivers, as well as the NIC and USB 2.0 (Woo fast transfers). This ponderous thing has both PCI-e 4x and AGP 8x, both DDR and DDR2, and supports the E6800 I want to use. On/Off switch on power supply lets you shut off attached drive without having to disconnect when not in use.Filename 20211121_194154.jpg File size 1.64 MiB Views 698 views File license CC-BY-4.0 Included 5V 1A power supply supports both SATA power and the standard 4-pin molex power connectors. ![]() Supports USB Suspend/Resume and Remote Wake-up. High-Speed up to 480 Mbps data transfer rate. Fully compliant with both the Standard Specification of USB 2.0 & USB 1.1. Outputs: One IDC 40-pin female port for 3.5” and 5.25” drives, one IDC 44-pin female port for 2.5” drives, and one 7-pin female SATA port for SATA drives. The USB 2.0 to IDE or SATA Drive adapter can handle all sizes and types of mass storage drives making this a great solution for recovering personal files from IDE or SATA drives that no longer boot the operating system. The adapter supports all existing IDE/ATAPI devices such as Iomega Zip, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and IDE hard drives, and works with any SATA hard drive from 80GB to 500GB. The hi-speed USB interface enables easy installation with its plug-and-play design. Simply connect one IDE/ATAPI or SATA-based mass storage device through a USB port to easily transfer files from a computer or notebook, back up files or store large file archives on an external hard drive. The USB 2.0 to IDE or Serial ATA Drive Adapter from Cables To Go turns any IDE or SATA drive into a convenient external drive. The official marketing text of C2G USB 2.0 to IDE or Serial ATA Drive Adapter interface cards/adapter as supplied by the manufacturer ![]()
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