AMD ATHLON 64 X2 RICER PROJECT 

I love my Athlon 64x2 builds. My ECS GeForce 6100SM-M2 will be turning 10 years old this year. That thing had an Sempron 3800+ , Sempron X2 2300, Athlon 64x2 3800+, 64x2 5400+, and finally with a 6000+. AM2 has to be my favorite processor series despite all the issues with heat from the GeForce chipsets (the 6100 and 6150). I hate BGA, the flexing from the heat, most certainly killed OEM boards. Countless dumpster PC finds were the MB was dead but everything else worked! My favorite was an ECS KA3 MVP Extreme that i managed to get for like 20 bucks and took a dive into Crossfired Palit Radeon HD4850s, multiple BIOS chips, RAID, on-board Optical out, Dolby Digital, and 4GB of RAM. The thing had 2 SATA and 2 IDE Controllers but damn if those chipset didn't get hot! they scorched a wire or two. The thing could to 60FPS no problem in 2013's Tomb Raider. had to get a EVGA 700 Bronze, and that PSU is still working strong

man i grew up on a 64 x2 , after my pentium 4 exploded when i was younger , i still have my 4200+ and 4400+ from those days , and as a matter of fact the 4200+ is running to this day in my nas , reliable as ever

I am still using AM2 SLI nForce motherboard as my MAIN COMPUTER!!! I have Phenom II X4 and GTX1070. In past 10 years progress in CPUs has been so slow and AM2 -> AM2+ -> AM3 socket comparability so great, that I literally could not be bothered to upgrade.

Oh hey welcome back! Great to see you again!

at least 60W more than similar performance Core2 E6700 :( 2006-7 was a time AMD lost the reason to exist for 10 years :( than Jim Keller for Zen, we have competition again in cpu market

Welcome back WaybackTECH! Ricer build is the perfect name for old parts in a new case. I like that term, more than reverse sleeper. A nice, capable machine for the era. Vista was such a turd though. I have a dedicated year 2007 machine that runs vista. Even after it's tweaked, it's a little hitchy at times. That said, Win7 felt like Vista SP2....and a bit of a rip off. Win7 felt like they could have just updated Vista.

unbelievable. a new video from waybacktech. nice

That chassis is delightfully garish, it suits the board and everything here though. These chips arrived 'after my time' as it were and by the time they hit shelves I'd stopped paying much attention anymore, so it's good to see a glimpse of what I missed. Water cooling probably wouldn't go amiss as it appears even the cheap kits are quite good now, but it never hurts to have total paranoia where cooling is concerned.

Taking a chance pays off sometimes. I got a perfectly-good Socket AM3 board for $2 because it had a broken fan mount. The fan mount was about $5.

Nice system you got there! I still have my socket AM2 system today but with a much lower spec CPU: 1. Athlon 64 X2 4400 which produces much less heat because it has a 89wTDP! 2. Abit AN9 32X motherboard (the regular version not the Fatality version which cost more money for more bling and more noise because of the 2 extra fans!) 3. 8 GB of RAM which really helps with Vista! 4. geforce 7950gt which was OK back in 2006 5. 500gb WD which is really slow compared to modern HDD! 5. and of course Vista :) ! It runs just fine even today; maybe a SSD would be a nice upgrade!

i have a lot of this athlon 64 x2 hardware lying around here including an x2 6000+ that gets extremely hot for some reason, even with a massive cooler.

Thanks for the Video, I like the Case

Looks great! Are you worried about getting online with Vista, since Microsoft no longer supports it?

OMG your alive

Comparable with what, core2 duo at 2.6ghz? Or these days i3 1.8 without turbo?

Can you test FLATOUT 2 on this old rig ?

Where can I get the "bomberman" thing you showed in the video? That's really cool. Great video btw, I've always wanted to build an AMD machine, haven't found the right parts yet. /:

if the heat output strains an aftermarket air cooler, I wonder how loud the little stock cooler back in 2005 had to run

GRFS PC (Windows) worked on DX10

please get an older case for it =(

I would have tried win 7. Vista's known to eat all your ram. Nice demoscene.