Wow, what timing. I just built a Socket 939 rig for myself this month! I took the computer I built in 2005 (Athlon 64 3200+, ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, 6800GT) and maxed it out in all the ways I had always planned to but never did back in the day (and then some). I had never even added that second GPU I dreamed of! What I ended up with was an FX-60 driving dual 7900 GTX cards and even some of that fancy Corsair XMS RAM with the pointless LED activity indicators. Topped it off by upgrading my old Antec budget case for a new-in-box Silverstone TJ-09. All told the build would have cost around $6-7,000 back in the day. It was awesome to see the benchmarks climb between my original build and this ultimate one.
I had a DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D in 2005, I was very active with die-hard overclocking back in the day. It's the best Socket 939 motherboard, nothing comes close. I did the SLI mod, I remember it to be very easy. I ran two GTX 7900's in SLI. Can't remember if you need to flash the bios also.
I had this board in 2005 with a Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Using a optimized mod bios for UTT BH5 memory, that can run ~250 MHz on this board with very sharp memory timings of CL2/2/2 T1, but need 3,1-3,3V memory voltage to get fully stable. Good old overclocking days.
That has been an intention, but after a couple weeks of shake down, there is a stability issue with the board, so at the moment the system has been rebuilt using Intel Extreme parts.
Cool ! Im also building a socket 939 system (amd 64 x3200) in a early 2000’s case. Im waiting thermal pad to arrive for a 8800 gtx instead of the evga 7800 gtx ko that I bricked while trying to flash a custom bios.
had the same build but with some kind of opteron... and a cooler master case, still have the whole build and guess what. EVERYTHING STILL WORKS. (i didnt even change the thermal compound since 2007)
Great video on retro PC's. What cooler do you use? It looks like some of Zalman's 9000 series, 9900 LED in particular, but i have never never seen anything exactly like this one.
What ever is cheapest 😁 I love the vintage copper coolers but they are hard to find or you pay and arm, leg and butt cheek for. The older chips do well with the cheap $20 coolers from China honestly. If you want to overclock, an AIO is always an option.
@@WaybackTECH, yeah, i love them too :)) Actually, i collect them, that's why so interested in this. Could you please tell me particular model name, or maybe have a link where you bought it?
Couple of years late to this "lan party" but, was just dusting off my old 939 mobo and cpu...bought some ram...looking for some gpu's to upgrade the old ga-k8n-pro sli Triton system from back in the day. Still have the twin hd3870 Sapphire 512 mb cards from that build. rofl...quite a screamer for it's day...
That chassis is delightfully ugly. There was a time when I almost used that same board as the basis for a system but (as is evident by now) ended up staying with the Presler machine. On the subject of carry handles, DFI used to include a 'case carry' which strapped around the machine, offering pouches for the keyboard and mouse, plus other accessories, with a handle and a shoulder strap for transporting the system. I still have one here somewhere that never got used as much as it might because the case straps were too small to reach around most decent cases, the LAN Party boards did always treat the buyer well with included accessories though, as in you at least got a lot of them in the box.
I remember when Lan Parties were a thing, that was a "reason" case manufacturers went to super thin metal for lighter, easier to carry cases, and a cheaper alternative to Aluminum cases.
how is the performance differance if you get all the fastest hardware on that socket max ram and overclocked cpu vs a computer these days? Is there a notcable differance from any of these i5s or i7s vs maxxed out hardware from back then. i remember the amd models ran cooler was thinking of building one if its worth it
Hey I'm a Chinese hardware player. a DFI enthusiast fan is really into your DFI videos here. But sadly, he can't watch RU-vid(thanks to the GFW), and some asked if I can translate it and upload it to Chinese websites. Would you agree me to do so?
You might wanna keep an eye on that CPU fan...maybe bump up the speed in the BIOS... looks like it's stuck on a threshold where it doesn't have enough voltage to keep spinning and it's constantly stopping and starting.
August 24 of this year, I went to the thrift store and just bought for 10 us dollars an HP Pavilion 7410P. I am planing to throw a a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 in it. I currently have a ATI 3D Rage Pro coming in the mail. Estimated Price: $899 to $3,550 US Dollars Basic Specs _____________________________ Chipset: Intel i430HX Chipset Motherboard: Proprietary Computer Case Specific Socket 7 Motherboard CPU Type: Has either Intel Pentium Classic or Intel Pentium with MMX Technology Max Memory (Able to Take): 128 MB (4 sticks of 32 MB) EDO SIMM NON Parity but I think that they might be able to pull off 512 MB Max Hard Disk Drive Capacity Support: 8 GB AGP Slot: None Max Amount of PCI Slots: 2 Max Amount of ISA Slots: 5 Hard Drive Type: Quantum Bigfoot Onboard Graphics: S3 Virge Chipset with 2 MB of VRAM Onboard Sound: Yamaha OPL3-SA [This supports Sound Blaster Pro 2.0] Modem Card: Pavilion PC Lucent Modem Ethernet LAN Card: None [You will have to add one in if you find one of these computers. I recommend an LAN card that uses the ISA Bus.] _____________________________ HP Pavilion 7420 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB HP Pavilion 7410P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 24 MB 16x 2.1 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7370V CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 32 MB 16x 4.0 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1 [Notes: The Pavilion 7420, 7370V, 7360, 7350P, 7330Z, 7320 and 7125 were the systems as far as I can tell that came with the Pentium MMX. The 3Dfx Voodoo 1 cards that were included with these systems were made by Orchid and the name that Orchid gave their Voodoo 1 cards was the Orchid Righteous 3D] HP Pavilion 7360 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200MHz 32 MB 16x 3.8 GB HP Pavilion 7350P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7330Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 32 MB 16x 2.5 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7320 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166MHz 16 MB 16x 2.1 GB [Notes: This computer not just came with Pentium MMX but earlier models had the Pentium Classic. The Pavilion 7320 as well as the 7420 also came with a 200 Mhz clocked Pentium MMX.] HP Pavilion 7295V CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.8 GB 3Dfx Voodoo 1 HP Pavilion 7285 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 200 MHz 32 MB 8x 3.1 GB HP Pavilion 7280P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7275Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 32 MB 8x 2.5 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7270 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 8x 2.5 GB HP Pavilion 7170 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 166 MHz 16 MB 6x 2.0 GB HP Pavilion 7145 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 150 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB HP Pavilion 7130P CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB PhotoDrive HP Pavilion 7125 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 133 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.62 GB HP Pavilion 7110Z CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 120 MHz 16 MB 6x 1.26 GB Zip Drive HP Pavilion 7055 CPU Speed RAM CD Speed Hard Drive Special Feature 120 MHz 16 MB 4x 1.62 GB
I put the last one made on the board. Confused me initially as to why the same bios was used on the Ultra/D/SLI versions then when I figured out they were all the same board, it came clear.
Been needing to an socket 4 build in a modern case along with all the rgb crap for shits and giggles, one of my batman boards has a darker pcb so it kinda passes for the current meta where everything is black these days.
