Ah yes, we sure do love stories like this here on ProRetroPC. The biggest underdog in the industry of Personal Computers – Socket 423. Lifespan of roughly two years and miserable performance are the highlights of this platform. But is there more than it meets the eye ? Of course ! But let`s start from […]
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The year 2006 and a G71 chip officially brought an insane idea of a personal computer simultaneously combining four active gpus to the enthusiast market. First attempt was with the G70 chip and 7900 GX2 or 7900 DUO card but there were never officially available for sale. The 7950 GX2 was a production version of […]
What can I say, this year started perfectly. Santa was a little bit late – but still – it was worth waiting for. Welcome home NV16 🙂 What you can see here, is fully refurbished GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB + TV out. You can`t even imagine the time and effort I had to sacrifice to […]
First of all I would like to wish all of you Merry Christmas ! May the Vdrop be minimal, low ping, high and stable fps, may the pumps be quiet and cpu and gpu temps as low as possible 😀 Since it`s almost the start of the new year, I`ve made some changes to the […]
Yes folks, they did it again. But this time it`s even harder to understand than few month earlier with Titan Xp (Pascal). What is the problem ? Power consumption ? No. Availability ? Nah (only two per customer though – LOL). Compute power ? Definitely not, in fact Volta – brand new architecture – is […]
Testing and preparing the base of a brand new article – the soon to be Retro Build from 2007/2008. This year the G80 Nvidia chip in it`s Ultra specification became 10 years old. To celebrate this occasion I`m trying to build a 3way SLI setup from 8800 Ultras. Unfortunately the third card which came to […]
I`ve been looking for this cpu for a while now. Fortunately it finally came into my possession. Pentium Extreme Edition cpus where first consumer/enthusiast/gamers products with four threads (excluding Xeon cpus of course) because they were based on a Pentium D architecture with Hyper Threading enabled. Additionally at the time of release it was the […]
New quality came under my roof. It was THAT kind of occasion, full and complete set of Asus Republic of Gamers Striker II Extreme. My previous benchmark base (EVGA nForce 780i SLI) was very good when it comes to performance but it was lacking two things – 1600 MHz FSB and a DDR3 support. With […]
October was very busy month when it comes to expanding my gpu collection. Last pieces of Tesla puzzles came “home” ! And yes, you can see the dual gpu GTX 295 from Asus but it`s not the same one as in previous post. I believe you all know where this is going… yes, yes – […]
Few months earlier I`ve bought theoretically broken Asus motherboard. I was interested in it, because the offer featured mobo with the full set of accessories and an original box. But that`s not all, the main reason was that Asus P5N32-SLI is equipped with the last and most powerful nForce 4 chipset, the nForce 4 SLI […]