Monster Chipset & BGA Ramsinks

[hOOli]

Here's your dose of nostalgia for the day, a throwback to the early 2000's when overclockers were men and boys were boys

Back then heatsinks on RAM, sometimes even chipsets were unheard of and nobody talked about overheating mosfets. Cooling products were few and far between, none available locally, and if you couldn't afford to import you had to ghetto hack up an old stock heatsink with a metal saw or assemble a watercooler with homemade waterblocks and an aquarium pump!

I just came across these bad boys digging around and old box while spring cleaning. A group of other overclockers and myself from a now defunct website called PlanetMars imported them.

Ah the good old days...

 

[ThatGuyJD]

They're not particularly monstruous at 2*2*1.6 but can tell they're old by the packaging mentioning SDR Ram, lol. Like the fin density and that it's actually copper and not disguised something else like we get these days.

 

[hOOli]

Well at the time they were quite big relative to what else was available.

 

[hOOli]

Not much going on in this section... Do you guys compete anywhere?

 

[JollyJamma]

And back when motherboards came with cool colours and as many PCI-e lanes as you could throw a GPU at.

Remember the DFI Lanparty series?

 

[Oops!!!]

i member plastering those all over my boards even the audio controllers thinking i was making it run better 🤣

 

[Oops!!!]

And back when motherboards came with cool colours and as many PCI-e lanes as you could throw a GPU at.

Remember the DFI Lanparty series?

pure porn but you needed the black light tubes to make it really work

 

[el3venth]

Talking about nostalgia, does anybody else remembering overclocking their Cyrix 6x86 by manually settings jumpers.

 

[Gpeg]

Talking about nostalgia, does anybody else remembering overclocking their Cyrix 6x86 by manually settings jumpers.

I kinda remember the pakslae I got after setting those jumpers willy nilly on our home pc because I heard it makes things run faster.
And I definitely remember the one I got after trying it a second time.

 

[hOOli]

And back when motherboards came with cool colours and as many PCI-e lanes as you could throw a GPU at.

Remember the DFI Lanparty series?

The DFI Lanparty was one of my all time favorites! Though that came a little later... If memory serves I had an Athlon64 3400, DFI Lanparty with OCZ RAM and a sub-zero compressor cooler bolted onto on the socket 🤓 Good times!

 

[JollyJamma]

The DFI Lanparty was one of my all time favorites! Though that came a little later... If memory serves I had an Athlon64 3400+ and DFI Lanparty with a compressor cooler bolted onto on it 🤓

It was the wolf in sheep’s clothing and allowed you to overclock way higher than anything other brand.

Weird company but definitely an enthusiast focussed company.

 

[Oops!!!]

Talking about nostalgia, does anybody else remembering overclocking their Cyrix 6x86 by manually settings jumpers.

Yeah, i ran my Cyrix MII 300 at M400 speeds with just a change of a jumper.

The jumpers or dip switches controlled the front side bus X the multiplier to get your MHZ output, so you had to do a bit of math to get your CPU clock speed correct. It also effected the PCI and AGP bus speeds, which resulted in a lot of dead AGP ports but fine CPU's

 

[aiccc]

Still have rambus sticks and mobo. Plus a Quadro from the 99+

Will post when I get a moment.

 

[hOOli]

I case somebody is interested in buying these see the thread over here, since I don't bench anymore I don't really have a use for them.

 

[Oops!!!]

Still have rambus sticks and mobo. Plus a Quadro from the 99+

Will post when I get a moment.

I don't think there will be many who are familiar with rambus, was very niche and with low volume production. If i remember correctly RDRAM only ever featured in really early P4's

I remember trying to upgrade my prebuilt P4 not knowing it utilised rambus ram, the quote was almost double what the desktop cost!

 

[ThatGuyJD]

I case somebody is interested in buying these see the thread over here, since I don't bench anymore I don't really have a use for them.

Damn, you're really trying to get me to spend money on some sliced copper that I don't really need... let me check my bank account.

 

[JollyJamma]

 

[ThatGuyJD]

Nice

 

[JollyJamma]

I worked for a tech support in 2006/7 and the boss had to buy one of these for his new Pentium 4 EE.

The CPU still hit 90 degrees with pretty much zero effort. Told the boss AMD was better but he was a massive Intel fanboi.

 

[hOOli]

I thought the Zalman coolers were pretty good at the time, I owned several including the horizontal and vertical models.

Now this thing on the other hand was the worst cooler I ever owned, got it really cheap second hand from a friend who was un-enlightened enough to buy one new; the Thermaltake SubZero4G. They basically stuck a small peltier element under what could only be charitably described as a stock cooler.

 

[JollyJamma]

Wow. That looks janky AF.