Zalman CNPS9500 LED on an Opteron 165
- AMD Opteron 165, two cores at 1.8 GHz, 2 × 1 MB L2 cache, socket 939
- Zalman CNPS9500 LED: all-copper heatpipe tower with a quiet 92 mm blue LED fan
- Fan Mate 2 speed controller came in the box
- Back to the tower
VINTAGE SYSTEMSShowcase build
Dual-core Opteron Windows XP gaming tower
An EPoX nForce4 SLI board carrying an AMD Opteron 165, an EVGA GeForce 8800 GT and a Sound Blaster Live! with its front-panel Live! Drive, inside a restored beige mid-tower. Tap a pin to open it up.
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1CPU cooler
2Graphics card
3Sound card
4Two CD drives
5Live! Drive front panel
6Case and board
Up close
EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
- NVIDIA G92, 512 MB on a 256-bit bus
- 600 MHz core, 1500 MHz shaders, 900 MHz memory
- Dual DVI outputs, in the top PCI Express x16 slot (pictured under the cooler in part 1)
- Back to the tower
Creative Sound Blaster Live!
- EMU10K1 PCI card: line out, rear out, line in, mic, digital out, 15-pin game and MIDI port
- Drives the front-panel Live! Drive IR through its internal ribbon cable
- Hardware EAX and MIDI for the XP-era game library
- Back to the tower
Two CD drives and a floppy
- Sony CD-RW: 52x write, 32x rewrite, 52x read
- 8x CD-ROM as a second drive for disc-to-disc copies and game CDs
- Both drives have a headphone jack and volume on the front
- 3.5-inch 1.44 MB floppy drive
- Back to the tower
Live! Drive IR front panel
- Coaxial S/PDIF in and out, optical in and out
- RCA aux in, quarter-inch headphone and line/mic 2 with gain knobs
- MIDI in and out, infrared remote sensor
- Back to the tower
Beige mid-tower, EPoX EP-9NPA+SLI inside
- Steel ATX mid-tower with the NEON PULSE Vintage Systems badge
- EPoX EP-9NPA+SLI: two PCIe x16 slots, three PCI, four SATA, gigabit LAN, POST code readout
- 2 GB Corsair XMS DDR400 in dual channel
- Back to the tower
Specifications
- Processor
- AMD Opteron 165, dual core, 1.8 GHzDenmark core, 90 nm, socket 939, 2 × 1 MB L2
- Cooler
- Zalman CNPS9500 LEDCopper heatpipe tower, blue LED fan
- Mainboard
- EPoX EP-9NPA+SLINVIDIA nForce4 SLI, Phoenix BIOS dated 04/24/2006
- Memory
- 2 GB Corsair XMS DDR4002 × 1 GB CMX1024-3200C2, dual channel, CL3
- Graphics
- EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT 512 MBG92, 256-bit, 600 / 1500 / 900 MHz, dual DVI
- Sound
- Creative Sound Blaster Live! with Live! Drive IRFront panel S/PDIF, optical, aux, headphone, mic, MIDI
- Optical
- Sony CD-RW 52x/32x/52x and 8x CD-ROM
- Floppy
- 3.5-inch 1.44 MB
- Power
- Evia Captain Power 520 W
- Software
- Windows XP Professional SP3, DirectX 9.0cDrivers installed, NEON PULSE Vintage Systems desktop
- Case
- Beige ATX mid-towerTwo CD drives, the Live! Drive and a floppy in the front bays, NPVS badge
- Leaves with
- Custom system manual and restore discLike every NEON PULSE system
CPU-Z readouts from this machine
About this build
This is a socket 939 machine from the last year AMD led on the desktop, put together the way an enthusiast would have specced it in 2006 and 2007: a dual-core Opteron with the big 1 MB caches, a quiet copper Zalman tower, and the 8800 GT that was the card to have that winter. The Sound Blaster Live! with its front bay gives it hardware EAX, MIDI and digital audio for the XP game library.
It runs Windows XP Professional SP3 with the chipset, graphics and sound drivers installed, and left the bench with its own system manual and restore disc. The CPU-Z readouts above were photographed on the machine as it sat.
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