Re: PCPartner Socket 7 epic design fail

Posted on Today, 14:38

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by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, that I never saw iirc lol Most I seen was clamps overhanging some of the RAM slots :P Perhaps it could be a good idea to isolate the protruding part of the (now bent back) metal clamp with some isolating tape or something? If only to prevent any potential future mishaps in regards to getting an …

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Re: Late 90s Celeron + Voodoo 3 retro rig

Posted on Today, 14:10

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by Tetrium

in Marvin \ System Specs

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I like your build a lot! :) I've enjoyed building most of my own rigs with parts that others considered not as interesting or not worthy. My most used retro rig was my old Celeron 400 on an LX chipsetted board. No 3DFX as I ended up picking a PCI TNT2 M64 16MB along with a Solo1 PCI sound card. …

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Re: what power rail does AGP slot and molex connector -> GPU use?

Posted on Today, 13:43

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by Tetrium

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I am building a Socket A PC and have an eye on my power consuption. I've got an XP 2000 which will use 70watts on the 5v rail, one IDE HDD, one IDE DVD drive, one 120mm fan. My PSU can do 35amps on the 5v rail = 175watts (lets be safe and call it 130?) I want to put a FX5900 XT in the system. This …

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Re: Question about Geforce FX 5900 current draw per rail

Posted on Today, 13:32

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by Tetrium

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Hey look at what I found! 😁 Re: I need advice for a 3DFX Config Apparently I may have uploaded ALL of those images a couple years ago! I'll reupload them here for everyones convenience 😀

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Re: Question about Geforce FX 5900 current draw per rail

Posted on Today, 13:29

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by Tetrium

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I remember those pages! Sorry to see that the images seem to have been lost though I may have downloaded them at some point. If I remember, I will see if I dan dig them up and upload them somewhere. I don't have good access to my backup files right now though and I have other things that need to be …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-08, 18:13

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by Tetrium

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Ahh ok I get it ! Thanks ! We are are not supposed to link to specific Ebay sales here, same with VCFED afaik. Fairly sure I never did that on purpose but have used some ebay seller images for informational purposes. Vcfed downright encourages it. They are very open to commerce in their forum …

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Re: How to remove S370 cooler?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 18:38

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well it was my idea too - however amount of force required to unlatch this clip makes me uneasy. This is terrible cooler design. For some reason, some of the stock Intel s370 HSFs had these metal clips which were much harder to remove. I ended up starting to push the clip down on one side harder …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-07, 18:26

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not against linking to auctions in forums in general (I try not to do so on Vogons because of the relatively recent decision to end the eBay thread), but I just don't see the point in the "what a steal!" genre of post especially if it happens within a day or two of the end of the listing. Let …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-07, 12:29

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally I'd prefer if people would wait till the actual item has arrived at its destination so it's basically assured the deal has gone through. I mean it aint over till it's over! :P It could apparently prevent all sorts of trouble. Just wait patiently till the deal is sealed, just like how …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-07, 01:21

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

that sounds very familiar ;) "the fear of missing out"... and it gets worse with time too There can definitely be something addictive going on with any kind of collecting habit! For me, after I think 5(?) years it started to decline and I even remember the moment this happened: I was in my attic …

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Re: Retro builds with an Intel branded motherboard

Posted on 2020-07-07, 01:05

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by Tetrium

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I've used a couple Intel boards throughout the years. My most used one was using an Intel D815EEA which came with a funny story as (iirc) it came with the socket latch broken at the base, so it was impossible to install or remove a CPU from the socket. This was my first ever motherboard repair that …

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Re: ASUS P3B-F Comparison v1.03, v1.04

Posted on 2020-07-06, 19:17

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What on earth were you doing back then that needed >1GB of RAM? Even with virtualization, that's pretty heavy. It is, but it wasn't as much room for future expansion compared to many of the older chipsets that went before it. When the 440BX was new, I got 128MB SDRAM with it but it would be …

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Re: ASUS P3B-F Comparison v1.03, v1.04

Posted on 2020-07-06, 19:12

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by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Of course Asus did make one i8xx board that has it all: the Asus P3C-E, with native 133MHz FSB, performance on par with i440BX and an ISA slot too. But rare as hen's teeth as RDRAM, which these days is no more expensive than SDRAM, but 20 years back cost far, far more. I have one, but it's dead :'( …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 19:53

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I've always hated steam with a passion and only started using it (for a second time) due to skyrim. I've got maybe 20 games on steam? But I haven't played most of them (not yet 😜 ). But I make up in it by having a nice collection of physical games 😁

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Re: GPU for a Compaq Deskpro EN

Posted on 2020-07-03, 12:12

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by Tetrium

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Hello, I have an Deskpro EN with a PIII 866, and I came across two gpus for a cheap price. The FX5900XT and 6800. I know that the 6800 is way better, but I want to add a Tualatin 1.4 in the system, so I wonder what card to choose or if the 6800 is waaay overkill. Its actually the same price for the …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-02, 19:34

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

heh, I have the opposite problem sometimes, I offered a friend to build them a retro computer for old games, and they kindly declined because "it would take up too much space" and "can use dosbox anyways" ^^ funnily enough people asking me to repair their computers has been a thing of the past ever …

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Re: Save the case! Spare part needed - can you help?

Posted on 2020-07-02, 19:24

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hope I don’t offend any forum rule with this plea for help … To put a long story short: Have been long looking for this specific case => bought Cooler Master case “Wavemaster” in black for my 2010 (somewhat) retro HW => Power button got lost during transport => got refund (luckily) => cooler …

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Re: virus on vogondrivers

Posted on 2020-07-02, 19:06

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ Software

And wouldn't wanting to moan a lot actually be a good reason to come here and moan? :P Depends what's causing the moan. Some things just aren't good for general display. True check out TFTS on reddit. you'll find they are usually called Karen. TFTS? https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/ …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-02, 19:02

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by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wish I had friends or family with retro hardware x3 I at least have one friend who shares a somewhat compatible interest in gaming and hardware, so we basically ended up rubbing off some of each other's interest onto each other so he also knows some of the basics of retro computing :P But at …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-02, 18:52

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by Tetrium

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It was never my thing to try to go as period correct as possible, but I have always wanted to at least build systems that would pass as contemporary. Many people would upgrade their systems along the way so to me adding parts together which are like 2 years apart is perfectly fine. I just never …

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