Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Today, 05:39

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by ODwilly

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Today I finally got around to putting my old P4 board in a case and got it around 80% complete hardware wise. Just need to pick out an optical drive from my stack of 30, butcher an IDE cable to work with my 400gb Hitachi drive with some broken ide pins, hunt down a usb 2.0 card I know I have kicking …

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Re: Case Recommendations for ATX Build?

Posted on 2020-02-11, 00:47

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by ODwilly

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There is an "Apex Vortex 3620" on Newegg for $44 with 3 5.25 inch bays and 2 external 3.5 inch bays.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-05, 21:12

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Bought a Ryzen 5 1600AF (basically a 2600) edition and a B450 Tomahawk Max. Already have 16gb of ddr4 on hand, should be able to recoup most of my upgrade money by selling off my x58 stuff. My Asus board handles an OC great but iv gotten to the point where Im tired of the bios randomly losing my OC …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 21:02

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by ODwilly

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Here they are. Both old enough to be eligible for collector plates.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 11:16

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by ODwilly

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I have two different vehicles since the last time I posted here ages ago with my 97 Pontiac. Guess I'll need to snap some pictures and post them when I wake up in the morning :) 1989 Toyota Camry with now 89k miles ( 73k when I bought it) w/ 2.0 4cylinder/auto. Then I just bought my first pickup. …

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Re: InWin A500 and some other good stuff build.

Posted on 2020-02-04, 05:46

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by ODwilly

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Even NOS that Antec smartpower is going to be full of caps that need replaced. They may look fine but odds are you will either end up with weird issues due to out of tolerance caps, and or end up with quickly popped caps. Maybe even some pop and magic smoke action. If you want the "Period" correct …

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-25, 03:45

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To add in to the discussion rambus vs ddr, I just wanted to add in that my SiS 645 based Soyo 478 motherboard was released Q4 of 2001and utilized dual channel ddr266/333mhz. It was also under half the cost of a family friends RAMBUS Dell from a bit earlier than that as well as being much faster. …

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Re: What is a quiet AT power supply ?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 03:38

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by ODwilly

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I would just look for a high quality unit and swap the fan out for something like a nice Noctua. They almost always use standard 80mm fans. Worst case maybe a cable extension hooked up to a fan controller if the replacement fan is to loud and or wont work with the internal psu fan header.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-12-23, 02:16

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by ODwilly

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Discovered the ide controller is kaput on the IBM Aptiva I picked up, given the CD drive was blown too I expect something has happened here... Well at least I have a nice mATX case for a future project. :neutral: Currently spinning up a custom WinXP installer to get XP on my HP 4320s Probook daily …

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-20, 09:09

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by ODwilly

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To add in to the discussion rambus vs ddr, I just wanted to add in that my SiS 645 based Soyo 478 motherboard was released Q4 of 2001and utilized dual channel ddr266/333mhz. It was also under half the cost of a family friends RAMBUS Dell from a bit earlier than that as well as being much faster.

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Re: Ideas for my best windows 98se build

Posted on 2019-11-25, 06:25

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by ODwilly

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As far as a socket 478 Pentium 4 goes, literally the worst stock cooler or equivalent will be fine for anything from 1.6ghz to 2.8ghz Northwood core processors. A basic intel 845 chipset motherboard and any CPU in that range with almost any common and cheap as chips 478 HSF will do the job. …

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Re: Ideas for my best windows 98se build

Posted on 2019-11-25, 03:32

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by ODwilly

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would this psu work fine with any of these or overkill for this build (i got this a while ago for a something else) https://seasonic.com/m12ii-evo#specification Yes to both ;) honestly a decent modern 400watt PSU would be plenty for anything but the latest and most power hungry AGP cards (HD 3870, …

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Re: AMD equivalent to Intel Core Duo

Posted on 2019-11-20, 10:43

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by ODwilly

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Personally I would go with the Phenom ii and one of your compatible AMD boards. If you have even a compatible stock cooler and ram, and even a basic 80mm exhaust fan in your case with a low powerish GPU like a 550ti or something like that you can pretty much max out the XP era of games. All you …

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Re: HP xw4400 Workstation Rebuild

Posted on 2019-11-16, 21:44

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by ODwilly

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If you have a Dremel and some scrap steel/aluminum I'd suggest fabricating a simple bracket for the Powersupply. Friend of mine did that with a XW4600 with a dead PSU

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-16, 07:36

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by ODwilly

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Picked up a matched pair of 1.4ghz Tualatin Pentium 3's. One serial number apart in production codes out of a dead Compaq 1U server. Also got the 4x1gb sticks of ECC PC133 for my dual Pentium 3 machine. Doesn't really need the upgrades but eh why not? Also a free stack of 2gb sticks DDR2 800 ram. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-08, 08:06

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by ODwilly

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Went through some boxes of parts to try to find something better than this E2160 Pentium. Found a E6550, not the most amazing CPU in the world but good enough to setup Windows 10 until I find a quad core for this system. Upgraded the 250watt FSP PSU to a 350watt Bestec out of a newer HP. Found out …

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Re: Could you give me advice on buying a new computer?

Posted on 2019-11-08, 08:01

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by ODwilly

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Played through Metro Exodus on mixed medium/high settings this year on my rx 480 8gb X5650 setup. Stock cpu clock speeds it was still a very enjoyable experience in 1080p with a pretty solid 60fps. Now that iv got a nice water cooler the intermittent frame drops down into the 20fps range in some CPU …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-11-06, 07:58

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by ODwilly

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Picked up a 2008 MATX Acer tower getting dumped. Pentium E2160 (Ouch) 1gb of DDR2 667mhz in 512mb chunks, a 250gb Sata1 Drive, and integrated VIA graphics. Vista could not have been very fun on this. . .Planning on a dropping a spare Core2 E6600 in there, a 256mb Quadro card that is basically a …

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Re: emachines etower 433i Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2019-08-01, 03:49

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by ODwilly

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Geforce 2 MX series. Great compatibility, common, and fairly cheap.

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Re: Slot A build

Posted on 2019-07-26, 07:17

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by ODwilly

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Ditto, have a Slot A board and CPU, just need to prep a new BIOS chip and ghetto rig a heatsink on the K7 chip. (it has the metal shroud for the heatsink but not the heatsink itself. Ya have a spare Slot 1 heatsink handy? They are pretty compatible, at least the 3rd party stuff. Worst case maybe …

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