Re: Video Card prices
Posted on Today, 00:53
I just sold my rx 480 for the same price I paid for it brand new to pay bills and bought a $10 "broken" 2gb gtx 760 that works perfectly. Current GPU market is nuts!
Re: Building RetroPC which PSU?
Posted on 2021-02-25, 19:57
DNSDies wrote on 2021-02-25, 16:54: You can still sometimes find new PSUs with decent 5V rails. There are several Hercules branded PSUs floating around with beefy 5V rails. Hercules was the worst reviewed and most explosive PSU to go through Johnny Guru.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-22, 07:04
crvs wrote on 2021-02-21, 17:48: Got these today for $20. Green one is dead, but the gold one has passed all tests. The green one may only work in the pc chips m919 motherboard. IIRC pcchips liked to use non-standard pinouts for some of the COAST slots on their motherboards.
Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Posted on 2021-02-14, 23:33
I love the quad cores because they make such good general use PC's. Dual boot with a modern Linux distro and you can use a modern OS to retrieve drivers and software and what not without having to utilize a second pc, and XP runs absolutely amazing. 4gb or more of ram, throw in an SSD and it feels …
Re: What parts of my SS7 PC should I upgrade first?
Posted on 2021-02-14, 06:05
Maybe more ram if the board will take it? 256mb or so would be nice.
Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Posted on 2021-02-13, 19:37
Q6700 or Q6600 would be my pick. Try to find the G0 iirc stepping if you can, it overclocks better and has better power consumption.
Re: What Soundcard is as good if not better than the SoundBlaster AWE64 line of cards?
Posted on 2021-02-13, 05:23
I second the ESS ISA cards. They are so easy and sound just overall decent.
Re: Finding a PCI card that fits
Posted on 2021-02-12, 19:41
Something like a pci voodoo 3, geforce 2 mx, TNT or tnt2 in pci would be a good fit for a 400mhz K6.
Re: Help choosing components for my windows 98 rig
Posted on 2021-02-12, 19:37
The 6200 supports dx9 stuff better than the 5200. Thats really the only upside that I can think of. The 3.6ghz P4 should be fine for 98se. Paired with the 9600 it should work pretty well. If ya run into any compatibility issues you can always switch to the fx 5200.
Re: New old build
Posted on 2021-02-09, 11:44
That looks fic 13 looks great. Do note that it may support up to 4gb of ram. Or possibly 2 id imagine. Stupid overkill for a 800mhz p3 and windows 98 but so good.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 11:31
Putting together a matx sleeper build in an old dimension p3 case. Just tore down the pc and am replacing the PSU with a 500watt psu, a am3+ motherboard, a $30 25 watt 8 core Opteron and 8gb of old lp ddr3 samsung memory with some free 180gb SSD's and a super low profile copper cpu fan to fit below …
Re: Windows 7 on socket 7 (solved, see page 2)
Posted on 2021-02-09, 11:21
Re: Can't install XP (Dell Vostro 200)
Posted on 2021-02-04, 21:36
pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-02-04, 21:09: Reuse the power supply in other P4 PC. They are usually 320W. Cheers, +1 and may I add that between the Dell, the P4 and your Athlon XP Compaq you have a good combination of parts to throw a XP box together. Could you post the specs of em?
Re: Can't install XP (Dell Vostro 200)
Posted on 2021-02-03, 02:56
2007 seems to be the point where Dell decided that Legacy ports were no longer necessary. All the Inspiron 530's Iv worked on are all legacy free minus a floppy connector.
Re: Can I use a socket AM2 CPU in a socket AM3 mainboard?
Posted on 2021-01-30, 21:20
I bought a 95watt phenom ii x6 1055t for $40 from The Bay awhile back for a similar motherboard to upgrade a Athlon ii x250. Absolutely killer performance increase for the $ for modern web usage and GTA 5 and the like that dont require SSE 4.2 or whatever it is that all the newer games are …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-01-30, 20:03
Picked up a Dell 750watt PSU with a bad fan for free when I sold a guy a Antec 750watt PSU. Missing the psu case screws, and its a super weird fan but Im hoping a good relube will silence it.
Re: Socket 7 and mmx
Posted on 2021-01-30, 19:59
Can you post pics and or the exact model number of the motherboard?
Re: Documenting my Win98 build project
Posted on 2021-01-26, 06:16
You know, Im guilty of having shipped a ti 4200 and a agp hd4670 in envelopes a few years back but I reinforced it with duct tape, cardboard, an anti static bag, packing peanuts and newspaper. Got positive feedback on Ebay so Id say it went well.
Re: Recommended Power Supply for PIII Asus TUSL2-C (plus build specs)
Posted on 2021-01-22, 06:10
Since it's an ATX psu you need to jumper a couple pins with a paperclip (I cant remember which ones, but its a super common trick and google will explain better than me). Although it is NOS pop open the PSU and make sure that the capacitors havent vented before plugging it into your hardware. If it …
Re: fx5500 or Geforce MX4000 for Pentium200MMX
Posted on 2021-01-21, 09:08
If your being cheap and it is between a geforce4 or 5 for a P1 system id just buy a Virge or Rage or something. A P1 system just isnt the place for something that new IMHO.
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