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

Posted on 2023-12-01, 05:16

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Been testing my ole' trusty Grundig GV729M VCR after I had a friend clean its heads for me. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=179803 The quality is absolutely crisp. I don't think I've seen VHS tapes play this clean besides Panasonics. I bought this Panasonic PV-8451 for $6 to …

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Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-29, 20:29

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it's more of a marketing strategy. Of course it is. And it's still being done on both sides. The only reason the for the RTX4060 or RX6600 to have fewer shader units than the Ti/XT variant. It's the same GPU. In the late Core2 era Intel manufactured only one or two quad core desktop CPUs and they …

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

Posted on 2023-11-27, 23:39

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I just swapped a RX 580 8gb to a 6gb Nvidia 1060. From one FX 8350 machine to another. I remember why I hate Nvidia software. That's backwards, downgraded. RX 580 is high end 8GB video card approximately GTX 1080Ti. Cheers, Well they are similar systems ( FX 8350, 990fx, SSD, 16gb of ram) and the …

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

Posted on 2023-11-24, 02:43

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Lots of testing and benchmarking. Currently benchmarking the Pentium 200 vs Pentium MMX 200 vs Pentium Pro 200 in conjunction with various video cards. I like where this is going :) Could you please give me the models' names of the fans on top of the coolers? I do need a few to replace mine. Little …

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Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

Posted on 2023-11-18, 11:47

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LP GeForce fx 5200 or Geforce 4 cards, are the best compatible cheap 98se LP cards . especially since they are so common from OEMs

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

Posted on 2023-11-18, 09:48

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I just swapped a RX 580 8gb to a 6gb Nvidia 1060. From one FX 8350 machine to another. I remember why I hate Nvidia software.

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Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?

Posted on 2023-11-13, 04:32

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There are X300 and low-end GeForce 7200 or 7300 I can't remember, OEM models from Dell/HP with S-Video. Not sure if that's helpful. Iv got a VIVO AGP x1950 pro with a proprietary S-Video with a red, blue, green breakout cable that came with it.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 08:29

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Bought a 6GiB Asus GTX1060 for the kid, to build him a more gaming-appropriate rig than his laptop, which has integrated GPU in an 11th gen i5 :) Cost a hair's width more than US$100. Going to put it in a Lenovo Workstation with a Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1270 and 12 GiB of DDR3 memory. All which I had …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-09-14, 03:27

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Hi Everyone Just to follow up on this. I did end up buying a C2Q 9300 for like a dollar. However while waiting for it to arrive I found something else on ebay from a corporate recycler - an HP G3 600 SFF for $25. Specs are pretty nice - i5 6500, 16 GB RAM, 256 NVME. Even has wifi/BT, USBC port and …

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

Posted on 2023-09-05, 19:35

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I decided to treat my DOS/Win31 SS7 rig with network card. Wanted to have Fast Ethernet (TX) on PCI bus. I encountered this one (attached) on my local auction site. Initially it buzzled me with MPX EN5048 chip. Quick googling revealed link to Accton Technologies. I was back in the days Network …

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

Posted on 2023-08-21, 05:30

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Attempted to get my 980ti FE working. It blue screens during installing drivers, despite Nvidia driver setup identifying the card successfully. Windows insists that no display adapter exists.

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Re: How to test a lot of hard drives fast?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 00:47

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A friend of mine used a working scrap Core2 HP workstation that had 2 IDE channels and 6 SATA 2 ports onboard, along with a PCI SATA card to DBAN all the old hard drives getting scrapped at his work years ago, so he could do 4 IDE's at a time and 8 SATA drives. Had it running in a corner of their …

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

Posted on 2023-08-12, 00:32

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-11, 19:49

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Village Tronic MPDD Pro card (Trident Blade XP). Probably shit card , but I bought it mainly for being unusual (at least I haven't seen one before). Might be good for late 90's OS9 machine. My initial hypothesis was correct. This turned out to be total waste of money. Drivers on mac are so poor …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-11, 19:48

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Village Tronic MPDD Pro card (Trident Blade XP). Probably shit card , but I bought it mainly for being unusual (at least I haven't seen one before). Might be good for late 90's OS9 machine. My initial hypothesis was correct. This turned out to be total waste of money. Drivers on mac are so poor …

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

Posted on 2023-08-11, 04:59

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I bought a Logitech G502 Hero to replace the first new mouse I bought, in 2012. Cooler Master Xornet that was $15 on sale, USB Male connector finally just wore out, the contacts are barely there and missing in some places. Hopefully I can solder a new cable or connector onto it. With Logitechs …

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

Posted on 2023-08-02, 03:59

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It was worth the effort IMO, but I've just now discovered that they are picky about CPUs. I have a number of Socket A CPUs that I thought would work in this board, but it doesn't support Throughbreds. The Palomino core XP2000 I have won't post in this board - it ought to work, but this was the …

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

Posted on 2023-08-01, 07:26

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I finally got around to recapping the Soyo Dragon I bought last fall. I was holding my breath when I powered it on, because it had so many bad capacitors that I was afraid to even see if it would POST as it was. But the operation was a success! Now to build a system with it. Best looking PCB of …

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Re: Athlon motheboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-08-01, 06:47

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FX5200/FX5500 - useless trash cards for an Athlon system. FX5600 - more reliable, but somewhat slower in older games and horrendously slower in games with Shader Model 2.0 (DirectX9). FX5700 - same thing, 50/50 chance it would be DOA. 5900XT - more reliable, from my experience, but harder to find …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2023-07-31, 04:12

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Ah yes, here right? - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39993&p=1040752&hilit=winbook#p1040752 I did a forum search here a while back for "winbook" while researching the company for my website resources on their laptops and found that - that was a few months ago before I joined. Real …

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