Grandma's Dell E520 - A story

Posted on 2015-07-22, 21:59

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I posted about this briefly before, but I figured I'd do a more thorough thread with pictures now that it is complete. This poor system was going to be thrown in the trash. It was my grandmothers system. It lived most of its life inside a closed in desk cabinet running warm with Windows XP and 50 …

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Re: Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2015-07-22, 19:32

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This is super old thread guys, I accidently necro'd it thinking I was replying to Phil's 4 in 1 thread. Speaking of, Phil you should test out Warcraft 3 and see how it runs on your system!

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Re: Which SB Audigy model is this?

Posted on 2015-07-22, 19:27

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It says in the top right: SB0090 . It's a first generation Sound Blaster Audigy that used to be marketed towards gamers, they called it a "Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer", and came boxed with a couple games. I bought this exact same model brand new back in the day when they came out, and sold it on Ebay …

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Re: Too many Retro PCs? Let's build a 4 in 1 Retro Gaming PC! 386, 486, Pentium...

Posted on 2015-07-22, 00:30

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Try out Warcraft 3, I'm very curious on how well it runs on this system. 😀

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Re: Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2015-07-22, 00:28

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:edit: meant to post this in phils thread, mods please delete.

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-18, 01:16

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smeezekitty wrote: Pentium M kicks ass. That's why all future intel processors are loosly based on it. My router runs on a Pentium M. 😉

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-16, 15:19

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Standard Def Steve wrote: I didn't have very good luck with it though; it just wasn't completely stable running an E2180 at 1066MHz FSB. It's funny you say that actually, because this one isn't completely stable either at 1066mhz. I have it underclocked very slightly for stability.

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-16, 01:22

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I actually played through all of Resident Evil 4 @ 1280x1024 4xAA 4xAF and it played beautifully. Also beat Resident Evil Remake on a Gamecube emulator with this system using Dolphin 3.0. Did you all know that the really old versions, like Dolphin 3.0 are actually able to run nicely on a Core2? It's …

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-15, 00:43

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I remember a "Combo" motherboard with this chipset from Gigabyte back then. Really cool to be able to use two types of RAM AND VGA. I didn't know those could handle C2Ds! Isn't the VIA limited to P4s and Celerons? Nope, it can run Conroe based Core2's (and Pentium D's apparently) as well - it even …

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-13, 20:10

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Just curious but what unofficial BIOS are you using? Unofficial bios 3.19a, the last official one by Asrock is 3.10. This 3.19a was released by pctreiber.net ( here ) and gives support for new CPU's, more memory, and newer video cards. Neat build and a neat board - I remember playing around with …

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My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-13, 00:10

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My XP box. It was mostly built out of spare parts, but it has a lot of versatility thanks to the VIA PT880 Pro chipset. Motherboard: 775Dual-VSTA w/ unofficial bios CPU: Core2Duo E6400 Memory: 3GB DDR2-667 Video Card: Radeon X800 GTO What I like about this board is that the chipset was created to …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-12, 23:37

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My slightly makeshift XP box runs on a Core2Duo E6400, 3GB DDR2, and an X800 GTO. It's a 128MB card that doesn't take any additional power except what is supplied by the PCIe slot. The fan it came with is a tiny loud piece of shit though, so I yanked it off and put on a much larger CPU fan, and …

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Re: A 3dfx Voodoo 5, Vortex2, Pentium III-S based Glide Beast Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-07-12, 12:20

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One of the great things about getting a bunch of machines that are the exact same is you can basically guarantee yourself that you will be able to keep atleast one of those systems running for a very long time because you have so many extra components from the other identical systems, even down to …

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Re: Anyone else dislike multiplayer? No, just me?

Posted on 2015-07-11, 23:46

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I loved Quake 1, especially QuakeWorld Team Fortress. I didn't play the normal death match as much. The single player was nice too. Quake 2 was fun but I wasn't as into it as QWTF. Quake 3 was fun but I wasn't as into it as QWTF. I was OBSESSED with StarCraft when I was younger. I played it so much …

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Re: GF4 or Radeon9600

Posted on 2015-07-04, 12:05

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and while the 9600 supports DX9, it's going to be bottom-rung for most DX9 games. The bottom rung for DX9 is the FX series, which have no business doing DX9 in the first place even if they technically support it. A 9600 (atleast the 9600 XT I had) ran games just fine for its expected price point …

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Re: Downloading an 84GB torrent that only has 1-2 seeds

Posted on 2015-07-02, 20:03

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Seeing that the files matched, I thought maybe if I inject my incomplete stuff into the torrent it might be enough to recreate the complete archive, so I threw it all in, and it was! Haha, that's kind of what I'm doing right now. The torrent itself is from a private tracker, but I also found a …

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Re: Downloading an 84GB torrent that only has 1-2 seeds

Posted on 2015-07-02, 19:25

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leileilol wrote: No because I don't feel the need to torrent. Something tells me you were typing that with your arms crossed and a frowny face. Whats wrong? 😊

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Downloading an 84GB torrent that only has 1-2 seeds

Posted on 2015-07-02, 19:09

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This torrent has 1 or 2 seeds, and a handful of peers. You know, downloading such a massive torrent for such a long time, you feel like you get to know the other people in some weird way. Without this seed online I get about 20 KB/sec. When the seed comes on I get 400 KB/sec+ I was thinking about …

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Re: A Voodoo 3, Vortex 2, Slot 1 based Glide machine

Posted on 2015-07-02, 11:41

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That "PC Air Conditioner" is hilarious. I could of course just strap a fan to Voodoo but that strikes me as inelegant Not IMO, back in the day I did exactly that. 😀

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Re: Possible virus?

Posted on 2015-06-28, 16:10

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You should fdisk /mbr and use a live cd with dd to save the first 512 bytes of the disk. Then replicate this issue where it says the MBR has changed, and load up the live cd again and dd the first 512 bytes to another file and compare them to see what changed.

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