Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2016-07-23, 03:28
Re: I thought I had seen everything, but not a Sound Blessed Live
Posted on 2016-07-05, 13:56
Man, that's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. But the name is ridiculous. "Sound *Blessed*"?! What kind of dopefish came up with that? Only the finest Chinese bootleg masters in the universe. Seriously, this card is a goldmine. It even lists "IOS" as an operating system that works with …
Re: YouTube Subscriptions Disappearing! D:
Posted on 2016-06-30, 15:13
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv7lU2kIAAA5lMO.jpg :lol: :lol: :lol: I'm not too concerned about my little channel's loss of 10 subscribers. Definitely seems like a few people are being shafted, though, with regards to them losing subscriptions to channels they're actively watching, or so I've heard.
Re: Largest IDE hard drives
Posted on 2016-06-28, 20:25
clueless1 wrote: The largest IDE hard drive is the one on the far left. 😉 bigfoot.jpg 🤣 🤣 🤣
Re: Largest IDE hard drives
Posted on 2016-06-28, 13:53
Biggest IDE drive that I know of is this 750GB Seagate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRXbKzvqRwY
Re: Avoid Samsung spinpoint drives
Posted on 2016-06-27, 13:01
I know the T133 and T166 series Samsungs weren't that great, but the rest of their stuff seems to be very solid. Been using F3 series drives, namely, the HD103SJ and HD754JJ, in my main system for a very long time now (~6 years or so) and they have never given me problems. In addition, their older …
Re: System Builders Challenge for Dos and 9x (scratch builds)
Posted on 2016-06-20, 15:57
Oh yeah, I remember a decade ago you could find Pentiums, 486s, K6-2s etc. pretty easily at the dump. At least, my local dump, usually every other week or so. Managed to snag a lot of stuff from my local dumps over the years - some Pentiums including a socket 4 Packard Bell, a 386 on at least one …
Re: System Builders Challenge for Dos and 9x (scratch builds)
Posted on 2016-06-20, 14:43
I think the most I've paid for a retro rig within the last few years was about $50 total for my 486DX-33 off of eBay. Not exactly a scratch build, but still... I later stuck in an SB Pro 2 (free - dump find), a Cirrus Logic GD5429 1MB ISA VGA card (eBay purchase from well before I acquired that …
Re: Experiences and thoughts with Socket 423 systems
Posted on 2016-06-18, 02:01
I've had very limited experiences with S423-based systems. All of the ones I've seen have used RDRAM and the 850 chipset, and they seemed to be decent-performing systems. Though, I'd say if you just wanted to build a Pentium 4 system, go with S478. Lots of better options than the 850/845 S423 …
Re: ReactOS
Posted on 2016-06-15, 13:03
I think it's more like "hey, this is still very much in development, I'd recommend testing on a VM rather than actual hardware - less chance of some critical bug blowing up in your face, potentially taking important data with it." Even the ReactOS website says this: http://www.reactos.org/installing …
Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware
Posted on 2016-06-15, 00:52
My Dell OptiPlex GX150 came with one of these in the AGP slot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP_Inline_Memory_Module I quickly replaced it with a GeForce 4 Ti 4600. Nowadays, I'd say AIMM modules are more of a curiosity than something useful.
Re: What is something you threw out that u regret
Posted on 2016-06-10, 14:24
Oh dear... - a ~1997 rather large HP Pavilion tower, I think it was a Pentium 233MMX. Notable for having an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot TX 5.25" HDD which I still have. - a Gateway 386 system which was supposedly not working. It wasn't until much, much later that I found out that the ET4000AX video card it …
Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!
Posted on 2016-06-08, 20:14
@Cloudschatze: Got enough sound cards in those rigs? Better yet, got enough IRQs to make them all work at once? 😜
Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!
Posted on 2016-06-05, 14:49
I think this says more than enough about the stockpile of Dells I have: http://i.imgur.com/XqMZwtJl.jpg From top to bottom: * Dell OptiPlex GX110 - P-III 667MHz/256MB RAM/810 chipset and graphics/40GB HDD/Windows 2000 Pro. Used to have a very similar system years ago, except it was the tower version …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-02, 01:48
And once again back to my few days old Abit, I got photo by seller which own another piece with PISA card. Yes thats magical card to this board is riser card for some desktop case:-) So thanks to him that i can share photo. http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/prospekty7/hwnet5/abit%20PISA% …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-01, 13:11
Arctic wrote: Was that the one for 19.99 dollars? Nice find! If you ever want to trade it, I would be interested 😀 Yup, that's the one! Still can't believe I found one at that price...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-05-31, 17:10
My NV1 arrived today! Now to have some fun...
Re: Weird retro PC hardware artwork
Posted on 2016-05-31, 15:00
source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IOMEGA-DEMO-CD-/33186 … W0AAOSwv-NWWsf8 Not really hardware, but still pretty darn strange nonetheless.
Re: New 486 build - Full size tower - JPG heavy.
Posted on 2016-05-31, 14:52
Are you positive the last board's cache chips are fake? They look socketed and the brand on the cache chips are usually the real deal (unless I've not been paying attention the whole time :dead: ). I can't make out from the pic whether they are socketed or not though. Non-socketed cache chips were …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2016-05-30, 22:13
Standard Def Steve wrote: Instructions Per Cycle 486. Windows. Intel Inside. http://i.imgur.com/NsFqSku.jpg […] Show full quote Instructions Per Cycle 486. Windows. Intel Inside. THAT is a beauty.
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