Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-27, 14:18

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My Steam Deck/GabeBoy arrived earlier this week. Got the middle one with the nvme SSD and reflective screen. A very good way to go through the hundreds of games in my backlog. image1.jpg Doing a good job of being what my PSP was before - portable entertainment for the Sofa/Bed. Steam games for now, …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-22, 14:42

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My Steam Deck/GabeBoy arrived earlier this week. Got the middle one with the nvme SSD and reflective screen. A very good way to go through the hundreds of games in my backlog. image1.jpg Doing a good job of being what my PSP was before - portable entertainment for the Sofa/Bed. Steam games for now, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-26, 12:00

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-26, 11:57: Anyone know where I can get some cables to fit these old Intel coolers ? s-l1600 (1).jpg Recently got a P120 and P150 but neither has the power lead for the fan. You can make one yourself by combining a regular 3-pin cooler cable with a Wake-On-LAN Cable.

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

Posted on 2022-05-27, 05:08

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-05-27, 03:34: I'm almost positive that the PCI bus wont hamper it much at all From my own tests I found that it depends very much on the game. Some show little difference and some like Quake 3 (and any game using that engine) are very bandwidth hungry and will suffer a big …

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Re: lga2011 motherboards

Posted on 2022-03-10, 13:55

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Keep in mind that these refab boards often have their sockets pre-modified to fit stuff that normally wouldnt. I got a socket 775 board that also fits 771 and has a jumper to switch CPU types.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-28, 12:39

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DDR3-1333 strips are nowhere "retro" but I grabbed one Transcend 4GB strip from an e-waste recycler for NT$200 (US$7.15) and two Team 4GB strips from an online seller for NT$390. All three passed Memtest86 with flying colors. Seeing computers equipped with DDR3 laying in e-waste is kind of sad; …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-27, 16:39

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20220227_182352.jpg When I got to the flea market, there was someone already looking through a pile of cards from one of the sellers I usually get my stuff from. Didnt see all what they got, but among those were a voodoo2 and big SB16 card. Was afraid all of the good stuff was already picked out. …

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Re: Any suggestions for a "It just works" Voodoo 3 build?

Posted on 2022-02-22, 09:29

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From what I gather, your Voodoo card is PCI? If so, get: 1. Some Pentium 4 motherboard and a P4 CPU with hit. They are cheap, plentiful and will give all the horsepower your Voodoo needs. Plus they all work great with modern power supplies. Some may even have SATA so you could even hook up an SSD, …

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Re: Asus EEE 701 - missing 640x480 resolution option

Posted on 2022-02-07, 15:30

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Xrandr showed that 640x480 is indeed supported and I could also set my linux desktop to that resolution. So after that I wiped the whole drive and installed Windows 2000. Same issue, although it would let me select 640x480 desktop in 16 color mode. The only reason I would use windows on it would be …

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Re: Asus EEE 701 - missing 640x480 resolution option

Posted on 2022-02-06, 14:37

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It's been really a long time since I used XP, but I thought XP dropped support for 640x480, and since those are Windows games, they are restricted to what is available. That's certainly NOT the case. Anyway, after some checking around, I'm beginning to suspect that it's the monitor at fault, like …

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Asus EEE 701 - missing 640x480 resolution option

Posted on 2022-02-06, 11:00

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So recently I snagged myself a tiny EEE 701 (Xbox Duke controller for scale): P_20220129_142202.jpg Installed Windows XP and Puppy Linux 605 on the internal 4GB SSD. Expanded it with a 32GB SD card. A nice little portable machine for older games and light browsing. All seemed well, however I ran …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-19, 17:18

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Law212 wrote on 2022-01-19, 17:15: What is the bridging cable to link 2 voodoo cards called and where can i get one ? https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/How_to_m … doo_2_SLI_cable Here you go.

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Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers

Posted on 2021-12-24, 10:58

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Funny thing regarding bmp vs jpg is that back in the day, I always converted background images to bmp since decoding of jpg images hogged my general desktop performance. Not sure if it was on the 486dx2 or later on with k6-233 and Millennium 2 graphics .. wouldn't it only have to decode it once at …

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Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:35

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Didn't they remove OpenGL from the original HL/goldsource engine in favor of Directx?

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-15, 10:59

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-12-15, 10:10: What happens with just a DVI to VGA dongle on the DVI port? Do the other ports work that way? Yes, if it boots with the dongle plugged in, the other ports work just fine, even after I unplug the dongle.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-15, 08:49

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So once it starts up and you get display, can you remove the DVI-VGA adapter then or it must be plugged in all the time? Have you tried flash a new BIOS to the graphics card? Yes, it continues to work after I unplug the adapter. As for the bios - I've downloaded all the files and will attempt a …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-15, 07:18

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The card won't "boot" or the whole computer? Is this under Windows 10? I realize you've expressed your intent to use it with Ubuntu. I've gotten older MSI cards to work with W10, with issues. Always some kind of issue. The card it would seem signals it's alive, even an adapter does the same. …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-14, 08:46

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Saw a passively cooled Radeon 7750 for 10 Eur, so I grabbed it. Planning on using it for either a multimedia PC hooked up to my TV or as a replacement for my home office computer, which currently has a a Geforce card running Ubuntu. P_20211214_084843.jpg Has a strange issue - it wont post unless I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-23, 10:54

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This weekends finds - 3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI, Riva TNT AGP, Socket 3 motherboard with UMC chipset + PCI slots + i486 DX33 and 2 HUGE golden bois - 200MHz, 256K cache. Now maybe someday I can find a motherboard and coolers to fit them. Filename P_20211122_133345.jpg File size 320.55 KiB Views 980 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-15, 15:52

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Went to the usual old tech/scrap place this weekend and the guy had something for me - AT case, bottom so rusted I could poke a finger through it and reeking of a sewer for a nice 10 Euros (not pictured as I took all I needed out of it ASAP and got it to the recyclers). Sometimes I wonder if the …

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