Re: Slot2 Intel C440GX+ with Dual Pentium 3 Xeon
Posted on Yesterday, 14:01
Have you tried fitting the card outside of the case. I've had that issue before where the case was slightly tweaked and I had alignment issues with expansion cards
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-07, 18:57
Wouldn't it be better for gaming to choose a plain Debian and install the stuffs you need, lesser bloat overall? I am thinking of choosing that route Bazzite is pretty lightweight as it is. It really only has Steam, Proton, and Lutrus installed by default. You can add lots more to it but you need …
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-07, 18:49
Bazzite is a great gaming Linux distro. I'm going to be dual booting it with Windows 11 soon. Wouldn't it be better for gaming to choose a plain Debian and install the stuffs you need, lesser bloat overall? I am thinking of choosing that route Bazzite is pretty lightweight as it is. It really only …
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-07, 18:16
Bazzite is a great gaming Linux distro. I'm going to be dual booting it with Windows 11 soon.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2025-05-06, 18:02
Oh that's awesome. Just need some Saturn controllers and your set
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2025-05-03, 13:08
I refuse to use the garbage tier 60 gpus from Nvidia, both the 3060 and 4060 are over priced for the pittance of vram they have. The B580 was cheaper than either of them and has more vram and happily beats either for non DLSS performance. Intel actually makes good GPUs, nvidia make great features …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2025-05-03, 13:01
AMD is pulling the same stunt with the 8 gig cards. 12 gigs should be the starting point not 8
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2025-05-03, 10:09
I refuse to use the garbage tier 60 gpus from Nvidia, both the 3060 and 4060 are over priced for the pittance of vram they have. The B580 was cheaper than either of them and has more vram and happily beats either for non DLSS performance. Intel actually makes good GPUs, nvidia make great features …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2025-03-25, 12:08
Well, I went on a bit of a road trip today with high hopes of finding something interesting. I passed up some neat old computers because they were priced at what the machines might be worth online, which is totally fine. They had a Commodore PC10 with a monitor, keyboard and other stuff. An Atari …
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2025-03-14, 00:31
First of the Kapok machines arrived today and I was able to unbox it this evening. IMG20250313205138.jpg IMG20250313204705.jpg Sigh. Why this one and none of the ultra common Toshiba's or Compaqs I've bought? This is the Kapok 8500c (s370, Rage Mobility 128, Maestro-2) so not the one I was …
Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell
Posted on 2025-03-06, 15:54
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – The biggest Big Box Ok – this time I chose something slightly out of the box … a collection of 31(!) CD-Roms with every NG magazine between 1888 to around 1998. 20250306_154009.jpg I got this for free from a friend – and I was very happy. It is possible to see the images on …
Re: Is this CPU temp okay?
Posted on 2025-03-05, 14:32
Most of the time in bios the CPUs are more or less pegged at 100%. I'd still flip your CPU cooler fan and add an exhaust fan you can never have to much cooling or proper airflow
Re: Is my CPU ok with just a heatsink
Posted on 2025-03-03, 16:42
I'd have the exhaust fan but you really need a fan on that heatsink. You can see where it once had one installed. Socket A CPUs have no built in thermal protection and will literally just cook to death.
Re: Is this CPU temp okay?
Posted on 2025-03-03, 14:02
I'd start by flipping the CPU fan to get proper airflow over the fins and definitely add a exhaust fan.
Re: Is this CPU temp okay?
Posted on 2025-03-03, 02:05
I would flip the CPU fan so it's blowing air down through the heatsink fins instead of drawing air up through the heatsink fins.
Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?
Posted on 2025-02-25, 13:01
For Re-BAR support you need a X570 AMD or Z390 Intel or newer chipset.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2025-02-25, 03:40
Fallout: New Vegas After completing Fallout 3 , I figured I'd just start this game up, create a character, play for an hour or so just to compare, and then play something else... but I ended up liking the game so much that I couldn't stop playing! What a pleasant surprise, and a huge step up from …
Re: The story of the QuForce FX 5800 Ultra...
Posted on 2025-02-18, 13:02
ok i was playing yesterday with fx5200 bios using NiBitor, changed id to 5200 Ultra, have 5200 Ultra installed on board but it is still detecting as a regular 5200 what i doing wrong? On these older cards you will have to physically change the strap id resistors on the back side of the GPU. You'll …
Re: MSI MS6905 ver 2.3 "Master" slotket with weird mod
Posted on 2025-02-05, 11:20
Have you tried a different GPU to rule your current one out as the cause of your issues? Normally when you raise the resolution and increase the color depth and fidelity settings you shift more load to the GPU and lower the load of the CPU in the process. The harder the GPU has to work you tend to …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2025-02-04, 02:23
It's kinda dumb, but it's a button that puts the PC in sleep mode. At least, I think that's what it's supposed to do. Can't find much info about it, so I hooked it up to the suspend mode header. You are spot on with what that button was for. It was supposed to connect to the suspend or sleep front …
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