Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 23:12

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by stuvize

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Do not even know where to start with what I regret throwing out either because thought was damaged or because did not know any better, top of the list would be Roland rap 10 card, 2 Packard Bell 486 machines, Tandy 386 machine (which was 100% functional) or a COAST module made by Corsair

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Re: Compaq Deskpro XE560 compendium

Posted on 2021-07-10, 22:46

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very nice to see you found one, sorry for the very late reply past few years have been alot of up and downs for me trying to get my life on track. I was able to find a Qvision card with the upgrade module on it last year for a great price something you can not say about many retro parts anymore

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Re: Compaq Deskpro XE560 compendium

Posted on 2020-06-15, 03:53

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I will take some shots of mine in next day or 2 but remembered finding this old article on the XE560 and some the other Pentium machines of the time https://books.google.com/books?id=BjsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=deskpro+xe+560+pc+world&source=bl&ots=xKObBDaLio&sig=ACfU3U3iLoBR6BfRh- …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-18, 14:53

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I have to admit haven't been into the retro computing hobby as much past few years, actually this is my first post in over a year but mainly cause i got busy with life. The lesser supply of parts combined with higher prices has also made me shy away from the hobby some, although i still acquire …

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Re: Halo 2 on modern PC?

Posted on 2017-03-01, 22:12

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I had no idea the online part of Halo 2 was still going, wonder why they shut down Live for Halo 2 even though you still have to log into Live to play.

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Re: Adventures In $0.99 Computer Lot Buying

Posted on 2017-03-01, 21:48

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Well I've got two (maybe three ? I don't know actually if the third works or not) YMF7x4 cards which features the awesome XG synth ^^ but unfortunately that synth only works under windows, and also (still in windows), I can't play duke 3D with the sound effects and speech. Adding a creative/ …

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Re: Lost interest in new games since a couple of years...

Posted on 2016-03-26, 18:12

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I too have lost interest in new games most feel very stale after just a few hours or less. Usually gameplay is too complex and slows down the feel of the game this is most common in sequels that try to build on the predecessors gameplay. Not many games now that you can play for 20 minutes and have a …

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Re: Post your unidentified hardware here! thread

Posted on 2016-03-24, 00:00

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by stuvize

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Does the heatsink on the graphics card have spring clips holding it on? it looks like it from the picture, if it is why not take it off and see if the chip has anything printed on it.

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Re: Apple Decides 600 Million PC Users with 5 Year Old PCs is a Sad Fact

Posted on 2016-03-22, 06:46

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Ludicrous, if it wasn't for the 2GB memory requirement of Win7 and newer many people would still be running Intel socket 478 and AMD 754/939 systems, but most these use DDR and few came with that or it required people to buy all new memory just to get the minimum RAM requirements, at least I have …

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Re: I wish all, a nice easter 2016.

Posted on 2016-03-22, 06:26

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Been good so far family is visiting took me 5 days to get all the tech clutter in my house where it should be, sort of. My nephew gave me a good laugh today, I was reading Vogons about an hour ago and he walks over starts reading some of the post and notices a reference to Win95 and asks me "is …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2016-03-20, 07:36

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I have several motherboards with SIS chipsets but have only used one in a serious build the MSI 645 Ultra2 with the SIS 645 chipset as the name implies. Really nice board with a few quirks was running my V5550 in it till the thing finally quit been reduced to using V3 2000 PCI. The integrated USB …

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Re: Best pci audio card for Win 9x/Me

Posted on 2016-03-19, 23:20

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I thought Audigy 2 ZS platinum pro was the last card compatible with 9x and requires 98SE. Even then under 98SE the drivers are a headache not so bad with ME it uses the unified driver for Win 2K. I would chose the MX300 or a Yamaha XG over a Audigy any day when running Win 9x Wich Creative's model …

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Re: Building an XP gaming computer

Posted on 2016-03-19, 22:23

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Currently, I am using only one HDD. Is it possible to setup a RAID mirror on the built-in SATA controller without having to reinstall the OS? I'm not sure I remember reading somewhere in a driver package that it could be done but not %100 if it was for the ICHR5 RAID controller that comes with the …

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Re: What CPU buses are there?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 21:54

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Also with the off-die memory controllers. This makes me wonder how current CPUs would perform with their caches disabled. According to memtest86 (which may not be accurate) the memory controllers on modern Intel CPUs provide quite a bit more bandwidth than the caches of older CPUs like the P4 and …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2016-03-18, 10:22

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Definitely spam Topic 47293

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Re: Building an XP gaming computer

Posted on 2016-03-18, 10:17

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Do you know if there were any revisions of the i875 which corrected this? I have an Intel S875WP1-E motherboard with HDD connected to SATA and DVD-RW connected to IDE and now I am concerned that my system is not fully optimised. I'm not sure if there was or not, this is not a big deal even when …

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Re: What CPU buses are there?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 05:16

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Wow what an interesting question, never really thought much about CPUs having there own bus. HT is classified as a form of Serial bus and a lower latency replacement for the FSB which is what I would consider the CPU bus being it communicates with pretty much everything external from the CPU. Far as …

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Re: Fun with Macintosh Performa 6115CD

Posted on 2016-03-17, 05:45

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Used to have a 61xx Mac can't remember the exact model but it had 2 CPUS a 486 socket and Apples Motorola socket it ran Windows or MAC OS, did use the HDI-45 connector luckily I had the original monitor for it performance was so-so replacing the Cyrix DX2 with a Intel DX2 made it a little faster but …

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Re: Building an XP gaming computer

Posted on 2016-03-17, 05:20

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I'll start searching and see what I can find. Would a sata CD/drive and ssd drive be a worthy upgrade as well? Im sure boot-up would be faster with a ssd but are they compatible with old hardware or would that just be overkill? The SSD would be faster but the i865/875 chipsets have a slight flaw …

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Re: Anybody own a house?

Posted on 2016-03-17, 05:01

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I spent a few days in miami. Hated EVERY second of it. I could not deal with the humidity. Colorado (plains) is dry most of the time. I thought Colorado was full of snow? and you can do repairs yourself without County breathing down your neck? Sounds like a great place to live. Not sure how vicious …

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