Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-29, 22:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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Didn't buy anything but saw this on reddit and thought of you guys. Nothing like getting pissed off cause some component smells like ass thanks to coming from a smoker who didn't mention it. https://i.imgur.com/6roTGA3.jpg I've had to scrub down components in the shower before. I've noticed in my …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 21:03

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Yes, because that's what ECC is for. ;) The bit-errors are corrected by the ECC on read. It's more of a hint for you that your CD is slowly dying. But it's also the reason why Ozzuneoj get verification errors after burning. Just to clarify, it's a sign that which CD is slowly dying? Our new burned …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 16:33

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That's interesting...a PIII/P4/T-Bird have lot's of horsepower compared to a P133/P166MMX that was the target for the voodoo1 as the competitor. I read that because of the "pci-bus-transfer" the main gpu-should be fast too and the onboard-gpu's cause/have "performance-problems" with the m3d. Weird. …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 02:31

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Well, I was able to get Ultimate Race running from disk 3. It works great! In the right game this little card is amazing! It has so few components and its so tiny... its really no wonder that this tech eventually made its way into the GPUs in the most popular mobile devices on the planet. I don't …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-29, 01:53

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Anyone know anything about the CD issue I mentioned earlier with Disk 3? Extracted disc image is 768MB and cannot be opened with 7zip or mounted virtually, CD gives a verification error about 75% of the way through after burning, disk works but contains only 560MB of data. Is there something wrong …

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Re: Calling on PSU experts!!!

Posted on 2018-01-28, 05:31

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by Ozzuneoj

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Based on the ratings, that's a horrible power supply. Thermaltake PSUs have basically always been junk unless you bought something very high end. Don't let the enthusiast styling fool you. Seriously, those rails are pathetic for a 350w rated power supply... I wouldn't be surprised if there were …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2018-01-28, 02:50

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Since I got some M3Ds I started testing them... tombraider/DOS was a nice surprise once Single Buffering was activated. Is there a list of "true" powervr accelerated games? Don't care about D3D ones... I searched but I can't get a definitive list :neutral: Also I don't know if it's of interest, I …

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Re: Found a 486 cpu - any good ?

Posted on 2018-01-27, 20:03

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Vipersan wrote: Nope .. Not old enough ..and this is the oldest mobo I own .. doh! […] Show full quote Nope .. Not old enough ..and this is the oldest mobo I own .. doh! ..advice on what to look out for ? Woa... pretty sure I just got a couple of boards identical to that one in a lot of parts …

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Re: Treasure Hunt Thread: Help me dig through my boxes of uninteresting junk.

Posted on 2018-01-27, 19:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks guys, this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. :) Sorry for being lazy, its just hard to find the time or motivation to research and test every single one of these when I have so many other projects to work on. I figured that there are users on here that could do with these …

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Treasure Hunt Thread: Help me dig through my boxes of uninteresting junk.

Posted on 2018-01-27, 03:27

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by Ozzuneoj

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After inheriting four more ATI Rage AGP cards and half a dozen PCI network cards last week, I decided that I need some help in identifying which one or two of each of these "less desirable" items I should hang on to. I have so many of these things and so few uses for them, that I need to get rid of …

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Re: 8xAGP cards why ATI HD3650 is so tiny ?

Posted on 2018-01-27, 00:19

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by Ozzuneoj

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Well if for you recapping of all capas on the board mean quality............ Meanwhile i will just buy ABIT based board that have 100% japan capacitors that will not need recap even in the next 20 or so years or even more. Trash brands means when the products does not have Abit is not immune to bad …

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

Posted on 2018-01-24, 21:27

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FINALLY got my Intellistation! Here's an imgur album with some more info https://imgur.com/a/TuQew Nice system! Was Windows all configured that way when you got it? I like the IBM logo in the System screen. I wonder how hard it is to do that on a custom computer... :exclamation: EDIT: Answered my …

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Re: What was your worst screw-up with retro tech?

Posted on 2018-01-24, 20:21

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by Ozzuneoj

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I got an IBM 5150 a couple years ago. It was in very good condition and had an IBM 5153 CGA monitor. The system powered on and reported a memory error in bank 0. I can't remember exactly what I did to diagnose it, but I determined which chip it was and actually found a matching chip on another old …

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Re: Testing Canopus 3D

Posted on 2018-01-23, 00:50

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by Ozzuneoj

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Was the shielding on the cable still covering the area where you did the modifications? I don't know if shielding issues would cause the problem you're having, but its a thought.

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Re: CRT monitors make me sad

Posted on 2018-01-21, 04:13

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Looks fixable to me. Even if some of the scratches go through the antiglare coating to the glass, that glass is ridiculously thick... I doubt it would harm anything to try some methods for repairing glass scratches before calling it a loss.

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

Posted on 2018-01-21, 04:06

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Just tested some parts I got recently. I hooked up an interesting looking Socket 3 board equipped with an AMD DX4-100, UMC chipset, pci, isa, vlb, COAST slot, 30pin and 72pin SIMM slots... very odd board. Then I saw some really suspicious looking super chintzy onboard cache memory that didn't look …

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Re: IDE Blu Ray drives for retro builds

Posted on 2018-01-20, 00:32

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by Ozzuneoj

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Blu-ray on PC was a nightmare back in 2008-2009 when I first tried it out. I don't think it has gotten any better. The last time I tried was back in ~2013. I think you still need to have bloated retail products like PowerDVD or other similar suites to be able to play Blu-ray reliably, and even then …

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Re: getting compents wet

Posted on 2018-01-20, 00:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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Keep in mind that most labels, stickers and graphics will probably not survive getting submerged in water and soap, let alone being scrubbed.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 22:21

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by Ozzuneoj

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... there was also an adorable little tiny Matrox card from 1997 that I totally didn't expect to find in this lot. ;) Could you share a picture of this one, please? Here's a gallery of a bunch of cards in this lot. https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/w3kZLnltIvmcp4KZFIJetUTp7zLK5sj1qxAE2AM9RWa …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 18:15

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by Ozzuneoj

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So, two days ago I drove about a hundred miles to pick up a gigantic lot of old computer parts and misc electronics from a guy who did PC repair for about 30 years. While he did get rid of a lot of other stuff over the past few years, I'm very very pleased with what I've brought home. Especially …

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