Re: IBM Aptiva faceplate 5.25" cover

Posted on 2024-01-09, 00:59

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by Tommaso72

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I have on of these aptivas with a cyrix 133 and o an n board ati rage II+DVD and i think it is a great computer for what it is. Pretty low end for when it was released, but nice non the less. ya, it sucks it has no agp, but i kind of like the low power of this computer, kind of makes it like a …

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Re: ASUS P4P800 disaster

Posted on 2023-06-18, 16:09

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by Tommaso72

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I have two boards that are both p4p800 le and all caps are still good and both boards have been well used over the years. Both still work perfectly although on both the front usb were never hooked up. The board flex is true as both when removed and inspected had the taco warp. I did not effect …

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Re: What laptop brands have the strongest internal antennas ?

Posted on 2021-08-28, 17:05

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by Tommaso72

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I remember back in the day I had one of those blue and black WIFI routers made by Lynksys, and that router was amazing. I could go to the park near my house and still get internet access, and the distance was a good 1000 feet away! Now with my new router I am lucky to get internet on my porch. I …

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Re: How to prevent old Motherboards from dying?!

Posted on 2021-08-28, 16:45

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by Tommaso72

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What I do is run the board for a few hours and then check every chip and component on the motherboard with a laser thermometer. Anything that I find is too hot to touch when your finger is left on it for thirty seconds, I add some form of heat sink. There is not much you can do about capacitors, but …

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Re: Need to get a Driver on an old IBM 300PL...?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 17:50

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by Tommaso72

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I have the drivers if all else fails. I'm not sure how I would get them for you, but I could zip them up. I have never done it before, but it can't be that difficult. I believe I found them on line about six months ago, I will take a look again to see I remember the site and post it here. Get back …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2020-07-10, 14:16

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by Tommaso72

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I don't know if it's been done, but I just replaced my i5-4460 with an i7-4790K (fastest proc that'll fit in my board). i7-4790K at stock speed (4.0 GHz boosting to 4.4), Maximus VII Gene, 16 GB DDR3-1866 8.594s (I don't think I ever posted the speed from the 4460, oh well. Also, I'm using the …

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Re: Looking for Motherboard CDs to complete my collection (asus,gigabyte,fic,aopen,msi,epox)

Posted on 2020-06-17, 04:45

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by Tommaso72

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Sorry to message you back so late, have not been here in a while. I do have the CD in my collection, if you still need it let me know. Tommaso Yes would like it. If you have the original CD can you look at it and find the Asus part number, should be a M xxx in big print, usually on the left side of …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2020-06-05, 17:27

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by Tommaso72

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I understand what your saying and appreciate your response, but I have found with multiple systems that I have checked, most often the HT increases the times by 50 percent, but 2 real threads most often increases by 100. With the comparison with the 3.06 GHz Northwood was like I described,and the p4 …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2020-06-05, 07:01

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by Tommaso72

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I have a question about Multicore SuperPi. I ran it on a P4 Northwood 3.06 Ghz cpu and set it to 32 with two threads for the hyperthreading . It finished at 72 seconds. Then ran it with one thread and got 111 seconds. This seems normal to me., but then I wanted to compare my P4 Prescot 3.2 Ghz. with …

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Re: Looking for Motherboard CDs to complete my collection (asus,gigabyte,fic,aopen,msi,epox)

Posted on 2020-06-05, 06:42

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by Tommaso72

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Sorry to message you back so late, have not been here in a while. I do have the CD in my collection, if you still need it let me know. Tommaso

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-02-13, 01:48

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by Tommaso72

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I unfortunately didn't have time to read the whole thread, but just from my experience lately I have a retro system with Windows XP SP2 and use FireFox, not sure the version, but I believe it is the newest one available for WinXP. I have no problems with any sites. YouTube works flawlessly, even if …

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Re: Looking for Motherboard CDs to complete my collection (asus,gigabyte,fic,aopen,msi,epox)

Posted on 2020-02-01, 07:51

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by Tommaso72

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Unfortunately the only one I have is the ASUS P4P-800 LE. I will look around regardless.

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Re: My collection of Late-era AGP cards

Posted on 2020-02-01, 07:44

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by Tommaso72

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I bought one on E-Bay probably around 2010 or so and payed 100 dollars Canadian with shipping. It was almost new because the owner bought the 5950 ultra because of the noise it made. My systems loud to begin with so it doesn't really bother me, and to be honest it's really is not that bad, even …

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Re: Macintosh Color Classic ( extreme )

Posted on 2020-01-12, 11:56

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by Tommaso72

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I have a Macintosh Color Classic and when I bought it a couple years ago it worked perfectly. Then, a couple years later I decided to try it out again. It didn't work, and it turned out the caps were leaking. I took the board out, washed it down with a paint brush and slight soapy water in the sink, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-26, 19:04

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by Tommaso72

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Picked up a Tandy 1000 TL/2 on Ebay for what I felt was a pretty good price, $125. http://i.imgur.com/0jyTu4Eh.jpg CM-11 monitor, keyboard, mouse, keyboard cover, monitor cover, DMP-133, original documentation and a few third-party books. Seems to work with the exception of the TL hard disk. …

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Re: Nvidia 5800 Ultra vs Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted on 2017-02-19, 04:24

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by Tommaso72

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I thought my score for 3DMark 2003 was rather low, but looking at what others got it is actually a good score. I got 5740 with everything set to default with a P4 Northwood HT with 533 FSB and only 512 megs RAM on the 5800 Ultra. I guess the ram makes no difference in the tests? Just curious if my …

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Re: Nvidia 5800 Ultra vs Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted on 2017-02-18, 15:56

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by Tommaso72

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I was playing around a couple of weeks ago and started testing the fastest portion of my Nvidia agp cards in 3dmark 2003 (standard settings) and 2 Ati cards. Arock conroe865pe, core2duo 3ghz, 1gbddr1, windows xp32 I do not remember which driver but it was one that could do geforce4 to geforce7 so …

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Re: Nvidia 5800 Ultra vs Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted on 2017-02-18, 03:03

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by Tommaso72

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Thanks all for the response, it helped me decide to keep the 9800 Pro I purchased off Ebay, but then again a nice 5900 Ultra or 5950 Ultra would be cooler in my opinion to the 9800 Pro (cool factor, not 'heat production' lol.) About the noise these cards make, well, with my system it really doesn't …

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Nvidia 5800 Ultra vs Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted on 2017-02-17, 16:46

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by Tommaso72

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I have a question I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a P4 Northwood with HT running at 3.06 ghz with 533 FSB and 512 megs DDR PC3200 and was wondering if I will see noticeable improvements in using a Radeon 9800 Pro I just purchased off Ebay as appose to the 5800 Ultra? The reason I really …

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Re: M3D (PCX2) Build Advice.

Posted on 2017-02-15, 06:08

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by Tommaso72

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I have mine with a Cyrix 166mx and it works well with Mech 2 but it is obviously not working to it's fullest. I think a P3 - 500 is where it really shines and will work to it's fullest, but that is just my opinion. It really is underrated though. Tommaso

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