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Re: Signs Your an Old Geek

Posted on Yesterday, 20:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My most modern PC is 10 years old this August. Only reason I'll be building something up to date this year is because Windows 10 security updates are about to end, and this PC is a couple of years too old to run Windows 11 out of the box. I expect the PC I build this year to last at least another …

Re: What does your significant other think of your retro pc hobby?

Posted on 2025-01-15, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After I got sick in the 90s (never been able to work since, can barely move around my home) I made a choice between people and things. Not sure I made the best choice! My bungalow is like a very overpacked warehouse. I'm hoping to be able to convert my garage into a hobby room / workshop. On my …

Re: Want to take a stab at identifying my 90s computer hardware from old polaroids of it?

Posted on 2025-01-12, 20:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I love the case! Love large cases with lots of drive bays for high end systems of any era 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-09, 19:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well turns out the mystery pack was worth it. This 3700+ (ADA3700AEP5AR) is for socket 754. It’s the fastest desktop processor for the 754. They seem to be pretty rare. Only 1 sold of eBay. What GPU would be a good match for this processor? There was an undocumented desktop s754 3800 Athlon as well …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-09, 15:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a mystery pack today. Here is the contents. Not sure how rare the 3700 is. Need to do some research on the 7600. Well turns out the mystery pack was worth it. This 3700+ (ADA3700AEP5AR) is for socket 754. It’s the fastest desktop processor for the 754. They seem to be pretty rare. Only 1 sold …

Re: ID motherboard

Posted on 2025-01-09, 11:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm surprised that it has what it looks to be an x86 CPU in its own right (GC80960RM100) soldered on. I assume it's part of the chipset. Does anybody have more info on what it actually does? 80960 is completely different to x86. I think it's RISC. Can't comment on what it's being used for here, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-02, 06:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-02, 06:41: Got another 2900xt, this time it is GDDR3 rather than GDDR4, and it shows an identical pattern on screen to the other one. Like, identical to the single pixel. It's uncanny! What could this mean? It's not time to buy that lottery ticket 😀

Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-21, 22:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If they were worth anything, I'd say sell the surplus 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-05, 14:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe I found one of those rare mystery, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 333FSB HP/Compaq OEM cpu's. The fastest Athlon XP AMD ever produced. I had to pay a rather steep 50$ for it. If it actually turns out to be real when it arrives, Ill post pictures of it and how I found it LOL. Its quite hilarious. …

Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2024-10-20, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

archive.org is not down for me, but I've never uploaded there. It was down for a few days while they battled hackers earlier last week.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-08, 14:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-10-06, 09:58: PcBytes wrote on 2024-10-06, 09:18: TNT2 Ultra? Yup, ASUS V3800/32M not a bad Ultra card. V3800/32M is a plain TNT2, not an Ultra. The Ultra series all have Ultra in the Asus model name.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-17, 19:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

C'mon, don't do FX5200 dirty like that, there's several DX9 games they almost get double figure framerates on lol ... They're not actually all that terrible if you keep them off DX9 stuff though. Good alternate to DX8 cards that have been expensive over the last couple of years. Ah, but "ULTRA", so …

Re: Mp3 decoder

Posted on 2024-09-08, 23:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice! What assembler did you use? (I normally use nasm, as it's free and can run in most OS, but sure I could easily convert it)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-07, 17:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And to ease a bit of the RDRAM failure, ordered these three marvels. - Pentium MMX 200 Ceramic - some sort of Morgan Duron, judging by the core - Pluto core, Slot A Athlon 700MHz (with dual fans, woo) Direct screenshots from the seller, I wasn't up to cropping 'em. Might get back into the slot A …

Re: Secret "reference design" GPU database

Posted on 2024-09-03, 17:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hate to break it to you, but most EVGA cards follow the reference design, and can use generic third party coolers and waterblocks.

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

Posted on 2024-08-27, 09:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm currently watching Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. I downloaded it - the resolution is 512x384. Full screen on a 22 inch 1080p monitor, it takes me back to the good old days of VHS on a worn out TV, but as that was what I was brought up with, it's bearable (except in scenes where …

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

Posted on 2024-08-26, 01:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I found another SiS6326 it's an H0 yay, speeeeeeeeed lol I've been sorting my collection ready for a bunch of sales (I will be a pensioner in 5 years, and it'll take me that long to declutter and reorganise!). Found about a dozen 6326 among the several large boxes of graphics cards! Gonna have a …

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

Posted on 2024-08-25, 22:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I found another SiS6326 it's an H0 yay, speeeeeeeeed lol I've been sorting my collection ready for a bunch of sales (I will be a pensioner in 5 years, and it'll take me that long to declutter and reorganise!). Found about a dozen 6326 among the several large boxes of graphics cards! Gonna have a …

Re: Optimal Pentium 4 setup

Posted on 2024-08-22, 11:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I rather like socket 478 for P4. There are a few motherboard / CPU combinations that can run XP64 (see https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34882 for details). Probably among the best combinations for ISA if you find the right board. 64-bit OS with ISA and the oldest Intel 64-bit CPUs 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-22, 11:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bah, who really needs meat and 3 veg? Retro hardware is so much more important, and buying the latest high end hardware even more! 😀

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