Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 03:18
I like that the power button has power written on it. Kinda reminds me of cringe mac fanboy meme that can't find the power button on a PC.
Re: Ultimate Intel 2004-2005 PC Pentium Build WIP
Posted on 2021-07-20, 18:36
3M thermal tape. Ya you could remove them, I didn't use glue. I'm not sure what the cure time is though. I was thinking of sitting them outside in the sun 1 afternoon just to make sure it gelled properly before installing them. They recommend twisting them back and forth a little while applying …
Re: Ultimate Intel 2004-2005 PC Pentium Build WIP
Posted on 2021-07-20, 13:05
Heatsinks arrived. probably not perfectly centered but not the worst. I'm sure they'll work just fine.
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 16:19
Try actually running the game the cofig screen always looks like that I don't think u actually tested it just looked at the config 🤣
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 14:21
that game just only will render in software mode unless you have a older driver, using the original tnt patch.
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 14:08
midtown madness 2, FFVII official patch, are two off the top of my head. I will at some point make a long list because I am tired of hearing geforce ti 4200 with driver 45.xx regurgitated over and over in places like its a religion. I've ran into more problems than those 2 games mentioned so it's …
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 13:38
Same can be said with FX series cards. Drivers are too new, and they are not as compatible as a real geforce 2 with old drivers. If If you want good compatibility FX are even too new. Not saying that it isn't true, just that we currently lack factual evidence to objectively verify those claims. I'm …
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 06:59
Same can be said with FX series cards. Drivers are too new, and they are not as compatible as a real geforce 2 with old drivers. If If you want good compatibility FX are even too new.
Re: Advantages of Dual Pentium3 or dual Pentium motherboards for retro PC?
Posted on 2021-07-09, 01:46
I got my or840 around 2004. It was still pretty strong until core 2s came ou, around 2006. Thats when I retired it. But I been meaning to rebuild it for awhile now, I just have too many other projects. It runs pretty good with 2003 server xp lited and stripped down to the bare services and gui. It's …
ISA sound cards with digital out.
Posted on 2021-07-07, 23:29
Theres does not seem to be any list anywhere I could find of ISA cards with digital out. So far I've only been able to find 3 cards with this feature. CMI-8330, Header on card AWE64 Gold, Header on card Terratec ews64xl with front/header box
Re: How to determine which element of the graphics card is faulty?
Posted on 2021-07-07, 23:21
I tend to think if it will display 3d than its not the gpu. If you see things like vertical strips it can be bad ram.
Re: Ultimate Intel 2004-2005 PC Pentium Build WIP
Posted on 2021-07-07, 17:22
thanks, the case looks artistic to the right person, but that comes with some serious flaws. You can tell they were onto something with the bottom 2 air intakes, but it was never executed. I don't know if it was cost or complexity but it was never working right with one 40mm fan blowing horizontally …
Re: Help with MSI KN72 DELTA 2 !
Posted on 2021-07-07, 08:43
board is bad only other thing I would do is use a programmer to reprogram the bios thinking maybe the bios is bricked from a bad flash.
Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected
Posted on 2021-07-07, 03:27
ya I wasn't expecting much either, that being said it barely runs quake so it's not really saying much. If you put a voodoo 1 in there it will probably run quake just fine. Turned out that it was pretty decent for Dos gaming though becasue the integrated sound turned out to be not actually bad at …
Re: Blue Screen Crashing on W98 & XP Build
Posted on 2021-07-07, 03:23
yikes it most likely was your ram. That even looks like the typical blue screen error message from bad ram in XP. Could also be a bad pci card like a bad sound card on the pci bus.
Re: Ultimate Intel 2004-2005 PC Pentium Build WIP
Posted on 2021-07-07, 02:43
Long awaited Vento 3600 Case mod. Pics Apologize for the blurry images, I think that you will get the idea though. This will suck cooler outside air from the front scoops and blow it into the PCI and AGP area. Allowing my Graphics card and voodoos to breath some. Since the entire case is basically …
Re: Need help Identifying chassis
Posted on 2021-07-06, 07:12
Don't the caddys have part numbers it looks a lot like something enlight would of made
Re: newest laptop for Win98?
Posted on 2021-07-06, 06:50
It's just sound finding a laptop with something decent video wise isn't a problem
Re: Shuttle XPC Barebone SB61G2 V3
Posted on 2021-07-06, 06:20
It's kinda cool did u ever fix the nic
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2021-07-06, 06:14
Not worth frying a pcx2 to get marginally better fps in games that don't run well on them to begin with my 2 cents stick with playing mw2 re1 and whatever games have superior ports which are the only relevant reasons to play with the cards pushing the cards way past their limits to not even achieve …
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