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

Posted on 2021-01-21, 16:55

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Today I started testing some of the hardware that I received over the last few days, starting with this lot: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=926765#p926765 While testing the M396F 386 motherboard, one of my old power supplies blew up, but luckily nothing else got damaged and the 386 seems to …

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Re: What was considered the best gaming keyboard in the early 2000's

Posted on 2021-01-20, 19:46

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I was using a Cherry G80 (1800) with MX Black switches back then, and use one for my retro PCs to this day. Best keyboard ever.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 19:44

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This card. Crappy seller's pic is crappy, but this should be the MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600. It was advertised as "Old Nvidia graphics card" for local pickup only, but I offered a few Euros more and the seller agreed to ship it. Let's hope it still works... Filename Screenshot_20210118-203820.png File …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 09:20

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I did a very expensive thing. Looking forward to it! OK hol' up, are we just going to let this one slip by without more people freaking out? This is a brand new 3dfx VSA-100-based video card with hdmi out! Super cool! If the existance of this card is common knowledge, then I guess I'm late for the …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2021-01-17, 19:09

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Cool Story, nice you found it at last. I am pretty sure that I had this very model in my collection at some point, but I am not sure whether I still have it. I'll dig through my box of motherboards and find out... Edit: Unfortunately I don't have it any more. Sold it as part of a complete system …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:39

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Well, the easiest way to find out would probalbly be to send him an e-mail to the address provided at the very bottom of his website, wouldn't it?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 14:53

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Dont bid one this one Imi, the interesting card is one the way to me :-) :-) :-) Including the slot bracket :-) s-l1600 (9).jpg s-l1600 (9).jpg Already arrived. Nothing to complain here :-) I am asking myself why this 8-bit card is called "AT", there should be no reason why it shouldnt run on a XT? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 14:44

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mwdmeyer wrote on 2021-01-16, 06:44: I did a very expensive thing. Looking forward to it! Never seen this card before... What is it and where did you get it? Edit: Nevermind, found it over here: https://www.forumzone.it/showthread.php?t=53589

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-15, 10:14

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Has that Tseng card got an FCC ID on it? It probably has, but since this is the only photo that I have of the card, it was hard to find out. But on the upper edge of the PCB there's a model number: 3081. In combination with the "Ara" VGA BIOS chip, it's more than likely to be this FCC ID: https:// …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-14, 22:55

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And another good deal (at least I think so). A lot consisting of: M396F motherboard with AMD 386SX-40 CPU. My first 386 ever, usually I'm more interested in the late 90s and early 2000s stuff, but it was in the lot, so why not. MB-8433UUD-A motherboard, UMC chipset, AMD 486DX4-100 CPU installed. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-14, 19:57

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Today I made a nice purchase: The Turtle Beach Montego II Plus, an Aureal Vortex 2 card with an additional daughterboard with SPDIF and RCA connectors. There are quite a few threads about this card, like this one . I saw an eBay listing for a Dell XPS Pentium III machine the other day, starting at …

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

Posted on 2021-01-13, 14:54

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The other day I received the Tualatin soler-on adapters from "the Korean guy" on eBay. I already soldered one of them to a Tualatin Celeron 1400/100 and I have to say, you better have a steady hand, a proper soldering iron and good visual acuity if you intend to do this mod. For me, it all went …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-02, 11:48

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My last retro computing purchase of 2020: Highscreen LeBook Advance.jpg The Highscreen LeBook Advance (aka Chicony MP975), a Pentium MMX class laptop computer. I purchased one almost exactly one year ago ( and posted about it, too ). But that one was lacking the HDD tray, so I couldn't get it up and …

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

Posted on 2020-12-27, 18:49

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Not today, but yesterday I finally resolved some IRQ conflict issues with my upcoming "All things Diamond" build that I have set up around the Diamond/Micronics C400 Motherboard. Had to shuffle around the PCI cards quite a bit, but now everything works without issues. Little preview of the build: - …

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Re: My First "Retro" Build Athlon 1000 Socket A

Posted on 2020-12-23, 12:57

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Seems like a well-balanced build to me, good choice of components. Don't know anything about the power supply though. Personally I'd probably keep my eyes open for a Seasonic, Delta or Enermax. OS-wise I prefer Windows 2000 for a build like this as long as you don't want to play DOS games. Fast and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-22, 18:59

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....Most adapters with an I/O voltage conversion chip seem to support the Tualatin mod, so I went ahead and ordered two PCB-style adapters on eBay. One will go onto a 1400/100 Tualatin Celeron and the other one onto a 1400/133 PIII-S. So I can fiddle around with the C400 and my Epox EP-BX3 (which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-22, 17:01

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Are you sure it has a VRM ? I thought the only slotket with a VRM was the PowerLeap one . AFAIK, all the other slotkets only allow overriding the CPU VID presented to the motherboard's VRM circuit . Does an ABIT slotket III have a VRM This says it have same chip as on powerleaps https://translate. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-22, 15:15

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This week I received a nice dual-GPU addition to my graphics cards collection: A Gainward Radeon HD 4870 X2 . I bought it off eBay from a seller with a bad rating and bundled together with a badly beaten R9 270X. In the photos you could see that it was missing the X-shaped GPU cooler mounts on the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-17, 13:12

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Today I found and bought a Slot 1 to S370 adapter with adjustable voltage that will go as low as 1.4V, the AOpen FC-PGA . AOpen_FC-PGA.jpg (Photo shamelessly taken from here ) I will use it with a 440BX board and a Tualatin CPU, but haven't decided yet whether I'll just mod it or shell out some more …

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Re: AGP to PCI adapters - any PCB designers here willing to make one?

Posted on 2020-12-16, 16:49

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Wow, those adapters do look great! I think if you ever make a batch or two for sale, there would be a lot of potential buyers (including me). I have a nice dual CPU S370 Tualatin board that lacks AGP and therefore still lacks a proper graphics card. I also have a wide variety of AGP cards in my …

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