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

Posted on 2019-04-18, 15:09

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by RandomStranger

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So, I finally brought home an old PC a coworker've given me for cleaning his Athlon XP. It was a nice one too, but he had for some use for it. I'm happier for getting this one anyways. I was tinkering with it at work when I had some idle time, added an HDD and a CD drive, took out a card, added …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-16, 17:21

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by RandomStranger

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NIce find. I would say that's a really good deal for a really good set. S423 boards are indeed hard to find in our country :happy: S370 and especially S462 everywhere but not S423! I think s423 is hard to find (for a reasonable price) everywhere. It was a short lived socket. Most boards that are …

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

Posted on 2019-04-09, 12:44

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by RandomStranger

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Which GTS, the G80 or G92? I used to have an HD4870, with the reference cooler it was loud and hot, I later used an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo. Pretty much solved all my issues. I recently started thinking about picking up a Sapphire Vapor-X version. G80 https://www.ixbt.com/video3/images/g80-7/msi- …

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

Posted on 2019-04-08, 14:42

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by RandomStranger

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[quote="red_avatar"][/quote] Which GTS, the G80 or G92? I used to have an HD4870, with the reference cooler it was loud and hot, I later used an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo. Pretty much solved all my issues. I recently started thinking about picking up a Sapphire Vapor-X version.

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

Posted on 2019-04-06, 14:39

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oeuvre wrote: How many cuts has that case given you? Only 2. One on my left thumb the other on my right pinky. But I can cut mylself with anything.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-06, 13:08

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Looks like it is able to turn on, but none of my pre-installed windows (windowses?) were able to boot up. Generally the Win 2000 do and I can run at least some tests, but I was unlucky with this one. I'll return to it later. https://i.imgur.com/3srcMETm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vc9PMoNm.jpg That ABIT …

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

Posted on 2019-04-06, 10:52

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by RandomStranger

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PcBytes wrote: P4i65 isn't made by Gigabyte. It's made by ASRock. My mistake. Not that it really matters.

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

Posted on 2019-04-06, 10:28

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by RandomStranger

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So, as I mentioned here , I picked up an XP era case, so I can finally progress with the Pentium 4 build I wanted I wish I had in 2004, but I was broke. I have almost everything I need. All that's left is a period correct sound card. The case I got is one made by Mercury. Yesterday night I already …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-06, 10:07

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by RandomStranger

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The only thing I bought recently is an SB AWE64 for my Pentium MMX (sort of) dream build. Basically the last piece I needed. https://i.imgur.com/jixcgxbl.jpg However a coworker dumped on me some of his cards. Mostly they are not particularly rare or interesting cards. An ATi Rage, S3 Trio3D, S3 …

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

Posted on 2019-03-29, 17:52

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by RandomStranger

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...and not too long ago a coworker dumped on me a network adapter. If it works I might add it to my home network. https://i.imgur.com/CCIQ7p5m.jpg That's an ISDN adapter, no good for ethernet. I see. I haven't looked into what it was exactly, just assumed because of the RJ45 connector. Then I have …

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

Posted on 2019-03-29, 15:49

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by RandomStranger

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Well, this wasn't a recent find, but I was passive here in the past few months so I thought I post something I dug my old basement a couple of weeks ago and brought some of my old shit to a more comfortable area in the house. One of the recued was this old thing I (re)built about 15 years ago (I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-11, 07:16

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by RandomStranger

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Then the other three parcels that arrived: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/j4kiNQpooSwoMEutn1mvKt3z/full.png So775 doesn't feel really retro, but this Intel DQ45EK board is already almost 11 years old, as is the Antec case I bought to put it in. I already had CPU and RAM. Up to now I used the same (Core …

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

Posted on 2019-01-06, 09:12

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by RandomStranger

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I finally had the time to turn on the replacement for my dead s478 board which were sitting in its box for the last 3 weeks. It's not as flashy as the previous one, but it came for about 12$ with a 3GHz Prescott, 512MB RAM and a neat Zalman cooler which probably worth more than the rest of the pack …

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

Posted on 2019-01-01, 16:00

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by RandomStranger

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Today I've decided to build a(n almost) dream machine of mine from the mid-to-late 2000s. Originally I wanted a QX6700 and a full size ATX board, but the board I was eyeing with had a little accident. The seller dropped a Codegen PSU on that. It was a good board, it's really a shame. Maybe I'll …

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

Posted on 2018-12-30, 14:00

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by RandomStranger

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LOL I grabbed, out of a pile of discarded PSUs, a Codegen unit because the name ran a bell, even though it's a lightweight. Finally tested it, it has the elusive -5V line. So as long as it doesn't blow up, it has a use indeed! Codegen PSUs are infamous PC killers. I also have some bad memories with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-24, 11:02

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by RandomStranger

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I finally found a Radeon DDR close by. I almost missed it, since it was listed as "ATi Rage Theater" instead of Radeon DDR/Radeon 64 DDR / Radeon 256 DDR. And it's one from before the 7200 rebrand. https://i.ibb.co/Q6gjpN5/IMG-1061.jpg https://i.ibb.co/7XftmcL/IMG-1062.jpg And the other the Ti 200 I …

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Re: Nvidia Fermi retro?

Posted on 2018-12-20, 10:27

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by RandomStranger

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I don't know if I should necro this, but this doesn't seem to be an overly active forum so whatever. For me, on hardware front it's retro if the manufacturing had stopped at least 10 years ago. Usually it's about 10-15 years when the used hardware price hits its lowest for the high-end prestige …

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Re: How to find out Video card ram amount for sure?

Posted on 2018-12-20, 10:04

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by RandomStranger

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My guess: it looks like it has KM424C257Z-6 memory ICs. Just look up the datasheet for the IC and multiply it with the number of the ICs the card has. But since you have 16 of them, it's probably either 2 or 4MB.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-12-19, 16:05

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by RandomStranger

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Earlier this week I took a dive into a basement and salvaged some stuff. Nothing especially interesting, but I think it worth my time. Motherboard of an older HP office PC ( HP Vectra VEi 8 ) and a P2 ( SL2HA ): https://i.ibb.co/z6ZVJ7x/IMG-1052.jpg https://i.ibb.co/hYNhD6D/IMG-1054.jpg I already …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-19, 07:37

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by RandomStranger

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It's not Platinum Edition There's no such thing as Platinum Edition really, it's just factory overclocked normal X800XT. They share absolutely same voltages, VRM and memory (Samsung 1.6ns). Now Radeon X850XT PE PCI-E is a different case and actually differs from its non-PE counterpart. I believe …

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