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

Posted on Yesterday, 17:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just inspected it thoroughly. Unfortunately no missing or damaged components. One track looked suspicious until getting under the microscope - it was just fine. Cleaned slot contacts with IPA but still nothing. POST code card reads C4. Calling it ... 🙁

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

Posted on Yesterday, 16:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Changing heat sinks on a pair of 1GHz P!!!s for my P2B-DS. Apparently i f**ked up :'( I damaged some of the ceramic capacitors on a Slot 1 Pentium 3 when removing the stock heatsink. Look closely to see if there is any damage to these components, as this is repairable. https://www.vogons.org/ …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 06:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Excuse my astonishment, did you nuke a Slot 1 P!!! 1 GHz? Unfortunately, yes 😫 hating myself for not having that extra bit of patience required to get those pushed-in plastic pins correct out ... Dude, I'm hurting almost as much as you are. Thanks, at least I got it at a reasonable price (bought 2 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-25, 21:16

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jccwu wrote on 2024-04-25, 15:34: part.2 Is that trackball actually wireless? I see it has some radio like logo next to the ball, but also what looks like a cord? And wouldn't "WIRELESS" be written all over the box?

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 21:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is why I'm terrified to attach a heatsink to any of my PIII Coppermine processors. The thing is - I remembered them more sturdy, but apparently no. Probably tilted the heat sink too much in the process. Stupid thing is that I did it to get an easier to remove heat sink on it (and bigger to fit …

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nexxen wrote on 2024-04-25, 20:15: H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-04-25, 20:04: Changing heat sinks on a pair of 1GHz P!!!s for my P2B-DS. Apparently i f**ked up :'( Excuse my astonishment, did you nuke a Slot 1 P!!! 1 GHz? Unfortunately, yes 😫 hating myself for not having that extra bit of patience …

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 20:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Changing heat sinks on a pair of 1GHz P!!!s for my P2B-DS. Apparently i f**ked up :'( Seems like I was to impatient removing the original Intel heat sink on the one and pinched a corner of the core ... No POST with that, either alone or with the other one, which boots fine by it self. Well, at least …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-25, 14:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, that's one for letting out the magic smoke 😲

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 05:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

far less exciting than most people i'm sure but i've been browsing around for case badges for various old windows OSes for a few machines i have kicking around. although i'm fairly confident in the places i've seen them being sold in/at are all -- y'know -- real stores and i'm not about to be …

Re: Dell OptiPlex GS-5133L and Siemens Scenic Pro D5 200M

Posted on 2024-04-23, 05:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Wow, that Pro D5 200M just looks sooooo cool!

Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 05:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just an answer to the original question: A production spec QX6700 just sold over at cpu-world.com for US$35 within an hour after being up for sale; so kinda collectible/valuable, I would say: https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php … =asc&highlight=

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-22, 06:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agreed, the Northwood is considered faster clock-for-clock, even thougt the Prescott doubles the L2 cache. But maybe, being a 90nm vs the 130nm of the Northwood, the Prescott may have some more headroom for overclocking ...

Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2024-04-22, 05:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still waiting for someone to check what’s going on with the jumpers on the non plus might be 512k hiding there… (doubt it) Agreed, it would be very unlikely that any K6 had 512k L2 cache, when AMD never released on that had it. Unless of course it was used as a test vessel for production methods. …

Re: eBay Voodoo 2's (Project BRICK) Retro build

Posted on 2024-04-21, 13:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

And it's going to fit into this. The goal is to make a "portable" rig that's kind of all-in-one. Mainly because after the nostalgia of retro gaming wares off I can easily store this in my closet and forget about it until I remember all the time and effort I put in and decide to pull it back out. 😄🤪 …

Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 21:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Munx wrote on 2024-04-20, 05:45: I see some cooling discussion here, so I'm just going to add a link to a Socket 478 adapter that would help if you got access to a 3D printer: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6109363 Knowing the strength of the parts I 3D print in PLA, I wouldn't dare using that …

Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 05:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would a Q9650 be any good? I hear they don’t run as hot. Q9650 or QX9650? The Q9650 is a 95W TDP... i have a core 2 quad 9650, would that be an upgrade to the qx 6700? The Q9650 is a 45nm CPU vs a 65nm, its standard clock is 333 MHz higher and cache is 50% more. Yes it's an upgrade (unless the …

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

Posted on 2024-04-19, 05:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

twiz11 wrote on 2024-04-19, 00:43: seeing that sticker designed for windows 95 and NT wow two different worlds, maybe you could dual boot if it still works Probably wasn't dual boot when new, but to be able to fit into multiple user segments?

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

Posted on 2024-04-19, 05:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mandrew wrote on 2024-04-18, 16:32: I have a roadside find instead, a standard slot1 IBM 300PL with lots of dirt and a Deschutes 400. And apparently som cool ABIT card 😁 Graphics? "Roadside find" as in literally just dumped outside? Why doesn't that happen to me?`

Re: P3 Tualatin and Voodoo 3 worth a try?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 09:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just out of curiosity - what country do you live in? I can't think of any place in Denmark, where I could go in and have a 20 year old board diagnosed and definetely not repaired. That would be contacts in the retro community if anything. And I would always, as in always go for an Intel chipset, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-15, 05:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-04-12, 14:00: Got a Cooler Master HAF tower containing an ASUS Rampage III Extreme, 12 Gigs of DDR3 and, oh well ... An i7 980x 😎 There she is ... 😀 Seems like the seller had pets, though 😁

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