Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-31, 18:46

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This beauty arrived today. - Out: S3 Trio64V+ - In: RivaTNT2 PRO Really happy with the results. Now I can enjoy some good old 3D games with smooth graphics, but my search for a MX 400 PCI still strong. Wow, what an odd thing that is. I would check that with Everest or RivaTuner or some other …

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Re: How to know if a video card is 64bit or 128bit?

Posted on 2021-01-23, 20:14

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Cards with 4 ram chips are 64 bit most of the time and cards with 8 chips are 128bit... but it heavily depends on the type of ram chip the card is using. If i'm not mistaking, cards with BGA ram chips (small square ones) only need four chips for a 128bit memory bus. Someone will correct me if I'm …

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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, 18:39

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This made me happy :D And more data for UH19 as a bonus. Same here. I'm glad OP managed to find exactly what he was looking for. Had a shot at trying to rebuild my first PC as well, but a crucial component is out of reach so I gave up. What's the component? The cpu (cyrix 5x86-133gp), case and …

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

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:15

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Pierre32 wrote on 2021-01-11, 01:06: This made me happy 😁 And more data for UH19 as a bonus. Same here. I'm glad OP managed to find exactly what he was looking for. Had a shot at trying to rebuild my first PC as well, but a crucial component is out of reach so I gave up.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:06

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mwdmeyer wrote on 2021-01-16, 06:44: I did a very expensive thing. Looking forward to it! Where did you get it? Can't find anything about the card on google.

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Re: I'm happy i just got a fic 486-pvt-io with 486 dx4-75mhz, but i cant update bios

Posted on 2020-12-23, 06:58

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None of my FIC socket 3 boards came with flashable EEPROMs either, but there is a way to update bios w/o an eeprom burner - at least on my FIC 486-VIP-IO2. What I did is I pulled an EEPROM off a dead socket 7 motherboard, and did a hot flash using another machine. I copied UNIFLASH and the new bios …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-22, 18:33

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Gigabyte socket 7 board + K5 PR133 GA-586ATV: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/2732 mATX Socket A motherboard (SiS chipset) + 1333MHz Athlon PCChips M810LR: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6363 Unidentified VLB 486 board + 66MHz DX2. Jetway J-403TG: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-21, 15:58

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Nice haul. i like the grey pcb on the triplex cards, definitely out of the ordinary. Yeah, they look really different. A friend of mine back in the day had a pentium 4 build in a full acrylic case, with a silver soltek motherboard and a silver geforce 4 ti. Really clean build too. I remember he cut …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-20, 20:19

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I rarely post here, but I wanted to share my Christmas haul: https://i.imgur.com/liSSHtWl.jpg Some slotket in original packaging https://i.imgur.com/VuVNFcsl.jpg Radeon 9600XT - possibly built by ATi https://i.imgur.com/EI3TItDl.jpg Triplex Geforce 2 MX400 128bit https://i.imgur.com/JfXdwrTl.jpg …

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Re: Found my old Matsonic and PC chips motherboards, are they worth the trouble?

Posted on 2020-12-06, 22:27

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Some matsonic boards are decent, some are horrid messes. I'd say give it a go.

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Re: Fabricating a New Turbo Display

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:13

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I'd be interested in purchasing several (4-5 units), but with a 3 digit display... I have several pentium 233 and k6-II/III PCs in AT cases with missing MHz displays....

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

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:10

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Recently got this from someone who wanted to throw it away. Still have to open/test it though when I find the time. A PCI-express HD4830 512MB GDDR3 videocard and a Huyndai XT, complete with monitor (not on pictures), keyboard and mouse from 1988 :) I have the exact same system. It was part of an …

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Re: Power supply recommendations for athlon 64 build

Posted on 2020-12-03, 14:54

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Anything beyond the nominal 10 year lifetime, especially if it's hard use, can be unreliable, but no Delta models I'm aware of in the last 25 years suffer any design flaws which make them more problematic than others. I specifically mentioned refurbished. The PSUs I get have had all capacitors …

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Re: Power supply recommendations for athlon 64 build

Posted on 2020-12-02, 08:29

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Any 80+ power supply, even a 350w will work great. I use refurbshied FSP group and Delta Electronics 80+ bronze and 80+ gold (depending on model) in most of my pre 2005 computers. You don't need to go and buy an expensive 600w corsair PSU for such a machine, the athlon 64 3000+ and gf4 ti barely use …

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Re: Carmageddon with voodoo 1 or voodoo 2

Posted on 2020-12-02, 07:06

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Voodoo 2 performs better than voodoo 1 for carmageddon although you need a second patch which in my experience doesn't work as well as the original voodoo 1 patch (rare crashes, issues with music). However on a pentium MMX system what will probably limit you the most will be the CPU. This game has …

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Re: Should I build multiple PCs to play different era pc games or just one?

Posted on 2020-11-27, 18:18

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It's up to you really. If you have the space, $$$ and time, go for it. Nothing is quite the same as running a game on period correct hardware. Personally I use several machines for retro gaming - a 12MHz 286, a super socket 7 PC with a AMD K6-III, a 1.7GHz pentium PC and a QX6700 build for XP games …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-02, 18:55

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Brutek wrote on 2020-10-31, 10:50: Hello Guys, today i`ve got these nice ATI 9500 64MB It is fortunately possible to unlock the Card to 9700 with a Biosmod. If the card is the one in the picture, you won't be able to unlock it because half the memory module pads are unpopulated.

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Re: Should I build multiple PCs to play different era pc games or just one?

Posted on 2020-10-23, 19:03

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It's up to you really. If you have the space, $$$ and time, go for it. Nothing is quite the same as running a game on period correct hardware. Personally I use several machines for retro gaming - a 12MHz 286, a super socket 7 PC with a AMD K6-III, a 1.7GHz pentium PC and a QX6700 build for XP games …

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Re: Tualatin cooler compatibility

Posted on 2020-10-19, 20:50

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Socket 7 coolers are not suitable for Tualatins anyway due to their relatively lackluster cooling performance. I have no idea why I wrote socket 7. What I meant to write was socket A. Here's what I use for my tualatin builds: d5t-tc-1.jpg Could've been a brainfart, no man overboard :P Those look …

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Re: Tualatin cooler compatibility

Posted on 2020-10-18, 21:39

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Any socket 7 cooler will sit comfortably on a tualatin CPU. Socket 7 coolers are not suitable for Tualatins anyway due to their relatively lackluster cooling performance. I have no idea why I wrote socket 7. What I meant to write was socket A. Here's what I use for my tualatin builds: d5t-tc-1.jpg

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