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

Posted on 2022-04-20, 19:01

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by FioGermi

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Sounds like bad caps to me. PCM I can understand but FM should be pretty punchy and clean on a Pro 2. The FM isn't distorted or anything. Its just a little quieter and a tiny bit muffled sounding compared to my memory of a previous Aztech clone card i hard. Granted i probably played with the mixer …

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Re: HSF for a Socket 3 that only has offset tabs

Posted on 2022-04-20, 16:28

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by FioGermi

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Thanks for the suggestions but I already have a clip-on style HSF. The plastic clips cause the CPU to not sit flush on the ZIF socket (because my Socket 3 doesn't have the four recesses to accommodate the protruding clips), so much so that the CPU pins don't look like they're going into the socket …

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

Posted on 2022-04-20, 16:22

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by FioGermi

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You know. I'm gonna be honest with you all: The more i spend time with the Sound Blaster Pro 2, the more I'm happy i didn't pay anywhere near what people on Ebay want. This card is actually underwhelming. I think some of the Aztech clones iv had previously sounded better! Everything with the pro is …

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Re: HSF for a Socket 3 that only has offset tabs

Posted on 2022-04-20, 16:18

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by FioGermi

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There are these little heatsinks that just clip onto the sides of a 486 CPU. You should be able to find those on Ebay. Or, I'll let you in on my super secret: Be lazy! Buy a roll of thermal tape on Amazon and stick whatever Socket 7/small heatsink you already have lying around onto the CPU. I do …

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Re: DOOM with ray-tracing

Posted on 2022-04-20, 08:09

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I often joke about how Raytracing sometimes comes down to making an entire game's floors all shiny, reflective and wet. Everything casts a reflection. 🤣

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Re: DOOM with ray-tracing

Posted on 2022-04-20, 06:32

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Hah, duct tape and flashlights. Doom 3 anyone?

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-20, 04:04

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pete8475 wrote on 2022-04-20, 03:43: I bet there's some treasure in there but I also see some weird stuff like the stacks and stacks of hard drive platters. *Deep inside one of those dusty bins: An entire missing shipment of GUS cards*

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Re: crappy old power supplies

Posted on 2022-04-20, 03:57

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by FioGermi

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I don't bother with any old AT/ATX power supply. Right into the trash they go on sight. Don't need those bombs in my house (mega exaggeration but you never know). If you can recap them though, i'm sure its fine! Better then paying $70 for a new ATX and an adapter every time you need one i guess.

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-20, 03:44

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by FioGermi

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Let the PC sit running GoldMemory for a little close to 2 hours. Was fine. Hopefully it doesn't drop out again on me here but it looks like the sanding did the trick. Probably still gonna switch to another board in the long run, i have a FIC PA-2003 in storage somewhere i think is being called for. …

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Re: Old Socket 7 computer found in basement

Posted on 2022-04-20, 03:14

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by FioGermi

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Apparently way back when, some people would just drop in something like a 166MMX and hope it would cope with the overvolt. Not that i would really recommend that ofc....maybe if you have a chonky cooler. Supposedly it worked though. Could allways track down one of those Pentium Overdrive chips with …

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-20, 03:07

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I haven't been following the Computer Reset story too deeply. I know LGR and i think 8BitGuy got a tour of the place. Wasn't it generally closed off to everyone but a small number of collectors in the end?

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2022-04-19, 20:47

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by FioGermi

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I wish i could fall in love with CRTs again. But they take up so much space and my room is small. I just don't have the free space to keep such a large desk around for one anymore. But how will i ever be able to live without using those early 3D goggles like the Cybershades? Those need a CRT. …

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-19, 20:38

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Could have been a binge buy. Saw a place filled with older computers cleaning out house and thought: "Hey, i wanna get into retro stuff! Let me dump a few paychecks into this entire lot and start my instant collection". Then realized it was way too much stuff and too much time needed to be spend on …

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

Posted on 2022-04-19, 20:35

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by FioGermi

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You know. I'm gonna be honest with you all: The more i spend time with the Sound Blaster Pro 2, the more I'm happy i didn't pay anywhere near what people on Ebay want. This card is actually underwhelming. I think some of the Aztech clones iv had previously sounded better! Everything with the pro is …

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-19, 19:00

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I fear that when I die, someone will be faced with a similar situation to this.. hahahha.. The correct way is to be buried under pyramid with all you hardware collection and games. Imagine being the last person alive on earth, digging up a place you were told hid supplies for the end times. ....and …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2022-04-19, 16:22

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by FioGermi

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I wish i could fall in love with CRTs again. But they take up so much space and my room is small. I just don't have the free space to keep such a large desk around for one anymore. But how will i ever be able to live without using those early 3D goggles like the Cybershades? Those need a CRT. …

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-19, 16:15

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Since someone mentioned Computer Reset. So...did someone really just walk into CR one day and vacuum up the entirety of their inventory? Like, i get that there are collectors out there like LGR with shelves and bins full of stuff. But this many computers seems like too much for a single collector. …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2022-04-19, 15:11

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by FioGermi

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Viewsonic still make good monitors. The Viewsonic XG2431 they released a few months back is amazing. IPS, 240hz refresh rate, freesync premium, excellent motion blur reduction with PureXP and lots of customization for backlight strobing/refresh rate stuff thanks to a partnering with BlurBusters. …

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Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-19, 15:04

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Yeah, that is a little too much money IMO. Too much money to end up with a pallet of stuff that might die in transport or didn't even work to begin with. This is absolutely a wildcard purchase for rich collectors. I'd be more comfortable going through a collection this big and checking each computer …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-04-19, 07:08

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The slow access speeds of early hard drives honestly makes me wonder if that was the biggest hidden performance bottleneck of early computing. You spend a bit of time with one of those in a midrange 486, then try a CF card and it sometimes feels like a completely new system. Everything so snappy and …

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