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

Posted on 2025-04-26, 15:58

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed a Zalman cooler on my 9700PRO. It's my all-time favorite VGA and they tend to die, so I will try to keep it cool. Does the bottom of the cooler fins touch the top of the AGP slot? That's just the angle of the shot, being taken from very close. Correct, just bad angle on the picture, the …

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

Posted on 2025-04-26, 02:41

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by Pino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed a Zalman cooler on my 9700PRO. It's my all-time favorite VGA and they tend to die, so I will try to keep it cool.

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Re: Hardware saved from Abandoned Factory

Posted on 2025-04-10, 16:11

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice save, you are a good man! Ps.: My first ever PC was a 386DX 40 on this exact same case, have been looking for one for a while, I'm sure at some point I will score one at my local recycling center, as this cases were pretty common.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-10, 00:34

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found a Sony floppy disk digital camera, and a 24 inch HP Elite desk 1920x1200 IPS monitor for $12. Haven't owned a digital camera in a decade+ do that should be fun Just got a Dell U2412M, also 1920x1200, was looking for a good DOS LCD to replace my aging Samsung 1600x1200, went to my local thrift …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-02, 20:54

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm having a hard week at work and decided I need a treat, just bought a Roland SC-55 mk II. Saw one at a reasonable price on ebay, shipping from US and decided to get it. Never had a MIDI module before, excited to try it. Nice. Have Doom 2 and Sam and Max Hit the Road handy to test it out with. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-02, 20:34

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm having a hard week at work and decided I need a treat, just bought a Roland SC-55 mk II. Saw one at a reasonable price on ebay, shipping from US and decided to get it. Never had a MIDI module before, excited to try it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-25, 15:34

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by Pino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A TNT2 Ultra with DVI output, which is rare. And a decent socket 939 board with AGP slot

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Re: Dell Dimension L866R - PGA370 Heatsink and Fan

Posted on 2025-03-19, 22:10

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

quiet fans at that time wasn't really a big thing. You can always replace the fan on one of the heatsinks you already have with a noctua fan

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Re: Dell Dimension L866R - PGA370 Heatsink and Fan

Posted on 2025-03-19, 21:41

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can still find new heatsinks on ebay. either search for PG370 or socket A heatsink, both should fit

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Re: Need help with setting up VIAFMTSR

Posted on 2025-03-11, 17:55

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by Pino

in Marvin \ Sound

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What is your south bridge? are you sure it supports SB emulation? VT1612A is your AC97 codec, it doesn't mean your south bridge supports it.

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Re: Radeon 9800 SE 256 MB 128 bit - BIOS needed!

Posted on 2025-03-10, 20:58

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by Pino

in Marvin \ Video

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Have you checked here? https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?model=9800+SE They have a decent collection of 9800SE BIOSes Specifically this one, it says Hynix: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/525/peak- … 56-hynix-040622

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Re: Old muck - what to do with it? (or: should I throw away these old sound cards)

Posted on 2025-02-24, 16:16

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ Sound

If you read the tread called "Sound Blaster 16 clones" that is pinned here on the sound section you will see that 2 first cards you listed are very sort after, both are considered good SB16 clones, which is way more rare than SB PRO clones.

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2025-02-10, 16:45

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

this is what I use with my socket 462 build, it's a modern PSU from Lenovo. Only problem is that I need to use Floppy and Molex adapters connected to the SATA connectors on the PSU, but these are cheap to buy.

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Re: Socket 7 build advice

Posted on 2025-02-03, 18:10

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool build, seems well balanced. If you are in USA you can get a K6-2+ 400 for $19, I just got one from this specific seller and it looks like a brand new CPU, I was also able to mod it to a K6-3+ enabling the additional 128kb of L2 cache.

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

Posted on 2025-01-30, 22:42

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by Pino

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Not aware of a disadvantage to doing it that way. No one that I know of has complained. I like to put it to where it should be like AMD did it though. Personally Thank you Sphere, I decided to leave it open on my first unit and it's been working great, so I guess it doesn't make any difference. I …

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Re: my videocard collection

Posted on 2025-01-27, 19:50

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ Video

Very Nice!

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

Posted on 2025-01-21, 14:40

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just tried the mod on my K6-2+ 500ACZ and it worked great, stable @ 550Mhz and 2.0V Question, I just removed the 0 ohm resistor instead of moving it to the side since it was indicated before in this thread that it could work this way, and indeed it did. Any advantage in reinstalling the resistor on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-17, 19:29

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also grabbed a 1.6v K6-2+400 for 19 bucks which should overclock much better and might be able to be modded into a full K6-3+, good thing the entire process is here on Vogons. Just received mine, probably bought from the same vendor. Does 550Mhz at 2.0V easy. Crashes if I go 600Mhz, I haven't tried …

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Re: Dead 9800 PRO... Here we go again!

Posted on 2025-01-10, 14:59

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by Pino

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Bimole, are you in US? I have a dead 9800PRO that I would gladly donate to you, maybe you can get one working card from 2... I'm also very passionate about ATI's 9xxx series but I lack your skills to get mine fixed, also I already have a functional 9800XT and a 9700PRO.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-07, 23:46

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Always cool when you buy something you didn't know it exists. Just got a Socket 7 Pentium 133MMX, apparently it was released as a mobile CPU only, which probably explains the lower Vcore. Living happy here with the other members of the family. Neat! Does the other side look the same as most MMX …

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