Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-29, 03:59

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by Trashbytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My old MSI P67A-G43 had decent enough USB 3.0 (two ports) via an NEC chip, which is what most mid\high end boards used before the 7-series chipsets. It only had two SATA 3 6gbps ports as well, but for the time period that was still more than enough for the average enthusiast. Hard drives likely …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-28, 15:11

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by Trashbytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My main computer is based on ivy bridge, ok not with a G2020 but an i7 like your plan. I can tell you that it's still passable for generic use. For me what really shows its age and insufficiency nowadays is not the CPU but the lack of SATA3 and good USB3 implementation on most motherboards. (Note …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-28, 12:24

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Does ivy bridge count as "retro" yet? I just picked up a Pentium G 2020 based IBM Thinkcentre for $20. 2gb of ram, 500gb HDD of some flavor and in wonderful condition! Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but my 1st thought is to find 8gb of ram and a low power i7 for it + a 500gb SSD I have …

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Re: Frame Generator

Posted on 2024-11-23, 10:33

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have you thought about adding Frame Generator? Just use lossless scaling on steam, it doesnt care what GPU you have and can do DLSS like scaling along with Frame Gen, it doesn't need the game to have implemented any form of scaling or FG to work. Costs a total of 7 bucks so there is zero need for …

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Re: Arm desktop pc, any future\hope?

Posted on 2024-11-22, 15:48

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Babasha wrote on 2024-11-22, 15:34: Apple M1-M4 Macs are ARM's)))) We know, Apple has been arm since they ditched Intel, their phones have been Arm longer than that. More specifically they are not 100% ARM since Apple silicon adds a lot of extra stuff that ARM doesn't have.

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Re: Arm desktop pc, any future\hope?

Posted on 2024-11-22, 15:00

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Yeah for me to "upgrade" to it: Compatibility same as current x86 both with and without emulation. Minimum framerate same as current x86 Supports same OS as current x86 Warranty same as current x86 Better driver and open source suppirt than x86 Better BIOS and open source support than x86. …

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Re: Arm desktop pc, any future\hope?

Posted on 2024-11-22, 14:47

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The issues with ARM PCs are - based on what's currently being served up in the market and to devs - hardware designs that are "just good enough" for basic computing uses and not good enough for enthusiasts and power users, a focus on "everything integrated" (no expandability or performance …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-20, 08:18

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ha, I am not. leboncoin exists in other european countries :P Awww man, what a let down, now he's got nobody to share carrot salad tips with :( lol (Sorry, watched Camping 1, 2 and 3 the other month and it seemed quite the joke that one guy lived off carrot salad and Benco ) Too bad. I was about to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-14, 05:33

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If you picked $100 off the ground...? Same reaction? If I had 10,000 dollars in the bank .. then finding 100 dollars would be nice but nothing to get excited about, same applies to hardware I already have multiples of ...one more Voodoo 1 when I have three already isn't something to get excited …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-14, 05:20

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If I had 10,000 dollars in the bank .. then finding 100 dollars would be nice but nothing to get excited about, same applies to hardware I already have multiples of .. I found $70 in empty parking spaces last month and no one around so kept it. I was excited ! Does not matter if you have $1000 or $ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-14, 05:12

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Received the ABIT AB-TX5 + Pentium 166MMX and 64MB worth of EDO today. Works great although I have to tilt the PCI cards ever so slightly or it won't detect the GPU. Thinking of a 12MB Voodoo 2 test run on it alongside ATI's 3D Rage II+DVD. Sounds like some Deoxit action is on the cards for that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-13, 14:52

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Personally, I'd count a V1 as a gem, even more if I'd got it "by chance" bundled with a case. Maybe you are right and I became victim to the law of diminishing marginal utility. Guess I'm just a little spoiled. If you picked $100 off the ground...? Same reaction? If I had 10,000 dollars in the bank …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-13, 14:49

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by Trashbytes

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Received the ABIT AB-TX5 + Pentium 166MMX and 64MB worth of EDO today. Works great although I have to tilt the PCI cards ever so slightly or it won't detect the GPU. Thinking of a 12MB Voodoo 2 test run on it alongside ATI's 3D Rage II+DVD. Sounds like some Deoxit action is on the cards for that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-07, 09:05

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by Trashbytes

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Not so retro but wanted a couple fair PCIe that can be used under XP so grabbed a GTX 750Ti 2Gb and a GTX 960 SC 4GB (both small frame) for ~ $72. The 750 will probably go in my XP Q9650 box and the 960 SC will save for a future project/replacement if dies, as I have one in the XP+Win7 box :) added …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-07, 09:02

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Indeed my friend so many times dead boards come back to life after a few power cycles and a few reseats I have no scientific explanation but something inside that silicon must be sleeping and needs time to wake up :) Never had that experience. My stuff usually either always works or it doesn't at …

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Re: Why did Doom95 decide to use a separate DMOUSE.VXD?

Posted on 2024-11-06, 10:31

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there is a Win11 fix for the mouse its another different patch .. Win10/11 removed even more of legacy DX than Win8 did. But like you suspect its likely just adding back the files for DX that got removed and patching the mouse driver to work on 11. I tried Doom95 today with the XP mouse patch and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-05, 10:33

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I wouldn't guess that's a BGA issue. I'd be firmly looking at RAM. High res pics? click on the image its pretty high res, its definitely ram, reflowing may help it may not at this point it cant hurt. I doubt itll last long even if it does help but itll give some indication if the ICs need replacing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-05, 08:52

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Here's another pic of the artifacts. Give it a reflow with a hot air gun on the memory ICs, use Kapton tape around them if you have it so SMDs dont get heated up. If this improves the artifacting then it might be worth reballing , I wouldnt normally suggest reballing but this is a X850 XT PE which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-05, 08:01

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by Trashbytes

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Wes1262 wrote on 2024-11-05, 07:03: x850xtpe "perfect conditions tested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111oneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneone" :roll eyes: is that the one with dead in the image name ? looks like a memory issue, might be temporarily fixable by reflowing the memory ICs.

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Re: Logging into Gmail with old mail clients

Posted on 2024-11-04, 13:51

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Further update: Gmail no longer allows „less secure“ connects Yup they removed that a little while back, I only know because it nuked my access via an older version of Thunderbird I was using on my Win 10 PC, the version on my daily 11 PC updated fine so I just had to fix the account login settings …

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