Re: SB 2.0 CT1350 CMS chips dumped

Posted on 2012-01-26, 07:36

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by keropi

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maddmaxstar wrote: Want! Just joined Amibay, but won't yet let me post. Just letting you know I'm in. I have approved your account and another one that I recognized from here 😊 You might need to make a couple of posts before you can start using PM/sale forums , it's a spam prevention measure...

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Re: What's Next?? Core 2 Building Time

Posted on 2012-01-25, 14:57

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will add my past c2d system and it's upgrades :blush: mobo: Asus P5Q cpu: E6750 -> E8500 -> Q9300 ram: 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 -> 4x2GB XMS2 sticks vga: 8600GTS -> 8800GTX -> 260GTX -> 285GTX/2GB sound: SB X-Fi pci Platinum with I/O Drive psu: Coolermaster 700W cable management with SLI cert. nowdays …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-01-24, 21:21

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

5u3 wrote: [...] Found this for a couple of € at a second-hand store today. 😀 My PS1/pro came with one... I am sad that it has been lost after so many years.... awesome find 5u3!!!

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-24, 13:03

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by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

awesome update: installed 45.23 as recommended, disabled HT in BIOS and now I get this score: not bad... 😁 , thanks for the tip 😊

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-24, 07:44

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

thanks for the extra clarifications , will search for 45.23 😀

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Re: Dilemma : Intel 440BX chipset vs. VIA Apollo Pro chipset - which one?

Posted on 2012-01-24, 07:41

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my vote goes to the BX mobo too...

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-23, 22:10

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

really? that old? I just grabbed 81.98 fron nv.... edit: I did some reading on HT ... it is best to be disabled in anything lower than XP (even win2000) since XP is the first MS OS that actually uses it correctly...

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-23, 20:49

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks for all the brainstorming, I will consider my options and test stuff 😀 For now since I do have the 4200ti installed, is there a forceware version that is recommended?

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-23, 18:43

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

A radeon9500 you say eh? I'll look at that 😀

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Re: Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-23, 17:51

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

:D thing is Tetrium that I don't want an XP machine, just something with more juice to run older 9x games that due to programming (I guess) don't really behave nice and can benefit from a fast system.... (or it could even be that I am waisting my time on this logic LOL but still I wanna use it for …

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Some advice needed on vga/cpu for a winME p4/2.4ghz machine

Posted on 2012-01-23, 17:39

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Hiya! :blush: (first the compulsory introduction/history info with some pics) Last week I was given for free an older pc that was running XP inside a humongous and heavy older Thermaltake tower... at first I was kinda meh about it, it turned out to be a p4 @2.4ghz, with an agp-pro mobo, 2x256MB DDR1 …

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Re: Did you guys know about these?

Posted on 2012-01-22, 19:39

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by keropi

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I knew them from when Champ Kong demo was given in a diskette with a magazine that was sold here , awesome games ... 😁

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Re: Finally got my K6-2+ 500, did some Benchmarks.

Posted on 2012-01-22, 15:55

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just did the 2001se benchmark on my 2600k/560ti and it scored ~63000 🤣

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2012-01-21, 12:18

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by keropi

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I bought complete in box (actually dvd cases ...) Undying, Technomage and Severance .... I am considering building a faster win9x machine, I got for free a mobo with a 2.4ghz p4 and agp-pro slot... might test them there

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Re: Hardware score at the recycle center

Posted on 2012-01-21, 12:15

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by keropi

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

awesome finds!!!!!

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Re: Know any good ms-dos GUIs?

Posted on 2012-01-20, 10:58

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by keropi

in DOS

in DOS

Quckmenu is more of a launcher gui.... don't expect it to do file management or have it's own apis...

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Re: Know any good ms-dos GUIs?

Posted on 2012-01-20, 09:11

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by keropi

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there is nothing like workbench on DOS (except.... windows) but you could take a look at QuickMenu III , see some shots of it here: 486DX2 build edit: 🤣 DK 😊

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Re: MKS_VIR - old dos anti-virus program freezes on dosbox

Posted on 2012-01-19, 12:41

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by keropi

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I remember a similar program found on a magazine here , 1992-1994 period... it had live examples like this one and I spent quite some time remembering what it was called 🤣 thanks for sharing this 😁

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Re: Proud owner of a SB Awe64 Gold *brand new* in the box! :D

Posted on 2012-01-18, 00:34

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

awesome pics! thanks for sharing!

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Re: what are we using DOS for

Posted on 2012-01-17, 14:07

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I had a 386sx machine as a kid and still want a pure DOS one to play my old games. Nostalgia, nothing beats the real thing, craziness and some more technical reasons I guess...

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