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Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-16, 03:47

Got the Vortex2 card in the mail today: http://www.robertalpizar.com/dump/IMG_1881.JPG Thing is brand new. So nice. Means it'll have at least the original drivers in it. I had actually never heard of this make or brand until it was mentioned in this thread. It seems like the company doesn't exist …

GOG Installers on old hardware

Posted on 2012-09-16, 02:58

in Windows
Here's a question I haven't been able to find an answer to. Most of the games GOG sells list hardware requirements as and XP machine with a 1ghz cpu blah blah. Since there is no limit to the number of machines I can install it on that I own, can I install a game from GOG on one of my retro machines …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-14, 05:23

Got my SB16 in the mail today. Another Beautiful trade with Clint from Lazy Game Reviews... Anyway, it's a CT2940. http://www.robertalpizar.com/dump/IMG_1880.JPG I've seen a few other pics of this card on the boards here, but noticed that for some of you, the whole board isn't populated. What's the …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-13, 03:28

Took a closer look at the actual chips and noticed something... http://www.robertalpizar.com/dump/1.jpg The chips are still in their sockets, and the damn things were CUT out of a board. I'm guessing I must have bought them from a scrapper or something. Goddamn I'm worried about the static that was …

Re: Possible Win98 rig?

Posted on 2012-09-11, 04:08

I just reinstalled XP on this one. I figure with it's 8x AGP slot I can drop a 7800 GS and maybe upgrade to the full max supported Barton 3200+. The only thing is since this is an OEM version of the base ASUS A7V8X, I don't think it can take more than 1gb of ram. The HP specs list 1 as the max, but …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-07, 00:16

Well, the board arrived in the mail today! It even had a p200mmx sitting in the socket. I thought it'd be a 233 but oh well. This is the same chip I originally had way back when so it's an extra point to nostalgia for me. I plugged in my tnt and a 64mb pc100 stick and booted it just to make sure it …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-06, 13:36

Ya know, ever since I saw your sig at the beginning of this thread, I've been trying to remember the model number. I even went so far as to look for pics of my old machine in my moms photo albums but I can't find any that show the front of the machine. I know the bezel was 't as flared as yours, and …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-06, 02:35

What kind of performance will I get out of this for Dark engine games? The only time I've ever played Thief was the demo off of some magazine companion disc in Feb 1999 on my dad's then NEC P2-300. Performance was alright, but I really didn't have much to compare it to outside of my (nostalgia …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-05, 22:32

Yeah, that's pretty much the high end of range of the games I want to play with this machine. I started a spreadsheet to track the games I want to play, I've linked it below. It's very incomplete still, but you can extrapolate what else would be added to the list by what's on there now. For the more …

Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2012-09-04, 19:09

Never really been a Quake guy so not really worried about that. The most intensive game I can think of right now that I'd likely want to play is Klingon Honor Gaurd so as long as I can pull 30fps at either 800x600 or hopefully 1024x768, then I'm happy. Like I said, this will be mostly for later DOS …

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