Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-06, 06:11
This guy basically confirmed my worst fears; wait for the 490 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ5wYVu-tM8
Re: Do you make money of your Retro habit?
Posted on 2016-06-06, 06:09
Do you make money of your Retro habit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-06, 06:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow http://www.ebay.com/itm/301969642018 yea, it's Ramen noodles for me for a while.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-03, 18:48
Tested a Gigabyte GTX 260 i recently got. Ran 3dmark06 to bench it only to find you need to be connected to the internet to view your score? @*%:*$&^!!!!! So i don't actually know what it scored. Will try again when i can be bothered. :dead: :dead: :dead: Nope you do not! https://www.futuremark.com …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-02, 06:22
I know a person that works for century link. So one day I "overheard" they were going to throw away a lot of old dvr boxes. I ended up getting about 20. Each one had a 320gb sata drive, sata/ide convertor and an assortment of screws. but it gets better! Every box they deem "bad" they pile in a bin …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-01, 06:45
With Civilization 6 on the horizon, and my trustworthy 7970 starting to show its age, I felt like it might be a good time to invest in a new video card. Hell, i've gotten about 4 years out of this card, and it got USED. With 4k around the corner and me wanting to try VR at some point, now seems like …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-01, 05:28
dual bios boards are typically very rare. for a short time they seemed popular in the P4 era, but its a non issue anymore it seems. your chip might not be erasing correctly. I had this issue with my programmer. solution was to supply the usb part with a 12v and it then had enough power to properly …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-01, 05:16
I have 3 SM boards running RIGHT NOW. I would say i'm familiar with the company. The point I was making was most manufacturers bought the bios code from award, slapped on their own logo, turned on or off a few features, and shipped the product. I would venture to say you could probably swap the bios …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-01, 04:59
in my experience, once pentium matured, so did the bios. Award won, and everyone used the same software, except for ibm, dell, etc. Even then it was most likely 95% the same. There is only so many ways to talk to a standard cpu and standard ram. So it does not surprise me that bioses are sometimes …
Re: New 386 build - motherboard question
Posted on 2016-05-31, 21:02
check the crystal. (the silver rectangle, far right middle of the mobo) if it says 66mhz, then it is a 33mhz board. I would say it is a very nice board. even more so if you find the memory expansion board. Not that you need more memory, but just for the sake of completion.
Re: It's like the energizer bunny
Posted on 2016-05-31, 06:07
I wish your father had done that.
Re: It's like the energizer bunny
Posted on 2016-05-30, 04:49
@ noshutdown There's no need to be a dick.
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2016-05-29, 19:30
@Oldskoolmaniac NEAT!!! welcome to teh site. Also, heatspreaders on pc133 ram? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?
Re: Bitchin' dual p-pro setup
Posted on 2016-05-27, 20:05
finally found a working gigabit Ethernet card. It is a stock Intel one. had to force it slightly into the pci slot because the card itself is pci-x. Made no difference in the previous test. however I did find a client?server benchmark in this suite. so I installed it on my 2x quad core xeon monster …
Re: 386_Junkie’s duo core 386; The modified Systempro!
Posted on 2016-05-27, 16:55
Re: Old IBM xSeries 220 Dual Tualatin Server
Posted on 2016-05-26, 21:49
always love the dual cpu systems. Great one to cut your teeth on. Be careful, OEMs loved making servers with proprietary accessories. IBM and Dell are notorious for this. Common parts will be standard, but expect things like VRMs and such to be special snowflakes that command a premium. As for doing …
Re: Bitchin' dual p-pro setup
Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:57
i will look into it. hopefully i can find something.
Re: 286-10Mhz CPU overclock or upgrade help needed
Posted on 2016-05-25, 16:40
now that you have the socket... drop in a 486: http://www.cpushack.com/2014/08/30/improve-te … 86-286-upgrade/
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-05-25, 05:02
found this little gem at a thrift store yesterday. doesn't post, seems to be the motherboard. Which suits me just fine. it is a 440lx crap board. the siig ide card is awesome, I love these things. and the p2-300 is also nice. http://i.imgur.com/YjHen7tm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9k5KVpam.jpg http://i. …
Re: Bitchin' dual p-pro setup
Posted on 2016-05-24, 17:06
A dx9 card on PCI is going to be a challenge. The fastest pci card I own is the ati 9250. And I have yet to find it. I will happily oblige if I can get the card found. In other news, I did some more testing. I was faffing about with performance test 6.1, which is a newer version of passmark 4.0 if …
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