Re: Vintage (sort-of) Hybrid PC

Posted on 2011-11-02, 15:19

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by luckybob

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the hyperdrive may be vaporware, but someone did make a 64gb DDR2 ram one. Aparently it will max out a sata2 connection, so they gave it two! http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option= … d=308&Itemid=60

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Re: Practice PC # 2 - retro PC - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-11-02, 02:05

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by luckybob

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apeva's are TRASH. I owned a mATX one before and it was "okay" but I kid you not, i've seen soda cans that had thicker stronger sides. man up and buy one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16811112222 I have an older version holding a dual cpu socket f mobo.

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Re: Vintage (sort-of) Hybrid PC

Posted on 2011-11-01, 20:27

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by luckybob

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vista/7 will only do readyboost on usb dongle devices iirc. Now having a I-ram as a disk cache or BOOT drive would be wonderful!

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Re: Games that you would not want to see remake?

Posted on 2011-10-31, 20:50

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by luckybob

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Another example would be the three stooges. Eye-gauging in black and white is just as funny as in HD color. That being said, re-releases are just as important. To elaborate on my example, I recently saw a sketch where they fought over a phone line in a wall. Ask a kid to point out the phone in the …

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Re: monitor for my old pc omesse Help me

Posted on 2011-10-31, 08:23

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by luckybob

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works perfect for me, I don't know what to tell you.

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Re: monitor for my old pc omesse Help me

Posted on 2011-10-31, 08:04

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by luckybob

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I think DK is trying to get you to ask here: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forum.php Those people specialize in pre-486 hardware.

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Re: Cache chips

Posted on 2011-10-30, 18:54

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by luckybob

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if the cache chips are soldered on the board, 9 times out of 10 that's a BAD sign. If you look, the bios is probably hard soldered as well. I would check first to see if you have a FAKE cache motherboard. A picture the board and a close-up of the cache and we can tell you whats going on. I currently …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-10-29, 05:59

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by luckybob

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if you are looking for filler ideas, why not discuss making a "real" dos gaming machine in leu of dosbox? I'm sure every active member here has such a system of varying degrees of power from 286 to pentium 4. just a thought.

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Re: My GLide PC

Posted on 2011-10-28, 23:20

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by luckybob

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I have the same IDE raid card as well. It was stupid cheap on ebay if I remember right. Truth be told, what I "wish" to do is get 8x 20gb of the old quantum bigfoot drives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot_ … 28hard_drive%29 I just like those drives and I DONT KNOW WHY.

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Re: Anyone familiar w/ Asus P3C boards?

Posted on 2011-10-28, 21:01

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by luckybob

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its a 820 chipset board... My personal feelings tell me to burn both boards in a fire, but that's not really helpful. Hot flashin bios'es has NEVER worked for me in the past. Ironically using a 3com nic to flash a bios chip has. I can help you with that if you have one and the bios chip fits into …

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Re: My GLide PC

Posted on 2011-10-28, 20:55

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by luckybob

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small pictures are small!!!! Also, is that an alpha heatsink I see? Those things are AWESOME. Very nice setup! I wouldnt do wireless but thats just me. ( i HATE wireless)

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Sucess in getting a dual slot 1 system up and running.

Posted on 2011-10-28, 10:52

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by luckybob

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A long time ago, I bought off eBay a Tyan S1837 motherboard. Its been sitting in my bin of misfit motherboards ever since. Mostly because it wouldn't post with any processor I put in it. So I always thought the board was dead, but I only paid $5 for it and it looked cool as all get-out, so I kept it …

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Re: Dual P3 Xeon Rig

Posted on 2011-10-28, 07:17

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by luckybob

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there was one on ebay for like 2 years that cost like $50, but it didn't have the brackets. then one day a 2nd appeared WITH the brackets for $100 + s&h and I bought it 3 hours after it was posted. yea. the cpu mounts for the xg-dls screw into a plate under the board that covers the ENTIRE board.

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Re: Dual P3 Xeon Rig

Posted on 2011-10-28, 04:19

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by luckybob

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I started to do something like this in wanting an old workstation, but ran into too many problems finding stuff for it. I've got the 900Mhz Xeon's and C440GX board, and Parhelia 256 (for my V2290b), but I never could find the CPU brackets for it and I was already well on my way with the dual 800 P3 …

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Re: 486 motherboard

Posted on 2011-10-28, 03:57

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if that board supported EDO ram and 1mb cache, i'd buy it at that price. Thankfully it doesn't and I don't have that kind of cash at the moment...

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Re: Dual P3 Xeon Rig

Posted on 2011-10-27, 08:15

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by luckybob

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So I FINALLY got around to getting my XG-DLS system up and running today. there was 2 things holding me back. Well 3. but the 3rd isn't of any real significance. #1. cooling. #2. temp monitoring. So for #1, the "plan" was to find a pair of slot 2 heatsinks with fans built in. Well after several …

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Re: Weird AT-case, any good ?

Posted on 2011-10-27, 01:55

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by luckybob

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Is that.. S-Video on that VLB card?! that's what I thought too!!! also, if you look it has EIGHT memory chips. I'm willing to bet money it is at LEAST a 2mb card! IF not a 4mb! The case is neat. I'd spray paint the red to blue, but that's just me. the motherboard is nothing special, but the scsi …

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Re: Weird AT-case, any good ?

Posted on 2011-10-27, 01:44

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by luckybob

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get a better picture of that video card! it maybe a cad card and might be quite rare. Also, a computer that has BOTH scsi and IDE? it looks like someone's old workstation. Definatly worth the money.

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Re: how im portant is being period-specific?

Posted on 2011-10-26, 01:03

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by luckybob

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I'm crazy about periods. http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p98/VynSint/rimshot.png But seriously, i'm not a fan. My computer systems tend to be "best in socket" style systems with a appropriate video card. I have a best socket 7, slot 1, slot 2, socket 8, socket 370, socket a, slot a..... and …

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Re: Brand New You're Retro (P3 1.4 anachronism)

Posted on 2011-10-23, 17:59

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by luckybob

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As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing really wrong with the 8XX series P3 chipsets. most of them do work, except the first batch of 815's... Its just most 810's ended up in cheap wallmart systems and the 815 soured me to intel pretty bad. the 440bx was PERFECT. Its the basis of just about EVERY …

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