Re: ASUS P4P800 holocaust

Posted on 2023-06-12, 15:15

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ICH5 south bridge and USB ESD protection or the lack of thereof, to be precise. Well-known issue. ASUS and several other manufacturers supposedly fixed that in new revisions. You mean they fixed it with new motherboard revs or fixed it by using new ICH5 revs? Which southbridges were affected by …

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Re: who does boardgames?

Posted on 2023-06-12, 15:09

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOhbzr6-X4 https://a.allegroimg.com/original/1e1104/0cdb00eb45ea9f54fcc32ac2da5a https://a.allegroimg.com/original/1ee8ee/4c7ae3614239b62d8a87eaff29af https://a.allegroimg.com/original/1e10df/327eb9fa4b10896e320d28380ac9 https://a.allegroimg.com/original/1e026b/ …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-06-12, 11:11

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Ok, never heard of such devices! We've worked with the Lenten Reborn cards at some time. I didn't do the actual setting up (or if I did then I forgotten about it now) but I did use its restore function a couple times. This was years ago. At some point I inherited a number of these cards including a …

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Re: who does boardgames?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 22:03

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I bought 2 recently. King Richard the Lionheart and Xenoshyft (the 2nd 1, Dreadmire?). Had them a few weeks, no interested parties at the moment. I'm not sure either of these is to my liking. Scouting around 3 others caught my eye: Terraforming Mars, Pulsar 2849, and the Search for Planet X. I'm …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 21:21

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I started out upgrading my (rather unstable) Win98FE install with a fresh install of WinME and even though I did have some issues with it, the issues were way fewer than with 98FE and to a large degree stemmed from my inexperience with using a PC and using Windows (it was my first PC, even though I …

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Re: Worth trying to sell? - Pentium MMX

Posted on 2023-06-08, 12:52

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That does look like a very nice AT case. It doesn't look yellowed at all actually. Happen to have any idea what model number it is? It kinda looks like an AOpen case actually or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be an AOpen case.

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on 2023-06-07, 23:05

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Also Z400 does not match standard ATX mounting holes 100% , so you might need some slight modding for 2-3 non-standard mounting holes in your case. HP seems to like doing the mounting hole thing. At some point I was gifted a very small HP PC which came in a tiny (and for my tastes too noisy) ATX- …

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on 2023-06-07, 08:26

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Also Z400 does not match standard ATX mounting holes 100% , so you might need some slight modding for 2-3 non-standard mounting holes in your case. HP seems to like doing the mounting hole thing. At some point I was gifted a very small HP PC which came in a tiny (and for my tastes too noisy) ATX- …

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Re: Has VOGONS banned me by IP?

Posted on 2023-06-07, 08:11

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Not sure if it's the thread what helped, but as of today VOGONS isn't blocking my bot anymore. Thanks to everyone involved! I'm guessing it is some kind of automatic thing? I actually found myself staring at a message that I was banned last night (permaban) and I was like "uhh..what just happened …

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Re: PC shuts down after 30 seconds - 1 minute

Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:39

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Primer LC-B300-ATX. I'm pretty sure you meant Premier LC-300-ATX and I'm also pretty sure I once had one of these. This PSU is one of the poorest quality PSUs available back then and it is a gutless wonder. The vast majority of 300W PSUs from that era will be of better quality and will have better …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 10:07

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Maybe because then he'd have to admit he was wrong... I kinda like PCPartner boards. They seem to have made boring no-frills but decent boards it just works (sometimes kinda) 'sometimes kinda just works' sums it up nicely No, that doesn't sum it up at all. You were literally calling it garbage. Do …

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Re: Small Project: Installing a Socket 479 cooler on a Geforce 3

Posted on 2023-05-31, 12:02

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I recall my GF3s tending to run "unpleasantly" finger hot with aquamark or something intensive. i.e. it hurt a little but you could keep your finger there without damage, what's that, about 60C ??? This page http://hw-museum.cz/vga/174/nvidia-geforce3-ti-500 claims TDP of 43W so 65W CPU coolers …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:39

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-05-30, 18:22: Early Mach64 with external DAC are indeed scarce. The earliest PCI graphics cards were really something else. They tend to look archaic even when compared to older PCI graphcis cards like Virge.

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:37

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Hi!, Regardless of how you proceed with your Ultimate Build I'd treat that mach64 with extra care... I don't think they are so common anymore and I'd consider it a very nice card to have, if only for the scarcity of it (at least in some/many regions). Mach64 PCI is scarce? IMHO, it is, at least in …

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Re: Killed two Nforce2 south bridges with a faulty POST diag card...

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:29

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Is your POST diagnostics card new or did you have it for a while before it went faulty?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:18

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This is my first hardware purchase in maybe six months, mostly because prices on old hardware skyrocketed for no reason all of a sudden locally, and also because my attention shifted to other hobbies in the last few months.. But then I came across this listed as faulty for about 10 bucks and I went …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:07

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it is what it is but why should anybody care what somone else does in a case like this. I'm not saying youre wrong. I was curious about reasons behind collecting pretty much garbage. So far the answers I got are somewhere between 'I ran out of things to buy' to 'I like garbage, its cute' with some …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-31, 01:55

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Meanwhile this can probably be regarded as a medium-sized channel: Victor Bart - RETRO Machines https://www.youtube.com/@victorbart The first video I've seen on his channel was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7oJMmW7j8 "We went to a 90's Lan Party in 2020" In case you've seen Linus' …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-31, 01:36

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Not sure if this is counted as a small channel, but it's one I never see mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/@vwestlife I don't think he posts on Vogons (?), but he used to be active on VCF. Nice thread! Some of my usual channels are kind of wearing laterly... Necroware and CPUGalaxy are indeed …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:09

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I have a pc with socket 7 mb, mmx Pentium at 166mhz, 64mb edo ram, mach64 and sb16 compatible isa card [...] however i am very aware that mine is fairly ordinary, i follow some mmx build here with interest and so wondered what would be the 'ultimate' pentium 1 mmx build? perhaps you have one? [...] …

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