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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-25, 16:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Canada. I grew up in the section with snow and bugs. Finally had the sense to move to the warm wet coast. Thirty years away and that photo brings it all back. Every awful morning digging out then trying to start the car, waiting on the train platform... oh man. It's not that bad! We have a garage …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-25, 14:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pewpewpew wrote: RacoonRider wrote: As of today, the winter has been here for a week already. No more! I grew up in snow country. That pic brings back what I fled. I've got plenty of those. Give all your retro hardware to me or I'll show every one of them 🤣 Jokes aside, what country is that? 😀

Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!

Posted on 2014-10-25, 14:17

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

An update on the topic: got new heatsinks for V2s

Re: Iomega ZIP drives

Posted on 2014-10-25, 10:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use 250MB USB in my main machine and 100Mb ATAPI in my 486 for transfers. 486 is stationned in a different room so LAN is not a good idea. ZIP drives are fast enough for the amounts of data I work with. Whenever Windows 7 starts and there's someone else in my room, they start asking silly …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-25, 09:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes Ti4200 will be superior in basically every way - both are NV2x and the 4200 is faster. They'd both work well in a machine that needs to support DX7/8; a P3 could be a good example, so could a P4, an Athlon or AthlonXP, etc. That's sad... The card looks solid and cool, with those heatsinks all …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-25, 08:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As of today, the winter has been here for a week already. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1040699.JPG Also, I've got a bunch of stuff from an old friend: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1040700.JPG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1040701 …

Re: Matrox PCI VGA

Posted on 2014-10-24, 02:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/latest/ Check this out

Re: Slowest Computer, I think I win.

Posted on 2014-10-23, 06:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think, I win. Where did you get that badass anyway? 😀

Re: uh-oh - Holering deleted?

Posted on 2014-10-21, 04:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

Oh I hope he comes back. We need such people here.

Re: AGP Mini-Comparison (5 Cards, 3DMark2001)

Posted on 2014-10-20, 08:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great info! What bus does the 9550 you tested have? I've got one with more rare 128-bit bus from ASUS, A9550GE they call it. I know the more common variant has 64-bit bus.

Re: Best AGP graphics card for Windows XP?

Posted on 2014-10-20, 06:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here you go YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell! Read the whole thread before you make up your mind 😉

Re: Best AGP graphics card for Windows XP?

Posted on 2014-10-20, 05:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am in fact wanting to play Splinter Cell. That's why I am aiming towards the FX. The 4760 looks good too. I have 2 spare slots open + the AGP one. But another reason I want the FX because I don't like AMDs drivers much. Then you should be wanting a Ti 4x00 card, it has a special shadow casting …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-10-20, 05:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got around to strip and thoroughly clean these two cases I found at flea markets months ago, on which I intend to build a 386DX-33 and a 486DX4-100 VLB based systems. Which system should go in each case? The one on the right seems more '386-y' to me but what do you guys think? :happy: Great …

Re: Best AGP graphics card for Windows XP?

Posted on 2014-10-20, 03:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Radeon 9800Pro/XT and FX5950 get my vote. What system do you have? Does the CPU have enough power for the best AGP cards?

Re: Senrew's Parts Giveaway

Posted on 2014-10-18, 17:11

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hey guys, did any of you actually receive what Senrew offered here? Because I've got quite an unleasant situation, I sent him $60 to cover the shipping in August. I contacted him on September, 13 and asked if he shipped the stuff and he said, he forgot, but was going to. I asked him for moneyback 10 …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-10-18, 02:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are you doing to me? Now I want to play it all over again :( I just wish I had a machine to run it, the most powerful I have ATM is Athlon 3200+... How do you deal with it? For a main machine, once you go multicore you never go back. Things just don't run smoothly on single core processors …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-18, 02:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The media bus is no more than the standard PCI bus with an extended slot behind it like Vesa local bus.. It was not like VESA. Media bus is two separate buses, PCI and shrinked ISA, located to work in a single slot. If VLB was a step forward from ISA, Mediabus is a step backward from PCI. …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 09:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a few minutes ago I completed Gothic II:Night of the Raven. I'm actually pretty impressed. Took me a exactly month (I have other stuff to do). As a kid I remember how hard it was to play vanilla Gothic II, and this time it was exactly the difficulty I need, even though the expansion makes the …

Re: Anouther dual Tualatin machine.

Posted on 2014-10-16, 02:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

2fort5r wrote: Chrome recently dropped support for PIII machines. No more Chrome? Now Soviet Conscript will have to throw out this PC 🙁

Re: Hello!

Posted on 2014-10-16, 02:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

Welcome, dude! Make yourself comfortable 😀

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