Re: Better video card for this setup?
Posted on 2017-07-24, 02:50
How broken is it? I am one of those people who even take systems that have been left out in the rain.
Re: Adventure gamer wanting a do-it-all PC
Posted on 2017-07-24, 02:48
I recommend building a socket 7 system but you lose on some of the performance in late titles from around 2000 or so and it is likely to be expensive as some people out there with too much money pushed the prices up on Super Socket 7 boards. The reason is that you can tweak for slower speeds so …
Re: Better video card for this setup?
Posted on 2017-07-24, 00:02
FX5200/5500 are ok for dx7/8 era games but they are weak sauce and rather use a fancier and faster 4400 or 4600 Ti.
Re: High spec S.939 system
Posted on 2017-07-24, 00:01
Getting decent GTX 7900s is getting harder while 7800s still go for peanuts mainly because almost every single one left in existence only has 256mb (still have yet to find a 512mb 7800 gtx in the wild) but you can find the 7950 gx2 for around $40 to 50 shipped that is before Europe explodes the …
Re: Better video card for this setup?
Posted on 2017-07-23, 23:53
Safe bet is a GF3 Ti or a GF 4 Ti as anything faster is going to bottleneck much like my dual p3 rdram systems do with my 9800 xt and 7900 gs agp. If you decide to go with newer cards please don't use the uber low end cards like the fx 5200 that had countless millions of budget gamers regretting …
Re: Adventure gamer wanting a do-it-all PC
Posted on 2017-07-23, 23:49
I recommend building a socket 7 system but you lose on some of the performance in late titles from around 2000 or so and it is likely to be expensive as some people out there with too much money pushed the prices up on Super Socket 7 boards. The reason is that you can tweak for slower speeds so …
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-07-23, 22:33
Looks like Electromyne is selling stuff on eBay. Prices are high for 90% of things. 10% prices are ok to decent. But their international shipping is very reasonable (at least to US). Hercules GF2 Ultra http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hercules-3D-Prophet-II-Ultra-64MB-AGP-GeForce2-Ultra-VGA-Video-Graphics- …
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-07-23, 22:27
Looks like Electromyne is selling stuff on eBay. Prices are high for 90% of things. 10% prices are ok to decent. But their international shipping is very reasonable (at least to US). Hercules GF2 Ultra http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hercules-3D-Prophet-II-Ultra-64MB-AGP-GeForce2-Ultra-VGA-Video-Graphics- …
Re: Found a Unique 286, need a unique power supply for it
Posted on 2017-07-23, 01:23
Check for rot caps both on the board and the psu, a lot of us here have had tantalum caps go bad as well.
Re: How reliable compact flash is?
Posted on 2017-07-21, 16:56
CF cards are fine provided that you don't go out of your away to abuse them or use up almost all the space, there are some SLC based models though I do wish that the adapters didn't cripple the performance to ata 33.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-07-20, 01:02
Decided to oven bake some cards as it is summer and popped some rot caps on a Ti 4400, had to bake a Ti 500 as well because a previous owner ran it without a fan till it failed...
Re: Pentium 4 with ISA
Posted on 2017-07-15, 17:28
The way I feel about pentium 4 and ISA is pretty pointless at least for most games, expensive so most people don't get the opportunity.
Re: Need help for finding manual and drivers for an amazing retro motherboard..
Posted on 2017-07-15, 17:25
Actually that board is by Intel and it was often sold to oems as well normal retail so finding at that you need is super easy plus with that board you can do a three in one system with great ease plus with the onboard dos compatible audio you won't need a second mortgage for choice ISA soundcards at …
Re: Old junk stores anywhere in Canada?
Posted on 2017-07-12, 13:30
Supplies for me in my state (southern US) have dried up a couple of years ago and like me your only option might be eBay but you already know those Canadian shipping prices are highway robbery.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-07-12, 13:11
That Electromyne shit worries the hell out of me. I'm afraid that's site is the beginning of commercialized overpriced retro computing. They want nearly £100 for $40 dollar cards like V3 3000s. The idea for a site like that (I thought) should be to have the lowest prices on the net for that stuff. …
Re: cooling of a not so retro gpu
Posted on 2017-07-11, 17:55
Had this happen to one of my cards and it is usually the result of a cold joint or a vrm issue but cards of this grade are so easy to cool. You can out just about anything on that card and it will get the job done, want a little retro in the mix consider a Zalman VF900 as it is all copper though the …
Re: PCI-X graphics, anyone?
Posted on 2017-07-10, 20:55
Matrox did at one point tried to market the Parhelia as a gaming card but they were very late to getting the card on the market and worse it was weak let alone the drivers. They could have done ok with it had they made it on a smaller process and scaled up the overall design but it still would have …
Re: Does V2 Sli just plain not work on Windows 2000?
Posted on 2017-07-10, 20:49
Test each card on their own as they can and do go bad sadly, also check the cable and connectors for defects.
Re: The Notorious Rage Fury MAXX
Posted on 2017-07-10, 20:48
Come to think of it this is one shining example of graphics cards that have came out that made their owners Rage when they realized that they should have saved their money for a little longer and gotten something much nicer. Cool to have but my money goes after other things before prices balloon …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-07-10, 01:23
Brought back a Dell Latitude D830 back from the dead so to speak after sitting for years as a retro xp laptop only to find that the speakers have dry rotted 🙁 Going to scrounge some spares but anyway it is nice to tinker around with.
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