Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-12, 03:01

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in Marvin \ System Specs

http://imageshack.us/a/img153/2835/20130612105028.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img823/6126/20130612104948.jpg Metal Gear :P http://imageshack.us/a/img89/8387/20130612104904ds.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img843/4057/20130612104806.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img43/7955/20130612104715.jpg http:// …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2013-06-10, 15:20

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5662/20130610231817.jpg Waiting for new Desk Main PC Core i7 4770K 4GHZ 16GB DDR3 2133MHZ 2x Geforce GTX780 SLI OC Soundblaster ZXR PCIe Gigabyte Z87 Quad SLI/Xfire WIndows 8 Pro X64 4x 3TB WD GREEN for Storage 2x 2TB WD Black for Games RAID 0 2x 120GB SSD Intel …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2013-06-10, 14:39

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in Marvin \ System Specs

http://imageshack.us/a/img211/1364/20130610222301.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img443/9696/20130610222246.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img809/1610/20130610222232.jpg 2x Intel Pentium III 800 MHZ 512MB SDRAM PC133 Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB AGP (Omega Drivers) 2x 3DFX Voodoo 2 12MB PCI SLI (TBA from …

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-10, 13:53

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Got it free and its the only PIII board i have right now! 🙁

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-04, 06:29

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Ebay and local area dumps! are loot heaven for PC collectors if you can get there before it rains or they get flatten!

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-04, 06:25

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I do have an old old old rig on the wardrobe its Intel 486 DX4 100MHZ 64MB EDO 66MHZ 1GB WD caviar IDE 2x 300MB IDE Maxor HDDs ISA Addon card for CD-ROM Creative CD-ROM MASTER IDE Diamond stealth 3D 2000 PRO 4MB PCI Soundblaster Pro AWE 32 2MB ISA ISA Modem 33.6K + 10mbps Eathernet Windows 98SE …

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-04, 06:15

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Right now i am testing the following parts from storage S3 Trio64V2 PCI 4mb (WORKS) S3 Trio2D/3D PCI 2mb ( Acting funny @ 24BIT Colour) S3 Virge DX/GX PCI 4MB (2D Windows GUI errors Posable driver prob) ATI Rage IIc 4MB (Works Great with Vesa DOS Drivers) ATI Rage XL 16MB ( Works only in AGP2x or …

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Re: Semi-modern all-in-one 440BX machine

Posted on 2013-06-04, 06:02

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I have 2x Intel Pentium III 800MHZ 256KB L2 100FSB ASUS Duel slot 1 Intel Chipset 440i 2x 16GB CF (Flash Memory) IDE Adaptor 90mb/s @ UDMA 2 Sony 16x DVD-ROM IDE 4x 128MB PC133 Kingston Nvidia Geforce 4 TI 4200 64MB AGP2x + 2x PCI Voodoo 2 12MB SLI Soundblaster 16 ISA + Yamaha Midi OPL3+ Windows …

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Re: Best cpu/mobo chipsets of each era/history trivia

Posted on 2013-06-04, 05:56

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used 486 DX4 100MHZ - Intel Penium 233MMX - AMD K6-3 550MHZ - Penium III 800EB - AMD AthlonXP Barton 3200+ - AMD AthlonX2 6000+ - Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping - Core i7 2600K - Next week its Core i7 4770K and i foudn them to be the best CPUs i have used in there times!

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-06-04, 05:43

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by Xolares

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I am keeping 98SE on Single Core and waiting for the Asus Kill card for the Slot 1 so i can move the CPU to another rig and run on 1! And i did some testing and got Descent 2 Vertigo DOS to run in an Emulated S3 VirgeDX 4MB AKA 3D Stealth 2000 PRO Via VESA DOS Driver and i can even just use a single …

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-31, 07:24

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I am not 100% sure about it since i have yet to test it! But i dont think i can use it for video.

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-31, 04:06

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Oh here are some pics of some stuff over the past 2 months of testing and modding and the rest is in the Shed in Dry sealed plastic boxes till i get around to them In the pics are some random parts i have in my room from CPUS Durons to Xeon PIIIs and Ram from PC100 to DDR2 and GPUS from S3 Trio/ …

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-31, 03:18

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by Xolares

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I am Spending today Testing alot of parts! But ill get some for you

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Re: help getting soundcard (ES1869) working windows 98SE

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:30

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by Xolares

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I used for generic setup is to add "SETBLASTER=" and thats all you need for universal support and no need to add ports and stuff but you will need to use generic Midi/Wave blaster in setup on other games!

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Re: Diablo graphices??? WTH

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:26

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TO get them to work just Disable and goto Classic theme and it will work!

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:20

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by Xolares

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Or i can get a Socket 370 mobo i can use the Intel Pentium III 1GHZ 512KB L2 133BUS or a Super socket 7 for my AMD K6-III 550MHZ

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Re: Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:19

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by Xolares

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True in a way but since i dont have any other Slot 1 mobos its fine and less running on the mobo the better 98SE will be in terms of speed and the 2nd CPU only works in windows 2000

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Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 or ATI Rage 128?

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:16

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This message maybe late but the Geforce 256/2 Vesa Generic drivers work and the ones that come with CDs of Shadow Warrior and BLOOD! But i am using right now a Geforce4/Voodoo 2 setup and other is Voodoo 5

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Hello all and this is my Classic rig

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:12

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by Xolares

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in Marvin \ System Specs

2x Intel Pentium III 800MHZ 256KB L2 100FSB ASUS Duel slot 1 Intel Chipset 2x 16GB CF (Flash Memory) IDE Adaptor 90mb/s @ UDMA 2 Sony 16x DVD-ROM IDE 4x 128MB PC133 Kingston Nvidia Geforce 4 TI 4200 64MB AGP2x + 2x PCI Voodoo 2 12MB SLI Soundblaster 16 ISA + Yamaha Midi OPL3+ Windows 98SE Custom …

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