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Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS CASE!!! :D

Posted on 2015-05-05, 13:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm still on the hunt for a few parts for myself, and I'm helping my friends do some hunting too so keep this thread bookmarked, if I come across one of those cases while I'm searching, this will be the first place I go. and just to make sure, it's an AT case, not an ATX right? Thanks very much - …

Re: Thermal compound for retro CPUs

Posted on 2015-05-05, 13:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually read a review where such exotic thermal interfaces as bubble gum, tooth paste and condoms were included among AS5 and mates. There are some lists of thermal compounds around internet that are infamous for listing butter, chocolate, oil, mayonnaise and others. There was even an extended …

Re: Thermal compound for retro CPUs

Posted on 2015-05-05, 01:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Once I used nivea and it worked 😐

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2015-05-04, 15:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Re: Thermal compound for retro CPUs

Posted on 2015-05-04, 14:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whenever I'm out of thermal I just go to the store on my street and ask for the cheapest stuff they have. If it's not for cpu I just use 3M doubleface tape

Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-04, 14:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am wondering if the P4 motherboards/CPUs are worth holding into for another 20 years in hopes of selling them for some value. Do you think 20 years is enough? 30 years? Or was the P4 era so expansive that there will always be hardware from this period kicking around? Life is what happens while …

Re: Do you think you have too many computers?

Posted on 2015-05-04, 14:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Way too many, but always looking for more. Help.

Re: Do you own any CRT monitors for your retro stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-03, 16:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Space constraints, yep. That is the only reason. I prefer the CRT image and I also love the way they look, also like old pc speakers design. - drooling over the 9" monitor -

Re: Do you own any CRT monitors for your retro stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-02, 15:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gonna sell them soon :-( IBM 14" (13" visible) fantastic for ms-dos and it can manage 1024*768 but I never use that res. No-name 1991 SVGA that emulates green and amber monochrome. A 15" syncmaster as a backup for the ms-dos machine. Some Dell shadow mask 17" that I bought last month just because it …

Re: 533mhz Performance not matching historical benchmarks

Posted on 2015-05-02, 14:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Geforce2MX really sucks with forceware 8x, even if with 440BX. And being PCI you are probably looking at tnt2 performance.

Re: Does the VGA cable matter?

Posted on 2015-04-25, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

(...) Good thing is however, that once you "need" higher resolution, you usually got a digital interface anyway. Up to Voodoo 3 or so, I like to play at 1024 x 768. A good compromise between image quality and performance. Same here :-) My personal experience is, particularly with TFT above 19", you …

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2015-04-23, 21:26

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

🤣 Stiletto wrote: RIP Mario... 🙁

Re: starting a tech blog worth the time?

Posted on 2015-04-22, 23:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

Well, do you have a purpose? edit: for instance "for your own enjoyment". That will be a good enough purpose IMO 😀

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2015-04-19, 21:16

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I regret to inform you that the win98 drivers for the geforce2go do not support external monitor. I gave up that idea a year back when I realized I would not care to play games outside the native resolution of the TFT, which is 1600x1200. Also I recall a few games not compatible with this mobile …

Postal 2 for cheap

Posted on 2015-04-18, 20:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just thought you'd like to know postal 2 is for 0.99 at steam

Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-16, 23:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I see this Part 1 as an introduction. Wait until he starts actually building the thing and runs into some minor quirks, then maybe we can all welcome a new member.

Re: Reccomend me the best oldest cd burning software for sub-500mhz PCs

Posted on 2015-04-16, 13:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

In win98 I used Nero Burning Rom with 440BX Pentium II 350MHz, 64MB RAM and a x2 Philips Burner, never had any issue unless I tried on-the-fly, which was dumb with such specs. I too can recommend x16 if using new media.

Re: What's a good tdp vs performance CPU?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 23:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is always the QuieTrack series from Asus, that's what I used to have. It works. Silently.

Re: What's a good tdp vs performance CPU?

Posted on 2015-04-12, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was researching for a new build and remembered my "silent pc" phase back in the early 2000's. Started browsing for this and ended up reading about tdp. Actually I'm pretty happy with a 45W tdp nowadays, but still I was curious about your opinion. I became amazed with some designs like the i7 4610y …

What's a good tdp vs performance CPU?

Posted on 2015-04-11, 21:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is a good tdp vs performance cpu these days? Edit: and in the 90's?

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