Re: Good Video card for 300 watts
Posted on 2015-05-07, 07:11
Outdated it is. Some sort of low-end nowadays, but still waaay better than integrated intel Gxx
Re: Can anyone recommend a trusted eBay seller for genuine Japanese branded CR2032 coil batteries?
Posted on 2015-05-07, 07:08
Have you tried the ones from Ikea? In Russia Ikea sells very impressive batteries (I can only speak for 2032, AAA and AA types). Their single AAA battery in my mp3 player works twice as much as ones branded Duracell or Panasonic that are thrice as expensive. Yeah, also in Greece. These yellow AA …
Re: Can anyone recommend a trusted eBay seller for genuine Japanese branded CR2032 coil batteries?
Posted on 2015-05-06, 13:19
Why would someone need a Japanese CR2032? For usage on PCs that drain very little current anyway, no-name ultra cheap ones are perfectly fine. On my digital weight scale, they last about half of the good ones, but they also cost less than half than the good, branded ones, so it's again fine. 😀
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2015-05-04, 17:45
Great! 😁
Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread
Posted on 2015-05-04, 08:39
On my HP w2448hc 24" 1920x1200 monitor, I have the aspect ratio and 1:1 options available. It can even do 1600x1200 4:3 for best high-end non-wide gaming. They work everywhere. In DOS, BIOS, old Windows etc. It even has a built-in light sensor which is very well calibrated and auto-adjusts the …
Re: New P4 system.
Posted on 2015-05-04, 07:52
obobskivich wrote: I've personally never tried to replicate Tom's test by removing the sink, I've had. On a Celeron 1.7GHz (Williamette P4 core with half L2 cache). It did shut down and the CPU survived.
Re: starting a tech blog worth the time?
Posted on 2015-04-24, 10:53
A personal blog doesn't have to be a novel and grammatically perfect. Just simple formatting rules and some reads by a friend or two in order to spot any big mistakes you can't. :) I'm Greek and technically don't have a high degree in English, yet I think I can write an easily readable text if I pay …
Re: starting a tech blog worth the time?
Posted on 2015-04-24, 09:43
nemail wrote: and I still haven't made a final decision whether I'll blog in english or german. English will give you a waaaay larger audience.
Re: WinArchiver Virtual Drive – another Win98 ISO mounter?
Posted on 2015-04-23, 10:24
i remember having bluescreen issues at win9x startup with DT 3.47, This happens when you don't dimount an image from a removable device and when Daemon Tools loads at startup, tries to mount it again and doesn't find it. Daemon tools is super stable if your behavior against it is gentle. And …
Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-22, 21:31
Isn't EAX available in XP and also in 2000-2005 games that run natively in XP? If it is, then I see no reason to include this in the 2nd setup. I'll probably put the CT3670 as suggested, after some trial & testing sessions, when I have time to do them actually. 😀
Re: WinArchiver Virtual Drive – another Win98 ISO mounter?
Posted on 2015-04-22, 20:11
Daemon Tools 3.47 user on my 9x builds. Everything works, as long as you have the source of the ISO mounted (eg. don't remove a USB stick that has a mounted iso inside).
Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-22, 20:09
I hadn't thought of putting 2 cards. May also try that. If I go PCI-only, I'll also go tualatin, i815, much newer & ordinary. Less nostalgia. ;) I actually think that if I put the live I'll slow down the whole system a little, by taking some PCI bandwidth. Does the ISA slot slow down the system as …
Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-21, 13:53
Thanks for your answer. I have all of them, so it's not a matter of cost or rareness anyway. So it's just a matter of trial and error. On the faster PC I don't think I'm going to use pure dos. The later dos games that benefited from a faster than PMMX processor will run just fine under a DOS window, …
Re: Does the VGA cable matter?
Posted on 2015-04-21, 06:34
The problem is: What can you do if your CRT has an embedded vga cable and it starts to show artifacts on screen due to year passing by?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-04-20, 14:15
Skyscraper wrote: More old but not really retro stuff. […] Show full quote More old but not really retro stuff. Boxed 8800 GTX Holy mother of cow I had bought this brand new back then. 600 euros!
Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-20, 14:01
Is there any practical advantage of having the extra 2MB "RAM" on the SB32? I think I'll stick to SB Pro 2 for the older setup for nostalgia reasons, but for the second one I'm totally confused 😕 😕
Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-19, 19:17
I would probably not use SB's IDE on those machines, so it's not that relevant. I read that Creative's PCI implementation on the Live! series is quite demanding. I don't want precious PCI bandwidth (for the voodoo2) to be consumed on the soundcard. Is that true or the problems only exist on VIA …
Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!
Posted on 2015-04-19, 18:47
Hello folks! I know there are MANY topics around the title's question, and I've read the majority of them. But I want your opinion on selecting the right one for my needs. Setup 1 - Purpose: DOS/Win 3.1, old days gaming CPU: Pentium MMX 166Mhz (can downclock to 110Mhz and disable caches for 386/486 …
Re: Socket 775 - obsolete for modern games/SW or not?
Posted on 2015-04-16, 06:17
I want to investigate what happens when you add high speed DDR3 memory to the mix so I bought a Gigabyte P35 Combo board. Just FYI, such boards are known to work with DDR3 only with DDR2 already installed. I've not seen a single regular desktop board that can work with both types of ram …
Re: 300W Heroichi PSU: worth refurbishing?
Posted on 2015-04-15, 13:30
Φανος Ηλεκτρονικα doesn't send orders country-wide?
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