Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-11-24, 13:31

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Super worried? Really? Half Life, the 1998 game from back when even SGI workstations didn't use dual-core and no CPU went beyond 500 Mhz? Or Half Life 2 from the Athlon XP/Pentium 4 singlecore era when Geforce 8600 didn't exist ? Haha. Yeah not sure what he was thinking. There's alot of "smaller" …

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Re: If the world had to live with a single generation of PC, how far back could we go?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 03:54

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It only takes a corporation to do so, not the government. People are lazy. The increasing invasions of privacy we receive today is primarily due to advertising, not because of some malicious intent. If I have a product I want everyone to buy, I want that product to be known, so I have to advertise. …

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Re: If the world had to live with a single generation of PC, how far back could we go?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 03:34

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It would take equipment in the millions, a lot of expertise, a lot of luck and and a long, long time to discover such a backdoor. You're giving the government too much credit. People are lazy, including those who work for the government. And in fact the best way to get data on people information …

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Re: Advice on upgrading a socket A platform.

Posted on 2014-11-20, 02:52

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*edit* Nevermind I didn't see you say it came with a single core. Going to keep my original post in place though *edit* So you upgraded socket A by buying a socket 939 and a single core?? You make this baby Core 2 Duo sad. He's looking for a good home . :blah: Why didn't you go with 775 and a Core2 …

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Re: Upgrading a 2008 machine

Posted on 2014-11-19, 23:52

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What you should do is just get a graphics card and say an SSD. That machine probably supports SATA2, which has a theoretical limit of around ~330MB/sec, so it's still SSD worthy. That way if you do decide to do a full on upgrade you can just swap the SSD/GPU parts over to your new machine. 6GB of …

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Re: Upgrading a 2008 machine

Posted on 2014-11-19, 21:21

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Re: Upgrading a 2008 machine

Posted on 2014-11-19, 21:21

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What you should do is just get a graphics card and say an SSD. That machine probably supports SATA2, which has a theoretical limit of around ~330MB/sec, so it's still SSD worthy. That way if you do decide to do a full on upgrade you can just swap the SSD/GPU parts over to your new machine. 6GB of …

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-15, 20:07

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Well if we go by number of years using it, probably Core2. I really like my Core2Duo, but I felt the need to finally upgrade it in my main machine, so I decided maybe I'd like 2 Core2Duo's working together, aka my "new" Core2Quad Q6600. He's been a great chap and is working nicely. :lol: My original …

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-14, 21:20

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Nice vid smeeze, I like the idea of piping youtube-dl's output into mplayer. If you download and output straight to a file and read it from there is the framerate better or about the same?

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Re: If the world had to live with a single generation of PC, how far back could we go?

Posted on 2014-11-14, 04:01

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And instead of skype people could use AIM :p . Hell, I STILL use winamp, one of the best software of all time IMO.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-11-13, 01:37

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The specs of my every day work horse: Core 2 Quad Q6600 4GB DDR2 800 Radeon HD 4800 series 1TB Western Digital Blue Windows 8.1 (I got it when it first came out for $15, it was that or a pirated version of XP / 7) It's an oldie but a goodie!

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Re: Maintanance and Cleaning your retro PC - Dust and Corrision Free

Posted on 2014-11-12, 22:53

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RacoonRider wrote: Moreover, a lot of my hardware was originally covered in some nasty fatty substance. flux residue?

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-11-12, 01:42

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Not to start a flame war, but I can't remember the last time Windows just crashed on me. Individual apps, yes but the OS doesn't blue screen all the time like it used to. That was a valid complaint in the 95/98/Me days, though. I like Macs as well but to say you can't get work done on a windows …

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Re: Good DURABLE backpack for techno stuff?

Posted on 2014-11-08, 02:42

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I don't know about jogging with it but I've had these: Bough this one in 2008 and used it all the way up to Dec 2012 before I deployed. No issues and nothing broken. JanSport Odyssey Backpack (Black) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ID491A/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Bought the …

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Good DURABLE backpack for techno stuff?

Posted on 2014-11-08, 01:36

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I have a make shift backpack that I think was originally a school bag. This poor thing has had the absolute SHIT abused out of it. It tries tearing at a seam but I sew it back together like Frankenstein. The straps have fallen off midway through my walks/jogs multiple times and I sew it back on and …

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Re: Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-03, 13:24

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RacoonRider wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1040720.JPG […] Show full quote Are you sure that's a copper core? I've had a few that look like that and upon closer examination the "copper" was actually just a dark stain to make it look copper.

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Re: some ram i bought for cheap.

Posted on 2014-11-01, 00:54

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1024MB sticks of PC133? That's pretty crazy

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Re: HP DC7900 SFF as an XP Gaming Box

Posted on 2014-10-27, 00:16

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What about Resident Evil 4 released for PC in 2007? DirectX 9.0c but I am not sure if there is a benchmark. maybe Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare I don't know about a benchmark, but I literally finished Resident Evil 4 a few weeks ago on my retro pc with its X800 128MB and it ran smooth as silk at …

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Re: HP DC7900 SFF as an XP Gaming Box

Posted on 2014-10-26, 23:59

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fyy is the x4 slot physically a x4 slot or just electrically? If it is a physically full length slot plug in an x16 video card and enjoy. If it is the physically shorter slot then you have two choices, cut the back side of the slot out or cut your card. I have cut a card before and it works rather …

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Re: HP DC7900 SFF as an XP Gaming Box

Posted on 2014-10-26, 23:45

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I'm kinda in the same position as you squareguy. My main components (cpu, ram) are there for my XP gaming box, but my video card ( X800 ) was just an extra I had. I mean it works out nicely, but it only has 128MB instead of 256MB vram like most X800s, so if I had a choice i'd probably go with …

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