Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-02, 16:58

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by BSA Starfire

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Oh neat, I didn't know they had the extra cache, brings them up to Willamette standards, plus cooler on the Northwood core. I know my old P4 Samsung V25 laptop was an oven, that had a northwood P4, lap was not an option, fireproof table was a better choice! 🤣

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Trident 3D Image975 & Matrox G100 Productiva

Posted on 2015-06-02, 16:53

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by BSA Starfire

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Hi folks, I got the card as part of a bundle of others from ebay for peanuts, its a Trident 3D Image 9750 4Mb AGP card. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=17341&start=7680 Not a lot of information online about this particular chip apart from the always fascinating Vintage3D review. Anyhow, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-02, 15:36

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by BSA Starfire

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Packard Bell Versa E400 - perhaps one of the nicest examples left in existence. Everything works bar the main battery, it runs quietly and coolly for a 1.5 GHz Northwood Celeron. Screen is in very good shape, so is everything else, and there are only a few cosmetic issues. http://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-21, 07:34

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by BSA Starfire

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got some older video cards in the post yesterday, bought from ebay in a bundle for a song. Also included was an ASUS FX5200 not in the pics as i put it into "project dustbin" for testing.

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Re: Drivers/manuals for a Medion 9322c?

Posted on 2015-05-21, 07:07

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by BSA Starfire

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http://www.hw-museum.cz/data/vga/pic/big/Medi … ce4_MX460_F.jpg I have one of these Medion GF4mx 460 cards, has the odd audio type connector, always wondered about it.

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Re: Types of games that age well

Posted on 2015-05-21, 07:01

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by BSA Starfire

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I agree on Tyrian and the pinball games as well. I also consider the old point and click adventures like King quest 7, Kyrandia-hand of fate, Indiana atlantis etc still holding up well today. As far as console games go, I'd say the Dreamcast has held up very well.

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-05-06, 08:37

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by BSA Starfire

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Couple of more runs on "project dustbin" the Celeron D 2.4 and VIAPM266 machine I posted above with the TNT2 M64. This time with a Matrox G450 PCI 32mb card & then a Creative Labs Geforce 2Ti 64mb AGP. The matrox was staggeringly slow, often not making 1fps. In case you can't be bothered to scroll …

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Re: Learning the hard way isn't fun. Big mistake I purchased x2

Posted on 2015-04-27, 06:07

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by BSA Starfire

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Think I might have found the cache module for your first board last week, came in a bag of random ram sticks i got along with a load of other old bits last weekend. http://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=17671&sid=1d7aaf1d3d2bff2c56fe23c66e79e035 http://www.vogons.org/download/file.php …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2015-04-25, 15:53

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by BSA Starfire

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AMD Sempron 2800+(thououghbred B), ViA KM400 board, 1 GB DDR 266, win xp sp3, SiS 315E graphics.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-19, 09:44

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by BSA Starfire

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Car boot sale this morning provided a ton of old PC bits for peanuts. First thing i found was a box of assorted drives and other bits for £2, 3 PATA CD writers, 1 36x Samsung CD-rom, 3 PATA IDE HD's, 40gb,10gb & 3.5gb, brand new floppy drive, SiS 6326 4mb PCI VGA card, big bag of RAM, assorted 72 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-04-19, 09:26

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by BSA Starfire

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My completely unexplainable desire to build a machine from all the left over bits of junk that any sane person would have put in the bin!Amazingly it's the first time I have gotten this MSI VIA PM266 board to run stably, match junk with junk for the win? lol Anyway it has been clumping along happily …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-04-06, 14:38

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by BSA Starfire

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Core 2 quad Q6600 stock speed(2.4ghz), 2 gig ram, Geforce GTX260 SP216, Win 7 64bit. 32476 3D marks.

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Re: What is your favorite vintage Video Card?

Posted on 2015-04-06, 13:29

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by BSA Starfire

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Love my voodoo 5 5500 AGP, Voodoo 3's are diamonds too. Great 2D and such individual looking 3D. Always had a soft spot for the TNT & TNT2 cards too, even the M64, card quality can vary massively though, always found the creative labs cards very good. Going for the total underdog here, but I am …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-27, 16:35

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by BSA Starfire

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Nice!!! judging by the last few posts it's Matrox and PowerVR day! 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-27, 16:10

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by BSA Starfire

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Got a couple of boxed video cards today, nice Hercules Kyro and also a Matrox G100 in a Savage 4 box! lol http://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=17389&sid=970a0a4418b8d6c2a98dc3e23265f0c3 http://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=17390&sid=970a0a4418b8d6c2a98dc3e23265f0c3 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-03-27, 15:57

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by BSA Starfire

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Even better when I remember to turn off BOINC! 🤣

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-03-27, 14:56

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by BSA Starfire

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Added a geforce 6800 to the above Pentium M system, quite the improvement!

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2015-03-22, 06:07

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by BSA Starfire

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Bought a few classics off GOG today, Kyrandia 2- Hand of fate, Wing Commander III & megarace 1 &2. 😀

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2015-03-20, 07:12

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by BSA Starfire

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Escom Pentium 100mhz, 8 Mb RAM, Trident TGUI9440 1Mb VGA, 2.1 gb HD, Win95 OSR2: Time for 1 million, 30m43.100s Compaq Presario 2232, Cyrix MediaGX 133mhz, 30mb RAM, 540mb HD, Win95 OSR2: Time for 1 million, 24m06.965s

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Re: Where do you find your retro gear?

Posted on 2015-03-19, 06:39

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by BSA Starfire

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Car boot sales for me mostly, found some real treasure over last year or so, course it's always a gamble if it works but at the prices I am prepared to pay...........

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