Re: Laptops for DOS gaming

Posted on 2016-04-02, 16:14

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dell Inspiron 3000 M233MX - good screen for an old laptop. The crystal 4237b it comes with is not to shabby either. DOS drivers work flawlessly. It also has a small display witch shows remaining battery life, and all FN key combinations work in DOS w/o any drivers (volume, brightness and so on) This …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-31, 23:25

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That Commodore 116 is fairly rare and they are worth a few $$$. See http://www.plus4world.com/ I don't even know if the 116 works (it did ~8 years ago) and I had no means of testing it. I got it for free myself, I wasn't using it and I tough it would be better to gift it to someone who has some …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-31, 23:09

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by kanecvr

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Nice! I absolutely love MSI motherboards. Last week I bought this little guy for 67$ to go with a 3770k: http://i.imgur.com/GAwX4U0h.jpg But after a weekend of gaming on my FX 8320e / Asrock 970m pro3 / GTX 970, I reached the conclusion that I don't need a faster cpu/mobo in my desktop. At 4GHz it …

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Re: piii tualatin 1.4ghz vs athlon xp?

Posted on 2016-03-31, 17:28

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have KT333 boards that work fine with FSB166 CPU's (Shuttle AK35GT2/R for example) - as well as KT400 boards that work with FSB200 CPU's (Gigabyte GA-7VAXP).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-31, 16:50

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by kanecvr

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That's a really cool keychain 😁

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Re: Celeron, the good bad and ugly.

Posted on 2016-03-31, 15:41

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by kanecvr

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Just simply because I have no other choice :) My board has 66Mhz with Slot1. The maximum is 533 with Slot/370 Adapter, but I choose the fastest Slot-Celeron because of more cooling choices. But I have to admit, that the Celeron-433 is far better then the PII-333 and also much better then the K6-III …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-31, 14:57

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got some more stuff today: Leadtek WinFast 8800GTS 640MB - only reason I bought it is because it's made by leadtek, it works perfectly, it's never been reflowed / reballed and it was dirt cheap. I love Leadtek stuff. http://i.imgur.com/xcKX7oIl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Krip1TNl.jpg Socket A AMD761 …

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2016-03-30, 20:22

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by kanecvr

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I highly doubt that you can get two boxed V2 cards for 20 pounds. Most SLi kits sell for 60-100$ - and that's just the cards and the SLi cable.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-30, 20:12

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by kanecvr

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Power up -> power down cycles and or 4 short beeps mean - "System timer failure" or "Bent pins on motherboard" the latter can also mean the CPU is bad. Try checking and straightening the pins on the motherboard (some are clearly bent) and then retest it with the working i3 CPU - maybe you can at …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-30, 19:14

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by kanecvr

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Cool kit. Unfortunately I see bent pins. Maybe you could straighten them? LGA 1156 and LGA 1366 are on my "to buy" list - I'm hoping to get an 1156 kit soon enough, but I'm having trouble finding a working LGA1366 board. I've had two so far and sold them both like an idiot. One was a gigabyte with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-30, 19:04

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by kanecvr

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That looks fixable. I'd be a shame to toss them especially when you have the missing bits.

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Re: Pentium III Slot 1 - NIB

Posted on 2016-03-30, 15:49

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by kanecvr

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Who the FUCK just bought the two 1100 Socket 370 models that were 9.99? I was literally just about to press the buy button you lucky bastard. You have made a powerful enemy today, you do not realize the magnitude of the powers I posses... Ah, damn it, I can't be bothered, I was broke anyway so its …

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Re: AWE64 Platinum deluxe

Posted on 2016-03-29, 21:31

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At first glance it looks like a Vibra card.

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-29, 21:06

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by kanecvr

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Yeah, I rarely see them on sale, and when they're available they're pretty expensive. Hoping to catch one myself someday.

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-29, 17:54

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by kanecvr

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The list seems to be missing all MCA sound cards. Also I doubt that the Primax M16B/M16C is really so rare. And why is the Maxi Sound 64 Home Studio Pro rare? (and what about the non-Pro and Dynamic3D then?) Well, I know for a fact that the Roland LAPC-I is very rare and quite expensive when it …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 11:57

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by kanecvr

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I got mine stable enough for benchmarks and games at 350MHz @ 2.4 volts, and didn't want to push my luck any further. the best bet for tillamook is ali5 board with adjustable vio(many boards have vio fixed at 3.3 or 3.5), because ali5 has so superb sdram performance that disabling onboard cache has …

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-29, 11:55

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by kanecvr

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I've been looking for one for a while now, and frankly the only reason I managed to snag this one is pure luck. An acquaintance who also collects retro HW had it, and we occasionally trade stuff. Who else here on vogons has one of these (except for me and keropi)?

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-29, 09:42

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by kanecvr

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What about the Yamaha SoundEdge SW20-PC? It's the only one I've ever seen in person and I haven't seen any of them on ebay either (at least in the two years I've been browsing ebay for retro stuff).

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2016-03-27, 10:49

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by kanecvr

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The video card runs really cool (65-66c tops) but the cpu can go up to 84-85c when it turbos to 3.5ghz. It has two 2.5" drive bays an one m2 slot witch you theoretically can't use with the 2nd hdd installed, but you can get around that if you use a slim 2.5" ssd in said bay. I've had it since …

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Re: Athlon XP 3200+ reading as 3100+ on my Abit NF7 upon booting...

Posted on 2016-03-26, 23:26

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by kanecvr

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If it gets detected as a 3100+ it means that half of the cache is not working. I've encountered this issue before. There's a few possibilities. The CPU die might be chipped - this is however unlikely - if this was the case your machine would refuse to boot or even post. Another possibility is that …

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