Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-14, 10:56

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by liqmat

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After a couple of weeks restoring and upgrading a Gateway 450 system I turned it on today and the 440BX mobo flashed and smoked. Really sucks. Brand new and fairly high end Corsair SF450 450w SFX PSU so I don't think it was that and it had turned on at least 10 times with that PSU before this …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-14, 03:53

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by liqmat

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After a couple of weeks restoring and upgrading a Gateway 450 system I turned it on today and the 440BX mobo flashed and smoked. Really sucks. Brand new and fairly high end Corsair SF450 450w SFX PSU so I don't think it was that and it had turned on at least 10 times with that PSU before this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-13, 12:33

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by liqmat

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3$ on local flea market . Can't test it as fas as voltage in my country is 220v. Need 220v->120v converter. The 3DO.... Oh God *throws up* Worst console ever :lol: Maybe so, but it had the best version of the PC classic game Stellar 7 (Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge) and luckily a PC can image 3DO …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-12, 16:19

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by liqmat

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In the home stretch of restoring and upgrading a Gateway 450. To those who benchmark a bit let me ask you if these are normal numbers. System now is: 440BX Mobo AGP 2x 100 FSB P-III 850/256/100 512MB RAM FX5900 128MB Corsair 450W SFX PSU Windows 98SE 3DMark2001 default settings = 6200 GPU Temps max …

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

Posted on 2017-08-11, 16:53

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I am pricing this so high because I cannot find a specific value for it anywhere. Ooookaaaay.... I found a specific value in a few seconds: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Simpsons-Barts-house-of-weirdness-ms-Dos-tandy-complete-very-nice-/263103772402?epid=170225855&hash=item3d4234f6f2:g:5OEAAOSwt7hZdQSo …

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Re: GPU Benchmarking. What to use for older systems?

Posted on 2017-08-11, 03:29

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by liqmat

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jade Falcon wrote: Not havei g any problems with 3DM05 on my end dexvx is right. I missed the full version key that was right underneath the download on the website even though it was in big black bold type. Works great now. Silly me.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-11, 01:05

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by liqmat

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Yeah a 1950 seems at place in a early 775 or late 939 setup. But a higher end 775/am2 system is needed to max it out. Anyway find got a fx-60 and ocz Fatal1ty psu to go with my abit Fatal1ty motherboard. Yeah, I finally got the small system I am restoring (AMD 5200+, 3GB) up and running with the …

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Re: GPU Benchmarking. What to use for older systems?

Posted on 2017-08-10, 22:43

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dexvx wrote: What's broken about 3DMark05? I run it just fine on my Win XP system. For me, the free version will not allow me to post a score and it being online only I am not having much luck.

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GPU Benchmarking. What to use for older systems?

Posted on 2017-08-10, 21:53

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by liqmat

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What are you guys using to benchmark your old machines specifically your GPUs? I have been out of the benchmark arena for awhile and I noticed 3DMark05 is completely broken now. Online only and if your are online it still wont submit the score probably because the servers are not there anymore. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-10, 16:46

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VFX-1 Forte Headgear Helmet (boxed)... unfortunately box is in poor condition. Ok. That's cool. Those were hard to find back in the day and way ahead of the whole VR craze going on today. Yours looks to be in mint condition. One of the great action DOS games that directly supports the VFX-1 set is …

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Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-08-10, 16:19

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by liqmat

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I don't keep up with the C64 world, but I wonder if some of the ICs (at least the proprietary ones) should be heatsinked. Maybe even some mild fan cooling would be justified to keep these machines healthy, but I understand nobody would want to hack up the case. Interesting you say that. The C64s I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-10, 02:21

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by liqmat

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Looks fantastic. I was soaping up my Gateway 450 plastic panels today as well. Bleach for the ink spots. Some ink is so ingrained into the white plastic I can't get it to even fade, but all the plastics look much better regardless. ... Magic erasers! or use a toothbrush and a baking soda paste. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-10, 02:10

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Tearing down a keyboard and cleaning every part in hot soapy water is really therapeutic. http://i.imgur.com/hfgf9Ggm.jpg SO MUCH BETTER. Looks fantastic. I was soaping up my Gateway 450 plastic panels today as well. Bleach for the ink spots. Some ink is so ingrained into the white plastic I can't …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-09, 16:05

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luckybob wrote: Tore open a Macintosh Plus i got from Craigslist. did some initial troubleshooting and made a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLzCD5YUmQ As usual LB, interesting video and as always not overproduced and honest. Looking forward to seeing your clone Model 80 and this come to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-08, 21:54

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by liqmat

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That exposed TIM on your X1950 AGP is perfectly normal, I have no clue why it's there (to spread the temperature evenly across the chip, maybe?). These cards were native PCI-E and that chip does the PCI-E -> AGP conversion. I've had HD3850 512MB DDR3 AGP and it also had that chip with a thermal pad …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-08, 21:50

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Picked up a new old stock Diamond Viper/ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP for $38. Pretty happy about the price since it's new and I have heard these outperform the Nvidia 7800GS AGP cards. On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas? front. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-08, 14:49

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On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas? That's a thermal pad covering the AGP-to-PCIe bridge chip. It's normal; the various AGP versions of the X1xxx series and newer tend to have these. Thanks. I am mostly an NVidia user so this just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-08, 02:38

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by liqmat

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up a new old stock Diamond Viper/ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP for $38. Pretty happy about the price since it's new and I have heard these outperform the Nvidia 7800GS AGP cards. On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas? front.jpg …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2017-08-07, 00:45

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Mobil 1 Rally Championship 2000 freature level 10.1 Graphic cards (adapters to use): Intel HD Graphic 3000 - WORK NVIDIA Geforce GT540M - ERROR http://i.snag.gy/PLtP7.jpg Why? This game runs natively in Windows 7 64 without the need for dgVoodoo2. You should also have the final patch version 6 …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-08-06, 20:17

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I saved a Mattel Aquarius system from being recycled. I have no idea what this thing is. http://i.imgur.com/rXPE9Zal.jpg Everything seems to work, I don't know how to use the printer but it powers on and feeds paper. I played(?) a few minutes of Utopia with my son, I have no idea what we actually …

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