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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-03, 05:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just nabbed this. Never seen one of these before, and I can't find any pictures of the card or the box online anywhere other than an old amazon.ca listing. Going by the pictures and feature set, I'm thinking it's a MediaVision Thunderboard variant. The real struggle will be to not open it play with …

Re: Reasons to keep a late 2012 iMac?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 04:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks guys! I guess I should have worded my question as... what would someone NEED a 2012 Mac for if they already have faster PCs. It seems that almost everything I could do with it can be done with a PC that is worth a lot less and is easier to maintain... and, well... I already have Sandy\Ivy era …

Re: Reasons to keep a late 2012 iMac?

Posted on 2021-02-01, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you can get a good price for it sounds like your better off selling it and using the money to get a mac laptop that will take less space or a Mac Pro tower that you can upgrade as you wish. That's probably what I'll do. Hopefully someone locally will be interested in it. I don't want to try to …

Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)

Posted on 2021-01-31, 06:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Most 7600GT will most likely refuse to work without external power. But some non-reference designs might be too "dumb" for that. For example, another version of Inno3D 7600GT, but with external connector. I'm glad I was never unfortunate enough to run into a configuration that tried to pull all …

Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-31, 06:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To be totally honest, I don't think any of those choices are ones that I have seen recommended, nor are they ones I would use in builds for those operating systems. I have no experience with OS\2 and little experience with NT, but for DOS, 3.1, 95 and 98, I would use vastly different hardware. It …

Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)

Posted on 2021-01-31, 06:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'd wonder what the side effects are. More load on AGP and ATX connector. I never bothered trying to run a card without the external power connected. I know modern cards will either not work or will go into "limp" mode and simply refuse to run at full power. Seems odd if older cards just attempted …

Re: What should I know about building my first ever Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC?

Posted on 2021-01-31, 06:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do people use SSD's on Win98 now? I thought the better solution was a CF card with IDE adapter. Or at least a mechanical with SATA/IDE adapter. Yes, even Windows 98 benefits from the responsiveness of an SSD. CF cards work fine for most things, but larger ones are super hard to find and an SSD will …

Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN + 2x 1.26ghz Tualatins = flakiness

Posted on 2021-01-31, 02:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting. Any idea what Quantum 3D product these boards would have been used in? No idea. I have a couple of Graphite arcade systems, but they are much smaller and a bit older. If Q3D made high end workstations or simulators, that's likely where these were used. Dual Tualatin PIIIs and 266Mhz …

Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)

Posted on 2021-01-31, 01:04

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

personally I recommend a Geforce 7600 GT AGP they are enough fast for 2007 and earlier games don't need external power and if you are enough smart you can mod one to be fanless don't go for the geforce 7800 or 7900 series ( some of them do not require external power but they are a headache, they …

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

Posted on 2021-01-31, 00:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just saw it in person and decided to let it go... it's massive! I don't have anywhere in my home or garage where it makes sense to use 3 feet of depth for only 2 feet of width. I also have no interest in large/complex networking equipment, so it makes little sense for me to take it. If someone …

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

Posted on 2021-01-30, 20:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wolfus wrote on 2021-01-30, 19:10: You can mount railed shelves inside and put many desktops on them. I would definitely take it. Are shelves like that standard, and cheap? Where would I find them?

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

Posted on 2021-01-30, 19:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A friend just found this IBM rack from 2004 in a business they're cleaning out. Any practical use or value? Keep in mind, I'm nowhere near a city where I can easily sell stuff like this locally.

Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN + 2x 1.26ghz Tualatins = flakiness

Posted on 2021-01-30, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have two of those boards and nearly all of the caps are swollen and leaking. I have a previous model (no tualatin support) and the caps on that one are fine as far as I can tell. Yours probably needs a full recap, which is likely not going to be fun unless you really know what you're doing. It's a …

Re: What should I know about building my first ever Windows 98 Retro Gaming PC?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 06:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do people use SSD's on Win98 now? I thought the better solution was a CF card with IDE adapter. Or at least a mechanical with SATA/IDE adapter. Yes, even Windows 98 benefits from the responsiveness of an SSD. CF cards work fine for most things, but larger ones are super hard to find and an SSD will …

Re: Reasons to keep a late 2012 iMac?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 05:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Install windows 7 on it, then it's still useful. If Apple had remembered that "Form Follows Function" and put some screws on the stupid thing so I could get into it and install an SSD, I probably would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHan1Ivc6fk I really have no desire to pry the glass LCD panel …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-30, 03:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not quite but description said the card looks almost new :) I think the risk there is that the seller doesn't know what he's looking at and someone chucked their old S3 card in the box when they upgraded - it'll be a great score if it's the right card though! Yeah, I've seen that happen a few times …

Reasons to keep a late 2012 iMac?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 03:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know this isn't totally vintage, but its... "not new"... and I know you guys have experience with lots of different machines. :) Someone gave me their old iMac last year when I built them a proper desktop. They were tired of the odd limitations and quirks of the Mac and wanted to go back to a PC. …

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

Posted on 2021-01-29, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, that thing is cool! I've never seen anything like it. What does it have for VGA and sound?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-29, 07:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This beauty arrived today. - Out: S3 Trio64V+ - In: RivaTNT2 PRO Really happy with the results. Now I can enjoy some good old 3D games with smooth graphics, but my search for a MX 400 PCI still strong. Wow, what an odd thing that is. I would check that with Everest or RivaTuner or some other …

Re: Newegg.com erased my retro computing past...

Posted on 2021-01-29, 05:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you edit the dropdown box's code, you can insert any year you like, and add any number of extra lines for years. within Year YYYY Awesome! Yeah, if you just change the part in quotes, and then select that year from the dropdown it works! I found my oldest order with this account. A Sound Blaster …

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