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

Posted on 2017-08-26, 12:41

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by WildW

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This week I have bought and received two Radeon 9800 cards. . . and both had horrible artifacts and had to be returned. As I recall the same thing happened to the 9700 Pro I had over a decade ago. Is it just me or are they really bad for reliability? I've had a few 9800s, a couple were flakey, but …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 18:11

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by WildW

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This week I have bought and received two Radeon 9800 cards. . . and both had horrible artifacts and had to be returned. As I recall the same thing happened to the 9700 Pro I had over a decade ago. Is it just me or are they really bad for reliability?

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Re: Modern beige rigs & peripherals

Posted on 2017-08-19, 12:22

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I bought a modern beige case this year for my retro build, made by Evercase . The build quality is really good and heavy. Thanks for the link! They have some nice cases... Are they still producing beige cases as of now, or is it more a case of the website not being updated and they don't have all …

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

Posted on 2017-08-18, 16:29

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Opened up my Athlon 64 box and made it much quieter with a couple of new fans and an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 I found in a drawer =)

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2017-08-17, 22:41

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This came into my posession this week as part of a big lot of old games . . . never heard of it until now. So far I've only managed to get it to run playably on Dosbox, two real machines have had issues running it one way or another.

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Re: Modern beige rigs & peripherals

Posted on 2017-08-17, 22:21

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I bought a modern beige case this year for my retro build, made by Evercase. The build quality is really good and heavy.

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

Posted on 2017-08-14, 22:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I beefed-up my Gateway system a little.

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Re: Something for lovers of bad video cards (youtube)

Posted on 2017-08-12, 09:49

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by WildW

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So I've been wrong saying Mat-rocks all this time??? This is like the Hauppauge thing all over again.

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Re: Asrock 939Dual-VSTA Late DOS/9x/XP Machine

Posted on 2017-08-12, 07:19

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by WildW

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a somewhat similar machine, Athlon 64 booting DOS/9x/XP. I went with a modern 240GB SSD for XP and to be honest I don't think I needed to go that large. With 20 games installed and XP fully updated I'm not using 40GB of space yet. And 8GB of that is a huge set of Amiga WHDLoad games.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-10, 20:44

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by WildW

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Bought an EVGA 8800GT. The famous single-slot G80 derived G92 based single-slot furnace. I'm going to see if I can't mount a double height cooler from a dead GTS onto it in hopes of better cooling it as I'm willing to bet these single slot coolers on a G80 derivative was never a good idea in the …

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Windows 3.1 video drivers for "modern" cards?

Posted on 2017-08-07, 15:58

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by WildW

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I'm expecting a quick answer to this ( "No" ) but I thought I would ask the question as a quick search hasn't found anything definitive. Is there such a thing as a "generic" Windows 3.1 video driver that will enable SVGA (800x600 or above) on later video cards that do not have specific Windows 3.1 …

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

Posted on 2017-08-06, 10:19

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It sounds like you may have a slightly different model than I do with a different case. On the back sticker my model is a TBR2. This is my PSU hole configuration from an inside shot with the PSU removed. IMG_0444.JPG Like me you would probably assume that these holes would be right for an ATX PSU. …

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

Posted on 2017-08-06, 05:08

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by WildW

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Mine has a similar 200W PSU that is making me nervous. The case only has mounting holes for a micro-atx/SFX power supply which are expensive for no good reason...and even if I get a new one I'll have to MacGyver together a way to mount the CPU duct/shroud as the PSU fan is the only one in the …

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

Posted on 2017-08-05, 21:28

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finished setting up my Gateway Pentium III 450 system and installing Windows 98. Decided to give this a Voodoo3 2000 as somehow I've managed to go all this time without ever owning one. This is now very nearly the machine I had back in 1999 - same CPU, same 128MB ram. . . just the original was a …

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

Posted on 2017-08-05, 17:06

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by WildW

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finished setting up my Gateway Pentium III 450 system and installing Windows 98. Decided to give this a Voodoo3 2000 as somehow I've managed to go all this time without ever owning one. This is now very nearly the machine I had back in 1999 - same CPU, same 128MB ram. . . just the original was a …

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Re: Opti 82C soundcard ID/help

Posted on 2017-08-03, 21:31

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by WildW

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Well. this is embarrassing. Through my amp the card sounds fine, so I guess everything is good =D I've never seen a sound card that couldn't drive headphones without issue and didn't give it a second thought...guess this modern technology has spoiled me. Thanks all

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Re: Opti 82C soundcard ID/help

Posted on 2017-08-03, 07:54

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by WildW

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I'll try plugging into my amp later, didn't have time this morning. The sound via headphones could go plenty loud enough, it just sounded like listening to hold music on a telephone.

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Opti 82C soundcard ID/help

Posted on 2017-08-03, 05:47

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by WildW

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I know some of you are very knowledgable on sound cards so I wanted to ask for help on a card I just received - it was a free extra from a very nice eBay seller who seemed to think it was something pretty good. However, while it works the sound from it is pretty terrible sounding - I'm hoping …

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Re: Can't boot from CD on a Pentium III PC

Posted on 2017-08-01, 12:30

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by WildW

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At a pinch you can put the hard disk in another machine, create your C partition to install into, format and make bootable, create a second partition on the same disk and copy the OS CD into it. Put the drive back in the original machine, boot to dos prompt, and install from the second partition as …

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Re: Just bought my first soundcard: an Ensoniq PCIaudio 3000!

Posted on 2017-07-31, 21:44

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I have one of these in my DOS/9x system that has no ISA and have no complaints about the performance or compatibility in DOS, but I only run late DOS era stuff for the most part. The DOS driver only eats a couple of KB so it's not causing me any headaches. No issues in 98SE or XP either, has just …

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