Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-03-03, 14:22
Thanks for the help I was struggling with old Anandtech reviews to work it out. I'll request the Celeron and return the P2!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-03-03, 09:10
I bought a 333MHz Celeron but was sent a 266MHz Pentium 2. If the seller gives me the option to keep or send back I was wondering what CPU was likely to be faster? I've got a 66FSB Slot 1 system.
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-03-01, 16:18
Today I bought a VR headset Oculus Quest 2. It feels like the day you buy a new console with the unboxing, huge potential for new games and experiences etc! I've never had a VR headset before.
Re: Video Card prices
Posted on 2021-02-27, 12:41
The popularity of cryptocurrency is a response to global political uncertainty and is not just a fad. (In other times people would be hoarding gold.) Not sure I agree - Gold was a physical item, with a finite amount, that would always have value (and was what was used to set the value of money) …
Re: Video Card prices
Posted on 2021-02-27, 12:39
I am getting tempted to move on my 1070ti but I use it too regularly in a secondary PC and I know i'll miss it. I bought it new for £350 (on a Black Friday event) and the eBay sold section shows 1070 ti's that have gone for £350 to £420!!! Fortunately the kind of old, slow cards I buy for my builds …
Windows 7 driver X1950 XT (PCI-E)
Posted on 2021-02-27, 11:32
Not particularly retro but I can't find any Windows 7 drivers on the AMD website for this card which isn't that much older than Windows 7. Does anyone have one kicking around?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-02-25, 11:21
Today (or rather this week) I have been selling quite a chunk of my retro gear. Slot 1 board, voodoo 3 2000 PCI, got a few AGP/PCI cards up, some VIA ITX motherboards... And I'm already looking at new old hardware to buy, which was not the plan at all! 🙁
Does anyone have the Halo Combat evolved 1.010 (latest) patch
Posted on 2021-02-19, 10:32
I tried to download this today but it seems the link is dead and it just goes to the Bungie home page. I can't find anyone else hosting it either. Does anyone have this patch lying around?
Re: Origin or Steam
Posted on 2021-02-18, 22:43
Make sure if you buy it from steam that the game doesn't want to launch through origin anyway! I tend to buy EA games on Origin to avoid having both launchers running. Either are "fine" to use. They work, they don't crash, they don't spam notifications. If anything, Origin is a bit "lite"-er than …
Limit my HDD to 32GB
Posted on 2021-02-17, 16:44
I have a WD1600AAJB Caviar SE IDE hard drive. I would like to limit it from 160GB to 32GB so I can use it in Windows 98. However the jumpers don't have any setting to limit it to 32GB and I've had a look on Google to see if there is. "standard" setting or anything but no luck. Does anyone know how …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:55
I've got a new one - for years I've lamented only having 8GB CF cards, after my few small capacity HDDs failed and I didn't want to spend more money on a drive that could also fail any time. 8GB isn't very much space on a fast Windows 98 system! But then years later (today) I remembered I can limit …
Re: Which one of your builds are you most fond of and why?
Posted on 2021-02-16, 15:02
I think all of mine are too temperamental and I hate them all! The one I hate the least is probably my VIA EPIA 800MHz thing because it manages to be both 'interesting' and useful, reliably, with a good soundcard in the system. It can do early windows 98 games to an acceptable level and DOS gaming …
Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build
Posted on 2021-02-07, 11:01
The cooler situation with 754/939 is another reason I prefer it over 478 for single core builds. I bought a cheapo tower cooler and it is much cooler and quieter than any 478 cooler I have come across! I could if I really wanted to hook up my H100i to a 754 PC!
Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....
Posted on 2021-01-29, 11:52
Core 2 duo is not retro for me. I use it for retro gaming a lot but it's just too good and easy to use to be retro! The ps360 are also not retro - the games are very online, dlc filled, update requiring, live service bloated consoles from about 2010 onwaeds. The PS2 and Dreamcast can be 100% used …
Re: Troll PC part 3: I want the (Celeron) D
Posted on 2021-01-20, 17:50
Heh, I always enjoy troll builds. I recently got a Pentium Dual Core 950 and I was tempted to test it against a c2d 6300 but haven't got round to it. I've also got a 295 but I am too scared to use it most of the time! When I have used it, it's far too fast for dx10 gaming and the amount of VRAM it …
Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?
Posted on 2021-01-18, 16:13
My XP and up are online, for the convenience of accessing GOG games and various utilities etc. Browsing the net is a bit of a pain on P4s etc but doable. Right now I am downloading Fallout 3 from GOG at ~6MB/s (max speed of the adapter) to test out of a 2x 2.8GHz Gallatin with Hypertension system …
Re: hard disk size history
Posted on 2021-01-16, 14:06
Family PC in 1995 had 800MB (100MHz) Family PC in 1999 had 12GB (P2 400MHz) Family PC in 2003 had 80GB (Athlon 2GHz) My own PC in 2008 had 250 (I put more money towards the graphics card... An 8600GT. Clearly a wise decision!) My own PC in 2011 had 500GB plus that 250GB above My own PC in 2015 had …
Partitions limited to 504MB
Posted on 2021-01-16, 14:01
I am setting up my 386 with an 8GB CF card. Using fdisk, I make a primary DOS partition and hit Y to make it as large as possible. This comes out as 504MB. If I try to make another partition it says there isn't any space on the drive. The bios sees the full 7641MB of my CF card and I've used this …
Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)
Posted on 2021-01-15, 23:48
This is more a curiosity but when I'm building a slow XP or a Windows 98 PC I always find myself reaching past my 7600GS and 5900XT to my Geforce 3 ti 200 because it does not require any external power. It looks a lot neater in the case and when I use one of those cards I always end up with loose …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-01-15, 13:50
Are all memtest86 errors "very bad" and likely to cause crashes when using a PC? Test 7 Error confidence value 163 Lowest to highest address 518.9MB to 601.9MB 1 bit in error. I have 4x 512mb DDR1 installed. That makes me think it's stick 2. It's a dual channel board So I am not sure how that …
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