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

Posted on 2018-03-10, 16:08

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by Baoran

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Lack of space is one thing that forces even me to throw away things that I would not throw away otherwise. I am sure there can be many situations in life where the only thing you can do is throw away stuff like if you need to move to smaller apartment or perhaps when you get married.

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Re: 486 DX-33 question

Posted on 2018-03-10, 12:03

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by Baoran

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For example, the Space Shuttle uses original Intel 8088 CPUs. They've been to the moon and back many times (talk about thermal stress), and still work fine, 40 years later. Space Shuttle hasn't been flown since 2011 now and I'm pretty sure they never went to the Moon in one :P I am almost certain …

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Re: Retro laptop challenge

Posted on 2018-03-09, 10:40

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by Baoran

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I have a thinkpad T21. I could see myself taking it with me when I would feel like playing some old retro games instead of my big new gaming laptop.

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Re: 3dmark03 and win98

Posted on 2018-03-08, 21:49

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by Baoran

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Is there any difference between results of different versions?

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Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2018-03-08, 15:40

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by Baoran

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nd22 wrote: Baoran wrote: How about a ATI chipset compared to nforce? I don't know of any ATI chipset for socket 462! ah, for some reason I was thinking of socket 939 and those ATI xpress chipsets

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Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2018-03-07, 21:00

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by Baoran

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How about a ATI chipset compared to nforce?

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Re: Via MVP4 sound dos compatibility.

Posted on 2018-03-07, 15:19

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by Baoran

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Does it work with all games that use sound blaster or does it have compatibility problems similar to PCI cards? Just wondering if it is worth paying few euros for MVP4 motherboard that only has pci slots.

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Re: Bad ide cable ?

Posted on 2018-03-07, 02:12

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by Baoran

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Perhaps the hole is that the controller knows that you are using 80 wire cable instead of 40 wire cable?

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Re: Bootable floppy on modern mobo

Posted on 2018-03-06, 19:38

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by Baoran

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Are there any low profile pci floppy controllers that would work with an adapter that would allow you to put pci card to pci express slot?

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Via MVP4 sound dos compatibility.

Posted on 2018-03-06, 19:16

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by Baoran

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Anyone knows how dos compatible the integrated sound is in MVP4 chipset?

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My Athlon 64 build adventures.

Posted on 2018-03-06, 13:32

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by Baoran

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My Athlon 64 build adventures: Part 1: It always starts with an idea. I see Phil's youtube video where he makes a cheap win98 pc using Asus A8V deluxe motherboard and I remember that I had the same motherboard. I used to have a pc with the same motherboard back in 2005 or 2006. I had a Athlon 64 FX- …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 18:08

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by Baoran

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Does 64bit XP have any advantages compared to 32bit XP other than being able to have more ram?

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Re: DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-05, 07:51

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by Baoran

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Pretty much all of them had installer who asked if you want to install directx. Also when you search for minimum system requirement for a game online, it often says the directx version required. Also the graphics card that is in minimum requirements for the game usually gives also a hint because it …

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Re: Something a little different, blasphemous and pointless

Posted on 2018-03-05, 00:22

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by Baoran

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Going to try overclocking and see how much difference that would make with the 9250?

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Re: Period correct build?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 23:59

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by Baoran

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It isn't going to be my main pc. It is actually going to be third older pc that I have built. My main pc still has windows 7. I recently bought a new gaming laptop and it came with windows 10 and I hate windows 10. At least when it comes to windows 10, I much rather use windows 7 on my main desktop …

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Re: DirectX 8 Gaming

Posted on 2018-03-04, 23:35

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by Baoran

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I remember that most games used to come with the directx version it was designed for. Pretty much all of them had installer who asked if you want to install directx. Also when you search for minimum system requirement for a game online, it often says the directx version required. Also the graphics …

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Re: Socket 754/939 and Win9x/DOS

Posted on 2018-03-04, 20:23

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by Baoran

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I don't know what affects it but you can run win98se with 1Gb of ram. I have read somewhere that people need to change something about vcache settings, but once when I got a computer that had already 1Gb of ram and I just installed a hard drive and installed win98se and everything just worked …

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Nvidia GeForce7800GS agp fan speed.

Posted on 2018-03-04, 20:16

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by Baoran

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I have a bit newer system that I use to also play dos games that are now speed sensitive. Win98se is installed and I have disabled in msdos.sys that it doesn't boot to GUI and I get ms-dos immediately. Problem is that the graphics card fan speed only goes down when I go to win98se GUI and if I stay …

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Re: Period correct build?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 16:57

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by Baoran

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I have a 486 33Mhz pc for dos games, so dos support isn't that important. But I think it will be good for wide range of windows games. Ahh, yeah you should be perfectly fine then. I didn't realize you already had an old machine for the older stuff. Yeah I'd say anything that XP machine won't handle …

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Re: Is there an easy rule of thumb when buying CD or DVD drive for DOS computers?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 14:18

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by Baoran

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A long time ago, I had a CD drive with volume control and some buttons on the panel (Play/Pause, Next, Previous and Stop). I guess every drive with those buttons will surely have internal audio output. As a bonus, those drives will surely be quiet... because I've never seen a 16x or faster drive …

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