Re: Diy modding support for k6+And 120gb hard drives into bios roms
Posted on 2022-01-31, 19:37
We are blessed to have you here Jan.
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-31, 18:35
Here he goes again... rambling on about stuff that might be gone by the time he gets his ass in gear to buy... (Woulda liked that Ryzen deal though, missed it) Getting really tempted by local reseller having ThinkStation P300 machines, 16GB, Haswell Xeon, Quadro K2200 ... $399 CDN which is about $ …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:53
Just bought a lot of 5 NIB Maxtor PATA hard drives on fleabay. Paid $85 shipped for the lot which is actually pretty good considering individual drives of this type have been selling for $20-$30 each (bought a few myself), so $17 per drive roughly. [/img] Yah, pretty good deal, I've been eyeing a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:43
Just discovered a localish private enterprise e-waste business, that has a store for resale... they have short store hours though, and it's outside my own town, so might not get there all that often. So brace yourselves... I might be posting a lot lol ... well obviously not now I've jinxed myself. I …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:29
To be honest, I'm disappointed. I didn't expect much, but it still underperformed what I expected from a late 2004 laptop with dedicated GPU. Though most games should run fine in 800x600 and maybe with a bit lower settings. The only surprise I had was with Deus Ex which ran really well, especially …
Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!
Posted on 2022-01-31, 15:37
Maybe in the first couple of months after release when overclockers were excited about them most... they later could go over 600 but got really mired down soon after, 670 was the fastest I heard of, and I think that took dry ice or something. After the initial rush of each release, there were better …
Re: The K6-233 or the Pentium-MMX 233?
Posted on 2022-01-31, 02:57
The K6-2 is gonna be at least a .5 multi behind the III, so really only run a 2 in favor of a III if you can get it running 100mhz faster... which does happen. However, you're unlikely to get a plain 2 running faster than a 2+ or 3+ unless you've got a spectacularly good one and a spectacularly bad …
Re: EME279TC belts, replacement vs. original
Posted on 2022-01-30, 23:02
From messing with belts on other things, irregular speed generally means that the elasticity is different in one portion of the belt to another, this might either be from poor quality control where the thickness isn't identical throughout, or from poor storage where one portion of the belt has …
Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?
Posted on 2022-01-30, 21:50
Just noticed I have a super rare USB floppy drive, it's one of only 10 with serial numbers between 45800 and 45810 ;) Just kidding, it's more making fun of the car guys when it starts with, it's one of only 1832 in Red... and it gets down to It's one of 3 in red with the taupe upholstery, 357 engine …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-30, 19:25
Oh wow, that's getting a bit beyond battery corrosion and into an X-files episode of some all consuming fungus released from ancient grave or something.
Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!
Posted on 2022-01-30, 19:23
Celly 400 and bang the bus up to 100 you mean 😁
Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!
Posted on 2022-01-30, 17:40
From the seller, I got the impression that the ethernet card was installed by a computer store... They could have upgraded the RAM just as a free service... They might have thrown in the PSU then as a better used one they had lying around.... or the trainee trapped a wire putting the cover back on, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-30, 17:36
Protip: mail unprotected glassware to yourself periodically as a sacrifice to the shipping gods 🤣 Yah, hope it travels alright. How does that birthday thing work <6 months, late birthday present, >6 months early birthday present ?
Re: Info / Locate: Sound Blaster Creative Discovery AWE 64 [Costco Bundle?] / Creative Infra 2400 16x Cd-Rom [MK4143]
Posted on 2022-01-30, 17:27
Each VV operates as a for profit store that buys product off a more local charity, by weight, which does a bunch of organising collection runs and drop bins etc to get the stuff. So you tend to get a bit of a skew in available items according to the demographics of the charity and locale and …
Re: Black Box Mystery Build
Posted on 2022-01-30, 15:19
I have an identical box, but it's got a server Heatsink/Fan in, the static warning seems a bit like overkill for that. Box seems original to part.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-30, 14:54
Or I should only be "Deadly" at the moment... https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Elite_Rating#Ratings
Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!
Posted on 2022-01-30, 14:27
Nice, motherboard is a couple of levels nicer than I was expecting... 64MB though, what masochists run XP on 64MB??? If I was gonna minimally upgrade it, it would get a PIII 600 and two sticks 128MB, and a wipe and 98SE install.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-01-30, 07:08
*squint* it's tuxracer? .... second guess Mechwarrior II .... 3rd guess Rebel Assault, Hoth levels.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:31
I think my "best" SCSI drive is about 4GB, but then I lost track after SCSI 2... does this triple decker sandwich looking D thingy take Ultra Wide 360 with HOV lane or is it Fibrechannel over USB redundant multipath with infiniband sidechannel addressing over IPv6 ? Have I got enough room behind the …
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:12
OOooooo, the K620 might be the lo-pro and single slot card I've been looking for to slap into SFF rigs... thanks. edit: where'd that $40 thinkcenter go now? lol edit2: Those K2200 are nice too, basically what you can find new 1010 for if you're lucky, but blow past a 1030 and halfway to 1050, while …
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