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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 00:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Two thrift store finds this month. Both without their power adapter. Both work perfectly. Has one of these ever been found in the wild with its AC adapter? AFAIK, they used generic adapters? If you know the right voltage and amps, it shouldn't be hard to find a generic replacement. Half my old …

Re: the world how I would have wanted it: the evolution of 486 CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-27, 02:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunately I've missed the 486' heyday, and my family switched from 286's straight to Pentiums, but this - In my ideal world, the Windows user interface would have stopped with 95 and all the improvements would have been under the hood. Also, web standards would have remained fully backwards- …

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

Posted on 2019-02-23, 23:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I updated the BIOS on my GA-6BXC (Rev 1.9B) and got it running with a Pentium III 600B @ 133 FSB with PC133 CAS 2 memory. I did a SuperPi run on it, and I was surprised that it was slower than the same CPU on my P3V4X Apollo Pro 133A board with the same SD card OS image. I figured the BX @ 133 would …

Re: DIDN'T buy this retro hardware today

Posted on 2019-02-23, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is (at least to me) much more interesting than a boring V5 6k. Hopefully it finds a good home. Curious to know how these rare prototypes always end up in China when they were made in North America... I'm guessing people who don't know what they are e-cycle them, and folks in China pick them up …

Re: DIDN'T buy this retro hardware today

Posted on 2019-02-23, 17:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ATi Radeon MAXX engineering sample. $4400 was a little steep for my budget. 😲 https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-RADEON-MAXX-Engi … rd/273724836287

Re: Looking for SECC cooling... K7850

Posted on 2019-01-25, 00:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just picked an SECC golden orb recently. If you go to that really popular online auction site and search "Thermaltake Slot-1 fan" you might be surprised what you'll find. :lol: You... You are a Hero! :kiss: :kiss: :kiss: I had searched hundreds of times... and it never friggin showed up on the …

Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-23, 00:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

*1997: Pentium 90 Mhz (first computer) --------------------------------------------------- 1999: Pentium III 500 Mhz (bought in 1999) 2009: Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66 GHz (built in 2007) 2019: Core i7 2600K OC@ 4.5 GHz (built in 2011) Looking at 10 year gaps really shows how much the need to upgrade has …

Re: Looking for SECC cooling... K7850

Posted on 2019-01-23, 00:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just picked an SECC golden orb recently. If you go to that really popular online auction site and search "Thermaltake Slot-1 fan" you might be surprised what you'll find. 🤣

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-13, 00:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow nice score! Those PODP5V83's are getting hard to find lately. I have that exact GeForce 3 Ti 500 card in working condition if you need any close-up pictures of the back for part numbers, depending on the components you need. The SMD capacitors aren't labeled. :depressed: Thanks for the offer! I …

Re: Suitable NVidea card for Pentium 4 rig?

Posted on 2019-01-12, 02:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For a P4, even a Northwood, anything more than a GeForce4 Ti 4600 is a waste. the newer P4s with faster chipsets and ram were a lot faster than northwood... CedarMill + fast DDR2 would be a decent companion to a 6800GT, and even a 7900GT, remember that's what Intel had until mid 2006, and while …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-12, 00:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a few good pickups over the past month. Medion GeForce 4 MX 460 eVGA GeForce FX 5900 XT Diamond V770 TNT2 Ultra Matrox G400MAX (Dell) ASUS V6600 GeForce 256 SGRAM (not working :depressed: ) ELSA Erazor X2 GeForce DDR Pentium III 450 - really early Week 6, 1999 date code with no Pentium III logo …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-11, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After not getting a lot of vintage hardware for a while, I've found a ton of stuff lately. Haven't even had to pay that much for any of these. From one lot: 4x Jaton TNT2 M64 32MB PCI (early nvidia PCI cards are getting scarce... this was a great find!) 2x Pentium Overdrive PODP5V83 (couldn't …

Re: Power warning with old ASUS P3B-F with new gen EVGA 450W PSU

Posted on 2019-01-08, 20:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can confirm, my P3B-F (v1.03) does this as well with a newer PSU. No issues.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-13, 23:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently sold a Geforce 256 sdram version (Asus) for 30 euro. DDR is much more sought after and should bring quite a bit more. Still, not an extremely rare card imho. The Geforce2 Ultra and the Geforce 3 ti500 are way harder to find. Agreed. The SDRAM GeForce 256's are definitely more common. Which …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-13, 18:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... finally snagged a GeForce 256 for a reasonable price... What was that reasonable price if I'm not too indiscrate to ask? I got my hands on a working one just last week for about 7$ and I know it was a steal, but I'm don't know what the reasonable price is for these today. $7 is definitely a …

Re: Proper RAM Amounts For Mid-1999 Gaming Build

Posted on 2018-12-13, 05:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Gateway PIII 500 MHz Katmai system in late 1999. It had 128 MB of RAM, a 20 GB HDD, an AudioPCI 128 sound card, and an 8 MB TNT2 Vanta (the bottleneck). It probably cost about $2000.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-13, 00:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... finally snagged a GeForce 256 for a reasonable price.... The fan is a little noisy, but should be fine after a cleaning and lubrication. Replacement fan, if that doesn't work. I bought one of these for my GeForce256 and it is an exact fit. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F% …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-13, 00:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This week's haul: The Pentium III 850 is now my fastest 100MHz FSP chip and it came with a slotket that apparently can allow Katmai-only Slot-1 motherboards to handle coppermine voltages? https://i.postimg.cc/D8zwHZ0d/Slotket-ASUS-S370-DL-Back.jpg It does appear to have a voltage clamp chip on it, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-12, 15:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After missing out a few times over the last year I finally snagged a GeForce 256 for a reasonable price. I made an offer and the seller accepted! :cool: The fan is a little noisy, but should be fine after a cleaning and lubrication. Most importantly, the card works. :happy: It wasn't listed as …

Re: Mid-1999 GPU That Takes Rendering Load from the CPU

Posted on 2018-12-11, 20:53

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Even a regular TNT2 would be a big improvement. The 64-bit memory bus on the M64 is a major limitation.

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