Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

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On a side note, I hate it when modern-ish 16:9 TVs insert ugly GREY bars instead of black bars for displaying 4:3 content. On plasma TVs, the grey letterbox & pillarbox bars could help minimize burn-in if you were a movie buff. It doesn't surprise me that some modern TVs (well, OLEDs) do that too. …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

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65-inch OLED LG-C3 TV is only $1599 Now at Costco. I purchased my year 2020 model 65-inch TV years ago for $599 but NOW I want OLED and the Price is Right. I think these LG-C3 OLED TVs are the Best deal right NOW for TV and 42-inch Monitors And If I was going to buy a NEW TV or Monitor today I would …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

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I only used the Voodoo card for a Short time. Once I tried the TNT card which had better graphics and color I never went back. I mostly used the Matrox G450 with Dual heads for dual 21-inch Monitor support. Running dual high resolution 21-inch Sony Monitors was more important to me than cheap Voodoo …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

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I've always wanted a PC in a clear acrylic case, and finally I got around to making one... I aimed for a late Windows 98 machine (with XP on dual boot), hence the specs: Sempron 3000+, ASUS K8V Deluxe, 512MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4600, Yamaha DS-XG. Since the mobo had onboard SATA, I went ahead and used …

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Re: ASUS CUSL2 1.02 and Tualatin. My Journey (so far).

Posted on Yesterday, 10:37

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I have Asus CUSL2 with Tualatin 1.2ghz and I tried everything to make it work. But bios always defaults back to 933mhz. So I left it at that. Good luck.

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 05:21

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More photos.

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The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 02:58

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Guys, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is the King of CPUs. It came in like a Wreaking ball and Obliterated the competition. Putting many computer companies Out of Business. With its High production manufacturing and Low retail cost. It dominated the computer market with-in a few years. Paired with Windows-NT, …

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Re: The Most Beautiful Laptop Ever.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 17:02

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This laptop is built pretty solid. It’s been sitting in my garage for over two years and it still looks and works like New. Plays games great.

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The Most Beautiful Laptop Ever.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 08:34

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Guys, The Apple iBook G3/G4 is the Most Beautiful laptop to Date. This thing will haunt you at night with its Beauty. It’s the Beautiful Contrast between the White Shell and the Blue Wallpaper. Kind of like Windows-10 or 11. Another reason to build a computer with a White case. It’s just Stunningly …

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Re: Dual Pentium Pro - Intel PR440FX Build

Posted on 2024-04-30, 10:44

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A highly desired Workstation build around 1997 with Windows NT

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Re: Running NT 3.51 on modern hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2024-04-29, 03:06

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Back around 1995 the Pentium 75 thru 100mhz was popular for running WinNT-351 It was the CPU used to Network the World and cloud run just about anything. From Data bases, Web sites, Servers, Server Clusters, etc. We used these CPUs in Computer education school classrooms and they ran everything with …

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Re: Rebuilding my First Voodoo computer. ( Made in USA )

Posted on 2024-04-27, 03:50

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I am actually using a different BX440 motherboard with with NO onboard audio. I like the Strip down BX440 motherboards this way I get no IRQ conflicts with USB, Audio, Video, or Networking. I will upload a picture of it.

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Re: Rebuilding my First Voodoo computer. ( Made in USA )

Posted on 2024-04-27, 00:42

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Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Sounds Awsome with Lucas Arts games and other games with high quality audio. Need for Speed II, etc…. Sounds Really good. What sound cards do you recommend ?

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Re: Rebuilding my First Voodoo computer. ( Made in USA )

Posted on 2024-04-26, 20:39

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There were a few case designs like this. The original was an “Inwin A500” Very popular back in late 1990’s These were inexpensive at about $40 New with power supply

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Rebuilding my First Voodoo computer. ( Made in USA )

Posted on 2024-04-26, 14:57

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The year was around 1998 I had a Pentium-II@400mhz computer Running on an Intel Bx440 Motherboard I was using 128mb of SDRAM I had a Sound Blaster too I was just getting into PC gaming so I was curious about what products were available for the PC. I was running a Matrox millennium graphics card at …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 10:03

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I have some NEW Slogans if someone wants to use it. “Working with the Best Makes you Better” Live by it to Better your life and Make it Smarter. Also “Better your Life” And “Making it Smarter”

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 09:19

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The 1990's was a Magical time in Silicon Valley. Walking into Classrooms and Office buildings full of Beige Case computers with Beige CRT Monitors. Windows 3.11, NT, and Win95/98 and Macs and Beige Printers. A BIG HEAVY computer is what everyone wanted back then. Today People want Small light …

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 15:24

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I just came to this website looking for drivers. Got back into old computers looking to play old games. ( Dos/Win3x/95/98/XP ) So Like LGR I Started building my own Ultimate Retro computers but I don’t create video content. I just do it for old game play. Philscomputerlab and LGR and Other YouTubers …

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Re: My First Laptop ( Sony Vaio )

Posted on 2024-04-15, 15:44

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“I Feel the Need For Speed”. This laptop has pretty good Speakers. These have a audio feature called "3D audio" that sounds like "Aureal 3D"

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Re: My First Laptop ( Sony Vaio )

Posted on 2024-04-13, 10:55

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These were popular in USA computer stores. Marketed towards the Home family multimedia computer for games, applications, video editing and music editing. Came with the Sony iLink connector for connecting the Sony Digital Camera and video cameras.

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