Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 10:02

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GF2 MX 200 is a very solid choice for a late 90's gaming system. Performance equal to a GF DDR. Near perfect hardware compatibility. Low power consumption means its safe to use on those picky SS7 motherboards. A huge list of drivers to use depending on what games you wanna play. Fanless design means …

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Re: Can I change this CPU fan and keep the heatsink?

Posted on 2022-06-15, 02:50

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I'm a little confused here, I think the CPU fan is 80mm but I'm not 100% sure on the size of the fan that would fit in the rear case exhaust. I think it might be 80mm as well? Probably 80mm yes, could also be 92mm. Tho in some cases, pun not intended, they used non standard formats. Also that fan " …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-06-12, 23:03

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170MHz is a dang nice o'c on a GF DDR =) I noticed that when going past 380 FPS or so the GPU actually starts making a difference.

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-06-08, 14:37

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Meatball wrote on 2022-06-08, 03:17: I'm not done yet, but here's where I'm at... That's gotta be some serious modding of the engine. I can barely reach that even without sound, and sound takes at-least 5-10% off the score. Tho I suppose there could be some hardware trick I have missed. Very …

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

Posted on 2022-06-06, 23:30

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Cleaned and partially recapped an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe. The dirtiest and smelliest mobo I've seen in a long time now. By the looks and smell I guess its been used by a chain-smoker and then stored in a septic tank. Almost gagged when I opened the package. A blurry pic that masks a lot of yuck: …

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Re: ASUS P3C-E, High Res Photos of ISA Slot Area (Adding an ISA slot to a PCI-only P3C-E)

Posted on 2022-06-06, 22:05

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Sorry I never got back to you! Thank you! I appreciate the help, but if it's too much, no worries. I am not in a rush either. I am just curious as to whether I can get this board fully configured! No worries. Ran into a slight problem tho. Can't find my MB ....... Really hope I didn't sell it in …

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Re: ASUS P3C-E, High Res Photos of ISA Slot Area (Adding an ISA slot to a PCI-only P3C-E)

Posted on 2022-06-04, 20:34

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by bofh.fromhell

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I'll help you tomorrow evening if noone else responded =)

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Re: Best dual socket 370 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-06-04, 17:39

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I adore my Abit VP6. Can't do Tualatins tho. I didn't use VIA Apollo Pro back in the day, but now after using VP6 and VH6-II its quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

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Re: 2008-era Win XP build

Posted on 2022-06-01, 16:18

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No experience, it does appear that Nvidia provides XP and XP 64bit drivers for the Quadro FX5800. Gaming performance might absolutely suck tho. I still want to try it someday. Actually gaming performance is just fine. Possibly even the Quadro drivers eventually got the same gaming improvements as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-29, 20:20

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by bofh.fromhell

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Nice card, but seems someone removed the ASUS cooler, and added reference one lol, scrap find ?!?! The stove backround is interesting lol, ready for frying lmao . Well you may be right. But i can't find any pictures of a similar PCB, regardless of cooler. 6 pin power and VGA connector. And it's …

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

Posted on 2022-05-29, 17:51

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by bofh.fromhell

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Fiddled around with heat sinks and coolers for my hot running ASUS GF DDR. And after trying the usual extruded alu stuff, I remembered i have a few Zalman VF900's to spare. And to my surprise it can be made to fit! Some persuasion was required, but nothing that ruins the cooler or the card. https:// …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-29, 17:45

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Grabbed an interesting looking GF 6800GT: https://i.imgur.com/sdM7gq0l.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/yR2eLE0l.jpeg Card is "as new", tho pretty sure the previous owner cleaned the card. But the screen connectors and PCIe edge looks like new, barely any scratch marks. 6800 Ultra design and cooler, tho 6- …

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Re: Shuttle HOT433 hangs at C7 code "keyboard error""CMOS checksum error"

Posted on 2022-05-26, 22:53

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by bofh.fromhell

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You sure the big empty socket has nothing to do with it? Cause that's probably where the keyboard controller usually hangs out. edit: Seems like some 433's don't have that controller. But why would they install a socket then?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-26, 22:44

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@Nylan, i LOVE the sh*tty computer speakers you have! Absolute beauties in their own sense. Btw, aren't they reversed? Usually speaker with knobs is the right side speaker... I just bought a pair of those off eBay, waiting for delivery :) So rubbish but beautiful in their own way :) I reckon most …

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Re: Question regarding Motherboard capacitor, and How to choose a right replacement.

Posted on 2022-05-25, 00:04

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1. Yea you are correct, replacing with exactly the same capacity and voltage is obviously perfectly fine. Tho some variation is usually OK. The next step up in voltage is common even directly from the factory. For instance finding 25v caps on 12v duty is fairly common, but 16v is the "standard". …

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Re: Be careful how you store your stuff!

Posted on 2022-05-24, 23:08

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by bofh.fromhell

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I found that the IKEA "Samla" 11 and 22 liter plastic bins are a pretty good size for a lot of computer stuff. The 11l ones can take standard PC cards standing up, and you can fit a lot of cards in one. The 11l also fits regular 3.5" HDDS put on the side, you can easily fit 16 drives in one (gets …

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Re: Promise Sata 150tx2 speeds windows 98

Posted on 2022-05-24, 22:42

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ok so it looks like it is sharing an irq with the usb 2 card. and even after shuffling cards around the irq follows to sharing with 1 of 2 listings of the usb card. the gigabyte bios won't let me assign an irq to a slot just reserve one for the isa slot. although after moving the card up 2 slots it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-24, 22:12

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Stumbled on 5 16GB 44 pin DOM modules on a local site, labeled as "old computer memory". Grabbed them instantly ofc, and now I need a few neat 44 to 40 pin adapters. The DOM's have female connectors, so I guess I should also get a few 44 pin gender changers so I can use them in laptops.

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

Posted on 2022-05-24, 22:03

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Been playing with a rough ABIT NF7-S2 (the non fun version). After the usual thorough clean (smokers board, yuck) and recap (most caps were fine, but a few smaller ones were really bad). I dropped in a Barton 2600+, the 166x11.5 version. And accidentally booted it at 200MHz fsb. And to my surprise …

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Re: Promise Sata 150tx2 speeds windows 98

Posted on 2022-05-24, 21:54

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I think 150 rating is for two drives in Raid, or something like that. Pretty sure its because it can, in theory, shuffle about 150 MB/s of data per channel (or 1.5 Gbit/s as per the SATA revision 1 specification). Now this would be more then the normal 133MB/s 32-bit PCI bus can handle. But I …

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