Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-12, 02:48

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Picked these 5 PCs up last week for a tenner each and have been working on them since. A P3 1GHz, P3 1.26GHz, a Celeron 700MHz, an Athlon 1GHz and a P4 3GHz with a mix of hardware, nothing particularly exciting. Built up 3 good ones so far ready to pass on! A proper Win98SE and XP fest :) The 1. …

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Re: IBM ThinkPad 701C Battery Clone [Completed]

Posted on 2022-10-28, 02:40

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Very cool!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-26, 21:07

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Also a coworker threatened me that if I won't take it, it's next home will be a landfill. https://i.ibb.co/HX6BRHg/IMG-e709c7566f5c0cb29abfb60d3ee8d00d-V.jpg https://i.ibb.co/BBDfL6F/IMG-f08fd09f23c02bcb66718011a27c5c07-V.jpg https://i.ibb.co/84XhD0D/IMG-cdb0ad42c8479e3fa2bacc42f6d2a2ed-V.jpg …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-24, 21:42

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So my main AMD A8 computer with it's original 2007 case, HDD and LCD monitor is retro! Everything else is much newer though. I got that beat! My main PC is in an In-Win matx case from October 20 1999. :D Everything else in the machine is fairly new though. i7-11700k 32gb ram RTX3070 m.2 1tb drive …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-22, 02:08

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I've been playing through Rage lately. It runs butter smooth on max detail settings. I do one or two missions at a time right now and it's a decent way to kill of 15 or 20 minutes. Weird how the environment is even less interactive than something like Fallout 3 though.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-03, 23:35

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I recently bought an Apple IIe via ebay. I'd hesitated buying online due to the prospect of shipping damage. In this case, the seller was only two hours away, so I offered to pick up instead of having it shipped. Frustratingly they responded that they don't do pick ups and that they had shipped out …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-02, 18:46

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enjoy your new toys. Most jelly of the T580 I think.. there was a classified used sale T480 here for decent money, I was thinking about it. I'm looking forward to it! The specs of it are decent, 16GB RAM, i5-8350U, 256GB SSD. I've been using a T530 for a while now and while it's decent the fan has …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-02, 03:49

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I did some overtime at work last month and so ended up with a bunch of extra cash this week... I might have gone a little crazy, I have bought the following online today: Geforce RTX3070 8GB Founders Edition Lenovo Thinkpad T580 Mister Multisystem Board and case (looking for a DE10 Nano at a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-14, 14:32

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PD2JK wrote on 2022-09-14, 12:25: Picked up a few desktops for not too much. First of the bunch; a Dell XPS T500 with a voodoo3 3000D. Guess what the D stands for. Frags like new. 😁 Does it stand for Dell or something else?

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-13, 22:41

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Did some ugprades to my gaming PC over the summer. Replaced the i5-10600K CPU with an i7-11700KF and the GTX1080 with an RTX2080.

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Re: can anyone recommend a cologne?

Posted on 2022-08-30, 06:30

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I suggest the WCW Nitro cologne from the late 90’s. It only burns a bit when you apply it.

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-27, 20:16

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So what is your criteria for buying a new.gpu (is that proper grammer? I've lost my ability to discern. Possibly due to inhalation of art paint fumes). If it's keeping up with the Jones', just walk away. Kindly beat it. Do people actually use specific stats, features, whatever when making a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-17, 21:36

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A bit late since this technically arrived a little ago, but nonetheless, I finally found a DDR Pentium III board! Featuring the VIA Apollo Pro 266 chipset, and support for both DDR SDRAM and SDR SDRAM, this board is pretty feature complete. It's even got the semi-ubiquitous Promise IDE RAID …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-12, 21:42

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I just replaced my GTX1080 with an RTX2080. RTX Quake 2 was fun to play through.

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Re: Anyone have AT form factor specification?

Posted on 2022-07-30, 19:10

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Thank you so much. Good to know it isn't because mine is screwy. And yes, I did notice something with the video card when I took these pictures but couldn't immediately determine what it was. It went in easy as did the other two boards in there. And looking at the uncropped picture, the NIC two …

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Re: Abit BH6: Upgrade CPU or put a faster GPU?

Posted on 2022-07-30, 06:53

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65C02 wrote on 2022-07-30, 03:27: Your CPU is underclocked. Set your system bus to 100 MHz so that your CPU runs at its rated 450 MHz , then get a cheap GF2 MX. Q3A and UT will run great! Yes definitely fix that first, there was never a 300mhz p3.

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Re: Anyone have AT form factor specification?

Posted on 2022-07-29, 03:10

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Could you measure something on it so I can compare? A good one might be distance from the closest edge of the closest slot to the closest point on the keyboard hole. See picture for description and my measurement. For what it's worth I used a caliper around those edges, but the keyboard port …

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Re: Anyone have AT form factor specification?

Posted on 2022-07-27, 19:14

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I have that case and it lines up with the motherboard I have in it. K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build - updated now to include some 430TX vs. 430VX benchmarks

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Re: oldversion.com down?

Posted on 2022-07-09, 19:33

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Old version.com is such a helpful resource, I hope it’s not dead. Currently just a blank page for me.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-20, 07:09

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Yes that HDD is looking great... I did found the same sports like looking SeaGate, too bad it was dead i was so pissed.. Did even want to keep the drive on the shelve (where i had dead DFI x58 LanParty, EPoX 8RDA+ Pro, broken on chips Voodoo II and others) only because it looks so nice... But since …

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