Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-16, 10:36

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Flea market finds today: - Asus P/I-P55TP4N ver 1.01 - Leadtek Winfast A280 LE 64 Mb GF4 Ti4200 AGP - Voodoo 3 2000 (???) PCI in a very bad shape Filename 20220416_132628_copy_2384x1849.jpg File size 1.13 MiB Views 1345 views Filename 20220416_132529.jpg File size 1.45 MiB Views 1345 views

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-03-22, 12:38

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I don't own any vintage cases at all and I'm very envious of those who do. They are very attractive, especially the Baby AT cases. I don't think I'll ever own one, however. Since I don't collect or own any AT motherboards to fit into one anyways. I suspect the shortage is due to collectors …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:12

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I'm using isopropyl too and also compressed air, buy right now I didn't have at home any so that's why I used the owen. I used the owen method many times and I didn't had any problems so far

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:02

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uhh you do know you are not meant to treat your retro hardware like its food :D but you should investigate if you can remove the heatsink and fan and give it some new thermal paste. :) :) :) my six years old little girl asked me, what I'm cooking in the owen when she saw me putting "something" in, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:56

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-03-19, 22:46: Would the missing capacitors increase the resistance to certain parts of the chip and cause it to overheat? Really don't know, I'm just a hobbyist. I don't have that much of electronics knowledge 😀 Anyway, I will solder back the SMDs, util then I'm not plannig …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:51

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Have you repasted the card ? seems odd for it to get that hot. No, just gave it a good wash with water and dishwasher soap, after that I kept it in the oven for like half an hour @ 50 deg C to dry out... Really, I cannot keep my finger on the card, exactly under the GPU. But the card is working …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:47

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Even with a microscope, replacing tiny SMD components with a soldering iron is going to be awful. There is no comparison to hot air for these kinds of delicate repairs. I perfectly know what you mean, but I was used to use the soldering ion with a very fine tip. I used to work at a mobile phone …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:39

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it may be a later revision of that card, I'm glad its alive and functioning, I guess the only way to be 100% sure is to run some 3dmark on it and let it get warm and see what it does. That caps might just be filtering/smoothing and so may not be needed or they could help with power delivery when …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:22

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Great cards, the 256MB versions are 128Bit. Unfortunately all the three card are the 128 MB 64 bit vestions... but they still are good cards for P3 era PC's without AGP slot. I needed one for my Compaq Deskpro EN SFF :D The yellow caps on the back stick out quite a bit. Probably mechanical damage …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 13:33

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I will not throw out the card for sure, if I can't repair it, it will be a nice display item. I have all the equipment I need, including a hot air station, just need to find out what caps I need. In total I found to be missind 6 SMDs, all from the back of the GPU and the surrounding area. 3 big …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 12:57

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I will not throw out the card for sure, if I can't repair it, it will be a nice display item. I have all the equipment I need, including a hot air station, just need to find out what caps I need. In total I found to be missind 6 SMDs, all from the back of the GPU and the surrounding area. 3 big …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 11:42

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Was a good day today at the local flea market. Found 3 PCI Radeon 9250 cards, bought them because I'm looking for a newer PCI graphics card for more then two years... as for the new, seald mobile rack, I just couldn't leave it for just 4 Euros. 20220319_130325.jpg Also found these two gems: 20220319 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-18, 13:28

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Today I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook in like new, open box condition. 26 Euro shipped... Filename 20220318_142802.jpg File size 236.58 KiB Views 1218 views It will be a really nice companion to my newest retro laptop, the Compaq Evo N620c, bought a while back...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-26, 16:30

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Got this nice little Compaq Evo N620c laptop. Bought it because once I had an N600c and I lived it! This one is a little bit newer, it has a mobile Pentium M @ 1.4 GHz, 256 MB RAM, mobile Radeon 7500 with 32 MB RAM, 160 GB HDD, DVD drive. Also came with a ball mouse and some 12V Philips power supply …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-17, 16:25

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Got this combo the other day, it's a Chaintech 486 SLD / 486 SLP board with a Cyrix 486 DX4 100 and 16 MB ram. 20220217_165049.jpg Bought it mostly for the CPU. It's great board, too! 1MB cache is supported and the chipset has a ton of features you can tweak. I would say it's the kind of board …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-17, 14:56

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Got this combo the other day, it's a Chaintech 486 SLD / 486 SLP board with a Cyrix 486 DX4 100 and 16 MB ram. Filename 20220217_165049.jpg File size 1.5 MiB Views 1574 views Bought it mostly for the CPU.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-22, 23:25

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Added some nice pieces of hardware to my collection the other day: 20220122_021312.jpg A new in box Gigabyte GA-BX2000+ rev 1.2 mainboard, unfortunately the box is pretty beaten up and the manual and the I/O shield is missing :(, but the board is brand new! :) Of course the battery was dead and …

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Need a good driver for an ASUS V3200 rev 2 Banshee

Posted on 2022-01-19, 21:48

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Hi, Yesterday I was testing some of my Banshee cards and I got a little bit disappointed with the performance of my ASUS V3200 Banshee(AGP-V3200/16M REV. 2.0). This card should perform really well, but mine has around 22 FPS in Unreal at 1024x768 resolution! My other two Banshee cards, a Joytech and …

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Re: Overclocking a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP.

Posted on 2022-01-19, 21:23

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What a coincidence! Just the other day I was testing the 3 Voodoo3 2000 AGP cards I have, because I want to sell two of them, and I made same overclocking with all the three card to see witch one is "better". My testing setup consist of an Asus CUBX + P3 CuMine @933 + 256 Mb RAM and Win98 SE running …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-14, 17:09

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Very nice. I have a Yamaha MU50. I bought it before two years for 70 euros. After some months the msg appeared regarding the low battery but i didn't want to risk it and i sent it to a yamaha service store in order to change it. I payed 45 euros as i remember. Wow, 45 euros is not cheap at all. …

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