Re: Voodoo 3 3000 Build recommendations ?

Posted on 2023-07-14, 13:59

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I'd say any pentium II/III or Athlon/Duron between 600 and 1GHz will work fine with a Voodoo 3. The exact speed depends on what you want to play and if you plan on playing speed sensitive dos games or not.

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Re: PIII 450MHz + Voodoo 2 12mb seems balanced. But I've just found Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:31

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-06-12, 14:49: wariacix wrote on 2023-06-11, 23:21: I'm planning on trying out some 2000-2003 games those will require 2-6x the CPU power to run comfortably ^this

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Re: ASUS P4P800 holocaust

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:09

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p4p800 has a bios corruption issue and also the 2 mosfets on 1.5v rail near the north bridge chipset get very hot and eventually die. ^this. I've been able to fix P4P800 boards by either replacing the eeprom (stock one was damaged and re-flashing did nothing) or replacing the VRMs. I've managed to …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-07, 17:34

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While lots of 440 boards have 133Mhz fsb setting, the 440BX chipset does not officially support 133MHz fsb - anything over 100MHz is considered an overclock. It's entirely possible your board is not stable at 133Mhz. That aside, all 440BX boards I've tried that have a 133Mhz fsb option ran fine at …

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Re: Worth trying to sell? - Pentium MMX

Posted on 2023-06-06, 07:42

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hard to price retro computers sometimes, especially ones with rather common parts. In general, a retro computer is only worth what a potetinal buyer (or buyers) is willing to pay. After listening to other's opinion about your build, I'd say 200$ is a good starting price - from there you can see if …

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:43

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I second the Asus P6T. Good board - used to sell them in large quantities back in the day - got one for myself and I still have it, it still works (but I keep in a display case). My favorite 1366 board (for practical reasons) is the Gigabyte X58-UD5 - sata 3, USB 3.0, very stable. The Asus is a bit …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:30

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In fact one of my favorite KT333 boards is the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP - stable even today (original caps too) and on board creative (ensonic) CT5880 audio. I can only assume that it's a rev 2.0 up because the 1.x revisions were a steaming pile that Gigabyte would not stand behind. yup. Never had a 1.0 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:02

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Asus was top of the line in this era. I never had a significant issue with any of their products until very recently. Their boards were top notch in an ocean of mediocre Taiwan clones. One of my first self built and purchased systems had an Asus P3B-F at its core. *cough* Abit *cough* And in my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 15:49

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Sorry, forgot 'niche garbage' :) This is so dumb, he already told you the reason: "then I came across this listed as faulty for about 10 bucks and I went for it." He bought it because it was cheap and a potential repair candidate and test bench. You know, for fun. Who tf cares if it was a bad, low …

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Re: Question about SS7 mobo power

Posted on 2023-06-01, 08:11

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You can use either an AT or ATX PSU, the motherboard supports both. When using an ATX psu you'll have to hook up a power buttom to the front panel header. Some motherboards have a jumper for selecting AT/ATX power, not sure this one has tho. You can mount the board in either an AT case or full-ATX …

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Re: Is it possible to mount a small Baby AT motherboard in a mATX case?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 08:01

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Normally when you mount an AT board in an ATX case, the keyboard port is near the bottom/right side of the I/O shield area. In this configuration it won't fit in an mATX case. But if you shift the board up/left as far as possible it might. Most of the mounting holes will not line up though. You …

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Re: Replacing CCFL backlight in laptop displays??

Posted on 2023-05-30, 22:01

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I'm actually interested in this myself as I have a few neat old laptops with very dim backlights - but I suppose swapping in LEDs would completely remove brightness adjustment... wouldn't it? Most laptop LCDs are not that hard to take apart and can be put back together well enough with some aluminum …

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Magic Carpet 1 and 2 and V 2000 inverted Y axis and mouse acceleration

Posted on 2023-05-30, 19:02

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Hi guys. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with a hack to invert the Y axis on these 3 games (or any one of them). After 30+ years of gaming it's really impossible for me to get used to the inverted Y axis. And to top it off all 3 games have very strong mouse acceleration. If anyone can figure …

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Re: [SOLVED] Inverting Y mouse axis in Magic Carpet games

Posted on 2023-05-30, 19:00

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Just stumbled on this thread while trying out magic carpet 1 and 2 (on real hardware). The games look really fun but the controls are horrendous. If anyone knows how to hack the game to invert the Y axis so that the game will control like Descent or a first person shooter with mouselook, I'll owe …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 09:05

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This is my first hardware purchase in maybe six months ... listed as faulty for about 10 bucks... PCPartner AP133MS3-C910.jpg I hope I wont offend you when I ask WHY? This is extreme budget pcchips level garbage with worst socket 370 level of performance possible with bad AGP implementation, and …

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Re: My new favorite Retro System...

Posted on 2023-05-30, 08:48

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Great minds think alike - my current favorite is very much in line with yours! p3.jpg Started out as a complete DTK machine witch I've more or less ignored for years. The original board is a DTK PRM-0080i, and it came with a TNT2 M64 and a 650MHz slot 1 pentium 3 CPU, but I've replaced the mainboard …

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Re: What is the purpose of that 7.2V built in battery in most notebooks?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 00:46

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Could a missing or bad 7.2v battery case a notebook to not function correctly? I have a toshiba pentium 1 with a bad (removed) 7.2v and main that refuses to POST after a restart.

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Re: Intel D915GAG + Radeon X800 PCIe and Windows 98

Posted on 2023-05-26, 04:59

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Win98 shoud run fine on i925 and i915 chipsets. You can also run into trouble if you install more than 1GB of RAM. You can install more, but you'll need to limit the RAM in the SYSTEM.INI file... That has never worked for me. No amount of editing system.ini or msconfig prevented me getting "out of …

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Re: What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 20:45

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Hey guys. I was wondering what your favorite piece of retro hardware is - be it in your collection or not - pictures are encouraged! For me it would be the Geforce 4 Ti4600 - specifically the Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD. The reason is probably pretty boring - it was in most tech and PC gaming …

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Re: What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 18:16

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Gravis Ultrasound Extreme With native Gravis GF1 support, SoundBlaster Pro support (via ESS 1688), and super clean output, it's my favorite of ISA DOS soundcard. Paired with a Roland SCC-1 or MPU-401AT card makes for one of the best DOS sound card setups there is. That thing is awesome. All of the …

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