What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 15:16

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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: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2023-05-23, 14:25

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What driver combination are you using? I've had nothing but issues with both nForce 2 and nForce 3 chipsets under win98se: two Abit AN7 boards are completely unstable under 98 after installing forceware. CPUs tested are Athlon XP 3200+ both the KV4D and KV4C versions (2333mhz / fsb 333 and 2200MHz …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2023-05-23, 12:06

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Still working on getting it to run reliably, but the nForce 3 chipset is not really designed for win98 and drivers are a bit spotty. I only have one nForce 3 Ultra motherboard (Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939), I'm dual booting Win98 / WinXP, and my experience with this build has been great. Haven't …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2023-05-23, 08:44

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I've been working on something similar myself. It's based on an oddball socket AM2 (of all things) Gigabyte GA-MF3 mainboard that uses the nForce 3 250 chipset witch has a proper AGP slot. Specs so far: Athlon 64 LE-1660 2.8GHz single core Gigabyte GA-MF3 2x256MB DDR2 667MHz stolen from some OEM …

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Re: Help repairing 3 Voodoo 2 12MB cards with various problems

Posted on 2023-05-22, 12:04

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-05-22, 10:09: Gainward is probably fine. That looks like typical Voodoo 2 gamma bug and is a driver thing. hmmm.... thanks for the tip, I'll try another driver and report back

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Re: Help repairing 3 Voodoo 2 12MB cards with various problems

Posted on 2023-05-22, 08:59

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No ideas? Anyone? How about a video card repair guide? Where could I find a good one?

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Re: General advice for building first retro gaming pc

Posted on 2023-05-21, 11:04

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That's actually a pretty hard question OP. The BEST 97-2000 gaming PC in my opinion would be something like this: Athlon XP 2800+ / P4 2.8GHz VIA KT400A/KT600/KT880 for AMD and Intel i865/i875 chipsets for intel 256Mb DDR400 Geforce 4 Titanium 4200 (the 4600's seem unreliable - all 5 of my cards …

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Re: General advice for building first retro gaming pc

Posted on 2023-05-20, 23:38

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That's actually a pretty hard question OP. The BEST 97-2000 gaming PC in my opinion would be something like this: Athlon XP 2800+ / P4 2.8GHz VIA KT400A/KT600/KT880 for AMD and Intel i865/i875 chipsets for intel 256Mb DDR400 Geforce 4 Titanium 4200 (the 4600's seem unreliable - all 5 of my cards …

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Re: Help repairing 3 Voodoo 2 12MB cards with various problems

Posted on 2023-05-20, 20:45

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3. Creative 3D Blaster CT6670 12MB: HPIM0030.JPG Several missing 0603 capacitors on the back of the card. I've re-soldered the correct components, and the card is detected, but 3dfx tools displays 0MB frame buffer memory: HPIM0022.JPG and I can't get anything to run on the card. I had a close look …

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Help repairing 3 Voodoo 2 12MB cards with various problems

Posted on 2023-05-20, 20:41

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Hey guys. Over the past couple of years I've gathered 6 defective voodoo 2 cards from various manufacturers, all recovered from a recycling center, and all with some sort of issue. Out of the 6 I've managed to get one to work correctly - a Skywell Magic 3D 2. Another 3 - witch I will talk about in …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2023-05-19, 08:43

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Hi. Would it be possible to add multiplier control for Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processors? I have a few of them in socket 478 packaging, and they POST in any regular socket 478 board that supports the Northwood (or Prescott) core - but most motherboards the CPU posts at 12x, and multiplier settings …

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Re: MediaGX motherboard

Posted on 2023-05-16, 21:51

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Are MediaGX motherboards of much interest to the retro community? I In my opinion the mediaGX is interesting because it's essentially a fast 486 SoC - essentially a Cyrix 586 running anyware from 133 to 300MHz. My MediaGX system is built on an ECS P5GX-M, 266Mhz cyrix GXm, 64Mb of ram, 20GB HDD, an …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 16:09

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Exactly my concern, some boards either do not support (budget boards/sloppy job) or do not put Willamette cpus in the supported list. check my latest repair failure: https://asrock.com/MB/Intel/P4i945GC/index.asp#CPU no Willy in list. Today I got some more boards and tested them, sold as working. …

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Re: Hyundai SUPER 16T

Posted on 2023-05-14, 21:17

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Cool I learned something today. So the Super-16 works with 3.5" drives! No more swapping millions of 360k floppies to copy stuff over!

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Re: Unstable Slot-A build.

Posted on 2023-05-13, 21:01

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Fortunately there are no hot smells or otherwise odd behaviour from this board, just the instability. It looks like the 6191 has less FETs than the 6167, so hopefully the heatsinks can cope with the heat dissipation: IMG_1901.jpeg Have you tried replacing the CPU's thermal paste? I noticed you're …

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Re: Help diagnose and repair Slot A MSI MS-6167 motherboard - possibly bad choke, MOSFET or short circuit

Posted on 2023-05-13, 06:47

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Check the sc1405 mos fet driver (oxide), a oscilloscope would be nice. You can try and remove parts from that 'phase' and try to run the board only on 3 phases, it should post if everything else is ok (no prime95 or extensive loads recommended thou!). Here you have a general application schematic …

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Re: Help diagnose and repair Slot A MSI MS-6167 motherboard - possibly bad choke, MOSFET or short circuit

Posted on 2023-05-12, 16:53

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it looks much worse then it is. There used to be a sticker there, that's glue residue. I checked for shorts in that area, couldn't find any. I've since cleaned the leftover glue off with IPA and a toothbrush.

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Re: Unstable Slot-A build.

Posted on 2023-05-12, 14:29

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Check the mosfets as well. I have an MSI MS-6167 - posted once, then a whiff of magic smoke. It smoked one of the chokes near the CPU slot. Pulled all capacitors and tested with ESR meter - they're still within spec. Replaced them anyway with a mix of Panasonic and Rubycon low ESR caps. Still magic …

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Help diagnose and repair Slot A MSI MS-6167 motherboard - possibly bad choke, MOSFET or short circuit

Posted on 2023-05-12, 11:08

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Hi guys and gals. I'm trying to put together a (nice) slot A machine, but I don't have a working motherboard. Out of the two Slot A boards I own one is unstable (ECS K7ASA AMD 750 chipset, no ISA) and the other let out magic smoke - the MSI this thread is about. I'd really love to get the MSI going …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-12, 09:06

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PD2JK wrote on 2023-05-11, 15:12: Local craigslist and couldn't resist. that is awesome congrats

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