Re: Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-30, 22:38

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by Macca70

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I don't know what's the point of building an XP rig this much overkill, unless dual booting Vista or W7 X64. Half of it's power will be un-utilized and even late-XP era period correct hardware can run any games with triple digit frame rate, maybe except Crysis and World in Conflict unless you go …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers are welcome.Rest in pie

Posted on 2021-09-29, 13:38

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by Macca70

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I've not killed much stuff over the years , I'm pretty careful usually but I have had the odd accident. Back in about 03/04 I bought an Asus 9800xt at Christmas and went to install it in my newly watercooled P4 I think , it had a Swiftech kit installed which had the old barb fittings which were just …

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Re: Help with replacing Caps on old Graphics Cards

Posted on 2021-09-28, 20:13

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Oh wow , I didn't even realise it had a 0 on it 🙄 That's easy enough then. That link is great , thank you very much for your replies , I'll get the bits ordered and repost if I manage to fix them ( or blow something up 😂😂) Lee

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Re: Help with replacing Caps on old Graphics Cards

Posted on 2021-09-28, 19:29

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The closest I could find to LB 31 is this at LB22 , so if I desolder LB22 and check it's resistance ? What component would I search for to buy this ? Also the question on the surface mounted Alu caps , could you help me there ? Thanks very much for your replies , greatly appreciated.

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Re: Help with replacing Caps on old Graphics Cards

Posted on 2021-09-28, 19:08

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Realised I posted the wrong pic

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Re: Help with replacing Caps on old Graphics Cards

Posted on 2021-09-28, 19:04

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more pics

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Help with replacing Caps on old Graphics Cards

Posted on 2021-09-28, 19:02

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by Macca70

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Hi all Just after some advice on replacing capacitors on these graphics cards , I have a GF 6600GT an FX5500 and an Ati 9550 , I know they're not worth anything really but I wanted to get some practice soldering on these as I have a couple of old motherboards need caps replacing and would rather use …

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Re: Help gathering parts for more period correct 98se build

Posted on 2021-09-21, 12:39

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by Macca70

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Absolutely brilliant , thanks very much for the replies , very much appreciated. I have options to look for now and the info about PCI brackets is very helpful , can't thank you enough. No rush , I'll wait it out until I find what I want , this build will be a keeper , thanks so much. 👍 Lee

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-09-18, 17:50

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Intel 3770k @ 4.4 ( 2 cores and ht disabled ) Why, and how ? Me using a 2700K, with 16GB* ram, not done any tinkering with any settings - should I change something I wonder? (*: plan is to 'dual' boot with Win7 at some point, separate harddrives/only 1 active disk) Why , because XP won't benefit …

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Re: Any advice on a new PSU for an ASUS P4S533

Posted on 2021-09-18, 13:58

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Interesting problem you've had there , I have a very similar 470w Thermaltake PSU in my in my p4/gf4 98se build and it works perfectly with the Asus p4P800 board I have. Glad you've got it sorted , there are some strange problems that come along with these retro builds aren't there. Lets see some …

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Re: EDO DRAM chips on DIMM

Posted on 2021-09-18, 13:12

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Recently came across some similar myself in a job lot I bought , remind me of the 0.5mb ram chips I used back in the day on my old Spackard Bell P100 to upgrade the onboard Cirrus Logic graphics to a whole 2mb 😂

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Help gathering parts for more period correct 98se build

Posted on 2021-09-18, 12:58

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Hi all I recently came across 2x 3dfx cards in a couple job lots of old pc parts for next to nothing and want to make a more period correct build than my current P4/GF4 system , I never owned a Voodoo 3 back in the day going from a P1/voodoo 1 to celery 300a/ PIII voodoo 2 then sli then moved to GF2 …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-09-18, 09:51

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Hi all I recently built myself this Overkill XP system with parts from my loft stash , it's my 2nd retro build after the 98se one I built earlier this year. Had a few headaches getting the 7970 to work in XP but eventually swapped the motherboard to another z77 and it works great now. It's built …

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Re: Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-18, 08:55

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Clutching at straws seemed to work , I swapped out the z77 sabertooth for the Z77 Maximus V Formula and the 7970 works absolutely perfectly now , no weird issues , no crashes , XP detects it properly, CCC works fine and all on 14.4 drivers. Everything runs great Farcry , Doom 3 , Mohaa , Motoracer …

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Re: Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-14, 20:17

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Well , bit of an update , the 7970 is causing me a lot of headaches , having all sorts of weird issues , the 14.4 driver will just not have it , won't install manually or via the installer , the 13.9 driver installs manually through device manager but the whole system feels laggy and weird and …

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Re: Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-09, 00:28

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RAM, if you're running 32-bit XP then yes more than 4 GB is a waste, it will not be utilized. With a PAE ramdrive the swapfile , and anything else can use the space as a file. So yes, it can be utilized. I have a 5520 series chipset running XP32 with up to 48GB and it's fine. For speed, as many …

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Re: Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-09, 00:22

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Well yeah that's definitely overkill for XP lol, but if you already have the components why not? Those components are well into the Windows 7 era. As to the RAM, if you're running 32-bit XP then yes more than 4 GB is a waste, it will not be utilized. As for the 7970 driver, is this not what you …

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Re: PowerVR PCX2 damaged in transit

Posted on 2021-09-08, 23:53

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Great to see a nice little repair to what I've always thought was an interesting card , nearly snagged an M3D on ebay the other day but I was a bit slow in getting a bid in and missed it , fool !! Also I didn't really notice before how the ram chips are offset from the pads , that top pic is quite …

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Retro Win XP build

Posted on 2021-09-08, 23:41

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Hi all I've decided to go through some stuff in the loft and build an over the top retro XP rig , I have 2 Asus z77 boards , a sabertooth and a Maximus formula , a 3770k or an i3 3220 ( I'm assuming I'd be better off with the i3 for 4 core 8 thread reasons with the 3770k?) I've found an old …

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Re: Help with a couple of 3dfx V3 questions

Posted on 2021-08-30, 20:17

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Ok , thx very much 😁 Fingers crossed they work when they get here 👍

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