Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-08-01, 20:27

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by HanSolo

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In Germany you have a 2 year warranty, unless the seller excludes it explicitly in the description. But the article description has to be correct, meaning that you can't sell a broken device as working and simply exclude warranty. Completely understandable, that would be a scam. But if I sell my …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-08-01, 19:30

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by HanSolo

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Of course, in my country, second-hand items sold by individuals also have a one-year guarantee by law against any failure. In the worst case a full refund. This makes my point of view what it is. What? Where? I must be mistaken but are you saying that if I sell my used -Insert_Item_Name- I owe the …

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Re: Building a Win 98/DOS Gaming Machine advice.

Posted on 2023-07-27, 13:39

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by HanSolo

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Like megatron-uk already said, pretty much everyting runs from HD. I don't know about anything that requires a floppy. (Maybe copy protection? But I don't know if a Gotek can handle that.) A real floppy drive costs nothing and if you have old disks you need one anyway. And personally I think a Gotek …

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Re: Building a Win 98/DOS Gaming Machine advice.

Posted on 2023-07-27, 10:43

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by HanSolo

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I wouldn't spend money on a Gotek since there's not much practical use for it on a PC

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Re: Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Posted on 2023-07-26, 22:15

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by HanSolo

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The most economical Tualatin I found was the 1 GHZ Celeron Tualatin model. But not sure how good the Celeron Tualatin's are. Have not read anything about them. The Tualatin-Celerons have the same core as the Tualatin-Pentiums. But because of the slower FSB of 100 Mhz the memory bandwidth is lower, …

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Re: To upgrade cpu or not to upgrade this is the question (pentium3)

Posted on 2023-07-26, 21:29

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by HanSolo

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retep_110 wrote on 2023-07-26, 20:44: I am ware that the mx440 is not real gf 4 so to speak that's why I am not interested in buying it. It still looks a good card but I see no reason to purchase such card over a real GF 4 with all the features enabled or a Geforce 2. You can get them with passive …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-25, 10:51

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by HanSolo

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Are these people all buying Core 2 Duo E7600 or Celeron 320 processors to make builds? The C2D E7600 is sold for next to nothing. Same with the E8500. The only model from that line that is 'expensive' with up to 20 Euro is the E8600. Again, this is the fastest model some boards can handle and makes …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-24, 19:06

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by HanSolo

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While scanning through ads, a card cought my eye. The chip to be exact. I remembered that my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro has a socket for a Future Domain SCSI Controller that looked like this one. I'm not sure if this exact chip can be used in the Sound Galaxy and I wouldn't remove it from the card …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-24, 17:06

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by HanSolo

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Have you seen the video from Karl Jobst on this? I have not. Which video is it? It's impressive how well he researched the topic: Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market and the follow-up videos: The Retro Video Game Scam Gets Worse... Wata Games SUED For Market Manipulation! …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-24, 16:49

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by HanSolo

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some of these barely 10 years old processors are already going for $2-300! So when is this drop in interest going to happen? A 10 year old CPU is still useful today and I could imagine that people are now upgrading their PCs to the fastest CPU their board can handle. If I hadn't done that already I …

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Re: C64 262 horseshoe connector - making your own for an 1802

Posted on 2023-07-21, 15:21

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by HanSolo

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For the RCA connector, does pin 1, 5, and 6 go to the centre pin of each respective RCA connector (there's three), and the outside of the RCA connector (all three) go to pin 2 (GND)? Or is the polarity reversed for the RCA? They go to the center pin (I measured it on my S-Video-cable). Outside is …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-21, 14:50

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by HanSolo

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With the current prices, I don't think I would have ever gotten into the hobby. I read that pretty often in such discussions, but I don't subscribe to this opinion. Assuming we're not talking about the hobby of collecting 3dfx-hardware but building retro computers to play games from the 90's, then …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-21, 11:38

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by HanSolo

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The bs reasoning that collectors somehow ruin a hobby come up on here like every week. They're just mad that people are not handing out these for free or peanuts now so the good times of the 2000s are over. Those weren't "deals", people just wanted to get others to free up their basement from stuff …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-20, 21:23

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by HanSolo

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Some cards like GUS are too expensive for me so I cannot justify spending that much I'd say one thing is important and that has to do with your initial question ..do you ever get a feeling that you're paying too much for what is essentially worthless junk? I never paid 'too much'. Regardless of …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-20, 15:57

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by HanSolo

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I never really paid much for single PC items. The most expensive were the Abit BH6 for which I paid 70 Euro (shipped), another slot 1 board for a similar price and a Voodoo2. Most of the other stuff was in the 20-40 Euro range. Like AppleSauce says, you can still make good deals if you're patient. …

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Re: Advice on broken Socket 7 Heatsink clip ASUS MS-5148

Posted on 2023-07-16, 09:50

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by HanSolo

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I don't think it's a good idea to attach the heatsink to the remaining pin on the side. The 'angular force' (don't know if it's called like that) will stress it too much. And I doubt the heatsink sits really flat on the CPU that way. Take a look at the photo in this thread . On the top left are …

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-16, 09:35

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by HanSolo

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It's around 40 Cent/kWh. So if the system including monitor 40 cents is a lot, I would never pay that much. The last 10 years I have paid max. between 6 and 10 cents. But not in Germany :) 15 years ago it was already around 20 ct, and slowly rising. The 40 ct (and even up to 70) was because of the …

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Re: Advice on broken Socket 7 Heatsink clip ASUS MS-5148

Posted on 2023-07-14, 22:57

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by HanSolo

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I think there are glues for plastic that 'dissolve' the material on both sides so that the two pieces 'merge' together. An alternative would be using a cooler that clamps directly on the CPU like those for 486 CPUs. Maybe that exists for Socket 7 CPUs as well? Edit: There are coolers that clipped …

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-13, 17:02

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by HanSolo

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What is the reasoning behind wanting a super low wattage Windows 98 machine? Countries like Germany have very high energy prices because of the Ukraine war, so I can understand that. It's around 40 Cent/kWh. So if the system including monitor (which is a significant part of the calculation) draws …

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Re: I walked into a junk shop and walked out with a Dynalogic Hyperion!

Posted on 2023-07-13, 15:50

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by HanSolo

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The Hyperion is so glad he got rescued. I can almost see him beaming with joy 😁

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