Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-10, 19:31

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Got a DFI P5BV3+ Rev C off of ebay. Not 100% set on what I want to do with it. Has 64MB of RAM and a Cyrix MII 300+ on it right now. Would be a nice little DOS gaming box with a S3 card and a Voodoo II in it. A K62 or k63 400 would be really really nice too. Nice board! I like that it has 4 PCI …

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Re: Voodoo 3 build-advice needed .

Posted on 2022-08-10, 19:23

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I recently added a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP to my Super Socket 7 build and can give some info. The CPU seems to be the bottleneck in this system. Mobo: Shuttle HOT-591p, MVP3 512K L3 CPU/RAM: 600MHz (6x100) AMD K6-3+, 512MB SDRAM OS: Windows 98 SE, DirectX 7 Driver: Voodoo3 Windows(r) 9x/ME Driver Kit 1.07 …

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Re: Creating a BIN/CUE thingy from Linux?

Posted on 2022-08-10, 15:00

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Not sure if it would work, but ExactAudioCopy came to mind. It's Windows software. I found one person trying to do something similar here: Is it possible to follow/adapt this recipe for mix-mode game CDs? I know there's an issue with copy-protected mix-mode game CDs, but let's assume the game CD is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-07, 01:26

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Added 12MB STB Black Magic 3D Voodoo2's and a couple of Intel NICs to the collection. I bought them because of the 12MB all being located on the front of the board Nice cards! Is there any advantage to having the memory on only one side? I looked at the other thread and only noticed the memory is …

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Re: Windows 98 drive mounting

Posted on 2022-08-04, 01:36

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You may have some luck with this tool, Letter Assigner. It's another way to assign and unassign drive letters under 98SE. It can be found online but a copy is attached as well. Letter Assigner v1.2.0, Freeware Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Vadim Burtyansky

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 04:01

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Not strictly retro, but I got 3 of these shelves at Ikea at 1/4th the price due to going out of catalog, really tidied up some of my recent acquisitions. H That's a really nice collection, very tidy! My new retro items of the day are this IRQ Book and this tiny thumb trackball mouse. I thumbed …

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 17:31

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Don't know how much truth there is in this, but did see one post online (Russian translation) where they'd asked Soyo support directly regarding coppermine support for this board and the answer was (a) because of the way they'd implemented the B21 pin on slot 1, no coppermine would work and (b) …

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-23, 07:23

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rasz_pl wrote on 2022-07-23, 07:04: set Vcore to 1.8V on the slotket Same result at 1.8V. I could try 1.85V or setting it to auto? I wish I knew for sure the CPU was good, it should be, but I won't know for sure until I find a Socket 370 board to try.

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-23, 06:51

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I gave the ABit Slocket III v1.1 + Coppermine 1.1GHz a try today but it didn't POST. :( The board (V1.0) already has the latest BIOS installed which is 6BB-1A7. The change log was: Fixed showing of the message 'Disabling L2 ECC Cache will enhance system performance' when using a Celeron CPU. Support …

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 03:01

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I'm working on a similar setup on the same mainboard, here are my parts: Soyo SY-6BB v1.0, Slot 1 baby AT mainboard, BIOS V1.0-1A6 ABit Slotket v1.1 Socket 370 Pentium III Coppermine 1100MHz (SL5XU), 128KB L2, 100MHz FSB, 1.75V Startech Socket 370 copper cooler The slotket adapter allows setting a …

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Re: 20th Anniversary of Vogons

Posted on 2022-07-02, 02:40

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Happy Birthday, Vogons! A great place to hang out and an invaluable resource for retro users today and tomorrow. 🥳

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Re: Three 5.25 bays idea

Posted on 2022-07-01, 22:00

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More ideas from one of my cases: Wow, a true tower of power. That LCD display is awesome! My 98-99 build has two 5.25 bays and two 3.25 bays: Trusty AOpen CD-RW drive, needs a paper clip to open it Random 5.25" floppy drive that surprising works great. Has a red LED instead of green which is cool …

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Re: Do you think it needs cleaning ?

Posted on 2022-06-26, 01:10

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Here's a crusty T7600 Core2Duo I received. Cleaned up nicely 8)

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-05-23, 16:30

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LGA775 lasted a long time. One issue though is BTX. You do anything with BTX or are you trying to avoid that? My friend and I keep a Dell Optiplex 960 tower running with BTX motherboard. We were having "fun" trying to get a good graphics card working since it can only accept a single slot (and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2022-05-23, 16:16

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MapPoint 2002 completes my Office 2002 (XP) collection. This journey has been a fun ride and a pretty affordable too. So much more satisfying to collect stuff, that is still considered to be junk and worthless by most. I'd hate to collect retro hardware nowadays. That's a super impressive …

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Re: The first ATX case?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 23:44

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Hi. I was an intern at Intel's OPSD (OEM Platform Service Divison) which became the Intel Platform Divison (IPD) which then became probably two other things after that. In our environment in 96 and 97, we had a mix of LPX systems, ATX systems, and others. So cool to see someone with your knowledge …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-19, 15:05

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Terratec Gold 16/96 That's a really cool looking card. Do you have any plans for the missing bracket? Such a bummer to see those missing on cards. I had plans for EVERYTHING: Terratec Gold 16-96.jpg :D It's BEAUTIFUL! What a great restoration :D Round of applause for the effort this eBay seller …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-19, 03:54

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-05-18, 17:00: Terratec Gold 16/96 That's a really cool looking card. Do you have any plans for the missing bracket? Such a bummer to see those missing on cards.

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 01:32

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As far as this particular instance, stick to your price and if the seller rejects it, try again a week later. Enough time goes by the offer will probably start to look pretty good. Then you can lower your offer, lol. I like this logic! Too bad one of the hardest parts of retro tech is being patient …

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2022-04-27, 17:20

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What do you all think about the TriLevel cache feature of the K6-3? Does it make a noticeable difference? I have a K6-3 450 (256K L2) and my board has 1MB cache, but I can't enable it with the K6-3 or a K6-2 500 (no L2), not even at FSB 66. Just wondering how much I might be missing out on if the …

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