Re: Missing part on a Radeon 9800 pro

Posted on 2023-03-13, 07:37

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Reballing a 9700Pro would be an interesting task, its got that stupid metal shim around the die which would complicate the reballing as it would and does act as a huge heat sink. Not really, the actual surface area of the shim is way too small to make a meaningful impact. The actual PCB and its …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-13, 07:33

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Yeah I agree. This is stuff worth archiving and valued by communities like this, and whoever bought it most certainly knows. The big worry for archivists is that in the future we are going to hit the point where we will begin losing a ton of history and records, the early internet era for instance …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-13, 07:29

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I still prefer NVIDIA over any ATI variant in any 9x retro build that will be playing anything in 16-bit. ATI's dithering is garbage; sadly. Otherwise I would use ATI more liberally. Which is odd, since there was a good number of years where ATI had the superior image quality for 32bit due to …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-13, 07:21

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Kind of in the software realm, but a set of floppies recently went for nearly 1.5K USD. http://web.archive.org/web/20230313070726/https://www.ebay.com/itm/134477128866 Would like to hope they don't wind up locked away to rot. Wow, I thought you meant 5.25" floppy drives, but no, just a large pile …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-13, 07:13

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Kind of in the software realm, but a set of floppies recently went for nearly 1.5K USD. http://web.archive.org/web/20230313070726/https://www.ebay.com/itm/134477128866 Would like to hope they don't wind up locked away to rot. Seeing as they may have been old beta versions of early windows and other …

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Re: Missing part on a Radeon 9800 pro

Posted on 2023-03-13, 05:30

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I also plan on reballing in the future as well. This, if its not ball between DIE and PCB GPU Reballing a 9700Pro would be an interesting task, its got that stupid metal shim around the die which would complicate the reballing as it would and does act as a huge heat sink. The 9800 might be a bit …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-13, 04:08

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yup I'm with the others, that X58 Classified board is a true beast, but throw 980x or 990x onto it or grab the Xeon equivalent, the 6 core CPUs extend the longevity of that platform a bit and are just simply cool as hell CPUs to use. The 980X is still fairly cheap to get but the 990X can sell for …

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Re: Missing part on a Radeon 9800 pro

Posted on 2023-03-11, 13:00

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Wow thanks for info shevalier i have same missing component aswell as C1129 cap . However my 9800 working fine without those components so op might have another issue. Btw if anyone could tell c1129 nominal id be much apreciated . Its a 9800Pro ..Id be worried the VRM caps are getting flaky, this …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-11, 00:45

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The 1.13 CUmine-T is very likely far more rare than your average 1.4s Tualatin, the rarity tax is a thing.

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

Posted on 2023-03-10, 13:01

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I've been struggling A LOT with my MG-38606 motherboard with 486DLC. It has two problems: 1. RTC clock stops when powered of (i can live with that) 2. it gets unstable when warms up (i have swapped everything including cache-chips but nothing helps) It has some Varta-stuff on one corner but nothing …

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Re: Motherboard with PCIe, PCI and AGP slots

Posted on 2023-03-10, 11:56

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"As an alternative, Elitegroup (ECS), Albatron and Foxconn have created their own solutions for Pentium 4 users by connecting an AGP video card connector to the PCI bus. Elitegroup's so-called "AGP Express" solution connects an AGP 8x-compatible slot to the PCI bus on systems which feature PCI- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-10, 02:45

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Version really matters with the slotkets. Yup version matters ...but so does accurate information ...both of which are in short supply the two received will need to be modded to work with the 1100 P3s I have, its odd as the cards don't actually change voltage so in theory if the motherboard is only …

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Re: Motherboard with PCIe, PCI and AGP slots

Posted on 2023-03-09, 15:34

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if is the "ALiveDual-eSATA2" from asrock, it will most likely work under win98 but it will be a bit tricky to get it running because it contains both an ULI M1695 and Nvidia 3 chipsets. About running simultaneous displays, I believe it is supported (surroundView) but from experience I could only …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-09, 05:04

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Yah I got a diamond 2100, but can't remember RAM right now. Probably 4MB... kinda lives in a blind spot where it's not quite the thing for anything I'm doing this month, but someday.... maybe I'll stick it one of the 233MMX boxes. Pretty sure mine is a PCI version now that I think about it . .makes …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-09, 04:43

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I do have an 8mb QDI Vision V2200 AGP (datecode 1999 or so) but I do warn you its 2D picture quality is nothing stellar.. be careful what you wish for ;) I don't have a V2200 in the collection, so really just want it for that :P As for image quality ....there were a lot of cards in that era that …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 04:40

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Almost my favorite board of all time! So I guess I should liquidate some of those manuals I have! I built many in the later P3TD series and still have an E6 with agp-Pro working and some dead LE's. Anyway, I remember there being a cpu fsb 100/133 jumper and remember running a pair of 700/100's at …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 02:32

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Here's some more information form the Supermicro website and if you look at the voltage regulation from 1.3v to 1.5v, does that not suggest that it may be able to accommodate one of the later PIII CPU's? There's a discrepancy in that the PDF manual for the board, it states that it supports up to 1. …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 12:30

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-03-08, 12:23: TrashPanda wrote on 2023-03-08, 11:32: H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-03-08, 11:29: Or just 1GHz B CuMines, they'll probably outperform 1100's anyways ... How does that work ? Higher Thermal envelope ? No, but 133 FSB vs. 100, the extra 33% memory bandwidth could …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 11:32

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-03-08, 11:29: Or just 1GHz B CuMines, they'll probably outperform 1100's anyways ... How does that work ? Higher Thermal envelope ?

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 10:17

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Irinikus wrote on 2023-03-08, 10:00: I intend to fit two 1.13GHz Coppermines with a 133MHz FSB. They are also very nice and just as hard to find ! Are they CUMine T SL5QK ? or just normal CUMine ?

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