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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-26, 05:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I collected quite a bit 9800 pros and 9700 pros a couple of years ago. Probably about three each and half a dozen 9600 and x800, x850. Some faulty which I promptly returned on eBay. Glad, I did as I had issues with Nvidia fastest win 98 6800gt at the time. ATI just worked and displayed simple things …

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

Posted on 2022-12-25, 21:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Upgrade z440 CPU to 2699 v3. Nice and fast. Gtx 970 needs 8 pin and 6 pin. Z440 700w PSU has 2x6 pin. Looking at getting rx 6600 on the cheap picked up a 3060ti instead for £250. rx6600 seller was timewaster (wanted £160)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-23, 20:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm about to give this hobby up. I specifically told the guy to pack it in a cardboard box and use tons of bubble wrap, ESPECIALLY on the front bezel. I told him I'll pay extra and he told me I'm good. Well I'm NOT FUCKING GOOD! I have to lie down and get away from all this for a while. I'm done. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-21, 17:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice, but commenting on CPU: Standard clock is 2.3GHz, all cores is 2.8GHz turbo till 10 cores, then switches over to 9 cores at 2.9GHz and descending cores to 3.6GHz at one core, this depends on how good cooling is determines how much turbo time is spent if so much cores used, the time spent at …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-21, 04:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Z440 and e5-2699 v3 Nice, but commenting on CPU: Standard clock is 2.3GHz, all cores is 2.8GHz turbo till 10 cores, then switches over to 9 cores at 2.9GHz and descending cores to 3.6GHz at one core, this depends on how good cooling is determines how much turbo time is spent if so much cores used, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-20, 22:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Z440 and e5-2699 v3

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

Posted on 2022-12-17, 22:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Watched some old episodes of fresh and fit

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

Posted on 2022-12-09, 16:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

listened to some game midis on my 98 build, sc-55 and klipsch promedia 2.1 THX, nearfield sounds crispy, loud and punchy 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-30, 22:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A huuuge stack of sold out software CDs. Threw away the cases, kept the inserts, and stored CDs into cd wallet. Kept cases with cd keys in them, couldn't be assed noting down cd keys somewhere. Also gutted large stack of some old demo cd cases. Using CDs are now bearable with cdslow 5.2 at 16x …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-28, 13:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Following philscomputerlabs recommendation, bought an ESS pci soundcard online. What arrived was a red PCB Crystal CS4281. As you can tell, I'm not pleased. Anyone have any experience with this sound chip?

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

Posted on 2022-11-25, 16:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One of the uses for WD-40 is to spray into your distributor cap if there was moisture in there and your car wouldn't start. There's quite a bit of arcing in a distributor and people's cars didn't go up in flames. Wd-40 is only flammable while it's wet once the solvents in it evaporate it's fine. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-25, 16:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Klipsch Promedia THX 2.1. Best speakers I've owned hands down

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

Posted on 2022-11-24, 21:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One of the uses for WD-40 is to spray into your distributor cap if there was moisture in there and your car wouldn't start. There's quite a bit of arcing in a distributor and people's cars didn't go up in flames. Wd-40 is only flammable while it's wet once the solvents in it evaporate it's fine. …

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-11-24, 06:14

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Table/vertex fog support can be checked by using dxview.exe tool in old DX SDKs. This isn't exactly rare. There are various tools like the System Info page of 3D Mark '99 that can list all detected capabilities of a graphics card: 3DMark99_Sysinfo.jpg Everest is another utility from the mid 2000s …

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

Posted on 2022-11-22, 21:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got copies of 100 best dos games. Trying to get epicpinball to work. Keep getting 560kb memory required error. Used philscomputerlabs pif file for restart in MS-DOS mode. Still not able to get it to 560kb or more using any of the options.

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

Posted on 2022-11-21, 21:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Spray bottles of brake clutch cleaner in a ventilated environment. Does the job and then some.. techYEScity style 😀

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

Posted on 2022-11-19, 21:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

aaaaand the gremlins have raised their ugly heads again. Couldn't write to c drive blue screen every one in a while. GAH... -_- win98 y u no stable? Solved the issue. Disconnected second Seagate HDD containing clonezilla backup image and connected main Seagate HDD to sata 2. Plain sailing from now, …

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

Posted on 2022-11-18, 22:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

aaaaand the gremlins have raised their ugly heads again. Couldn't write to c drive blue screen every one in a while. GAH... -_- win98 y u no stable?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-09, 05:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, I thought the higher the number, the better. KT400 boards are 1.5V AGP only. KT333 can run 1.5V and 3.3V AGP. But watch out! Some KT333 are actually downclocked KT400 and don't have universal AGP. Why is this important? Voodoo! They're all AGP 3.3V. Ah, I see.. never really paid attention to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-08, 21:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

appiah4 wrote on 2022-11-08, 07:52: gmaverick2k wrote on 2022-11-07, 20:50: Been on an AMD KT400 motherboard binge recently. Need to stop as I've bought a fair few. KT333 with Universal AGP is where it's at.. Oh, I thought the higher the number, the better. KT600 boards are non existent on eBay UK …

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