Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on Today, 08:26

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Also Z400 does not match standard ATX mounting holes 100% , so you might need some slight modding for 2-3 non-standard mounting holes in your case. HP seems to like doing the mounting hole thing. At some point I was gifted a very small HP PC which came in a tiny (and for my tastes too noisy) ATX- …

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Re: Has VOGONS banned me by IP?

Posted on Today, 08:11

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Not sure if it's the thread what helped, but as of today VOGONS isn't blocking my bot anymore. Thanks to everyone involved! I'm guessing it is some kind of automatic thing? I actually found myself staring at a message that I was banned last night (permaban) and I was like "uhh..what just happened …

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Re: PC shuts down after 30 seconds - 1 minute

Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:39

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Primer LC-B300-ATX. I'm pretty sure you meant Premier LC-300-ATX and I'm also pretty sure I once had one of these. This PSU is one of the poorest quality PSUs available back then and it is a gutless wonder. The vast majority of 300W PSUs from that era will be of better quality and will have better …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 10:07

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Maybe because then he'd have to admit he was wrong... I kinda like PCPartner boards. They seem to have made boring no-frills but decent boards it just works (sometimes kinda) 'sometimes kinda just works' sums it up nicely No, that doesn't sum it up at all. You were literally calling it garbage. Do …

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Re: Small Project: Installing a Socket 479 cooler on a Geforce 3

Posted on 2023-05-31, 12:02

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I recall my GF3s tending to run "unpleasantly" finger hot with aquamark or something intensive. i.e. it hurt a little but you could keep your finger there without damage, what's that, about 60C ??? This page http://hw-museum.cz/vga/174/nvidia-geforce3-ti-500 claims TDP of 43W so 65W CPU coolers …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:39

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-05-30, 18:22: Early Mach64 with external DAC are indeed scarce. The earliest PCI graphics cards were really something else. They tend to look archaic even when compared to older PCI graphcis cards like Virge.

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:37

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Hi!, Regardless of how you proceed with your Ultimate Build I'd treat that mach64 with extra care... I don't think they are so common anymore and I'd consider it a very nice card to have, if only for the scarcity of it (at least in some/many regions). Mach64 PCI is scarce? IMHO, it is, at least in …

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Re: Killed two Nforce2 south bridges with a faulty POST diag card...

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:29

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Is your POST diagnostics card new or did you have it for a while before it went faulty?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:18

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This is my first hardware purchase in maybe six months, mostly because prices on old hardware skyrocketed for no reason all of a sudden locally, and also because my attention shifted to other hobbies in the last few months.. But then I came across this listed as faulty for about 10 bucks and I went …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:07

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it is what it is but why should anybody care what somone else does in a case like this. I'm not saying youre wrong. I was curious about reasons behind collecting pretty much garbage. So far the answers I got are somewhere between 'I ran out of things to buy' to 'I like garbage, its cute' with some …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-31, 01:55

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Meanwhile this can probably be regarded as a medium-sized channel: Victor Bart - RETRO Machines https://www.youtube.com/@victorbart The first video I've seen on his channel was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7oJMmW7j8 "We went to a 90's Lan Party in 2020" In case you've seen Linus' …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-31, 01:36

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Not sure if this is counted as a small channel, but it's one I never see mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/@vwestlife I don't think he posts on Vogons (?), but he used to be active on VCF. Nice thread! Some of my usual channels are kind of wearing laterly... Necroware and CPUGalaxy are indeed …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:09

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I have a pc with socket 7 mb, mmx Pentium at 166mhz, 64mb edo ram, mach64 and sb16 compatible isa card [...] however i am very aware that mine is fairly ordinary, i follow some mmx build here with interest and so wondered what would be the 'ultimate' pentium 1 mmx build? perhaps you have one? [...] …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-28, 22:59

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I don't know how relevant this is for your case (pun intended!), but I was puzzled once by a... broken switch, a stuck reset switch. Of course this can only be a possibility to consider if you are not connecting the switches when outside of the case but you are connecting them when inside it. And …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 14:28

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ubiq wrote on 2023-05-25, 21:30: Did we all used to pull our desks a foot away from the wall for our CRTs to hang off? I feel like that was a thing. This was the norm back then indeed, especially since at the time many people were using way too tiny desks to do their pc stuff on 😋

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-26, 14:26

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I have a pc with socket 7 mb, mmx Pentium at 166mhz, 64mb edo ram, mach64 and sb16 compatible isa card i bought it new in 1997 and at the time was aware of the mmx hype and pleased to own one it felt (and still does) very responsive. even now with win 98 its fast, even with the non 3d video card it …

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 12:38

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Greetings vogons. New guy from Austria here. I have been dreaming about a 3dfx System since my childhood/early teens but never could get one. I have been considering building a now retro vodoo system for quite some time already but have always postponed it due to high prices of the cards. But now I …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 12:33

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I'd suggest putting your mobo+tray on your workbench and having the combo lean against a wall or something and then powering it up and see if it still works or then doesn't work. Don't need to have any PCI/AGP cards in for this test, just the basics (CPU + mem). I thought similarly, he can try with …

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:46

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Greetings vogons. New guy from Austria here. I have been dreaming about a 3dfx System since my childhood/early teens but never could get one. I have been considering building a now retro vodoo system for quite some time already but have always postponed it due to high prices of the cards. But now I …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:39

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If the above 2 are not the issue, another thing you could try is to take the mobo+tray combo outside of the case, but then not lay it flat on your testbench but holding it up horizontally and then try to start it up. It may be causes by some kind of mechanical failure somehow (cold solder joint, …

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