Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-18, 17:56

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brostenen wrote on 2020-02-18, 00:04: Hope that VLB card works. As a matter of fact, getting any VLB card at a decent price these days, are somewhat rare. Trident and Cirrus Logic cards are still pretty easy to find. S3 805 based cards are probably next easiest. Anything apart from those and …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2020-01-26, 08:02

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I have one of those adapters. My idea was to try putting a PCIe x1 GT 710 into one of my Dell GX1 machines as an upgrade to the 9500GT that is in it. I never got around to it, though.The GT 710 is faster than the 9500GT, but not as fast as a GT430. PCI GT430's are too hard to find now, but the PCIe …

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Re: Intel wants to remove 5V & 3.3V from PSU

Posted on 2020-01-26, 07:57

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If that happens older ATX PSU prices may go way up.... Also that means motherboards will have many more VRM parts leading to more future failures.... added: Intel has not built a desktop motherboard for years so am curious of their motive. Wonder if board makers will ignore the new spec for desktop …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-26, 07:54

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There's no such thing as too many spare parts/boards/CPUs..... great deal. Even if you don't like it, you could recoup your cost by selling it to buy what you want more. Nice. +1 This. I'm always buying things I don't need as insurance against the future. I can always resell it later if I need …

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Re: Feast of Intel740 chip Graphics cards

Posted on 2020-01-24, 22:56

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I have 2 of the Real3D Starfighter PCI cards with 24mb of memory. They are kind of strange in that the memory is not unified. The frame buffer and the texture memory are separate from each other and the texture memory is on the other side of a bridge chip that makes the normally AGP only chipset …

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Re: NVIDIA Kepler/MaxWell/Pascal VESA Bios Bug (Please, participate since more data needed)

Posted on 2020-01-16, 11:14

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Beside in Ruthan's thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62586&hilit=VESA+BIOS+nopageflip&start=20 I found he stated: Geforce 730 difference, i have two G730 cards, one with GDRR3 and one with GDRR5 - i though than difference would be only in memory, but card with GDRR3 has not …

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Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 11:40

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As soon as the original GeForce dropped, the writing was on the wall for many other card makers. The Voodoo 4/5 arriving late and without features and performance that nVidia cards had, was the end for 3DFX. ATi was the only one that upped their game enough to remain competitive, and they had a few …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2020-01-15, 11:36

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-01-02, 08:02: Steam could do it entirely from their end by deactivating the game on the account of the player Steam won't do that. Never. If they are ordered to by a judge, they will.

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Re: A quick look at an Obscure Tandy computer - The Tandy 3000 HL!

Posted on 2020-01-15, 11:33

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I wonder... Since many Tandy 1000 supporting games used a simple detection routine that basically searched for the presence of the string "Tandy" in the BIOS code, did many games trip on machines like these? Tandy 2000 and Tandy 3000 systems had no support for the special graphics and sound …

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Re: Good brands/models of early 90's PCs to collect?

Posted on 2020-01-08, 12:24

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I was building a small fleet of late 90's Dell GX1 PII/PIII machines and spare parts for a while. The desktop models are great because they are easily accessible. I got into them because the case design was as easily accessible as my Powermac 7500 and 7600 machines. You just fold the top up and …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2019-12-25, 12:29

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This applies to digital games, but I don't see why physical copies of games sold with a Steam activation key wouldn't also be covered. It won't work this easy. For that to work, the original owner must have capabilities to deactivate retail (CD key) games from an account, similar to Windows retail …

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Re: 650Ti or HD5870 for late XP?

Posted on 2019-11-21, 09:44

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A GT640 or GT740 would probably be better for a system like that. The Core2Duo is going to be a bottleneck for anything faster. I wouldn't even consider that CPU for triple screen gaming. I have an old Dell XPS around here somewhere that came with a Core2Duo E6600 and HD5850 originally and that was …

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Re: NexGen Nx586-P90

Posted on 2019-11-13, 11:19

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I finished? my Nx586 sytem and you can read about it here: http://retronn.de/imports/nexgen_nx586.html Here is a preview pic: http://retronn.de/ftp/pictures/hardware/NexGen/new_case_side.jpg Now dust off your NexGen systems for some comparison scores :-). Dammit! Now I'm going to have to build one …

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Re: Best video card for 286 PC?

Posted on 2019-11-13, 10:58

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Just use the cheapest you can get hold of at this point. Handy to have for trouble shooting. 1meg was pretty standard then for a 286 system. What brand/chipset is the mobo? Do you intend to do any upgrading in the future at all?. It's a Tandy 3000HD. Pretty rare model. Oh, and I'm finding that …

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Re: Best video card for 286 PC?

Posted on 2019-10-30, 18:12

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I use anything ATi, OAK, Trident, Cirrus Logic or what ever. Any thing that fits 16-bit ISA will run fine. What spec 286 are you talking about here, how much ram and are you intending to run Windows 3.x? If it's pre '89 the period correct crowd would scream "fit an EGA card and monitor dummy". I'm …

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Re: Slot A issues

Posted on 2019-10-30, 17:53

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Best thing you can do with these systems is to find a Voodoo 3 card and use that. AGP is too buggy to be stable on those boards and Voodoo 3 cards seem to work better than most or you can just use a PCI card, which many people do. Back then there were still good options for PCI video that weren't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-30, 13:25

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To the OP: You need to stop using Photobucket. They place limits on how much data you can use with a free account and they blur your photos and place a huge watermark over them when you exceed your limit. If you have a lot of photos linked in a lot of different places, you can easily exceed in your …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2019-10-30, 13:21

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So does this mean if you buy a used, physical copy of a game that you can force Valve to let you register the key that comes with the game to your account? No, because then a judge would first have to rule that the license is transferable. I don't think that has happened yet. It's happened in …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-10-30, 13:18

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Playing a lot of classic Everquest on the Al Kabor Project lately.

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-10-30, 13:16

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Too much of everything that is bad for me. At this rate, my corpse will last longer than a cockroach eating irradiated Twinkies after a nuclear war. 🤣

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