Re: What new console will you be buying this holiday season?

Posted on 2013-10-31, 01:05

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Xbox One. I also don't see the Xbox One getting a lot of use. These threads often make my head hurt. It's not that much of a contradiction. It's going to get some use, just not as much as a PC would get, but I already have a PC, so, all good. Killer Instinct becons. And people thought CAPCOM were …

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Re: My new Slot1 baby-AT PIII/3dfx build!

Posted on 2013-10-28, 22:12

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Aww.. I was going to complement you on keeping this stuff running frosty. I have fairly high volume fans on all my vintage rigs to keep them as close to room temperature as possible throughout the entire board. I know... obsessive, but, hey, why not right? I'm not sure I understand you here :P …

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Re: What new console will you be buying this holiday season?

Posted on 2013-10-28, 21:21

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Xbox One. Killer Instinct becons. And kinect is actually fun with non gaming friends (in short doses). The somewhat higher fillrate of the PS4 GPU means squat to me as I have a 7970 in my desktop. I also don't trust the thing... it's awfully small and has an integrated power supply. I expect first …

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-28, 19:10

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Smash it? Like with a hammer? I've seen people hit a HDD with a hammer to ensure no-one can read it, but why would you bother breaking up a machine, and THEN take it to the recycles? Some people seem to think the hard drive isn't the only thing that stores your data. My aunt had someone help her …

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Re: What upgrade path should I go with for my LGA775 box?

Posted on 2013-10-28, 19:03

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With the clock you're running on that C2D, the only chip I'd even consider is a C2Q, and the 1066mhz FSB limitation is going to drag you down quite a bit. You'd be stuck with a Q6600, and to get that up to the 4ghz ceiling you're at, it's going to draw quite a bit of juice. Motherboards designed …

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Re: My new Slot1 baby-AT PIII/3dfx build!

Posted on 2013-10-24, 04:14

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At 500rpm, it is whisper quiet and even a leaf in there would barely move. Nothing like your gif... ;) Aww.. I was going to complement you on keeping this stuff running frosty. I have fairly high volume fans on all my vintage rigs to keep them as close to room temperature as possible throughout the …

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Re: Stop playing video games. You're causing global warming.

Posted on 2011-07-25, 16:52

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The thing with solar is that it's quite inefficient. And there are materials that you need to make these cells that aren't as readily available to mass roll them out. Solar is more about making $$$$ for the solar industry than anything else. To save AC costs, we could simply build into the ground. …

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Re: If Commodore was not bankrupty in 1994 ...

Posted on 2011-07-19, 22:25

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Exactly. The very least you would expect from a Commodore computer is...well, Commodore hardware and Commodore software, but this? same goes to the "Amigas"; a shitty linux distro on the top of dated PC hardware. They could have saved the day by aiding AROS development, but nope, an expensive c64 …

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Re: Voodoo 5 PCIe??

Posted on 2011-07-19, 22:18

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Yeppers, I can see that it's a PCI interface now, I bet there is an AGP to PCIe Bridge Adapter too, just not sure it would be worth it especially of the PCI to PCIe supports 66MHz ;) I don't think it does though :(. I've seen that bridge on newegg and it only mentioned 33mhz IIRC. That said, it …

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Re: A Voodoo4 AGP arrived today

Posted on 2011-07-19, 21:55

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No it's just an 80mm. It fits the width of the card perfectly. The top half of the fan rests against the useless VESA connector. Was there ever anything that used that connector? I hear rumors that older VESA cards sometimes had an edge connector which allowed them to interface with other VESA …

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Re: Voodoo 5 PCIe??

Posted on 2011-07-19, 21:51

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Interesting, I didn't see if this BRIDGE device was for AGP or PCI cards, must have missed that part.... PCI only. The part I've always wondered about is if the V4 and V5 PCI cards supported 66mhz pci, and if this bridge supports it. If the answer to both of those questions is yes, then the …

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Re: Voodoo 1 & 2 games

Posted on 2011-07-19, 21:43

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I thought there was only one Glide game that ran on the original Voodoo Graphics that absolutely wouldn't work on any later Voodoo card no matter what you did to make it work. I can't remember the name now but it was mentioned in another thread recently. I'll have to see if I can dig it up. Edit: …

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Re: Practice PC # 2 - retro PC - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-07-19, 21:40

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tried googling for a new faceplate to replace the current broken face plate from this computer, but my search was in vain. Does anyone know where I can get a new faceplate (with its rectangular insert) from? The model of this computer is HP Pavilion 4530. I've noticed the faceplates (the ones that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-16, 14:15

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I wouldn't risk burning such a card anyway. V4's aren't exactly all over the place Yeah, they're actually rarer than the V5's. If one goes 3dfx, then the card needs to go into an appropriate motherboard with universal AGP, or one needs to go with a PCI version. Killing old 3dfx cards is tantamount …

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Re: If Commodore was not bankrupty in 1994 ...

Posted on 2011-07-16, 14:12

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luckybob wrote: Texas instrument gets away with selling calculators that havent changed since 1994... For the same price too! That's not true! They added a USB port...

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Re: Which soundcard on which systems?

Posted on 2011-07-15, 15:48

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Mau1wurf1977 - cool video! when I was a wee one my dad was tired of the LOUD and annoying pc speaker games I was playing on our XT clone (the dwarf's lightning magic in Golden Axe on a 4.77MHz cpu = 14 minutes of ear-splitting goodness... true story because I actually timed it once). So he …

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Re: My Pentium 133 build

Posted on 2011-07-14, 13:46

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What's so gaudy about the case? I have that same case in silver and I like it. Plus, you can ogle the hardware this way. *thinks about his vintage rigs*

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Re: What's the future / next big thing in emulation?

Posted on 2011-07-14, 13:39

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The thing is I haven't seen a lot of development regarding drivers for win9x virtual machines. You need a video card driver for the VM, and someone would have to write one for win9x. It also would necessitate AMD and NVIDIA write drivers for the 9x platform, which I'm not sure is going to happen. …

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Re: HP Vectra VE 5/75 issues

Posted on 2011-07-12, 14:30

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About the RAM, it "might" be that the system doesn't like many double sided SIMMs? And if you have a spare >= Pentium 133 laying around, you might as well use one of those. Pentiums >= 133Mhz were made using a smaller process and thus produce less heat (even though I realize this should pose hardly …

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Re: "Enter Your Age" for entering a site or viewing specific pages - Purpose?

Posted on 2011-07-11, 22:06

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At some point there may be a National Age Verification System for the Internet. You show proof of your identity and age and receive a unique ID code which you input into a site that asks for age verification. The site would verify once that the person's age is over 18 or 21 and then that user could …

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