Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-25, 12:33

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by RaverX

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What is the incentive to use a Pentium Pro over a Pentium II, other than it being cool and unique? Time period correct, it's late 1995, PII is early 1997, more than 2 years difference. And that's (in my opinion) the most important thing, otherwise why would you use a PentiumII when you can use a …

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Re: Question on AGP ports

Posted on 2021-11-18, 14:09

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Yes, it should work, the voltage is what matters. 99.9% if you can fit the card in the slot (without forcing it), it should work.

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Re: A gamer looking Pentium 1 Baby AT

Posted on 2021-11-18, 14:07

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Nice case, it has that 2000-2005 silly "gamer look" combined with the oldschool early 90s. The display in the middle looks amazing.

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Re: Acceptable AT power supply voltages

Posted on 2021-11-17, 08:17

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by RaverX

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+/- 10% is considered safe. In your case there's more than that, so, if you care about your components, swap the PSU or repair it.

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Re: Upgrading to faster Slot 1 Pentium 3

Posted on 2021-10-06, 11:48

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I've found a P3 800. Has the usual big aluminum heatsink common on Slot 1 CPUS. Is passive cooling good enough for these? My PC has the plastic shroud over the heatsink/CPU that lets the PSU fan pull heat out. You should be fine, but the PSU will suffer... If you want to use that computer, I think …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-28, 09:52

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by RaverX

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Yes, you need a fan blowing air on it. It's a OEM CPU, it was sold to a manufacturer (Dell, HP, etc) only with heatsink, the manufacturer had to make sure they have a case fan blowing /sucking air on/out of the CPU. You can read a bit more here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/27/3

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Re: 3DFx driver (logo)

Posted on 2021-01-23, 20:47

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by RaverX

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I really don't understand. Why do we get those cards? To "go back to the past". Nostalgia, right? Even OP said that the logo is half the reason he got the card. Well, then is it so hard to make a "period correct" system? That includes both hardware and software. If you don't want that, there's …

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Re: 3DFx driver (logo)

Posted on 2021-01-22, 23:26

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You can, but it's not a simple image, it's an animated 3d sequence inside a dll file. If the old logo is that important to you, I think you can make a small effort and install a proper driver. If not, good luck modding the driver.

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Re: 3DFx driver (logo)

Posted on 2021-01-21, 12:56

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You need older drivers, drivers made before V3 was launched (3dfx changed the logo when they launched V3). Any driver before april, 1999 should be ok.

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Re: Your opinion on buying my first "Retro" PC

Posted on 2020-10-08, 19:29

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@RaverX, I am from Bucharest, Romania ( Eastern Europe). Old stuff is very rare here, and overpriced. That's why i went for this build, for 20$ even if it's junk i will not feel sorry. I know, I'm also from Romania, in the last years prices of old computer components have gone insane :( Almost …

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Re: Your opinion on buying my first "Retro" PC

Posted on 2020-10-08, 13:39

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by RaverX

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kixs wrote on 2020-10-08, 13:33: Buy everything with a good price 😉 You can always decide later what best suits your needs and keep or dump it 🤣 Good advice. If you have space, buy it, it's worth it. Andi, from what city are you?

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-23, 20:43

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I used to be like that, I didn't care at all for the boxes. But something happened along the way, now I think that a boxed item is much, much better. Especially for videocards from the 90s, the boxes are so cool.

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-21, 11:57

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I started collecting certain items about 2002 when I noticed a lot of older hardware I grew up with in the late 80's and early 90's was just going to garbage (pre-recycle electronics era here). More than 2/3 of my old stuff was picked up free or very cheap for about a dozen years. When upgrading …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-20, 15:02

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There is a difference between a billionare and a guy with a good job and a 6 figure income. The latter is more common than you think and it's impossible to tell who's wealthy here and who isn't. Yes, there are quite a few who have a good job. Who's stopping you to get such a job? Another variable …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-19, 20:46

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All hobbies are like this. Those with enough money get whatever they want. The good thing is that people with a lot of money will have expensive hobbies, like supercars, expensive watches, expensive art (paintings, etc). They don't compete with us for retro hardware, there might be very few …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-27, 09:48

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Just wanted to say that there is a point where it's no more collecting/having a few spares/have a lot because you have a thing for some specific card. I mean having 50pcs of card x is none of these. Why not? If I collect only Voodoo3 3000 cards, for you it doesn't make sense to have more than 2-3, …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-26, 21:01

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People started saying 3dfx cards are special collector's items so more people bought them even though they didn't need them at all. What? They didn't need them at all? Is there something that you collect that you also "need"? Of course they don't need them, maybe some of them kinda need them to …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-25, 10:38

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Collectors are to blame for this (I am also a collector, so...). A while ago I spotted a Rage Fury MAXX listed for a decent price. I contacted the seller, I told him that I want the card. He said that another one contacted him before and he will send the card to him. I said ok, but if the other one …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-20, 07:41

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I don't know... Starting from Pentium 2, nothing really has changed. And the same way, the demand for such PCs is also a lot lower than for anything before that. Except PCI Express instead of AGP/PCI/ISA. And SATA, then M2 instead of IDE. And lack of FDD, COM, LPT, etc. And UEFI BIOS instead of …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-19, 08:22

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ya I do not understand the SB Pro rage. An ESS 1688 sounds the same, has a IDE controller, not a proprietary and doesn't hiss or have bugs. I learned that a long time ago. Needless to say Id take a quality brand like BTC ESS 1688 Audio Drive with Proper jumper config and a IDE over any SB pro card …

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