Re: Let's destroy the 440BX myth :-)

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For a real good time, try Apollo Pro 266T. VIA chipset performance tends to vary greatly from board to board, but as implemented on my QDI Advance 12T, it's easily the fastest freakin' PIII chipset I've ever tested. It runs Radeon 9800s and GeForce 6800s at 4x AGP. It plays well with X-Fi. It …

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

Posted on 2021-07-19, 23:37

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Awesome!!!!. Last August we bought a really nice used projector of eBay and we just absolutely love it and our two boys just love movie night. We were supposed to have my son's birthday party at our local planetarium but with covid we couldn't so we bought the projector and a nice screen and …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 16:01

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Mario Fart Wii Pit

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

Posted on 2021-07-17, 01:39

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It's summer, and since summer always puts me in a PowerPC lovin' kinda mood, I brought out Super G5: my quad-core, liquid-cooled, air-conditioner breaking, crème de la crème of PPC rigs. And since tomorrow is movie night, I've decided to put those AltiVec-infused wonder cores to work by creating a …

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

Posted on 2021-07-16, 03:38

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It's summer, and since summer always puts me in a PowerPC lovin' kinda mood, I brought out Super G5: my quad-core, liquid-cooled, air-conditioner breaking, crème de la crème of PPC rigs. And since tomorrow is movie night, I've decided to put those AltiVec-infused wonder cores to work by creating a …

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Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-08, 22:38

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One of my recent finds, a PII-300 based Compaq Presario 4850 from 1997 has definitely impressed me with its robustness. I decided that this would be "the" machine to install a pair of V2s in just because it looks so dang cool, and I'm honestly surprised that it works as well as it does. In fact, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-06, 18:05

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vad4r wrote on 2021-07-06, 16:09: And a standalone from the V5 5500 Macintosh PCI (with PC Bios 😀 ) 2021_07 V5 5500 Mac PCI.jpg Words can't describe how much I'd love to stick one of those in my 500MHz beige G3.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-30, 23:33

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I ordered another 32GB of RAM today, which will bring me up to a mind bending 64GB. That's 500 times more memory than my P3-550 had 20 years ago! I absolutely don't need that much memory, but the two empty slots on the motherboard were bothering me. Thing is, even after this upgrade, I won't be …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-27, 15:19

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Picked up these items at a garage sale today:IMG_0045.jpg - Criterion edition of The Princess Bride on Laserdisc. - A lovely Staples Easy button that cheerfully states "that was easy!" when you smash it. - Chip Mitchell: The Case of the Stolen Computer Brains by Fred D'Ignazio. In hardcover, too …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-26, 22:27

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Picked up these items at a garage sale today: IMG_0045.jpg - Criterion edition of The Princess Bride on Laserdisc. - A lovely Staples Easy button that cheerfully states "that was easy!" when you smash it. - Chip Mitchell: The Case of the Stolen Computer Brains by Fred D'Ignazio. In hardcover, too …

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

Posted on 2021-06-20, 23:48

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Several motherboard vendors did, in fact, make desktop boards for the Pentium M :) Oh, I know. What, you think I have my Pentium M running at 2.72GHz in a laptop ? :P If you do, can I buy it from you? :) Wish I had an overclocked PM laptop I could sell to you, man! Funnily enough, while my Pentium …

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

Posted on 2021-06-20, 17:26

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WDStudios wrote on 2021-06-20, 10:58: Several motherboard vendors did, in fact, make desktop boards for the Pentium M 😀 Oh, I know. What, you think I have my Pentium M running at 2.72GHz in a laptop? 😜

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-19, 22:08

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Microsoft should totally release this on XP's 20th anniversary. :grin: ... and they should take the time to get rid of some of the legacy components. The old control panel, for example. You mean, they should ditch the terrible "apps" and *keep* the old control panel as being something that works …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:18

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Microsoft should totally release this on XP's 20th anniversary. :grin: ... and they should ditch 32-bit support. No one needs to run Windows 11 on a Pentium 4. ... and they should add OS-level support for different color profiles, like DCI-P3 for instance. Yes, it's kind of there in Win10, but it's …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-18, 00:06

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Azarien wrote on 2021-06-17, 23:58: Standard Def Steve wrote on 2021-06-17, 23:53: ...and they should ditch 32-bit support. You mean ditching 32-bit version of Windows 11, right? Removing support for 32-bit application on a 64-bit system would be a very bad idea. Oops! Yep, that's exactly what I …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 23:53

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Microsoft should totally release this on XP's 20th anniversary. :grin: ... and they should ditch the 32-bit version of Windows. No one needs to run this on a Pentium 4. ... and they should add OS-level support for different color profiles, like DCI-P3 for instance. Yes, it's kind of there in Win10, …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-16, 05:54

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Here's hoping they bring back a proper start menu (they wont) Here’s your sneak peek https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter I'm actually really, really excited about …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 18:51

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I never thought I'd say this, but Win7 does kinda feel retro these days. I still have an offline Win7 machine at work that I occasionally use to run specific hardware and software. And if I happen to switch to it right after using one of the Win10 or Catalina boxes, then without fail, I immediately …

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

Posted on 2021-06-12, 23:47

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Found a 100MHz DX4 chip that I forgot I even had, so popped it in my DOS machine. I guess it's an upgrade from the AMD DX2-80 I had before, but honestly I'm not noticing much of a difference. I mean, Alien Rampage still slows to a crawl when the blood and guts start splattering. But you know what? …

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 23:20

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That's why I stick to GTX280, which can be software undervolted and is reasonably quiet after that. I wish I had that model. Being able to software undervolt this card would be really nice. The variants of these cards that I have are the GTX260, 275, and 285, which are basically different speeds of …

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